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 Topic: Close ups of bees |
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| Rupert Replies: 0 Views: 4707 |
 Forum: TV, Video, Blogs and Other Media Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:13 am Subject: Close ups of bees |
| This is interesting.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/140114-bee-native-macro-photography-insects-science/?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=pom_20140202&utm_cam ... |
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| Topic: Anybody succeeded with this design? |
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| Rupert Replies: 16 Views: 36536 |
Forum: Perone Hive Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:42 pm Subject: Anybody succeeded with this design? |
| Well done, Neil, that's a good effort. I hope your bees do well.
I put a large swarm into a customized Mk1 on the 23rd April. I see through the window that they have filled the top super, there are ... |
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| Topic: Nuc to Warré Hive |
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| Rupert Replies: 30 Views: 86616 |
Forum: Beginners start here Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:05 am Subject: Nuc to Warré Hive |
| Hey Verge and welcome,
I tried to grow down a Lang into an hTBH once. They didn't go down and the colony swarmed itself to extinction. Luckily I managed to catch the prime swamp, that I put into a ... |
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| Topic: Who on biobees is treatment-free? |
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| Rupert Replies: 134 Views: 265728 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:00 pm Subject: Who on biobees is treatment-free? |
| Hi Che,
I have been treatment free for three years, going on four. All my bees came from swarms and there are not many other hives close to me. I don't inspect my bees either. I take honey, but a ... |
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| Topic: the honey cow |
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| Rupert Replies: 23 Views: 40398 |
Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:01 pm Subject: the honey cow |
| Hi SaveOurSkills,
SaveOur Skulls, more like, that's doing my head in. I appreciate the recycling bit, but in MHO, plastic and natural bee keeping don't fit in the same sentence. Make it with woo ... |
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| Topic: Mesh floor material |
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| Rupert Replies: 69 Views: 208760 |
Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:34 pm Subject: Mesh floor material |
| Hello David,
Mites can walk a bit, but being that they have tiny legs and comparatively large bodies, I doubt that they walk very far. If you make your entrance holes a couple of inches above the f ... |
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| Topic: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
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| Rupert Replies: 24 Views: 54142 |
Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:41 am Subject: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
| It would appear to me that history shows the importing and exporting of live animals has had a detrimental effect on those species. The benefits of hybrid vigour from new genes has been outweighed by ... | |
| Topic: Plan Bee - please watch film and send your comments |
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| Rupert Replies: 21 Views: 58748 |
Forum: Environmental issues, GM, pesticides and campaigning Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:25 pm Subject: Plan Bee - please watch film and send your comments |
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| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
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| Rupert Replies: 117 Views: 380105 |
Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:43 am Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
| Brosville, very true. Too much cleanliness leads to an awful lot of sickness and leaves people ill-prepared (excuse the pun) to experience different environments and eat different foods. | |
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Quality Top Bar Hives by Andrew Vidler
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Conserving wild beesResearch suggests that bumble bee boxes have a very low success rate in actually attracting bees into them. We find that if you create an environment where first of all you can attract mice inside, such as a pile of stones, a drystone wall, paving slabs with intentionally made cavities underneath, this will increase the success rate. Most bumble bee species need a dry space about the size a football, with a narrow entrance tunnel approximately 2cm in diameter and 20 cm long. Most species nest underground along the base of a linear feature such as a hedge or wall. Sites need to be sheltered and out of direct sunlight. There is a spectacular display of wild bee hotels here More about bumblebees and solitary bees here Information about the Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum)
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