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Rupert Replies: 0 Views: 5837 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ... | |
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Rupert Replies: 21 Views: 67092 |
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Done. | |
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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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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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