Mercury News: When bees swarm in the Bay Area, who you gonna call? These heroes. Inside the daring, ultra-competitive work of the beekeepers who race to collect loose swarms.
In today's bee drama, there are two separate group of bees attempting to claim an empty box we set up to capture any new swarms here. Their advance parties spent several hours playing "King of the Hill" (err..
Queen of the Hill) and wrestling each other out of the box. Too cold for a swarm to fly in, but not too cold to have a bee battle! #beekeeping
There are few food combinations closer to the source and local than avocados mixed with honey produced from the blossoms of the exact same avocado trees... #avocadoes#honey#food#beekeeping
There's generally a couple of very large, ripe avocados that have fallen near our hives in avocado orchards. The growers tell us the avocados are 30-50% larger near hives (they LOVE beehives for that reason). However, pickers will not pick the avocados very close to the hive, so... there's always a few that have fallen off a nearby tree in the hive zone. I've gone as far as snagging some honeycomb from a hive and dropping it into a ripe avocado, and there's lunch! #avocados#honey#beekeeping
Removed captured swarm of bees from my backyard... So the "bee swarm showing up" clock gets reset. The question now is now long until the next swarm... 24 hours? 48 hours? Longer? (there does seem to be a bee swarm portal back there--thus, how we got into beekeeping). #beekeeping#beemudatriangle
New 5-frame nuc picked up & installed yesterday. We've also relocated the location of the colony/hive to the garden area where it is easier to get to & it is warmer in the winter. Now I'm going to research & learn all about treating for mites. #beekeeping#beginner#bees 🐝🐝🐝
Cleared the backyard of swarm of bees. Plus swarms from last week. Now the question is how many days it will take for another one to show up. (last year, it was usually 24-48 hours before a new swarm of bees would reappear). #beekeeping
Very odd, the bee swarms around here have shifted from moving into hives exactly around noon for the last few years, to arriving between 3:30pm and 4pm. 🤔 #beekeeping
Te to ale nanosiły… xD
Pierwszy miód z tego sezonu, nazwa kodowa „Klon, mniszek i inne cuda” 25kg! To połowa z tego co zebrałem w całym zeszłym sezonie!!!!11
A pszczelarz patron straszył, że wszystko kwitnie na raz i miodu nie będzie. :D
Do not do this, it is totally irresponsible to suggest this. His bees have starved because he did not feed them, this is his error. Bees easily drown in bowls of sweet liquid and as soon as the weather changes you will be discouraging bees from using flowers and tainting their honey. Lincolnshire beekeeper says public needs to help starving bees - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-68935866.amp#beekeeping
Dwie dodatkowe niedziele w tygodniu to jest to czego było mi trzeba, aby dokończyć żółtą chałupkę. Tak wiem, koszmarnie długo to trwało. Cóż… tak bywa na budowach, że się stawianie chałupy przeciąga. ;-)
I nie, nie zabrakło mi farby. Wiosną przy sprzątaniu doszedłem do wniosku, że najwygodniej byłoby mieć wszystkie dennice w jednym kolorze, bo wtedy można je podmieniać nie wprowadzając zamieszania. Także od teraz dennice będą zielone.
Interesting beekeeping discovery yesterday. Used the new battery-powered weed whacker to trim around beehives, and got ZERO reaction to the weed whacking and equipment. I'm curious if this is because they are most sensitive to the smell of gasoline powered weed whackers, or the noise level/vibration of the battery powered trimmers is below what would trigger a reaction. (they are known for hating people weed whacking around their hives). #beekeeping
Nach fast 10 Jahren Pause habe ich wieder Bienen. Heute hat sich bei uns ein Schwarm gesammelt und ich habe das mal als Zeichen gedeutet, die Imkerausrüstung aus dem Keller zu holen 🐝 #bienen#bienenschwarm#imkerei#honig#beekeeping#bees#honey#beeswarm
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