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notes on swarm bee-haviour if you see a swarm those are almost certainly free bees. normally keepers will nucleate hives to produce new ones intentionally. when i was learning beekeeping in saskatchewan there was a yard that was forgotten and when we discovered it was full of hives we found this:  swarms are a sign of excellent hive health and if you see one the bees in your locale are doing well, which is very nice. also, i guess if you want you could do the bee beard thing this way? my X year plan was to get to north ontario and start getting hives running, but covid situation has kind of jumbled up plans. my dad is bringing me my hives/frames though, and i've been reaching out to local keepers/associations. bees aren't cheap tho! i should put up signs around town with my cell number for swarm collection - finding one would save me like 200-300 dollars.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Is the money in beekeeping from producing/harvesting honey or I have read beekeepers get paid to bring their hives to farms to help pollination or a little of both? it depends on the size of your apiary, really. if you're a large scale producer you will focus on honey production and that's basically it. yards will be set up in farmers fields but the traveling crop pollination/royal jelly/pollen/propolis collection would be a way for a smaller scale apiary to pay bills. my beekeeping mentor had maybe 40 yards with usually around 80 hives per yard, but it was the second largest operation in the province i think?  this is us picking up hives to winter in the honey house. also, honey house is the term for the place you extract/store stuff, but holy smokes it's kind of a gross name.
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May 18, 2020 17:56
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i have never been stung by a bumblebee but they are SO BIG i assume it would hurt more then a honeybee
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May 18, 2020 22:01
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Prurient Squid posted:Also bees can see into the ultraviolet spectrum and know a colour called Bee's Purples which lets them navigate flowering plants. i have some ideas about marking hives with glow in the dark paint or uv reactive stuff as a way to reduce hive drift but i'm not sure it'd be possible for me to actually tell if it works or not but it's interesting to consider
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May 19, 2020 02:02
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kuskus posted:Spot the queen. From 5/13: thank you very much for not paint marking your queen! i understand why folk do it but i hate it
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May 21, 2020 02:57
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one of my fave beebooks:
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May 21, 2020 23:29
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Is there a correct season to start keeping bees? Like should I spend the next 9 months learning about bees and get some next spring or can I get some bees in August too? I think I might need some bees i don't know what a google would say, but from my experience as long as you are a few decently warm months away from frost you're okay. ideally a new hive would be set out in the spring but i've nucleated hives late summer/early fall and they've been very established come winter. you may have to feed a bit more actively but it really depends on your hardiness zone when the last call for a packet of bees would beeeeeee
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May 22, 2020 04:51
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nut that was beautiful. a few years ago i did a weird radio interview with a goon about bees symbolic language and one of the questions he asked was if there was deception, and it really kind of shook me. we humans live our walled off lives as singular entities. we do want to get one over on the other person, to survive and thrive at the expense of others. it's in our bones. we look at the hive and wonder what it would like to be but one bee, and mourn the queens we kill, but the hive is so utterly alien to our existence it's impossible to really grasp. also this reads like the bee's original sin. wanna read the 1000 year in the future of these beeeeeeees
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May 29, 2020 17:30
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The Voice of Labor posted:I had to help a honeybee get its foot off some duct tape adhesive. dude took off while I was whipping him up a little cup of sugar water so I guess he was no worse for wear. still only like the second honeybee I've seen this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ajd3PL-rNM a super cute thing is if a bee gets stuck in propolis because the temp changes drastically other bees will slowly chew them free. it's very sweet to watch.
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