Until I sold my home and garden recently, I owned two native bee hives of Tetragonula carbonaria and a top bar honey bee hive.
While I'm am so far from expert at bee keeping it's not funny I do love to learn more about bees and the benefits they provide us.
When I was a child at primary school we had our own honey-bee hive and the local bee keeper would come by regularly and we would all gather around while he showed us how to look after them and gather the honey.
We have members on BLF who are very into bees, both native and honey and I hope they will share their knowledge here. I got a little frustrated trying to find past postings so thought one spot for it all would be better.
I find a lot of articles about bees and will post them here, nice and tidy in one spot, making them easier to find.
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There are quite a few plants that we can grow to help our stingless bees, both social and solitary, on this LINK
For those who are unaware and are using these chemicals on or around their garden plants etc. it can have an effect on our bees wax protection. We rarely use these products and I have added this LINK
Yes Lissa, he sells most of his supplies from market stall, and often runs out of stock. Regular customers help when selling honey.
Sorry Dianne, our nephew scored the honey super but we all had a finger licking session first. Yum.
Congrads Christa, we will have to hire your Nephew to do ours. Please keep me a spoonful of Honey??????
Wonderful Christa :) Can't wait until I have my own SNB hive again.
Where does your nephew sell his honey?
I do have a local guy, just off the island, who sells his home grown honey using an honesty box. I would like to think everyone pays for what they take. He's been doing it for some time so I guess the answer to that is "yes".
We split our native stingless bee hive today. Our nephew visited us and we took the opportunity to use his beekeeper knowledge to help us.
The hive was full, which was a lovely surprise, the super was full of honey pots. He has taken the spare to his place and will bring it back after a couple of months. So soon we will have 3 more hives to keep here at home.
He mentioned that he has an honesty box out front of his house and it has jars of raw honey which he sells and he is amazed at how many honest people there are who leave their payment in the box.
You remember correctly Elaine :)
Bob Luttrell was most intrigued by the comb style the new bees built. Bob now owns the hive.
And as I recall Lissa, the variety of bee which triumphed was different to the ones they took over. A hybrid too I think.
This happened with my hive some years ago - they were invaded and taken over by another hive. There's a pictorial record of it somewhere, probably in my blogs. The new bees eventually carried on in the hive as usual.
Elaine, We could not figure out what to do, apparently after googling the problem, we learnt that swarming native bees let off a scent which attracts local hives. We had a cloud of bees in the air in front of the entrance. The appeared to grab on to each other and hit the ground.
We turned the hose on with a soft spray and they calmed down and some must have gone home as there were less after spraying. There are quite a few dead ones around.
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