2013年6月26日 · The bees didn't care. At all. So I crushed some the the flesh. They still didn't care. So I sat down on my hive watching crate, took my veil off, and enjoyed a snack while I watched bees for a bit. Bananas have no apparent effect on my bees. My bees are not your bees. Your bees live in a different place, and may be a different race.

2009年10月27日 · Unsurprisingly, given bees' need for nectar, the insects' feet are incredibly sensitive to sugar. But they're even more attuned to salt. The bees need salt for their own metabolic processes, and to carry back to their hives to help larvae develop. The researchers reported their findings in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

2019年3月31日 · Just wanted to point out that there is a difference between red clover and crimson clover. The bees do work crimson. A few years ago one of my mentees put a single hive in a 20 acre field of solid crimson clover. He ended up with eight hives by the end of Summer. The bees did really well!

2021年9月7日 · I believe it was Randy Oliver who said that we should treat with a goal of having 2 cycles of bees relatively mite free before they begin producing winter bees. The idea is that the nurse bees nurturing the developing winter bee larvae are as healthy and vigorous as possible. I think that idea is pretty much on the money.

2025年1月26日 · Honey Bees acquired behavioral defenses to colony sickness over millions of years for sick bees to mostly fly out and die outside the hive. These bees would have less chance to share that infection, except for vectoring parasitic mites on adults and in the brood that interferes with this mechanism.

2015年9月24日 · I am a first year beekeeper in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, I purchased a box of Italians back in March and started them with a feeder - they flourished even after the feeder was removed; they easily filled the first deep brood box in about 2-3 weeks, I added the second Deep brood box and...

2005年5月10日 · I have about 20 trees, some within 4-5 feet of my hives now. I spray diazinon (I have my private applicators license) and malathion along with some fungicides. I usually spray early morning when there is no wind and the bees are not flying much. I don't spray until after petal drop. Read and spray using label instructions.

2018年6月26日 · Also, a lot of companies will do tick and mosquito treatments combined. Tell them not to do mosquitoes. Only do the ticks. The difference is treating only the ground for ticks versus all the shrubbery, which act as resting sites for mosquitoes. However, these shrubs bloom a lot of times, attracting your bees, causing more non-target deaths.

2016年2月24日 · Piskovoi et al. (1964) found that common table salt, sodium chloride, in levels as low as 0.125% in sugar syrup, caused dysentery and mortality in caged bees. Bees in overwintering colonies with honey stores containing 0.35 to 1.16% salt were dying prematurely. Refuse high in flour or dextrins, when added to water, ferments and kills bees.

2014年2月12日 · I have been keeping bees in high elevation (7000') for 23 years. My yard locations provide micro-climate temperature variations. Humidity is quite low year round, high summer daily temperatures, rapid cool-downs after sunset. I have managed to keep my bees alive and productive. I inspected 3 yards yesterday (33 colonies) and found 2 hives had ...