After the first round of comments, John and Jen opened some of the remaining brood cells to see what they could find. The new photos are below. To me, this looks like a fairly normal pupa, still in the white-eye stage. © Jen Petrovich. Another photo of shot brood. © Jen Petrov...
The arid conditions here also stifle wild flowers and weeds which might yield minor (but less-tasty) mid-summer nectar supplies. So, the honey is pretty homogenously pure lucerne and medicago - both supplying typical water-white, mild, low-moisture Alberta honey. August 19, 2008 With today...
pollinators, we strongly advocate for the promotion of beekeeping with the indigenous Apis cerana cerana and the use of flowering hedgerows and field margins in proximity to crop fields and beehives, aswell as the maintenance native habitat areas to enhance food supplies and nesting sites for ...