Once a queen has mated, her supply of stored spermatozoa is finite, and typically begins to run short after two seasons of broodrearing in a large colony (she’ll last longer where seasons are short, or in a small colony). This depletion typically occurs in the late summer of their secon...
Healthy worker bees would collect pollen and nectar from blooming plants within 3 km radius and produce honey – the colony’s energy source for times of hardship. A bee colony, if deprived of a sustainable supply of new generations of bees — experiencing a “deficit of future”, to quote...
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Locally, few native species supply much nectar for honey bees - that's probably proper as honey bees are also an import from a distant continent. But fireweed was here before the rest of us. This hardy plant grows in temperate to arctic conditions (it's Yukon's floral emblem) and does...
Miller Bee Supply = A beekeeping supply company out of North Carolina. They have eight frame equipment. Miller feeder Miller Method = A graftless method of queen rearing that involves a ragged edge on some brood comb for the bees to build queen cells on. ...
Randy Oliver[ ** Suck-a-Bee update: Dirt Devil makes a nearly identical, but more expensive, vac that operates with a 15v battery and has greater battery life. It may have enough power to avoid the external power supply. If you try one, let me know how it works! ]...
Jeremy Owen, Sales Director of Vita (Europe) Ltd, explained: “Our annual competition is becoming quite a beekeeping fixture and this year we will be having a larger print run of the calendar so that we can supply the increasing demand for it. It’s one of the great pleasures of my yea...
Lifting his dripping face and sea-blue beard, he said : ‘You seek a technique to recover bees? Sacrifice a bullock and inter its carcass: the one interred will supply what you seek.’ The shepherd follows orders. From the putrid ox swarms bubble. One life axed bred a thousand."...
The higher survival rate of brood when the pollen supply was good, and in colonies to which pollen combs were added … suggests that shortage of pollen releases cannibalism in the honeybees … Pollen may be available in one comb, and not in another, or even in another part of the same ...
Back in 2004, in response to the first major short supply of bees for almond pollination, the offered rental price more than tripled. This resulted in a watershed change for the bee industry—almond pollination was now as important to the industry as was honey production. And although some ...