Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. bee (bē) Any of several winged, often stinging insects that have a hairy body and gather pollen and nectar from flowers. Most bees are ...
Honey bee colonies can be kept in standard Langstroth hives that house one queen, seasonally several thousand males (=drones), brood, and up to 60,000 workers. The large number of readily available individuals is one of the major experimental advantages of studying honey bees. For some ...
Seeing these nests reminded me that I had a section box from the previous year that held some mud nests. I went to check on the section box, which I had put outside a month ago, and sure enough two of the bees,Osmia aglaia, had already emerged. These bees, sometimes called berry be...
Knowing the history of the house, prior flooding, is helpful in evaluating the risk of hidden mold. About the prior flood and cleanup, you want to be sure that moisture from flooded lower floors didn't create a hidden hazard in upper building wall cavities or ceiling cavities. Follow-up: ...
The article offers ways of removing honey bees from various locations in a building including walls, fireplace bricks and ceiling. It informs that in order to remove a colony from a house, first the honeycomb and honey must be removed from the place and str...
The curious thing about the frames from above the excluder is the presence of some brood. This means that the queen either got through the excluder, or (more likely) left the hive body and re-entered the hive through a secondary vent hole/entrance that I drilled in the hive box right ab...
I had bees coming in my house via the chimney to the fireplace and into my family room. Bee busters told me what was most likely happening, how to block them from coming in and made an appointment for me in about five days. That was the first available one. Jeremy did a great job ...
P450 reductase and cytochrome b5 interactions with cytochrome P450: Effects on house fly CYP6A1 catalysis. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 38, 1008–1015 (2008). 56. Corona, M. & Robinson, G. E. Genes of the antioxidant system of the honey bee: annotation and phylogeny. Insect Mol. Biol. ...
The Magic House was great, Naomi had a nice time, but I needed to sit on benches for most of it. I received a call from the midwives confirming my ’39 week virtual appointment’ for the following afternoon. Sidebar: being pregnant during COVID-19 is so bizarre, I only had two in-...
We ate lunch together, and then I left to check on the pear tree swarms. Just as I walked outside the first one rose from the tree and headed northwest. I followed them as they crossed over the house and began circling the newly occupied top-bar hive. They began to go in—some actu...