The other day my husband Allan and I were cleaning out our chicken coop and I got to thinking about how the latest crop of back-to-landers have enthusiastically embraced both chickens and honey bees. Cleaning our sizable coop takes several hours, giving me a lot of time to wonder what ...
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I did have a couple additions after taking this picture by adding a little window at the bottom of the clean out door so the kids and take a peek at the chickens without having to open the door. I also installed the ramp to get from the coop to the run. Inside the coop I went na...
I wanted to take some time to share with you how happy I was with how my chickens held up during the winter. Here are some of my lovely ladies. They were just as happy to be able to get out and spread their wings. It has been a very difficult winter for all of us. Humans, chi...
Although protein conferred a survival benefit in honeybees exposed to these dual stressors, when allowed to self-select their diet, caged workers did not... CR Archer,CWW Pirk,GA Wright,... - 《Functional Ecology》 被引量: 50发表: 2013年 Small- and Large-Scale Field Tests of Erythrosin...
You probably will not want to hear this, but many of the honeybees were sprayed with insecticide foam by the responders. All told, $400,000 worth of bee product was lost. Fire Chief Kenny Strandberg worried about another problem, namely, grizzly bears being lured to the area. ...
Months ago, I got a message from a friend in town who had honeybees in his porch ceiling. And he needed them gone. Sweet! It just so happens that Iwanthoneybees, so this seemed like a win-win-win situation. I already had most of what I needed: extra hive bodies andthe proper equi...
We head back to the house, my heart still momentarily filled with a quiet appreciation for this fleeting phase of my life, when Evangeline stops and turns around. “Mama, go back and say good morning to the bees!” She has no pretense (not yet) and no agenda, other than to experience...
I looked in on the bees a few weeks ago when we had a really nice day. Everyone had come out for a quick poop and stretch of the wings. I’ll look in again in the next week or so and get a better sense of how this Spring and Summer will progress. It was a super cold and ...