beekeeping

Trigona (I think) (sh.itjust.works)

Near Sihanoukville Cambodia. There were many on these fallen tree flowers after a rain....

Bumble bees ‘play with balls for enjoyment’ (uk.news.yahoo.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12906408

Bees Surprise Scientists With Social Skills (www.technologynetworks.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12855486

Apis Dorsata (sh.itjust.works)

These are quite odd in the world of Bees. They forage diurnally and nocturnally, and they migrate by season. The distance is usually only a few hundred metres....

Tetragona? Trigona? (sh.itjust.works)

Sorry for the photo, these girls are tiny, and my phone does not really do that....

One of my Bee Hotels (sh.itjust.works)

Solitary Bees and Predatory Wasps frequent these. I have never seen them interact though. Possibly they are not interested, or active at different times....

Both These Bees Were Taking A Nap On This Flower (lemmy.world)

Proteins roll the dice to determine bee sex (www.sciencedaily.com)

I found this article interesting because it discusses the science of how female and male bees are determined (beyond the male haploid and the female diploid)....

The Bee Movie (vidbox7.blogspot.com)

a moment of watching bee friends

CROSSPOST___Australia abandons effort to eradicate varroa mite after 14,000 bee hives destroyed (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/2213195...

I made this (i.imgur.com)

Beeswax candle from the wax I rendered! Fun side project.

Rendering wax (i.imgur.com)

I bought a cheap crockpot and finally melted down all my callings from the last few years. It was very satisfying.

Honey bee on Manuka (no.lastname.nz)

Last of the honey collected. (lemmy.world)

Collected about 2 gallons of honey this year.

Caught my first swarm today (lemmy.world)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d814c376-b170-4dfa-8c79-e7aa251e70b8.jpeg

Official Bees if the Scottish Parliament (www.parliament.scot)

“The bees and beehives are managed on the Parliament’s behalf by a family run, local business. The Smith hive, a hive suitable for Scottish weather conditions is used at the Scottish Parliament....

First honey of the season (lemmy.world)

First honey of the season. The second established hive will probably give about 10 times as much....

Suggestions (to non-beekeeper) for saving a hive?

Some bees have established a home in a not so good place on my Southern California property. How do I get them moved to a better place? A local commercial beekeeper offered to to it for $250. Would it be realistic to hope for another (amateur?) beekeeper to be interested in taking the colony for free? If so, any suggestions on...

Busy day! (ibb.co)

This is the second time I have seen this type of bee in my porch. (lemmy.world)

I do not see a proboscis, which I think eliminates it from being an Orchid bee. The Sweat bee pics I have seen all seem to show them with much more “fur” on their abdomens than this one. As well as having stripes. This one does not appear to have any of those. I have two more pics of it to share, but Lemmy (website) is being...