Bee-keeper column capital on the former British Linen Bank building on Govan Road. I love spotting these sorts of little details on Glasgow's buildings!
Way too many bees, way too high in a tree, so left them a baited box. I don't need any more bees, but better than the bees finding their way into someone's attic and pest control getting called, I guess. We'll see if they get a clue and move in. #beekeeping
Woah, peeked inside the swarm trap with the endoscope, looks like these ladies will go right into a full sized hive - nice catch if I do say so myself! #BeeKeeping#SwarmCatching
Swarms to my backyard this year... maybe a few more, I lost count. And two of these were two swarms the same day:
May 27
May 22
May 12
May 8
May 5
April 9
Feb 7 #accidental#beekeeping
We changed out the queen's deep super this afternoon, added a new deep super, & put all on a new base board. (Old base board was disgusting.) I think we need a new lid, too! 😅 Geeze... At least they were pretty tame. We were sweatin'. 🥵 #saskatraz#bees#beekeeping#honey#beesofmastodon
#Swarm capture of some bees abandoned by a commercial beekeeper. Not sure if this has a queen, seems to be the only group which might. In theory other bees will "drift" over to this other hive, but I have yet to see that happen. #beekeeping
Third #honey extracting session already this year a few days ago. The one day it was sunny! Not sure what they are foraging, but this is what color. #beekeeping
Założyłem konto na kolejnej instancji PT i tu O.o. nie ma limitu rozmiaru pliku z filmem. Profil instancji jak rozumiem geeky/nerdy to filmy muchach spoko c'nie? ;-)
LOL just gave some #beekeeping equipment to someone here from the Fediverse to attempt a swarm-in-the-attic capture (good luck, Matt!), and he mentioned his wife asked "ARE YOU SURE THIS BEN GUY YOU HAVE NEVER MET ISN'T GOING TO MURDER YOU?!"
Interesting, one of our #beehives appears to be foraging wild olive trees. (the provenance of those olives is very unclear, they are wild olive trees--ancient--underneath the oaks here. Perhaps spread by birds from early settlers?) Never had olive honey before! #beekeeping
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Which are better, synthetic miticides or organic acid treatments? What about chemical-free? A large-scale, multi-year study of colony health and survival. Is a 'healthy treatment-free' colony an oxymoron?
Giant #avocado next to some of our beehives. The rancher says the avocados are noticeably bigger next to our hives, and wants to distribute them across the orchard to try to increase the size if the rest of the ranch. #beekeeping
Rubus fruticosus, amazing #wildlife#NativePlant, with blossom and edible fruit. Supports at least 450 species of invertebrate. Who wouldn't want this in their #WildlifeGarden?
New comb on the front frame: on the left is honey and pollen, the middle is mostly worker brood with a few larger drone cells, and the newest comb on the right is all larger drone comb which the queen started laying in today 🐝🐝🐝✨#BeeKeeping#HoneyBees
I am a middle aged guy who has an old and rusty #EnvironmentalScience degree. Its enough to make me furious about the state of the world and the lack of leadership / thought shown by "governments" and the ruling class.
I am an avowed #anarchist. I hate any form of hierarchy. I am no better than you and you are no better than me.