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Are you a new beekeeper in the Edmonton area or are you hoping to get bees in the future? Here's a list of resources including beekeeping courses that can help you get started: www.bit.ly/newbeeks
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- Advice on Supering my new TBH. My girls are going gangbusters and I ...suspect that this week or next I may need to super. I have all my notes from Intro course - I think my main questions are: 1. My bars are almost all brood with honey storage on the top of each bar (no bars are solely dedicated to nectar). How is the best way to divide the bars between top and bottom. 2. Unless I checkerboard the whole hive I will need to use a false back or two - where should they go. If I am using them in the top should I just ensure that the bars beneath the area with the false back are tightly covered with bars so the bees cannot access it? Also, in the area I DO want the bees to access the super from below should I leave a space between each bar the width of a spacer for traffic? 3. I have an entrance on my super as well. Should I block it? THANKS! Meer weergeven
- Hello. I believe I have a large bee hive under a pallet on the unla...ndscaped side of my house. I would prefer not to destroy the hive and maybe have them relocated. Does anyone have any suggestions or resourses that may be able to come out and remove them. Thanks very much. Meer weergeven
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YEG Bees heeft het bericht van The Amoeba Sisters gedeeld.
You have probably heard that bees are important because they are pollinators, and that they work by collecting/distributing pollen from one flower to another. Here's an interesting gif that shows how an apple blossom turns into an apple after a bee visits it in the spring. (Angiosperms = flowering plants)
Flower to fruit...in a GIF!
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Seeing the sun shining through brand new comb always takes my breath away - it's so beautiful!
The next Edmonton Horticultural Society Speaker Night is all about the birds and the bees: backyard chickens and urban beekeeping. Monday, June 27 at the Central Lions Seniors Recreation Centre, 11113 – 113 Street, Edmonton. Doors at 6:45, Speakers at 7:30. Free for EHS members and $5 for non-members. Hope to see you there!
An interesting interactive art display that brings beekeeping into the experience. Pretty cool... maybe we can get it in Edmonton once it leaves the UK?
http://www.gizmag.com/bee-hive-sculpture/43917/
YEG Bees heeft een foto van Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping History gedeeld.
Happy Father's Day to all the drones out there!
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Circa. 1843 - Fathers of the Bee People.
Her Majesty's Nobles and Husbands.
By Edward Bevan -Like Us: Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping History
The dron...es or males are at once her majesty's nobles and husbands, dividing with her the administrative care of the State, the official trusts, and the parental functions. They are the office-holders and politicians; having, in general, little to do but to buz about royalty, pay their court, eat the fat and the sweat of the land, and talk politics. Their number varies with the strength of the hive, from fifteen hundred to two thousand. They seem to be, for nobles and husbands, rather unwarlike; for they possess no stings. On the whole, as they neither fight nor work, but only make love, they must have rather an easy time of it. Still, as we do not choose to injure any body's character, we feel bound to say that, if they mix not in the ordinary tasks of the operative Bees, it is the fault of nature, and not theirs: for she has furnished them with neither the sort of trowel to the jaws, with which the workers manage the wax, nor the baskets to the legs, in which they collect their fragrant spoil from the flowers. They labor not, then, because they have higher functions to perform, of a far loftier consequence to the public weal. And their wise and just fellow-citizens, content that each order in the State should discharge its appropriate duty, murmur not, nor stigmatize them as non-producers, nor rail nor roar at them as aristocrats; but recognize their utility in the peculiar part which has been assigned them of the public business, and submit with cheerfulness to their exemption from inferior tasks, inappropriate as well as impossible to these general fathers of the Bee people.
Edward Bevan, author of `The Honey-bee: Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management of Honeybees' 1827, is considered by many as the first work of bee literature possessing any claim to the character of scientific.
More on Edward Bevan coming soon on Historical Honeybee Articles.
Article source:
Edward Bevan, ‘Bevan on the Bee‘, Second Notice, 1843
YEG Bees heeft 4 nieuwe foto's toegevoegd.
The hives at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald are thriving! Today we supered both, which means we added an extra box so each hive can continue to grow. Both queens have been royally busy laying eggs - the populations of both hives will likely double in size in the next 2 weeks. One sting today and one sting last week mean that both chefs have been properly inducted into the world of beekeeping!
Neil Gaiman + Sherlock Holmes + bees = there goes my afternoon and possibly yours!
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/…/The%20Case%20of%20Death%20and…
Update from the hives at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald: both colonies look great! Check out this solid brood pattern - beautiful! Also look for the stylish gal wearing orange pollen pants in the top left corner.
It's time to do some queen spotting! Can you see Queen Nelson's beautiful brown body? The answer is posted in the comments 👑
YEG Bees heeft een foto van Geninne's Art gedeeld.
One of my favourite artists, Geninne Zlatkis of Geninne's Art, creates monthly images that you can use as a desktop calendar. This month features bees!
To see more of her art, visit http://www.geninnesart.com/
Geninne's Art
June is here! and so is the new free desktop calendar I made for you guys Enjoy!
Download from the link bellow:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/…/June%2B16%2BDesktop%2BCalendar.…
Some research suggests increasing CO2 levels are decreasing the value of the pollen that they collect. Another reason to focus attention on decreasing CO2 levels...
http://e360.yale.edu/…/bee_collapse_co2_climate_chang…/2991/
As part of Make Something Edmonton's 100-in-1 Day, Manasc Isaac is hosting a roof-top bee hive tour from 7-9pm on June 4
Check it out!
While bees play a crucial role in the Earth's ecosystem, their populations are on the decline.Urban beekeeping is necessary for strengthening bee populations.Due to the vastly differing plants available within small spaces in urban areas, bees actually thrive in busy cities and towns. We've decided…
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YEG Bees heeft 3 nieuwe foto's toegevoegd.
To cap off a very bee-utiful weekend, we hosted a hive installation demo this afternoon and distributed 17 nucs from the ABC Bees: Apiaries and Bees for Communities Collaborative Hive Purchase. Thanks to top bar guru Lisa D for providing advice to the new top bar beeks.
YEG Bees heeft 7 nieuwe foto's toegevoegd aan het album Fairmont Hotel MacDonald Apiary Installation — bij Fairmont Hotel Macdonald.
We installed two hives at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald this afternoon!
YEG Bees heeft 3 nieuwe foto's toegevoegd.
It turns out that 17 nucleus colonies (or about 170,000 bees) is exactly the number that fits in the back of my car. Thanks to Eliese Watson & Apiaries and bees for Communties for the bees for Edmonton area bee keepers. Distribution and the installation of my one new hive is tomorrow!
Here's a funny story: since we do not sell our honey, we save all of our food jars to use as honey jars. The problem with some jars, like this one that had butter chicken sauce in it, is the lids can retain the smell of the original contents. This smell can then transfer to the honey if it is put in the jar.
Since we have begun processing the honey that we cut out of the farm house in Spruce Grove a few weeks ago, we've been needing a ton of jars. We accidentally filled this jar with honey without realizing it still had a smelly lid.
We have tried all sorts of products to get rid of the smell, various vinegars, baking soda, etc. with no success. Last night, out of desperation, we tried a product that finally worked: TEQUILA!
The best part about this story is how the driver got pulled over for being "buzzed":
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/car-brown-splodge-turns-swarm-140…
