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Shiny is better. ☎
This does not look like a German black honey bee to me. Too metallic. It must be one of a thousand varieties of sweat bee, it's just surprisingly fat/big to me.
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Second honey bee of the season! Yesterday we went walking to smell the flowers, and this lady was drinking heavily.
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Two #🐝 NUC colonies, arriving mid-April for me!
Just two days until I order a NUC or two! #🐝
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An example of honey bee hype: "More Than 1,500 Bee Dance Moves Decoded by Scientists" [newsweek.com]
no, they didn't discern 1500 different dance moves. They observed 1528 instances of the same dance. The dance has some nuance, but not that much.
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I am fairly certain the bee hive died. I was worried about them since seeing significant varroa mite issues in the Fall. Not surprising outcome! It's still sad, though. New hive in the Spring...
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"Compared to water surface locomotion of other insects, neither the speed nor the efficiency achieved by the honeybee’s hydrofoiling impresses.
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Not the most encouraging sight. But there are dead bees at the entrance, so I know they're still alive! :]
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I don't know what this is, some sort of fungus? Mold? It's neon, and it's all over the bottom of the hive. Hopefully it's OK.
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Honey dessert recipes: honey cookies, lavender cream cheese mousse.
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Today I inspected the bees. They're doing very well! They hadn't worked through all of the sugar from last time, but had eaten through the newspaper in the middle. I moved it aside and added another piece of paper and a chunk more sugar wetted.
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> Honeybees can surf to safety [cosmosmagazine.com]
Or water and air have resonance as a factor of each other or something?
Bees cannot survive in water long; once their trachea is covered, they can't recover, as far as I know.
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Glad to see my bees are still alive! That melted snow...
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The Mountain Camp method is just to dry-feed with newspaper on top. Wet the sugar with a sprayer to ease consumption and draw them to it. The newspaper will soak some of the moisture they create while clustered, which helps during the cold.
No boiling
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Yesterday it was 60℉. I took the inner cover off the hive and am rolling with the "Mountain Camp" method - named after a forum user called "Mountain Camp". Hahaha.
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Yesterday the bees were bringing in lots of pollen!
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I mixed a high sugar-content sugar syrup and fed them. They immediately took to it very favorably. That made me feel good. They needed this. Perfect pick-me-up on a rainy day.
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I took a quick look at the bees this afternoon, in the rain. The hive has felt light recently, so I wanted to get a sense of their health… I didn't to a real inspection, and I should, but it was raining!
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You gave up too much to turn back now. ⇄