Comments on: From the “One thing that scares you, every day” dept

By: Bryce Harrington

Bryce Harrington — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:16:41 +0000

Oh, and my dad’s advice: “Duc tape all of the openings no matter how small.”

By: Bryce Harrington

Bryce Harrington — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:54:39 +0000

My dad’s an avid beekeeper here in Oregon. He also enjoyed helping retrieve wild bee swarms out of people’s trees. Said that ironically that’s when the bees were most calm.

I stick with the nice safe Mason Bees myself.

By: george Ronald Adkisson

george Ronald Adkisson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:02:53 +0000

I personally evolved as a child that caught bees by their wings then later let them go to outrun them.
I am today am a bit perplexed how to resolve the sudden drop in the honey bee populations due to magnetics and a mites…I certainly never would contribute directly to their total removal … or we would be inventing robot replacements, while humans employed Q-tips to pollinate the flowers etc.
Imagine large numbers of civilized people would actually disappear from not being legally able to conduct their own personal affairs without patents and copyright acts. Einstein did mention once, that we only have 6 years to go as humans when the bees disappear.
There are areas where the appearance in the yard of a single honey bee is very unusual. Long Beach California is a place that qualifies that distinction … but then you can wander around to other areas like Crossville Tennessee and see a real good dispersion of pollen bees as well as honey bees.
I never liked being stung and I certainly would not enjoy being injected with atropine or something similar due to a bee sting.
I wish everyone well with their care of their bees … have a good day.

By: 2 cents worth

2 cents worth — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:31:29 +0000

Looks like a freak show to me.

By: sean fell

sean fell — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:17:54 +0000

My dad had about 12 bee hives when he was younger. Bees no problem.
Sean.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:56:41 +0000

A very good book about beekeeping for laypeople is Sue Hubbell’s “A book of bees”. It’s not really a technical beekeeping book, it goes over a year of beekeeping and is more about the experience than the techique, but it does describe a lot of how she does it… she is not in favour of queen excluders, BTW…

By: Caleb

Caleb — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:07:31 +0000

I love my bees, and I’m glad to see this here (I showed my wife who is also an ubuntu user, and she was tickled!) talk about working with a community! bees are disappearing where I am, so we lovingly maintain our hives all we can. Once the distro naming naming alphabet comes around to ‘A’ again we should go for “amazing apis” because they are community-driven, intelligent, compact, and produce so many useful things.

By: lott

lott — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:52:53 +0000

Here a little bit of info you need to know if you plan to keep your colony in tacked or in good health.
Hope you are as far away from genetic modified soybeans and corn.
Or in 8 months they will die and it is not your fault.
It is the soy and corn it is poison to the bees, by next summer they die or move away to die off.
The queen with fallow 6 months after that, that means the next brew will be contaminated.
Then the cycle will come 10 months after that.
Hope that your in a organic area, best wishes.

By: Supernova

Supernova — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:43:44 +0000

wonderful camellia! Looks like mine!
Supernova

By: Lesley

Lesley — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:57:08 +0000

Enjoy the Beekeeping! Banking is a good thing for bees:)