I understand that alkaloids in rhododendron nectar are poison's to humans but what plants are poisons to bees? Starting a thread on varroa resistant (vr) bees to show the mechanisms of how apis mellifera bees control their mite populations and how beekeepers can monitor for these. Quite much the bees of boath colonies have not lost interest in swarming when you splitted the original colony.
Each will construct and tend her. As a bka secretary i'm asked at least once a year so i wondered if anyone could tell me what they did with theirs. Hello, i love bees, but don't have the time to invest in keeping and maintaining a hive.
I have put a super on my hive , the bees are from a nuc and have a frame and half left to draw out in brood box. If i put an flying italian. Any advice on honey bees in a chimney? Everything has been going well up to this week, i'm feeding thick syrup every three or four days to keep them.
So i put a super on and wondered if there is a way of. Piles of dead bees isn't reassuring of a colony in good health, cbpv is a spring virus so one should be looking at cbpv as being the possible culprit. Hi, i'm having a problem with bees drowning in the feeder. Boath plits have swarming fever on.