Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Abhishek Agarwal asked: 1. The new beekeeperThe new beekeeper will be more than enthusiastic to have his new bees arrive by post.Before the bees arrive he would have chosen a suitable place to put his new bees in along with the new hive. The place for the bee hive would ...
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Chris Haycock asked: As the days get longer with the onset of spring, the mass of bees clinging to the combs start to feel the slight increase in temperature, and the cluster begins to move. Those bees on the outside of the cluster move into the warmer centre of the ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Jack Stanley asked: There's approximately 20,000 species of bees throughout the world making them the interest of beekeepers who rely on them to cross pollinate because when bees do that it changes not only the flowers they collect pollen from creating new species of flowers, but it also changes the ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
chris delker asked: For most of us, modern life has evolved far away from our roots in nature. Most of us live and work in a man-made, artificial environment. Very few of us have the advantage of working in a natural setting, and few of us even have the privilege ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Jack Stanley asked: The success of the colony depends largely on the quality of the queen. As a beekeeper you may notice a difference in the production of honey from one colony to the next. The difference in production can depend on several factors, one of which is the queen. ...
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