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inspecting my Bees :)
Jun 4^th, 2015 at 7:43pm

as some of you will know already, I have ordered a Flow Hive..

but in the mean time I have to get my own colony going in preparation for the coming spring..

which I have done.. but, periodically you need to keep check on how they are doing..

so here's the inspection I did about a month back before the days got too cool to open the Hive...

strip down the hive..

get some smoke going..

and start pulling some frames to see how they are going..

this one had Drone cells in it.. although, with this cold blast of winter coming in all the drones would now be pushed out of the hive.. as they are useless through the winter and they don't need their mouths to feed... they will make more drones come spring..

bees coming and going at hive entrance packing pollen...

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Grappler Deep State Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 85054 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #1 - Jun 4^th, 2015 at 7:49pm Bee me up, Scotty... Thought about getting some bees here, but the neighbour is allergic to them.... Got the most gorgeous and buzzy black and electric blue native bees here though.... never take their honey - native bees have enough for winter....
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Reply #2 - Jun 4^th, 2015 at 7:54pm

that's a shame... but they don't hurt anyone, not intentionally...

the day after a pulled their hive down they were still a bit upset...

I was checking up on them at lunch time standing close to the hive like a always do when a couple of bees came out to give me the "move along" ...

as I walked away one of the bees bumped me in the back of the head and got tangled up in my hair.. so I brushed him...

accidently into my collar.. Shocked

and bang... stung in the neck!! Sad

anyways.. my fault..

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38821 Gender:	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #3 - Jun 4^th, 2015 at 8:48pm Nice hobby. I do like seeing pics of stuff like that.
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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 8588	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #4 - Jun 4^th, 2015 at 10:45pm Bee-utiful....thanks for sharing, love stuff like this! We buy our honey from a local bee keeper, a tub of it for $15. I don't like buying it from supermarket shelves, with 'imported' stuff in the mix. Did you see on 60 minutes I think it was, last week, about the bees being transported so they can stay alive and not starve?
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Grappler Deep State Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 85054 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #5 - Jun 4^th, 2015 at 11:52pm Motor biking into Goulburn one summer's day I got one under my helmet... stung me and my left eye closed up... my automatic response of brushing the bee away killed it... just an accidental meeting... They're not vicious - they hum happily around here since there are year round flowers... always got something to work with.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #6 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 8:02am do we have bumble bees here??.. really big fluffy bees beautiful.. but dont think they make honey. I had a swarm once in my backyard scared me to bits....but I do love mother nature shes amazing..
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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #7 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 8:45am What about the one in your bonnet?
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it_is_the_light Gold Member Offline Christ Light Posts: 41434 The Pyramid of LIGHT Gender:	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #8 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 8:51am many blessings a true master at his works much love and gratitude mechanic for keeping these trades alive ... namaste - : ) =
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: inspecting my Bees :) Reply #9 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 9:11am Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 5^th, 2015 at 8:45am: What about the one in your bonnet? pansi thats isla and you know it...Too B or not to B...the question is... do B good..
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Re: inspecting my Bees :)
Reply #10 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 9:23am

Sophia wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 10:45pm:

Bee-utiful....thanks for sharing, love stuff like this! We buy our honey from a local bee keeper, a tub of it for $15. I don't like buying it from supermarket shelves, with 'imported' stuff in the mix.
Did you see on 60 minutes I think it was, last week, about the bees being transported so they can stay alive and not starve?

I think that was that show about Australian truck drivers

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Reply #11 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 11:28am

Sophia wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 10:45pm:

Bee-utiful....thanks for sharing, love stuff like this! We buy our honey from a local bee keeper, a tub of it for $15. I don't like buying it from supermarket shelves, with 'imported' stuff in the mix.
Did you see on 60 minutes I think it was, last week, about the bees being transported so they can stay alive and not starve?

I see what you did there.... Tongue

yes I saw that about the bees being transported to find them feed...

if you live out in the country outback with a large population of bees like that food can be hard to find, especially in times of drought.. so its move them or lose them...

I guess a lot of people think that bees are better off out in the country rather than in town... but this is not true, its the opposite, unless they are being moved all of the time...

picture this... a farmer is growing a crop and there's millions of flowers everywhere... once that crop is gone, so is the food...

if bees don't get moved, or move on if they are in the wild... they'll die..

through the spring and summer, different gum trees flower at different times which keeps the bees going through this time.. but then what??? ... food gets scarce and a beehive will drop its numbers to survive...

so...

the best areas for bees are urban areas in terms of food...

it is also the best area for survival in terms of Farmers spraying dangerous chemicals on mass over hundreds and thousands of acres...

then once the farmers kill all of the bees with their chemicals they go crying to the government for a handout because they can't grow crops...

durr...

in town there are thousands of gardens with flowers all year around... watching mine this morning while having a coffee they were packing in the pollen... stacks of it... so they are going quite well at the moment...

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cods... bee swarms will scare people but you have nothing to fear...

they are out in the open and feel quite vulnerable... they are not looking for a fight, they are looking for a new place to live...

this will usually happen in spring as number swell to the point the hive is over full...

the bees start making a new Queen and when the new queen is about to hatch... the old Queen takes off with Half of the Hive to look for a new place to live and start a new hive to build up numbers again...

I have fridge magnets ready to go for this coming spring to pass out throughout my neighbourhood in case my bees swarm... people can call me and i'll come get them... im building a new hive at the moment and then i'll have a new Flow Hive coming in at the end of the year... so by the end of summer I could have three operating hives on the go...

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by the way Lols... you are right about supermarket honey... they have all sorts of stuff in it, even syrups..
they are also HEAT treated so that the honey doesn't crystallise.. this can also make it not as good as the real deal as they can affect the honey's makeup..

Having local honey from your local area can be a great benefit to hay fever sufferers because the "RAW" honey has all of the local pollens in it which helps you become used to those pollens that are irritating you..

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Reply #12 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 11:41am

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jun 5^th, 2015 at 11:28am:

the bees start making a new Queen and when the new queen is about to hatch... the old Queen takes off with Half of the Hive to look for a new place to live and start a new hive to build up numbers again...

does that mean you have to build another hive??? why dont they make the hives bigger in the first place??

I assume there is a reason for them being the one size??..

as they all look the same to me.

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Reply #13 - Jun 5^th, 2015 at 7:54pm

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 11:52pm:

Motor biking into Goulburn one summer's day I got one under my helmet... stung me and my left eye closed up... my automatic response of brushing the bee away killed it... just an accidental meeting...

They're not vicious - they hum happily around here since there are year round flowers... always got something to work with.

True story: Funny you should mention that, had a similar incident going to work one morning where one flew in between my leg and my motorcycle tank.

Bloody thing stung the crap out of me.

Have you ever tried to push your bike off the road at a set of lights with the most painful thing in your crutch area you can imagine.

Not nice I will give you the drum! Grin

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Reply #14 - Jun 6^th, 2015 at 10:29am

John Smith wrote on Jun 5^th, 2015 at 9:23am:

Sophia wrote on Jun 4^th, 2015 at 10:45pm:

Bee-utiful....thanks for sharing, love stuff like this! We buy our honey from a local bee keeper, a tub of it for $15. I don't like buying it from supermarket shelves, with 'imported' stuff in the mix.
Did you see on 60 minutes I think it was, last week, about the bees being transported so they can stay alive and not starve?

I think that was that show about Australian truck drivers

There may have been a show about the truck drivers with the bees, but this was on 60 minutes (bee scared), and I found the link for perusal.

http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/60minutes/stories/2015/may/bee-scared/

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