Photo by Jon Sullivan ( public domain )
I asked my friend Allen for his cerebration on bees – below is what he sent me last week – conceive it a free beekeeping lesson . He started with the following quote , then persist in :
“ In the temperate geographical zone , dear bee survive winter as a dependency , and thequeen begin egg set in mid to late wintertime , to prepare for outflow . This is most likely triggered by longer day distance . She is the onlyfertile female person , and deposits all the egg from which the other beesare produced . Except for a brief mating period when she may makeseveral flights to mate with drones , or if she leaves in later lifewith a swarm to build a unexampled colony , the queen seldom leave thehive after the larvae have become full - grown bee . The queen depositseach testicle in a electric cell machinate by the worker bees . The egg hatches into asmall larva which is fed by ‘ nurse ’ bee ( worker bee which maintainthe interior of the colony ) . After about a workweek , the larva is sealedup in its cell by the nurse bees and begin the pupal microscope stage . Afteranother calendar week , it will come out an adult bee . For the first 10 days of their life , the female worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae . After this , they start building comb cell . On day 16 through 20 , a worker get nectar and pollen from elder workers and computer storage it . After the twentieth day , a doer leaves the beehive and spend the remainder of its life as a forager . The population of a healthy beehive in mid - summer can average out between 40,000 and 80,000 bee . ” – Infogalactic
ALLEN :
“ There on Wikipedia are the basic essentials of bee keeping – all you have to do is anything a matriarchal high society wants !
My opinion : * * PLEASE DO NOT TREAT EVERY COLONY AS AFRICANIZED ! ! Let a professional that want to facilitate the surround make that decision . fortune are if you are NORTH of Okeechobee … you will never see an african bee . I ’ve met a South African just as interesting , but much less harmless ( unless bored ) , but that ’s another story .
Photo by Jon Sullivan (public domain)
Most people need to grab the first can of toxic ingredients at handand go after bee . This is wrong on too many grade , intercept ! ! ! Remember you are poison YOUR environment too .
Call a local Apiarist . Most pest control companionship will tell you “ they don’thandle dearest bees , ” and gratefully now ( unless they ’re a fearful threat ) they wo n’t kill them either , so what to do ?
So now to the common sense . Do n’t spray them with water supply if you see a swarm settlement on the move . ( Many have done it ; therefore , I must say it!)Amazon.com Widgets
Photo by Jon Sullivan (public domain)
DON’T worry . Typically , they hang around for a few days and move on . They are just waiting on the slow relatives to catch up so they canget to their young home .
If you experience the need to “ find out them out , ” wear light colored wear , no loud smells and watch them from a secure distance ( they will let you know what that is . ) When you see a dear bee , one of the biggest sign is before a bee stings , you will get bump . Due to their sense of self preservation , they willNOT sting YOU at the first prospect – they need to last too . If you get bumped , back off and delight their fellowship and unless IN a home of their own they will go away soon enough on their own .
And hey … what ’s the bad that could bump ? A young colony catch a bonny start – and all the blossom have had all the odoriferous tenderness they necessitate to make seeds for the next genesis of food for thought … and O2 for US ! ”
Photo by Jon Sullivan (public domain)
Update: Here’s Allen on YouTube in our free beekeeping lessons series:
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