Posted on 06/17/2017 4:41:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s a sting operation
Gotta go bake biscuits...
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It’s a sting operation
please mind your own beeswax...
I don’t understand all the buzz about Karen Pence
Everything does not have to have a deep meaning. Maybe they just want some natural native honey.
Just because she’s the VP wife doesn’t make her a queen.
Why are you droning on about it
This could put us all in a sticky situation
This could turn out to be a sweet deal for us all
OK, I’m done
Hope DJT doesn’t use that comb
Where’s the part about the birds
Ok, now I’m done
“It’s a sting operation”
We get the point.
“I don’t understand all the buzz about Karen Pence”
I don’t understand the reason for all the venom in your comment.
All joking aside...
When do the leftist/libs start screaming about the waste of taxpayer dollars for this beehive...the way they screamed about Moocher’s Whitehouse Garden?
Natural native honey is not always what you get in the market. High-fructose corn syrup is often a very high percentage of the sweet yellow concoction sold as honey.
I just started the journey into beekeeping. My hive is about two months old and slowly growing.
OK, think on this.....
After twenty two years as a bee keeper I sold all my stuff to a friend who in her late 60’s took up the pursuit. I spoke with her last evening at the DBHS class of 60 Seventy Five Year old Birthday bash. (we’re all 75 this year.
But I digress.....
Someone began to research the modern beekeeping practices that follow that developed years ago by A. I. Root. He developed the modern hive body that includes a brood chamber and supers for honey collection. He developed starter comb, a wax sheet rolled with the hexagonal cell imprint. The bees draw out that precise rolled pattern into the comb used for brood rearing or for storage.
It turns out Root slightly oversized the pattern dimensions.I’m not sure why but my friend told me root wanted to produce larger bees and a bigger cell allowed larger larvae.
Any way, the researcher studied wild comb and established new, smaller wax cell dimensions. A bee keeper can now buy the starter sheets with the smaller imprinted pattern. We are talking very small dimensional change here.
Bottom line, she has no mite problem with the smaller, theoretical natural instinctively cell size. Not only did the colonies cease dying, but the honey production per colony increased dramatically.
So, as beekeepers switch to the smaller wax cell pattern, the mite problem is apparently going to disappear.
That’s great news.
Another plague not mentioned here is the Small Hive Beetle. It is about the size of a Lady Bug and makes life for the bees in the hive very miserable. It is likely the cause for a lot of mysterious absconding, especially in the late summer or fall. The Small Hive Beetle comes from sub-Sahara Africa, normally would be expected to die from freezing temperatures. It apparently overwinters as an adult in the cluster or less likely as a larva in the comb kept warm by the cluster. The mature larva leaves the hive an pupates in the soil away from the hive.
The Small Hive Beetle may be responsible for the absconding behavior of the Africanized honey bee.
I majored in entomology in college, and have a lifelong love and fascination with insects. I also have Asperger’s which gives me a hyper focus on my passion, in this case- the natural world, so I often notice patterns others do not see ... that said—
The valley where I live has large plantings of potatoes, among other things, and I have watched in dismay over the past 20 years as first the honey and bumblebees disappeared, then the bullfrogs disappeared, and now the butterfly and moths are almost completely gone. It is depressing to watch it happening and nothing being done to determine the cause.
I strongly suspect it is related to something being sprayed on the potato crops (grown exclusively for potato chips here abouts), in an effort to control the Colorado Potato Beetle, but I have no way to test my hypothesis. I wish someone would research this, I am too old to undertake such a study.
At least in my area we are paying a huge price for all the potato chips we eat... This is one of the rare instances when I wish a government agency would step in and require someone to do some honest tests, as I’m certain Lays and Wise, et al, would be strongly against testing...
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