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Bees - Anyone a beekeeper?

Posted on 03/23/2019 10:57:03 AM PDT by Dacula

Looking to see if any FReepers are Beekeepers. Any tips and hints for a successful hive would be appreicaited.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Education; Food; Gardening
KEYWORDS: beekeeping; bees; hives
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To: Dacula

My tiny town allows bees, chickens, & livestock inside the city limits.
Neighbor has bees that visit my garden & orchards. Fine with me.
But now he’s got a horse. City ordinance requires at least 2 acres per livestock animal. His yard is about 1/8 acre. He’s got the horse confined in an 8’x 8’ dog pen.
Should I complain?


61 posted on 03/23/2019 12:47:18 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future, brother. It is murder. --L. Cohen)
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To: Dacula

I lived in Rome and Athens, Ga. Glad to hear from Suburban Atlanta, Ga. I keep various water saucers in my back yard for the area cats, birds, bees, squirrels, and have on occasion been visited by raccoons and foxes. My house in inside the Denver City limits. About 2 times per year I put stale bread(winter) out for the birds and squirrels. Other wise I just let the wild life hunt and gather for their food.


62 posted on 03/23/2019 12:47:41 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: yarddog

Thanks. Spent many days in Wewa and on the Chipola river but never saw that movie.


63 posted on 03/23/2019 12:49:11 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Dacula

I can’t speak personally to your questions but I have a 21 year old college student who works part time for me who manages @ 9,000 hives across 3 states. Last year he harvested 40 tons of honey.


64 posted on 03/23/2019 1:07:28 PM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: hanamizu

When I four years old, maybe five, I received a cool bee toy. It was a plastic bee that you swung around your head and it buzzed like a real bee. I thought it would be neat to show my new toy to the bees collecting nectar in the empty lot next door.

I learned a lot about bees that day.


65 posted on 03/23/2019 1:17:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Dacula

Look up honey prices online, if it was possible not sure if you can but if you had a garden with manuka bushes you would get a highly sought after honey. It goes for an outrageous price on eBay.
All natural raw is sought after, basically its the antioxidants.


66 posted on 03/23/2019 1:18:43 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: Dacula

If you live near Colorado Springs contact Mike Halby, president of the local Beekeepers Club.


67 posted on 03/23/2019 1:49:30 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I had one of those toys! I miss those kind of simple things.


68 posted on 03/23/2019 2:00:17 PM PDT by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......)
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To: Dacula

My son was in the only scout troop in the country that still offers a bee keeping merit badge. In fact, they had to have them specially sewn. That said, the man who leads that badge told me he sprinkles powdered sugar on the bees in his hives. He said as the bees groom themselves they remove the mites.


69 posted on 03/23/2019 2:33:32 PM PDT by Grammy (Save the earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I hope to take some classes in it some day.

Back in high school, it was touched on in auto mechanics class. Then I was wearing thick glasses. Too much grief with a helmet. After lasik, different world.


70 posted on 03/23/2019 2:56:40 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Dacula

A real life version of Good Neighbors.


71 posted on 03/23/2019 2:58:34 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Dacula

My dad raised bees.
You can subscribe to a periodical called
Gleanings in Bee Culture, that has all the
latest news and tips.


72 posted on 03/23/2019 3:01:28 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Dacula

county beekeeper associations

Type the above into a search engine and see if you get any info.
Zip or County name may also help..


73 posted on 03/23/2019 3:06:00 PM PDT by deport
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To: Delta 21

I sure don’t disagree.


74 posted on 03/23/2019 3:49:01 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says)
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To: Dacula

I am a beekeeper of sorts...
not honeybees, mason bees!


75 posted on 03/23/2019 3:52:39 PM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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To: Dacula

Good luck Dacula, we keep bees I think over 8 years, we enjoy it. Its has not been very lucrative the last few years. but last year was a little better, here in NE Florida.
I tell people if they are just interested, maybe skip it, if you love it and can’t read and learn enough, try it. The bees know what they are doing and in my opinion require a lot less help than we think they do.
Good luck, the bees will teach you so much, they are extremely interesting creatures, they will show you the wonder of God. The hive is an intricately designed mechanism, and the bee itself is awesome.
Have questions, ask.


76 posted on 03/23/2019 4:01:23 PM PDT by Ferndina
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To: Dacula

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/flow-hive/

I thought the Flow Hive was the most ingenious thing.


77 posted on 03/23/2019 4:18:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: bert

Wasps, hornets and yellow jackets. Bumble bees are cool. Have seen Africanized bees hiving....no thanks.


78 posted on 03/23/2019 4:32:00 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Dacula

Watch for small hive beatle.
Little shits tore my bees up last year.


79 posted on 03/23/2019 4:40:39 PM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: Dacula

We have two hives on our farm on Lookout Mountain. List one over the winter, but hope this year to expand to three. We grow lavender and blueberries.


80 posted on 03/23/2019 4:49:18 PM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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