http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/ Posts for sci.agriculture.beekeeping Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:35:46 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/sesinizi_bizimle_birlikte_duyurmaya_ne_dersiniz_179482344t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/sesinizi_bizimle_birlikte_duyurmaya_ne_dersiniz_179482344t.html ediyorum. Tarımsal alanda faaliyet gösteren bir çok sitede bunlara
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]]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:53:02 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/check_mite_question_179101160t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/check_mite_question_179101160t.html Can someone tell me how long you need to leave the Check mite plus
strips on the hive and how long before you can replace the supers.

A friend has lost the instructions and only has the 10 pack left with no
instructions.
Thanks much.
Carl

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]]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:15:17 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/hive_failure_observations_175391720t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/hive_failure_observations_175391720t.html
They were a small swarm to begin with.

They worked on and built up only one side of the 10 frame brood chamber

They were truculent in attitude

They appeared to be well enough a week ago.

Most of the population was dead on the floor of the hive

When I noticed a lack of activity yesterday when they should have been busy,
I had a look: their active frames containing brood cells had dried pale
skeletal remnants of fully developed bees whose heads had come off when the
other bees tried to remove them from the cell.

Everything had a sort of dry dry crumbly aspect

There were no mites or beetles I could find in the hive floor detritus.

Do not suggest that it was American foul brood unless you think it was
'European' foul brood. I know AFB well and this was not it. I've never seen EFB.

If this was some virus I've never seen it before.

Read the above carefully before giving your opinion, it's important.

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CK

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]]> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:53:16 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/forage_and_production_175032552t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/forage_and_production_175032552t.html
Does anybody know of work that details how much forage (specifically
honey production per lb) for given crop types is produced per acre on
an average "summer".

I realise that there are a good deal of assumptions there but I
wondered if it was possible to give a rough order of magnitude rnage
for given crops/plants?

Thanks

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]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:24:20 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/honeybees_and_tansy_ragwort_174533352t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/honeybees_and_tansy_ragwort_174533352t.html Anybody here know anything about Tansy Ragwort and honeybees?

I'm in the Seattle area, dealing with a nasty infestation of Tansy
Ragwort on a "horse oriented" piece of land. By "dealing with", I mean
"attempting to totally exterminate" - the stuff is a nasty poison for
horses. As far as I've been able to find out, there are basically two
ways of dealing with it: (A) The "nuclear option" - Chemically sterilize
the areas where it's growing with 2,4-D, RoundUp/Glyphosate, or a couple
others, and (B) Hand-pull and compost/bag the stuff. (Can't "just cut" -
The stuff re-grows, and if it has flowered before it's cut (which most
of this has), it behaves like dandelion or thistle - Even though the
plant is cut, the flowers will still go ahead and turn to seed - 10-40K+
seeds per plant, according to my reading... Talk about a great way to
make a bad situation worse...)

Since option A is less than desirable (due to the fact that it pretty
much means "spray down the entire area and get bare dirt in a couple of
weeks") I've been going at it by pulling the plants and burying them in
the manure pile by the wheelbarrow full.

Which leads me to the question...

While out pulling, I've noticed large numbers (Depending on where I'm
working I might see none, or anywhere from 5 to 20 per plant) of dead
honeybees "stuck to" the flower-heads. If you've ever seen a mass-kill
of bees due to them feeding on Buckeye, then you've seen exactly what
I'm seeing on the Tansy - It looks like they touched down to
feed/gather, and something just "zapped" them, without causing them to
fall off the plant.

I've been doing some reading on the Tansy, and all the information I've
seen so far is consistent: Besides being toxic to horses, cattle, and
goats (and humans, although cases of human Tansy Ragwort poisoning are
extremely rare) the toxic compound is also found in honey made by bees
near large stands of the stuff.

Which leads me to wondering...

Is Tansy Ragwort known to be bee-toxic?

If so, it would go a long way to explaining the large number of dead
bees I'm seeing. For what it's worth, the vast majority of them look
like they're in very good shape - only a very few have any sign of the
ragged wings, hairless thorax, etc, that are the hallmark of a forager
getting set to die of old age, so I don't think I'm seeing bees from a
"tired colony", or anything like that. I'm also not seeing any corpses
on the various other plants and weeds (particularly the Bull Thistle and
Queen Anne's Lace that are almost as thick as the Tansy, both of which
have live bees working them heavily) that are nearby, which leads me to
think that the Tansy is probably responsible for the kill.

Any solid information on the topic here?

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]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:16:41 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/bee_holidays_in_france_173809128t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/bee_holidays_in_france_173809128t.html
I am a British Beekeeper but would like to know if there are any good
french Bee Keeping holidays around? Sort of learnt and practice type
things. Lets face it British and French attitudes to beekeeping are
poles appart.

Thanks
Steve

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]]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:48:42 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/free_bee_keeping_newsletter_170169832t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/free_bee_keeping_newsletter_170169832t.html Keeping newsletter.

Simply visit - http://www.heapsofinfo.com/BeeKeeping/index.html

My grandfather and uncle were keen bee keepers. Some of my earliest
thoughts are of my grandfather robbing the hives. The honey was some
of the sweetest I have EVER tasted!


Regards,

Nik

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]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:13:27 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/what_to_do_with_bees_169847528t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/sci.agriculture.beekeeping/what_to_do_with_bees_169847528t.html in an low hanging area of my roof. They are apparently very
domesticated, they are not overagressive, I can stand within 3 feet of
where they are entering and exiting, and they will ignore me.

Of course I don't want them on my property. I called a couple of
beekeepers and they said they would be glad to come and kill them -- for
$250. I told them I can do that for free. I'm trying to be
environmentally friendly on this I know that bees pollinate, etc, etc and
don't really want to kill them.

But what else can I do? Killing them out may be my only option since I'm
a good 15 miles from really open country. If I drive them off, they'll
just take up residence in somebody else's home.

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