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Last year (around Feb-April 2012) my daughter noticed honeybees entering /exiting a bird habitat in a city park. She took a few pictures of the hive, and for the last year, we’ve been monitoring it’s progress and growth. The hive grew large enough that they were building wax honeycomb on the exterior of the […] In a land – not so far away, there lived a hive (or 8) of honeybees. These honeybees were known as “city bees”. They were well-versed in finding the flowers, pollen and nectar that were planted around humans’ homes and parks. They visited trees, flower gardens, vegetable gardens and all sorts of city-places to find […] I received a call for honeybees that were located in a home – near a local lake in a gated community. The home is about 25+ years old. Upon inspection – I determined that the bees were (luckily) located above the fascia board near the roof line. the variable being – how high into the […] Here are photos from a trap-out that was started this morning. These bees were VERY gentle. I believe that they have been here under 72 hours, and are still in comb-building mode – as there were NO foragers exiting & returning.
And a MORE close up shot:
Here […] Just a quick note to announce that followers of this blog can now subscribe to my blog, and receive instant updates whenever I update the Harmony Hollow Apiaries site. Thank You Rex & Shannon Hawk’s Nest has formally changed. Our new name is: Harmony Hollow Apiaries – a division of Bohemian Utopia. I went back to last week’s trap-out site last night and gathered the nuc-box and brought all the ladies home. Today, I checked on them – and they seem to be doing very well. They have not drawn out any more comb (I had provided them a frame of comb/eggs) – but I had removed […] Sorry folks… There are too many ‘bots’ – and I’m getting about 50-100 spam comments per day. Turning off comments until WordPress can figure out a better method to protect site owners. |
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