BeeBird's latest activity

So, I have a laying worker colony. What’s the best way to deal with it? 1, unite over newspaper with a strong nuc. Or 2, remove the...

According to a paper published in Nature in 2016 about the mechanism by which ovary activity in workers is prevented, around 5% of...

Use your critical appraisal skills, cross check with multiple sources, check out the references and stay sceptical, get multiple...

Thank you. I’m doing my best not to fall into any potholes and realise I need to learn from theory and practice. No doubt I will...

I’m not determined to believe poor advice, far from it. I am searching for credible advice, so are you suggesting that all the...

Maybe!

Those may do, but as JBM said, allsorts turn LW, so foragers would return and prevent the requeening of the colony.

But how far do they go for a poo?

Laying workers are not always in the hive. Sometimes one out million in queen right colony. But it they are, policing bees destroy the...

L Last time I saw something similar to these they were floating in a big pot of grey dishwater coloured stock in a hotel restaurant in...

As I have lots of wood to bleach and rust to remove I've just ordered a goodly amount.

Rang Seamark Nunn and asked about the regs. and the fact that it stated on the tub that acquisition, possession or use by the general...

Yeah I realise that bee’s fly in order to take a comfort break, but the question is how far away is the toilet 🚽 I don’t go to the...

that may be what you have read, but whoever wrote that nonsense was talking absolute nonsense, bees can, and will fly from a very early...

Some stuff here https://theapiarist.org/orientation-flights/