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I have an absolutly HUGE honey bee nest in one of my trees. I put a chicken wire fence around it because its the biggest bee nest I have ever encountered and wouldn't want anyone wondering into it.
I like watching them, all that traffic in and out all day long. I read that there are 50,000 to 80,000 bees in a hive like that.
I have an absolutly HUGE honey bee nest in one of my trees. I put a chicken wire fence around it because its the biggest bee nest I have ever encountered and wouldn't want anyone wondering into it.
I like watching them, all that traffic in and out all day long. I read that there are 50,000 to 80,000 bees in a hive like that.
We 'host' behives for a local bee breeder and honey maker in our upper pasture in summer. They haven't brought them back yet this year, I think they winter them in California.
You're right, it is neat to see the traffic from them. You can literally sit and watch highways of bees flying to and fro.
I used to not be much of a fan of honey. I didn't dislike it, but I could take it or leave it. Then one day a friend gave me a small bottle of honey from his local bees.
Oh my! I didn't know what I was missing! Such a delicate, floral, flavor. The taste was so nice and light. Amazing!
I used to not be much of a fan of honey. I didn't dislike it, but I could take it or leave it. Then one day a friend gave me a small bottle of honey from his local bees.
Oh my! I didn't know what I was missing! Such a delicate, floral, flavor. The taste was so nice and light. Amazing!
This bee store will taste and label the honey depending on the predominant flavor, which I guess real connoisseurs can distinguish depending on what was blooming at the time.
That's pretty cool! I'm supposing you have a habitat/yard that's conducive to bees?
I only have a quarter acre. or 11,000 something square feet the map says. The bees can have 100 ft2, they were there first. Again I fenced it off. About 10x10.
They really have no place else around here. Most yards have zero nature.
"Honey bees typically fly within 1 -2 miles from their hive to gathering pollen and nectar. The area may seem quite vast considering their small bodies. However, they are capable of much longer flights when necessary." https://carolinahoneybees.com/how-far-do-bees-travel/
Smart bees. They sure chose a good, tough protective tree to nest inside of. Nothing going after honey is going to try to dig them out of one of those trees, they are built like fortresses. The bees can get nutritious seasonal pollen and nectar from the tree too.
I only have a quarter acre. or 11,000 something square feet the map says. The bees can have 100 ft2, they were there first. Again I fenced it off. About 10x10.
They really have no place else around here. Most yards have zero nature.
"Honey bees typically fly within 1 -2 miles from their hive to gathering pollen and nectar. The area may seem quite vast considering their small bodies. However, they are capable of much longer flights when necessary." https://carolinahoneybees.com/how-far-do-bees-travel/
I don't know how old it is, again they were there first. Its BIG.
You mention a couple important points.
Living in an urban biological desert is a problem for those of us who want to help Mother Nature...It doesn't do much good to plant a milkweed on a balcony in a Manhattan condo --
why would a Monarch fly over many miles of concrete just to find your plant?
As you mention-- a hive will last a couple decades, rhen collapse. When many hives just happen to hit that point simultaneously, we get Bee CCD- the perfect storm just by coincidence-- the mathematical phenomenon of an insect "break-out," but in reverse. ...It's not the insecticides.
To me, the evolution of the behavior of the social insects is one of the most amazing things (among so many) in Nature....Even more amazing than the dance honey bees do to communicate to their comrades the location of good nectar is the way that someone figured the dance out...He had no Rosetta Stone to make it easy. https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/honey-bee-dance-language
BTW- very clevr of you to fence the location off. Good wrok!.
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