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Posted by petunialover 49047 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 16, 06 at 23:20
| I read somewhere there are no more honey bees, just the tame(farmed?) ones that live in hives, but while picking some squash blossoms I accidentally brougt in two that sure looked like honey bees, I let them go alive outside, I hope they find their way home, There are no hives within at least 12 miles but I do live outside a small town close to a small woods, Could they be real wild bees? Could I try to place a hive in my yard to encourage them to stay?
Thanks in Advance,
PL |
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RE: honey bees? wild bees?
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| There are many 'wild' European bees out and about. Keepers do not capture all the swarms from their hives. I see swarms go by the house every year; actually, I hear them before I see them. On one occasion, I put an extracted super out to let the bees clean it up before being put into storage. I put a bottom board and top on it to keep the summer rains and mice out, and watched the bees come and go. I kept an eye on it, in passing, for a week or so, and the bees were still active when there hadn't been that much to clean up. I took a look inside and a swarm had taken up residence. I had this super sitting on a lawn chair on the north side of the garage, but the 'big boys & girls' say the best way to entice a swarm is to place a hive body under the eaves of a building at the corner. Terran |
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