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Offline Somamech

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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2012, 08:55:08 am »
Well I got a a litre jar of cold extracted honey from the old man today... You folks are missing out  :P

Also walked away with a bee education and cold weather.  Keep some honey in the hives so the bees can survive winter so when spring comes they are ready for a good round of buzzing... Bee's won't tolerate tea leaves ;)

Sure enough I got a tale today of the old man running around avoiding the buzzers LOL after a rather innocent watering incident LOL.




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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2012, 07:47:38 am »


two nice vids at the link..it's aol so i can't move it
laryy chen's  is the second one




Larry Chen Finds 50,000 Bees Inside Walls Of His California Home
The Huffington Post  |  By Kyle McGovern Posted: 07/12/2012 12:04 pm Updated: 07/12/2012 3:00 pm

This is not the kind of buzz you hope for.

Larry Chen, a 27-year-old photojournalist, discovered a hive of 50,000 bees inside his California home last week, ABC News reports.

Rather than wipe out the colony, Chen decided to call a specialist who would simply relocate the bees.

"I figured they wouldn't bother me too much," he told ABC. "I got stung once but I was more curious about how big the hive actually was."

Chen found a professional beekeeper -- Mike 'The Bee Guy' -- on Craigslist, who vacuumed the insects into a custom-made device and placed them in two boxes, which held 20,000 bees each.

A documentary on the endangerment of bees prompted Chen to contact Mike, who is a member of Backwards Beekeepers -- a rescue organization that you could say has a "hive" mentality.

"My policy is to relocate, not exterminate," Mike said to ABC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/larry-chen-bees-inside-walls-california-home_n_1667930.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news


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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2012, 07:54:57 am »
Great post, Sky, and that fog was eerie!
Soon the bee guy will bee back(pun intended:)) and install two boxes for us.
Hopefully the bees he finds will be friendly! :)

It needs to be law that exterminators cant kill bees and there needs to be a pro called to relocate..they are so good at it, and there are no toxic chemicals involved either. win-win!
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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2012, 02:00:16 pm »
I'm not a fan of bee stings, but I am a fan of bees.  They're such a necessary part of the ecosytem.  Plus, I really like hot biscuits with butter and honey!

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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2012, 04:33:24 pm »

 ;D
lol..just another amazing bee story in the news..i wonder who had to count them..lol


3 million bees seized from Queens, N.Y., man's home

By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News
Approximately 3 million bees were found swarming around a man's Queens, N.Y., home on Wednesday night, and were confiscated --  to the relief of his neighbors.


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Yi Gin Chen had beehives packed into the backyard -- about 45 hives in total, said Andrew Cote, president of the New York City Beekeepers Association. Cote said Chen, a beekeeper in his native China, had contacted the beekeepers' association earlier in the month for help with the bees because he was trying to sell his Corona, Queens, home.

Chen allegedly started with one hive a couple years ago, and the insects kept multiplying, reported the New York Daily News.

“It’s gotten out of hand,” Chen told The Daily News Wednesday night as New York City Police Department officials and volunteers from the Beekeepers Association collected the bees. “I don’t have the time or resources to do this.”

Cote said Chen's real estate agent contacted him a few weeks ago and told him that Chen, who only speaks Mandarin, had "four or five hives" that he wanted to sell.

When Cote arrived at the home, he was shocked to find it was actually 45.

"That's something like 3 million bees, which is more bees than there are people in Queens," Cote said Thursday from his honey stand at a farmer's market outside Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.

"Many of the neighbors were tremendously upset about the bees and fearful to walk out their door because it literally led to three feet from the mouth of an open hive, each of which had approximately 60 to 80,000 bees," Cote said.

Cote said he advised Chen to immediately register the hives with the city, per local regulations, and also gave him suggestions to make the situation better for his terrified neighbors.

One resident, Louie Socci, told the Daily News he called the city once to complain.

“It’s like a big swarm of a couple million bees. You never seen anything like it in your life,” Socci told The Daily News. “The guy’s nuts. I called the city once and they didn’t do anything.”

Last night, during the four-hour operation to seal up the hives and remove them from the property, Cote discovered that not only were there a lot of bees, but they were also in poor health.

"The bees were in terrible condition. I'll be surprised if any of them survives the winter. He stripped them of all their honey," he said. "The average weight of a hive at this time of the year would be at least 180 pounds, and these averaged 40 pounds. He took all of their honey and didn't leave any for them."


It's not clear what Chen was doing with the honey, but Cote suspects based on conversations he has had with other beekeepers in the area that he was selling it.

Beekeeping has been legal in New York since 2010. No license is needed, but if beehive owners don't register their hives, they can be fined.

It's not known yet what charges Chen may face. Calls from NBC News to the New York Police Department were not immediately returned.

Anthony Planakis, who heads bee control for the NYPD, told The New York Post of Chen's home, “Picture 45 dogs in one apartment. It’s cruelty to the bees.”

New York City has ramped up its bee-control efforts recently. Earlier this month, Planakis -- who has been fighting stingers since 1995 -- was promoted from officer to detective by NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelley, and granted a "bee-mobile" and other equipment, The New York Post reported.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/23/13435771-3-million-bees-seized-from-queens-ny-mans-home?lite/

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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2012, 08:36:42 pm »
im a big fan of bees.
ive been putting off investing in them because of the great losses.
it sounds like the industry is turning around.
ive heard of people becoming millionairs from beekeeping.
the price of honey is crazy.

a freind beekeeper told me to rub honey in my hand and put back on hive.
the bees get use to your sent and leave you alone.
the color of honey is determined by the plants the bees go to.
the lighter the color,the more its worth.

im usually a pacifist but this bayer thing boils my blood.
another thing about bees that bothers me are these companies that truck bees from minnesota down here to texas.
i worry they spread viruses.i think the practice should be halted.

i love this thread sky and hope to hear more from you on this subject.
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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2013, 10:52:59 pm »
From Dr Joe Resnick

Parasites that attack Bees...

This is a 'trachea-mite' that attaches to the bee's air sacks and eventually suffocates the bee...



This is a 'varrowa-mite'....



Similarly, the varrowa mite clings to the bee's air sack and eventually suffocates the bee....



This is the 'Bee Medica' I 'invented' that kills trachea and varrow mites... The substance inside the microcapsule is Australian Tea Tree Oil...which is harmless to bees. The microcapsules in this slide show are 25microns in size...that is 1/4th the size of a salt crystal found in your table salt...very small. The shell is made of pure Beeswax and the core contains the Tea Tree Oil. The honey bee carries the microcapsule into the brood box where the beeswax is consumed and the tea tree oil is released (spilled). The oil 'off-gasses' and it is this 'gas' containing the Volitile Organic Compound that kills the mites. Pretty 'kewel'...huh?

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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #22 on: February 13, 2013, 02:14:01 am »
really cool
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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2013, 02:35:46 am »
I'll bee back
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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #24 on: February 13, 2013, 07:57:40 am »
I'll bee back
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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #25 on: February 13, 2013, 11:53:10 am »
I'll bee back
Deuem

Well, honey, We'll comb the topics for Your name.  [smile]  Good to see You peeking from the hive!
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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2013, 07:04:42 pm »


ah deuem... so glad to see you....out of the hive and amoung us flowers.... ;)


really good article with lots of pics and explanation


 How to count varroa mites with a sticky board

Most beekeepers treat their hives with insecticidal strips during the fall and winter, but the chemical control method has obvious problems.  You have to be extremely careful not to eat any of the honey that was in the hive during the treatment period, which makes life difficult the next spring if the bees didn't consume all of their winter stores.  Beekeepers who throw in chemicals every year without testing to see whether their hives need it also start to run up against pesticide-resistant mites --- bad news.  Finally, the organic gardener in me has to wonder what such a heavy dose of insecticide does to the honeybees.  Luckily, there are alternatives.

We use quite a bit of passive management designed to reduce varroa mite populations in the hive.  Foundationless frames and screened bottom boards both help cut down on varroa mite infestations, and the latter also allows us to monitor how many varroa mites are actually present so that we don't put chemicals in a hive that isn't very heavily infested.  With winter looming, I figured I'd better check the mite levels in our three hives.
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http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/How_to_count_varroa_mites_with_a_sticky_board/


what a lot of backyard guys did was put vasoline on the entrance and it killed the mites
i use tea tree oil and lilke it but i don't think i would want to put it into a hive...but that is just my opinion

right now i am on my last jar of raw honey and begging hubby to get some hives this year or sale all the stuff we have accumulated  thur the years....
i would miss the honey extractor though.. i really like that thing..
its a centrifuge that you turn by hand to extract the honey
oh well

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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2013, 10:03:58 pm »


Robot Bees Designed To Take Over for Real Dying Bees



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Autonomous robot bugs sound like creatures from a sci-fi flick, but they could be a reality very soon.

Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex in England are designing the first electronic bees in hopes that they can "supplement or replace the shrinking population of honey bees that pollinate essential plant life," according to the tech blog io9.

The Green Brain Project, as the effort is called, will upload real bees' senses of sight and smell into the tiny robots. Scientists hope these basic cognitive abilities will allow e-bees to detect odors and gases from flowers, just as bees do. The project plans to release the bees in 2015.

Along with making the world safe for pollination, these bees don't sting. That is, unless they get into the wrong hands ...

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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2013, 10:06:27 pm »
Engineers plan to upload bee brains to flying robots


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Engineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees and uploading them into autonomous flying robots that will then fly and act like the real thing.

Bionic bees -- or perhaps that should be "beeonic" -- could, it is hoped, be used for a range of situations where tiny thinking flying machines should be more useful than current technology, which might mean seeking out gas or chemical leaks, or people who are trapped in small spaces. They might even help pollinate plants in places where natural bee populations have fallen due to the still-mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder.

It's important to note that this won't be an entirely comprehensive model of a bee's brain -- it's only going to be the parts associated with its sense of smell and vision. These modules will be melded with other software to form what the team call a " Green Brain", one that can react to new situations and improvise rapidly just like a "real" animal or insect brain.

The project has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council with a £1m grant, with Nvidia providing some of its top-end graphics processors for the development team to work with. The aim is to get the "cybee" flying by 2015.

The head of project, Dr John Marshall, said: "Not only will this pave the way for many future advances in autonomous flying robots, but we also believe the computer modelling techniques we will be using will be widely useful to other brain modelling and computational neuroscience projects".

The prospect of a robotic animal that's as mentally capable as the thing it's trying to mimic might seem exciting, but bear in mind that swatting one of these away might prove a little trickier. That's especially pertinent as recent research has indicated that many insects, including bees, have personalities like vertebrates -- let's hope they upload a relatively laid-back bee's brain, lest it go rogue.

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Re: return of the bees
« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2013, 10:26:24 pm »
I don't know about bees but vasoline around elctrical boxes keeps fireants away and will last years.
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