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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Mar 13, 2010 20:39:27 GMT -5
I'm going to use this thread to write about my experiences with honey bees. I'm doing research on them and I may decide to raise my own beehive!
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Post by shadow on Mar 18, 2010 19:40:40 GMT -5
oh We have several here if you have any questions just ask.
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Post by Erik Slack on Mar 18, 2010 20:44:10 GMT -5
Wow, having bees for pets seems sorta...I dunno...just plain random I guess. I mean you can't pet a bee.
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Post by shadow on Mar 19, 2010 20:58:45 GMT -5
lol its for the honey
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Post by Michael on Mar 19, 2010 21:19:23 GMT -5
I want some honey.
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Mar 20, 2010 4:03:43 GMT -5
But can you get it without getting stung? ;D
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Post by Michael on Mar 20, 2010 9:52:51 GMT -5
idk, I gotten stung a lot in my life.. I was really wanting u to get me some honey, lol
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Post by Kohaku on Mar 20, 2010 10:24:51 GMT -5
i dont think i'd ever keep a bee farm I am deathly allergic
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Post by shadow on Mar 20, 2010 14:33:53 GMT -5
But can you get it without getting stung? ;D easily, You smoke them using hickory wood then you remove the top, get rid of most of the bees (you cant get them all and they can usually find their way back) then you scrap off the honey. You want to have two layors for them to make honey in, one for them to eat from and one for you to collect from. You also want to be careful about what flowers they collect nector from. For example, sunflowers make a bitter honey. And I dont recal ever being stung by a bee, a wasp yse, but not a bee. And yes erik Ive petted a bee before
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Mar 21, 2010 22:10:58 GMT -5
In April I will be going to an outdoor workshop where they will have us install a package of bees and a queen in the hive!
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Post by Erik Slack on Mar 21, 2010 23:06:30 GMT -5
Great! It's guarenteed right? If the hive breaks then they'll come and reinstall?
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Post by shadow on Mar 22, 2010 19:04:55 GMT -5
You could actually make them really easlly. My stepdad builds his own, and Im going to have to get more involved in helping him. But the trick to getting the bees into the hive is to get the queen in there, The rest of the bees will find her after that.
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Post by Erik Slack on Mar 22, 2010 20:49:02 GMT -5
Can you train a bee?
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Post by shadow on Mar 23, 2010 18:36:58 GMT -5
in a sense, If you can figure out the hormones that the Queen releases then you can use the hormones to make the bees do certian things. Bees have a swarm mind, they arent independent and everything that they do is for the benift of the swarm, you cant controll or "Train" them but you can use there actions for your benift, The bee man is a perfect example of this.
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Post by Andrew the Penguin on Mar 23, 2010 18:59:46 GMT -5
Shadow, you're like a Beeologist. XD I NEVER would have guessed you raised bees! That's AWESOME!!
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Post by shadow on Mar 25, 2010 7:50:01 GMT -5
I like animals, Im not a tree hugger but animals are amazing look up the lyrebird some time, I just found out about it last night
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Post by Erik Slack on Mar 28, 2010 14:54:32 GMT -5
Can you train bees to attack people?
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Post by Andrew the Penguin on Mar 28, 2010 15:23:38 GMT -5
I've known about the Lyrebird for AGES, shadow. XD It's called Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. ...1, 2, and 3. XP Erik, if that would work, i'd be in heaven.
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Post by Michael on Mar 28, 2010 17:34:51 GMT -5
Hahah yeah.. be like "Go attack Andrew, my little friends"
j/k
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Mar 28, 2010 17:41:33 GMT -5
Hahah yeah.. be like "Go attack Andrew, my little friends" j/k Lol, no I don't want to raise attack warriors! I want gentle honey bees to share their honey! ;D
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Post by Michael on Mar 28, 2010 18:17:50 GMT -5
Share some honeys with friends? , like me
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Post by shadow on Mar 29, 2010 7:45:08 GMT -5
Hahah yeah.. be like "Go attack Andrew, my little friends" j/k Lol, no I don't want to raise attack warriors! I want gentle honey bees to share their honey! ;D I might be able to convince my step dad to send you a bee hive, they can cost alot if you order one
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Post by Sayari's other half on Mar 31, 2010 9:06:37 GMT -5
Jenni!I almost didn't recognise you in that! I love how Erik is asking these questions..I can just picture him..swivelling around in a seat..and instead of a huge fat cat..he's carrying.a huge fat killer bee!!! We should bee careful!Lol
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Post by shadow on Apr 1, 2010 19:15:04 GMT -5
lol the new pet for the villian in everymanga from here on out
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Post by shadow on Apr 17, 2010 18:35:42 GMT -5
Ok Jen just a hint, when you go to put a swarm into a hive make sure you wear clothing that covers you up and that the bees cant crawl inside your clothes. I just got done putting swarms in some hives and I had about 10 bees on my arms, wearing a short sleeved shirt, and one somehow got inside of my veil, Thanks to my luck i wasnt stung and while I was nervous I laughed about it, but point being Wear protective clothes lol
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Apr 17, 2010 23:07:01 GMT -5
Too late for that advice! Lol, I went to the honey bee field day workshop today and it was awesome! I learned so many things! I'll try and write up something on Monday or Tuesday evening about it.
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Post by Sayari's other half on Apr 18, 2010 9:38:30 GMT -5
Can't wait to hear about it!
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Post by shadow on Apr 18, 2010 13:21:02 GMT -5
Same here
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Apr 20, 2010 0:38:33 GMT -5
On Saturday April 17th I went on an outdoor workshop to a honey bee research farm. Dr. Marion Ellis was the main speaker at the honeybee yard (apiary): Dr. Ellis is a Professor and Extension Apiculturist at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He is an incredible speaker with solid commonsense ways to keep bees. He also had three of his students helping out with the presentation. Two that I remember were a Lisa and another girl named Jenni! There were also veteran beekeepers there to help out in smaller groups. I got to see several queens in different hives. Most of the day I just wore a T-shirt and jeans, but when they handed individual frames around to take an up-close look at the bees .......I was loaned a veil! I even got to find a queen in one hive by looking at the frames and then the instructor showed us how to mark her! That way...... you can find the queen easier in a hive and I learned that each year the new queens are marked a different color so that the beekeeper will know how old the queen is in a particular hive. The color this year was blue! Last years queens were marked green! We also learned how to identify the male drone bee from the worker bees. Drone cells from queen and worker cells, pollen, honey and nectar! Twice I had a bee crawl up the back of my shirt and I was a little scared! I wanted to rip off my shirt and I probably would have if I hadn't been in a crowd of people! So, I stayed calm and lifted my shirt out a little and shook it and each time the bee flew out the bottom! So, I'm happy to report that I didn't get stung once! This summer I may go to another workshop similar to the one shown below! www.mdbee.com/articles/Nebraska.pdf
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Post by Sayari's other half on May 3, 2010 10:02:27 GMT -5
Ohhh!Sounds like you learnt a lot! :)I hope you can go again!
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