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Post by brownrexx on Jun 7, 2016 18:55:32 GMT -5
I can't answer that question because I do not know the answer. It was one of the more strange things that we have ever seen. A big cloud of them (presumably the queen and drones) flew way up in the air above the roof of our garage, flew around for about 10 minutes and then came back to the hive. By dark, they had all gone back inside.
We had another small swarm late yesterday and hubby caught that one. Now we have 3 hives!
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Post by desertwoman on Jun 7, 2016 20:15:02 GMT -5
You'll be back up to 4 at this rate!
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Post by lisaann on Jun 17, 2016 18:31:11 GMT -5
brownrexx............. A bee here, is it a type you have?
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 17, 2016 19:38:35 GMT -5
Looks like a honeybee to me.
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Post by lisaann on Jun 17, 2016 20:04:30 GMT -5
I know that...........but it looks furry............more furry than usual..............
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 18, 2016 13:49:11 GMT -5
Looks a little fatter than my bees too but I can't really see the whole bee.
I just looked at my 3 hives and they are all doing well and really busy today. Two of the hives are the new ones from swarms this year and they seem to be doing well in their new homes.
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Post by James on Jun 24, 2016 10:40:04 GMT -5
Wow! You did good.
About furry bees. Those are the young ones. Newly hatched bees are furry and as they age, the hair falls off. Older bees are not furry.
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Post by gianna on Jun 24, 2016 11:23:03 GMT -5
Cool thread. There have been swarms that pass though here occasionally, some even aggregating briefly. There was a swarm that settled in the water meter box in the front earlier this year. When that happens, the meter reader calls it in and a bee guy comes out, 'fences' it off with yellow 'crime scene' tape, and captures the hive.
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Post by James on Jun 24, 2016 12:04:47 GMT -5
"I was also wondering how they get from their own hive to the tree - what motivates them? Is it the urge to swarm and find a new home? Do they leave and swarm, then need to be coached back into a new hive? I'm assuming that instinct prompts them to swarm and leave what becomes their previous home? Is it then abandoned?"
When the bees are building up in the Spring and the hive gets crowded, they will build swarm cells, which are queen cells. The queen will lay an egg in them. When they are developed to the point where they pupate, the caps are sealed over. It is at this point that the old queen decides to leave the colony with a swarm. Half or more of the bees will leave with the swarm. At first they cluster on a nearby tree limb while they send out scouts to find a new home. Once they decide where that new home will be, they all fly away to the new home. No, the old home is not abandoned. The new queen will take over there. Sometimes a virgin queen or even several will lead out more swarms. Time they get done, they have propagated, but the beekeepers chance of getting any honey from that bunch this season is nil.
It is to the beekeepers advantage to check the colonies once every ten days during Spring buildup and cut swarm cells. This way he can keep his bees together and have strong colonies that will pack some honey for him.
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Post by James on Nov 1, 2016 12:18:56 GMT -5
Swarming is the bees way of propagating the species. If all the bees stay in the same hive, it is only one. To increase, some have to go off and start up a new colony. In the spring when the flowers bloom the bees pack honey and build up the brood. When they are becoming crowded in their hive the bees make queen cells and the queen will lay an egg in them When the larvae grows to the pupal stage, the bees seal the cell over. It is right around this time that the old queen will leave and take a swarm with her. Some of the queen cells hatch, usually the new queen will go kill the other queen cells, but this does not always happen and sometimes the new queens will lead off another swarm, so you may have more than one swarm sometimes.
(Did I mention that I hate this editor?)
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Post by brownrexx on Nov 1, 2016 17:56:20 GMT -5
(Did I mention that I hate this editor?) I don't know what you mean by an editor. Do you mean the spell checker?
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Post by James on Nov 8, 2016 18:31:04 GMT -5
Did I use the wrong word? As you write some program takes your key strokes and converts them to letters and spaces that are then sent to the page. What name do you give the program which does this for you?
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Post by James on Nov 14, 2016 11:52:06 GMT -5
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Post by brownrexx on Nov 15, 2016 20:34:52 GMT -5
What name do you give the program which does this for you? Maybe you are referring to your browser like Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox. If you don't like the one you are using then you can always download another one and use it instead. The spell checker that corrects your spelling is part of the browser.
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Post by James on Jan 31, 2017 12:18:21 GMT -5
Thank you brownrexx.
I am using Google Chrome. The computer is running W10. I had some issues with Ten when I first put it on the computer, but get along OK with it now. Today its 11 degrees out and sunny. Nothing growing except ice. I took the birds some seed then came in and play on the computer. Ya, if I mis-spell a word the Chrome underlines it in red to let me know , but it does not fix it.
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