Spruce's honey bees

Pictures of hive entrance and area they live in

Spruce

 

Oh wow

 

Can't wait to see the inside

 

Not quite Buck. Pal. but I'm sure she's got 'em painting and decorating indoors ,ready for the new brood. Thank you Spruce,

 

Loli you are so demanding :WINK1:

Jenny , you want to see what other people keep them in , believe me it is like Buck Palace

New camera as well so still getting used too, plus loading them on here takes for ever at the moment so bare with me

Just need everyone else to take some bee photos , I will ask Marley Farley to rally the troops to join in on the thread, "as long as its got a sting" can be the title !!

Spruce

 

here is a pic of a South African wasp .... they grow large and when they sting, they are not like bee's that sting once .... they sting repeatedly ....

very painful and they make grown men cry ...

When I was a child, I was stung on my hand when I put my hand into our potstbox to remove post .... the wasp stung me about 4 times before I could get my hand out of the postbox .... my hand swelled up to twice the size and I had a headache for 2 days ....

the only other similar pain I felt was when I was stung by a scorpion whilst at a holiday resort ... the scorpion was in the wardrobe and managed to get into the pocket of my short pants ....

when I put the pants on, no probs at first, then it stung me on my thigh .... I yelled and done a little zulu dancing and as I yanked the shorts off, it stung me twice more on my leg .... (whilst my wife and kids were laughing)

 

done a little zulu dancing and as I yanked the shorts off, it stung me twice more on my leg .... (whilst my wife and kids were laughing)

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Hi dim

That should be in a horror movie , fab photo , I am always getting stung hopfully it helps with Rheumatism & Arthritis so they say ... no wonder you done a Zulu dance


Spruce

 

Dim,i I can feel prickles on the back of my neck looking at this. Even in a photo,he's too close for comfort!!

 

Just watched a prog thats got an article about the effects of neonicotinoids on Bees.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01hmzjb/Landward_2012_2013_Episode_7/

Its on the BBC Ear player at the moment.

 

Nice one Zig...i know this is probably a stupid question but why use pesticides on the likes of Rapeseed....the stuff grows like mad everywhere anyway and always has done ....what did they use years ago before all this stuff came out....excuse my ignorance but i don't think i'll ever get my head around all this new stuff they call progress

 

Thats a very good point Ginge, you don't see the stuff on the side of the roads being eaten by anything, wish it was, its everywhere now.

 

Sorry off topic but good info on Hawthorn leaves....didn't you could eat them...

 

They go sort of frothy tasting in your mouth Hawthorn berries make a fantastic wine, just takes a long time to pick a gallon of them.

Right, back on topic.... I was concerned that a pump was running that shouldn't have been. I could hear a hum coming from the en suite bog.

Checked all the solar & heating pumps were off but could still hear a noise coming from behind the shower.

Put a glass against the wall & I could hear the individual bees moving about in their nest. Behind the shower is the redundant internal old doorway into what used to be the gents loo when this was a dance hall. the bees had found a way in & occupied the entire void.

 

Do you mean now Zig or was this some time ago....

 

I did not know you kept bees!! thats amazing pal i well want to keep bees one day, when i get the flock back!!