Spruce's honey bees

Have you been on the sherry again

 

Mais non Spruce. Je suis en bonne humeur cet apres midi,
le soleil brille et tout va bien,
Jenny

 

Amazing Spruce....and if i could speak French i'd agree with Jenny

 

A couple of pics of my pals on a pumpkin flower

 

Loli

Very nice, hope you have been cross pollinating

Spruce

 

Bloomin' awesome gal,
they are so vunerable yet beautiful when they are upside down inside a tube like that, Absolutely spiffing Loli,

 

This isn't going to look half as good as it felt when i saw these fellas on my pumpkin flowers but hey ho....at least 20 male flowers with 2 or more Bumbles in each one...at one point there were 6 but missed that one in my excitement

 

Yay Looks like your pumpkin is the place to be seen in today,
excellent Loli,

 

Jenny with all this rain today no wonder why with all that nector and pollen up for grabs .

Loli its a craker photo

Spruce

 

Thanks Spruce ...pure fluke but i love em...every flower and there must have been at least 20 ...it was amazing to see them

 

Met a fascinating lady at the Melplash Show today, I asked permission to stick a pic of her bees on this thread.



She gave a great talk on Queen bee's & how they produce new Queen's a lot of knowlege going on there.

I'll stick this pic on the Melplash Show thread too, as she might look in on GC.

 

Hi Zigs

Cracker photo , its called a "Observation hive" bees only kept in it for a week then moved back into a normal hive. Great to watch what they are doing, did you manage to see the queen , and if you did ? did she have a colour dot on her back ??


Spruce

 

Apparently, didn't see her as I didn't have my glasses on. The Lady said if she finds a queen without the dot on, then they've made a new one.

 

Who puts the dot on Spruce? Man or Mother nature?
Jenny

 

No dots on Spruce, just the queen bee

The bee keeper puts the spot on.