Bees & Beekeeping: Past & Present – March 2024 The Dangerous Lives of Foraging Bees: Part 1
Away from the protection of the hive, foraging bees suffer a dreadfully high death rate. The various fates of the bees are not often photographed in a collection and shown to the beekeeping public. From photographs saved in various dedicated folders since 1998 (on a succession of hard drives), we will see how bees died or when they could have…
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The Classroom – March 2024
Q Bees chewing wood I have had a weird behavior in which I am not sure what the bees are doing. Hopefully you can see from this picture (Figure 1), the bees are chewing the woodenware along the inside edge. I have seen this once or twice before. This particular box is new woodenware and has been wax dipped but I…
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