#honeybees — Public Fediverse posts
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The East hive. This would technically be the oldest hive since the OG queen moved here with a split, or maybe after I caught a queen wandering around after the split which I suspect was the old queen since I probably split them days before they would have swarmed or she couldn't fly good enough to swarm.. whatever, she was here and generally I'd say it's been the best hive but a bit swarmy. Lots of drones in this photo.
5/5 🏁
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The White hive. Not much to say about it, I think it swarmed twice or more last year so I suppose it doesn't really have much character.
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The Center hive. This hive always has lots of bees, and swarmed once last year so maybe the slight meanness of some bees went with that queen. It was like 1 of 100 bees would just hit you and sting you, no warning, when checking them.
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The Green hive. This is the part of the split with the queen from the East hive. It's activity is picking up every day as more foragers take flight. They have a green 4 leaf clover and a water trough to help ID the hive and for other bees to see sooner it's not their hive. I noticed a lot of drift from other hives landing or almost landing before realizing it wasn't their hive.
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The West hive. These bees seem to be smaller. They could just be young bees but I've seen the small ones bringing in pollen. They seem healthy and didn't have any issues over the winter. This was a swarm caught July 17 last year and combined here since this box had swarmed and I probably cleared out it's queen cell when checking things.
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Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) and Tree Mallow (Malva arborea)
#Bee #HoneyBee #TreeMallow #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insect #Insects #Bees #HoneyBees #Apis #MalvaArborea #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence #Malva #Mallow #Flowers #Plant #Plants #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Comparing Kenyon cells between sawflies (ancestral Hymenoptera) and honeybees:
"Evolutionary dynamics of mushroom body Kenyon cell types in hymenopteran brains from multi-functional type to functionally specialized types", Kuwabara et al. 2023 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add4201
"the functions in learning and memory of the ancestral KC type were heterogeneously inherited among the KC types in the honey bee."
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#Honeybees, under threat in rural and agricultural areas, are finding an unlikely refuge: the big city
by Luca Matteucci
"The fuzzy pollinators, apis mellifera, have found new homes at places like the Beaugrenelle Commercial Center, one of Paris’s biggest indoor shopping complexes. Not far from the Eiffel Tower, the mall hosts a pesticide-free garden on its rooftop with Russian mint, Australian lemongrass, Indian holy basil and other plantings that attract local Michelin-starred chefs. The aromatic flowers and herbs also draw legions of bees that now live on a cleared corner of the roof overlooking the Seine River.
"'It’s a heavenly buffet for them. They enjoy a healthy and varied diet, which makes the colony stronger,' beekeeper Diane Jenny said on a recent day as she checked the rooftop’s six hives, each containing about 40,000 bees, for potentially harmful parasites like mites. The bees were healthy and thriving, she proclaimed, and busy making rooftop honey."
#Beekeeping #Bees #Gardens #RooftopGardens #UrbanBeekeeping #Pollinators