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  1. Women Work to Save #NativeBees of #Mexico

    A happy story about #bees, #BeeConservation, and empowering women in Mexico.

    Mar 5, 2014

    Excerpt: "Spaniards introduced European #honeybees to Central America around 1620, and they are now well established. European honey bees (and their Africanized form) do compete with gentle #NativeBee species for pollen and nectar on flowers. #MeliponaBeecheii is a #ForestBee, so if they could find flowering trees and shrubs, competition with honey bees might not be a problem. Alas, #Yucatan is heavily logged.

    "The Yucatan peninsula sits right in the path of a lot of big storms; quite a few hurricanes, floods, and droughts have caused beekeepers to lose all or most of their hives. Native stingless bees are quite sensitive to #pesticides, so that isn't helping either."

    Learn more:
    wired.com/2014/03/women-work-s

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/C5qzc

    Link to video:
    youtube.com/watch?v=4c4v1E2mRhw

    #WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #EmpoweringWomen #YucatanBees #IndigenousWomen

  2. The bait hive is busy this afternoon. Seems like a little fighting going on so must not be from the same hive. Could be some robbing but there's a lot of coming and going too. There was still some honey in some of the old comb put in here.

    #beekeeping #bees #BaitHive #SwarmTrap #HoneyBees #April19

  3. The captured bees seem to be doing bee things as it warms up. I peaked in the top deep around 9 am and there were no bees up in there so I took it off and there was no drama. It looked like they were clustered up into 3-4 frames but it's just waxed foundation so I guess there's lots of room in that space.

    #beekeeping #bees #HoneyBees #swarm #beehive #apiary #April19

  4. A bit of bee video from a couple of days ago. They're finding some bright orange/yellow pollen and probably still working the goldenrod.

    #beekeeping #bees #beehive #apiary #BeeMovie #September23 #HoneyBees #BeeVideo

  5. A short bee video after lots of beekeeping things today. Not a lot of pollen but it only got up to 53F/12C today and no sun until late afternoon.

    #beekeeping #BeeVideo #bees #BeeMovie #HoneyBees #apiary #pollinators #April8 #bee

  6. Just when I think I'm going to get something done I see a good video making opportunity. 4 seconds of 240fps bees slowed down.

    #beekeeping #bees #BeeVideo #SlowMotion #HoneyBees #CCBYNCND

  7. Bees in the bird feeder. They're probably collecting cracked corn dust which isn't great.

    #beekeeping #bees #honeybees #BirdFeeder #BeeVideo #March5 #CCBYNCND

  8. The bees late this afternoon on a mostly overcast day with a few drops of rain. Lots of big drones in the two most active hives and a steady amount of pollen coming in.

    #beekeeping #apiary #bees #honeybees #beehive #BeeVideo #MastodonOnly #CCBYNCND