Every Monday, I'm going to do a round-up of the interesting bee items that I found over the past week. If you find any interesting bee news (or write a bee article), please send me a link and I'll include it and credit (and follow) you. My company, D161T4L W15D0M, will be attempting to start up a #bee/#bees community on Steemit shortly -- please let me know in the comments if you wish to be included (or, better yet, create a post deserving and using one of those tags).
The Weekly Bee - 22 August 2019 (last week's round-up)
Theft of hives hits southwest Florida bee farmers
28 August 2016 - None of the hundreds of stolen hives have been recovered, law enforcement agencies said.
Southwest Florida bee farmers are having a difficult summer because thieves have been stealing their hives, lots of them, to the tune of $150,000 or more. More than 500 hives have been taken from large corporate-type bee farms to small, mom-and-pop operations since June in Lee and Charlotte counties. Statewide, around 1,200 hives have been taken this year. The thefts have prompted the formation of a multi-state task force and have hurt some smaller bee operations enough that some are considering quitting what had once been been viable honey and pollination operations.
Nutrition Matters: Stress From Migratory Beekeeping May Be Eased by Access to Food
24 August 2016 - In the first large-scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan. Some of these negative impacts may be reduced by moving bee colonies into patches with readily available food or by providing supplemental nutrition when there are few flowers for honey bees to visit, the researchers say.
The answers to the main questions for the beginners beekeepers! Bees.
23 August 2016 - Hey dear friends. In the last article i told about the main issues that need to be addressed for the novice beekeeper! now I will answer all these questions. Read carefully! Each field has its own quirks.
My boyfriend is a bee keeper and one of his bees stung me! - a jealousy or an accident?:)
22 August 2016 - Yesterday I went to a bee farm with my boyfriend. He is a bee keeper. I have never been to a bee farm before, because I'm afraid of bees. But yesterday I thought that it is a high time to overcome my fear. When I came up to a beehive, I was amazed to watch these small noisy creatures. They were busy doing their duties and paid no attention to me. And my boyfriend told me that a bee's character (I mean whether it is aggressive or not) depends on its breed. His bees are kind.
SteemitPhotoChallenge Entry Macro Photography : BEES - upclose and personal
15 Aug 2016 - This is my entry, I posted it pretty early not knowing that the photo challenge is actually held on weekends and that there are things you have to have on your post to make it qualify.
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SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY : " BEE A Fingernail Close ;)
8 August 2016 - 2 days ago, after 17:00, in my garden ...
Was having a break, was having a BEE moment ^ ^ ...
They were there - just sitting and nipping a while
in that wonderful world of nectar haven of a passion flower ~
and then there were three ...
How lucky can I BEE :D to get this pretty close to such cute little BEES ?
Thanks be to God for them BEES ^ ^.
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SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS on How to Capture a Honey Bee in Action
7 August 2016 - Have you ever tried taking a picture of a honeybee in action using just your smartphone's camera? Yes! It is P O S S I B L E! If you've read my very first post about taking a picture of a hoverfly using just your smartphone camera, too then you know what my first tip is going to be. Honey bees are pretty friendly. You must know that like us warriors, they are very busy fulfilling their maximum potentials since their wings normally just last two - weeks the longest before they get worn out. This guy just went on nipping nectar while I kept pressing my shutter - off - Samsung galaxy A3 2016 edition phone's camera.
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How to Control Mosquitoes Without Killing Pollinators and Other Important Wildlife
9 February 2016 - Warm weather and mosquitoes will be here before you know it, leading many of us to look for ways to enjoy the outdoors without being pestered by those annoying little—and sometimes disease-bearing—biters. There is a lot of information being disseminated by health organizations about health risks to humans from mosquito bites (see CDC links, below). But besides protecting ourselves from being targets, we need to work at eliminating mosquito habitat and controlling their numbers. There are a number of ways we can do this safely and effectively. Because mosquitoes have no trouble flying from yard to yard, the best way to combat them is to work with our neighbors to collectively identify and implement opportunities to reduce mosquito populations. Below is a set of approaches that are suggested by entomologists, public health organizations, and agricultural extension programs.