There's a lot of them, and they're actively buzzing around. I suppose they'll have a good chance to survive the winter, unless a bear gets them. I probably won't take much if any honey, so they'll have more.
I think my pets are probably doing fine
There's a lot of them, and they're actively buzzing around. I suppose they'll have a good chance to survive the winter, unless a bear gets them. I probably won't take much if any honey, so they'll have more.
19 Comments
ICastFist@programming.dev · 25 pts · 18d
How long does it take to pet all of them?
dihutenosa@piefed.social · 19 pts · 18d
You cannot imagine how much the pet groomer charges me for washing and combing them all.
Nomad@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 18d
If you take honey, just give them a big bowl of sugar water and they will be fine. Just don't take too much before the winter.
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 18d
Take the bear seriously! Our first year a mom and cub came and had a rowdy time
Got an electric fence right quick after that. The hive survived though, and ended up swarming this year but my wife caught it and now we've got 2 boxes 🙃
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 18d
I like how you can tell a couple of them are doing the "the flowers are here" dance, by the side to side blur.
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 18d
They're so cute!
What are they're names??
thenextguy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 18d
Eric, of course.
dihutenosa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 18d
The set of possible names is isomorphic to the set of natural numbers. Might as well call them 1, 2, 3 etc straight away.
noli@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 17d
1857 is looking strong in this pic
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
Look at all these beautiful ladies!
zergtoshi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
You did check the honey they've collected for melezitose honey?
If there's too much melezitose in the honey (around 10% appears for be the critical amount), it cristallses and bees can't eat it during winter, which is bad for obvious reasons.
dihutenosa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 17d
No, this wasn't in my textbook… Maybe it's just not gathered from flowers in my location?
zergtoshi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
If you've never experienced it it's apparently not around in dangerous amounts, but that can eventually change.
It can be found in flowers (although I don't know which) and in honeydew.
I've lost one hive to it some years ago when I wasn't aware of that danger (and all went great until then) and now I'm extra careful.
The bees starved/froze in place when it was to cold for them to move to another area and all they could find at their place was crystallised honey.
I found them not moving with a big pile of grated crystals below.
Nowadays I rather take plenty of honey from them and feed them properly for winter.
redlemace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
Almost looks too crowded. Be aware of swarming!
dihutenosa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 18d
They swarmed last year, I guess we're safe this time. Also no queen cells.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Be glad if they swarm, because this supplies the hive with a new queen after the old one has left with the swarm.
If you don't intend to manage the queen situation yourself, letting them swarm is the easiest way to get that job done.
dihutenosa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 17d
Oh, I know. I just hoped to split them artificially...
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 1 pts · 18d
probably it is rusk hour.
KingGordon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
Hell yeah, brother!