>Remember, if your environment cannot even support a few hundred beehives,
how can it possibly be healthy for 8 million humans?
How can cities be healthy for anything? (Thinking diesel).
> annual honey surplus was 12lbs; it is now down to 9lbs per colony
> and they are now feeding bees all the year round.
>Is that 12 lbs and 9 lbs
Yes.
> City bees make their living off trees
much more than off flowerbeds.
Birmingham bees do well from the well-established lime trees lining many of
the streets; cars parked under them do not do as well.
>A single tree provides a massive amount of equivalent "acreage" in terms of
Blooms
But the flowering period is not long - there has to be a succession.
And I still ask - where are all the crops in a city? Do we really need bees
there, other than to keep beekeepers amused? If we are going to spend money
'saving the bees', is it not better spent elsewhere?
Best wishes
Peter
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W (Where bees are thriving after good weather for
them since early 2013)
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