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Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 3:59 AM
Subject: BEE-L Digest - 18 Oct 1997 to 19 Oct 1997
>There are 8 messages totalling 389 lines in this issue.
>
>Topics of the day:
>
> 1. Pollen data converted to Mac
> 2. Bees in nature reserves
> 3. Robbers
> 4. POLLINATION RESULTS (2)
> 5. Young Queen available in Seattle area.
> 6. JEAN ELSEN s.a.JEAN ELSEN s.a. - NumismatistsAvenue de Tervueren 65B-
> 7. Adulterated Honey
>
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>
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 11:45:02 +-200
>From: Jorn Johanesson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Pollen data converted to Mac
>
>Hello all Mac users.
>
>On request I have converted the pollen data file to a DBF file so that
other than win95 or win3.1+ might be able to have use of it!
>
>Please if you find this Job I have done is of value for You send me a 20
dollar bill :-)
>
>get the file from the following urls
>
>http://home4.inet.tele.dk/apimo
>http://www.wn.com/apimo
>
>Best regards
>
>Jorn Johanesson
>Solsortevej 27, Assens
>DK 9550 Mariager
>
>e-mail [log in to unmask]
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:25:17 +0900
>From: j h & e mcadam <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Bees in nature reserves
>
>Garth wrote:
>>
>>I have just been wondering what the stance is in areas where bees are
>>an introduced species towards their presence in Nature reserves?
>
>The situation in Australia is that conservation movements disapprove of
>access by bees to National Park sites on the grounds that the bee is an
>introduced species. This is so even when it has been established that bees
>improve the pollination of native species, in particular eucalypts, by
>increasing weight and number of fertile seeds.
>
>The position by National Parks staff is blind opposition. Until recently
>there has been little research on the effect of bees (and no interest in
>having this done). However recent projects by Dr. David Paton have found
>(if I understand them correctly) that:
>
>1. Commercial bee hives do not increase the population of feral bee hives.
>
>2. Bees prefer hive sites with very small access holes, which are unlikely
>to be chosen by nesting birds.
>
>On Kangaroo Island the K.I. Beekeepers Association is working with the
>Glossy Black Rescue Team which is dedicated to restoring the Red Tailed
>Glossy Black Cockatoo to a sustainable level. Early publicity accused bees
>of occupying nesting sites set up for cockatoos at the rate of 10% a year.
>The Association has been working with trap hives in nesting areas and
>reporting on success rates as well as actively trapping swarms in daily
>beekeeping activities.
>
>The Rescue Team has now discovered that the main predator of Glossy Black
>eggs is the possum and preventing possum predation has lifted the number of
>birds fledged to above the minimum recovery level.
>
>Working with the Glossy Black Rescue Team has enabled a cross-flow of
>information such as the likely swarming times and reasons for swarming
(many
>eucalypts are pollen deficient and hive populations drop during flowering).
>
>Nesting hives have also been provided with input from the Association. The
>nest roofs are of polypropylene which we have never known bees to select
for
>hives.
>
>However the barrier to multi-purpose use of forest areas is the ideology of
>National Park staff. New South Wales beekeepers have argued that the bee
>has become naturalized and fills a vacant niche. The comment of one
>National Park spokeswoman when asked "If the natural pollinator is extinct
>and the plant relies now on bees, what will you do?" replied that she would
>prefer the plant died out rather than permit bees access.
>
>The political process is agonizingly slow in educating the political
masters
>and likely to be interrupted by elections, thus taking you back to first
base.
>Beekeepers are actively involved in land care movements and conservation
but
>their reward is to have the areas defined as "heritage" and bees excluded.
>
>The key to obtaining the access to national resources which is vital for
the
>health of the apiary industry and therefore the entire primary industry
>area, is properly conducted research to demonstrate that the arguments
>against bees are invalid and to properly record the value of forests in
>honey production. This takes money and lots of time and can only be
>conducted by State or Federal Associations with access to relevant
>government ministers to ensure the message is not being derailed by
>bureaucratic stone-walling.
>
>Betty McAdam
>
>
>HOG BAY APIARY
>Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
>j.h. & e. mcadam<[log in to unmask]
>http://kigateway.eastend.com.au/hogbay/hogbay1.htm
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 11:46:42 -0400
>From: Frank & Phronsie Humphrey <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Robbers
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Walter T. Weller <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thursday, October 16, 1997 04:44 PM
>Subject: Re: Robbers
>
>
>>Howdy -
>>
>>On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:19:27 -0400 Frank & Phronsie Humphrey
>><[log in to unmask]> wrote about a Robber Screen.
>>
>>I was much interested in the description, because with this long dry
>>spell we're having a lot of robbing.
>>
>>>These can be made with 3/4" x 3/4" stock. 1 piece it the width of the
>>hive
>>>opening and 2 pieces about 3" to 4" long. Nail these together to form 3
>>>sides of a box whose length is the width of the opening. Over this
>>staple
>>>1/8" hardware cloth or window screening, leaving about a 3/4" gap at
>>the
>>>open side.
>>
>>
>>> Next nail a piece of 1" x 2" on the screen side to finish the box.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Walter Weller
>>Post Office Box 270
>>Wakefield, Louisiana 70784
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>
>Robber Screen Assy.
> 14" Wide
>____________________________________
>|___________________________________ |
>| |################################| |
>| |################################| |
>| |################################| |
>| |################################| |
>| |################################| |
>| | Nail screen leaving 3/4" gap at bottom | |
>____________________________________
>|
>|
>| _____ 1x2" stock |
>|__| |____________________________|
> ___
> Hive odors exit Here |__ |
> \ > | | This side
> Nail screen Here===> | | nailed to
> | | front of
> __| | hive.
> | | |
>Nail 1 x 2 Here===> |__|__| hive entrance==>
>
>Let me know if this helps.
>
>Frank & Phronsie Humphrey
>[log in to unmask]
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 09:28:43 -0700
>From: Andy Nachbar <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: POLLINATION RESULTS
>
><excerpt>
>
></excerpt>
>
><excerpt>Honeybees and beekeepers acknowledged as responsible for bumper
>crops of cranberries, ($1,400,000,000,000.00 or 1.4 billion $$)in areas
>reported by others as having lost 90% of the bee populations? Check it
>out on the ABC News web page below.
>
>
>What ever your slant on the hype and misinformation still being passed
>like the wind on the reported the loss of all feral bees and much of the
>hive bee populations the facts seem to be the effect on agriculture has
>been limited as the 1997 crop reports come in for the year and all the
>bee, honeybee,(feral and hive) pollinated crops report record yields with
>Cranberries taking the dollar lead from the 1996 and 1997 billion dollar
>California almond crop.
>
>
> http://www.abcnews.com/sections/business/harvest/harvest_cran.html
>
></excerpt>
>
> ttul, the OLD Drone
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 13:36:00 -0400
>From: Walt Barricklow <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: POLLINATION RESULTS
>
>I like the number of zeros that you use much better than what I make.
>
>----------
>> From: Andy Nachbar <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: POLLINATION RESULTS
>> Date: Sunday, October 19, 1997 12:28 PM
>>
>> <excerpt>
>>
>> </excerpt>
>>
>> <excerpt>Honeybees and beekeepers acknowledged as responsible for bumper
>> crops of cranberries, ($1,400,000,000,000.00 or 1.4 billion $$)in areas
>> reported by others as having lost 90% of the bee populations? Check it
>> out on the ABC News web page below.
>>
>>
>> What ever your slant on the hype and misinformation still being passed
>> like the wind on the reported the loss of all feral bees and much of the
>> hive bee populations the facts seem to be the effect on agriculture has
>> been limited as the 1997 crop reports come in for the year and all the
>> bee, honeybee,(feral and hive) pollinated crops report record yields with
>> Cranberries taking the dollar lead from the 1996 and 1997 billion dollar
>> California almond crop.
>>
>>
>> http://www.abcnews.com/sections/business/harvest/harvest_cran.html
>>
>> </excerpt>
>>
>> ttul, the OLD Drone
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:49:07 -0700
>From: David Rosenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Young Queen available in Seattle area.
>
>I ordered a "Young Starline Queen (clipped and marked)" from York Bee Co.
>in Georgia last Monday, Oct. 13. She was to be shipped priority mail to
>Bothell, WA. (near Seattle), but didn't arrive by Saturday Oct. 18. I no
>longer need her, and will give her to a 'good home' if anyone in the
>area is interested.
>
>Please respond by e-mail or phone me at work: (206) 526-2134 or home:
>(425) 487-2437.
>
>Best wishes,
>David Rosenbaum
>
>(I'm a novice beekeeper with 3 hives and last weekend I found that one of
>them was queenless. I ordered the new queen, but she didn't arrive. On
>further inspection of the queenless hive, I found evidence of laying
>workers (bullet-capped cells). I've read that trying to introduce a queen
>into a hive with laying workers is nearly impossible, and the weather here
>is getting colder, with greyer days, so I divided the queenless hive and
>added one hivebody to each of the other two (strong) hives, using the
>newspaper technique. Hopefully this will work. In any case, I don't need
>the queen I bought.)
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:24:00 GMT
>From: Andy Nachbaur <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: JEAN ELSEN s.a.JEAN ELSEN s.a. - NumismatistsAvenue de Tervueren
65B-
>
>040 Brussels BelgiumTel: 0032.2.734.63.56 Fax: 0032.2.735.77.78E-mail: n=
>umisma
>[log in to unmask]: http://www.elsen.beCollection : The bee and the hiv=
>ein nu
>ismatics
>
>*FYI* check it out...
> ----------------------------------------
>From: "Jean ELSEN s.a." <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 17:31:57 +0100
>Subject: JEAN ELSEN s.a.
>
> JEAN ELSEN s.a. - Numismatists
> Avenue de Tervueren 65
> B-1040 Brussels
> Belgium
> Tel: 0032.2.734.63.56
> Fax: 0032.2.735.77.78
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Website: http://www.elsen.be
>
> Collection : The bee and the hive
> in numismatics
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>We have the pleasure to announce you that we will present Jean Nivaille'=
>s
>collection in our 52th auction planned on 13th December 1997.
>
>Jean Nivaille's collection was elaborated during several decades and is
>composed by most than thousand coins and medals, from the antiquity till
>today. This collection is the most important one in the world focused on
>the bee and the hive in numismatics.
>
>An important number of lots that constitute this collection come from the
>famous Spiegel's collection, sold in K=F6ln in Germany in 1980.
>
>The collection contains numerous rarities, especially in the Ancient Gree=
>k
>coins. The bee was the symbol of the Greek city of Ephesius. During the
>Modern Times, coins and medals were strucked in the name of pope Urbanus
>VIII (1623-1644) with the bees of his coat of arms.
>
>Symbols of prosperity, work and industry, the bee and the hive figure on =
> a
>lot of medals strucked from the Renaisance: peace medals, wedding medals.=
>..
>The bees were also selected as the emblem of the secretaries of the king =
>in
>France.
>
>Of course, the collection contains also impressive worldwide series of
>medals of societies of beekeepers.
>
>The catalogue will be presented on-line with pictures on our website at
>http://www.elsen.be
>
>We would be pleased to send a free hard copy of the catalogue to any
>interested person. May we ask you to contact us if you are interested in =
>at
>the following address: [log in to unmask]
>
>Yours sincerely
>
>Jean Elsen s.a.
>
>Business Hours : Monday to Saturday, 9 AM-6 PM Brussels time
>We accept Visa, MasterCard, EuroCard
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:24:47 -0700
>From: Vince Coppola <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Adulterated Honey
>
>Peter Keating wrote:
>>
>> Hi Vince,
>> a few years back Chinese honey was refused entry here into Canada because
>> of both adulturation and contamination (with an acaricide). I have the
>> reports that were presented to the Canadian Honey Council by Agriculture
>> Canada and if you want, l could look for them and send you a copy.
>> Yous, Peter
>
>Hi Peter,
>This is the sort of thing I'm looking for. If it's not too much bother I
>would like a copy of that report and will gladly pay postage. I heard
>that Chinese honey is required to be warehoused, at importers expense,
>untill it is tested by the Canadian goverment. Is that still true? Do
>you know if adulturation or contamintion is found anymore?
> Thank You,
> Vince
>
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>
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