Hi All
 
I have just got back from showing a TV crew from a local
satellite/national channel around the cape bee.
 
We got some great shots and spent hours with the camera's right up
close to open frames and after the first hour or so they did as I do
and wore no gear - an nobody got stung.
 
anyhow, we wished to get pictures of the bees on a local aloe, aloe
speciosa which has a red flower, but the open flowers are white. The
bees were not on the aloes, despite the fact I had 20+ hives in the
area. So I put some sugar water on a flower and held it in front of
the hive. Then once a few bees were on it I took it back to the aloe
stand, and withing half an hour all the flowers were covered with
bees. The next day the bees were there early working away.
 
So the question is, do bees sometimes need to be 'educated' as to how
and where a flow is??
 
Keep well
 
Garth
Garth Cambray           Camdini Apiaries
Grahamstown             Apis mellifera capensis
Eastern Cape Prov.
South Africa
 
Time = Honey
 
After careful consideration, I have decided that if I am ever a V.I.P
the I. may not stand for important.
(rather influential, ignorant, idiotic, intelectual, illadvised etc)