[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 8 Nov 1995 07:57:59 EST509_- I've been away from my desk since last Thursday, so I missed the
discussion about 'splitting' BEE-L. All I can say is, history repeats
itself. For all the gory details send mail to:
[log in to unmask]with a single line in the body of the mail that reads:
GET BEE-L LOG9403
and read everything posted about beating a dead horse. Everything said
since last Thursday about splits of this (orr>> grows about 4' high, blooms late in the summer with dull purple flower
> spikes that look a bit like caterpillars. Bumblebees are CRAZY for
> this plant. Every night last season it was covered with sleeping bees.
> A real [...]45_16May199512:48:
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9505 8204 55 11_Swarmy Bees41_Dave Green, Eastern Pollinator
[log in to unmask], 16 May 1995 14:40:32 -0400409_- John M. Moote wrote:
> Since I'm new at this, I'm not completely sure what I was
looking at but it looked like swarm cells. I checked a book later and it
appears that I was right.
If it really is swarmy, you won't stop them by supering, and probably not
reliably by any other simple method. Once they have cells, I yield to their
overwhelming urge to reproduce and split them. [...]40_16May199514:40:
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9505 8260 15 11_Got a swarm11_David
[log in to unmask], 16 May 1995 14:07:16 -0500283_- I hived a swarm on Mother's Day from the house next door. There was about 4
to 5 pounds of bees. My hive of packaged bees are still strong so they
weren't from there. ( I have added the second full supper. ) The neighbors
thought it was great fun and so did my kids. [...]39_16May199514:07:
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9505 8276 36 20_Re: feeding question15_Edward
[log in to unmask], 16 May 1995 17:01:09 -0400581_- Puzzled by something: I checked my 2 new hives this Sunday and the one had
totally
ignored the fumadil-laced syrup placed in a nice hive top feeder (one of
these professionally made ones, in a shallow super, with the plastic feeder
trays, the screened area that separates the bees from the the beekeeper etc.).
Yet the other hive had consumed syrup from inverted mason jars with
holes poked in the end? I was baffled at the rejection of the hive top
feeder? I did not insert a top board between the bees and the hive-top
feeder, so they had complete [...]42_16May199517:01:
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9505 8313 30 36_Re: Gathering Swarms, Michigan,
[log in to unmask], 16 May 1995 18:47:23 GMT439_- In your message dated Tuesday 16, May 1995 you wrote :
>
> I did read in a book that if one should blow up a hive that is intent on
> swarming, then they probably won't swarm.
The full quote (from C C Miller) is that "if a colony disposed to swarm
should be blown up with dynamite, it would probably not swarm again, but its
usefulness as a honey-gathering unit would be somewhat impaired". [...]45_16May199518:47:
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9505 8344 14 36_Re: US Senate and grad student loans15_GARY M.
[log in to unmask], 16 May 1995 18:44:09 -0400339_- Hi,
I heard that students loans were going to loose the subsidy
that they receive. I had some information from e-mail and a hard copy
but I am not sure if I have either right now. I am finishing up
my master degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the Univv. of Pittsburgh
and I really appreciated those subisidies. [...]45_16May199518:44:
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9505 8359 31 30_Re: bumblebee plant Elsholtzia11_Doug
[log in to unmask], 16 May 1995 18:27:22 -0500664_- >Liz,
> We have a plant which sounds just like what you describe, named
>Agastache, it has the odor of anise or licorice.
> The bumblebees sleeping in the flowers really is quite
>fun to see!
>Eileen Gregory
