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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by Michael Bush on Today at 05:24:55 am »

>Notice in the video Paul cuts all the landing boards off his hives.  It's easier to stack and store equipment and a landing board is unnecessary.

A man after my own heart.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Curious done behavior (at least to me)

« Last post by Michael Bush on Today at 05:23:31 am »

Did you get a late frost or something that would cause a dearth?  Are there worker brood cells in the hive?  Certainly on a drone laying hive (either a drone laying queen or laying workers) sometimes there are so many drones that they would cluster like this.  In any dearth they will drive out the drones if it lasts long at all.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Occam on May 14, 2024, 11:01:28 pm »

I'm going with the "dirt is good for you" idea. ... exposure to stuff builds up resistance, kinda thing.
Also, can't help but think being inside and breathing filtered AC air might have something to do with being more sensitive to pollen.

plus ... that means... when I was a kid and made my little sister take a bite of a mud pie .. I was just helping her build her immune system

This is absolutely a big factor. Allergies started spiking the more prevalent central heat and air had become and the more sealed from the outside of houses are. We weren't made to be separate from nature in our daily lives we're a part of nature. When we live in ways we weren't made to live we develop problems we weren't meant to have.  That said I agree with Kathy, it's death by a million cuts. There are so many factors bombarding us that "progress" and industrialization have brought us that weren't faced by most 100 years ago, we're quickly careening towards illness and disease.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Curious done behavior (at least to me)

« Last post by Occam on May 14, 2024, 10:52:26 pm »

I walked out to the garden and beehives this evening. On my double deep I noticed some interesting behavior I haven't seen before (see picture below). I'm used to seeing bearding although right now is early for it and I haven't seen any in earnest yet. These drones had clustered together under the inset handle and a smaller group had clustered to the side of my entrance hole. The workers were wandering around and I saw a couple feeding a drone or two. There were also around 25 drones I found dead below and to the side of the hive. This is the first time I've noticed this particular behavior

Any thoughts? I'm interested to hear what input y'all have.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Ben Framed on May 14, 2024, 10:49:44 pm »

I have an allergy to hard work. Don?t know when I got it but it looks like I have it for life.  I?m afraid there?s no cure for it either. I?m thinking that I will just have to live with it.

 

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Kathyp on May 14, 2024, 10:07:27 pm »

He said yeah. They gave him a bunch of vaccines all at once. They messed up a lot of our military doing that.

When I was to deploy for Desert Storom I went in for my medical and my shot record was missing.  Must have ticked off the wrong person 

I got everything all at once. Made me kind of sick for 24 hours, but a shipmate of mine ended up in the hospital.  We are, after all, expendable components...

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by BeeMaster2 on May 14, 2024, 09:55:19 pm »

Years ago during my navy years I was at the navy courthouse for jury duty. I spotted an old shipmate sitting outside of an office. I called his name and he was very slow to respond and his speech was real slow like he was severely drugged up. I asked him if he went to the gulf war. He said yeah. They gave him a bunch of vaccines all at once. They messed up a lot of our military doing that.
A few minutes later his wife came out from a lawyer?s  office and said common John and took him by the arm and led him out.
Jim Altmiller

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by beesnweeds on May 14, 2024, 07:29:55 pm »

I had the pleasure of meeting Paul Kelly from the University of Guelph this spring, great guy and beekeeper!  He manages all his colonies in a single deep.  Personally, Ive overwintered in all kinds of configurations.  It all depends on how you want to manage your bees.  The older I get the more attractive single deeps and nucs get.  All my entrances are wide open like in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oYsyB1PvM

One thing I forgot to mention.  Notice in the video Paul cuts all the landing boards off his hives.  It's easier to stack and store equipment and a landing board is unnecessary.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by animal on May 14, 2024, 07:05:38 pm »

Ben Framed
"This is where our friend the honeybee comes to the rescue! And why many Medical Allergist recommend pollen related hay fever suffers to ingest local honey and honey bee pollen"

Is there enough science behind this statement?

I have heard it said many times but is there solid proof?

Hey max ... maybe? It sounds like a home remedy version of immunotherapy to me. Some home remedies actually work.
It's hard to find any studies on non-drug treatments in general though ... no money in it for big pharma.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/seasonal-allergies/could-allergy-drops-be-the-key-to-allergy-relief#:~:text=Allergy%20immunotherapy%20is%20an%20allergy,produces%20an%20abnormal%20immune%20response).

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 14, 2024, 06:55:30 pm »

Terry
" Other than that, no vaxes for me, tetanus shot only. I tell the doc that I used to eat my boogers when I was four years old so I'm good to go."
I guess you have not been in the military?
When i was called up we where blessed with every shot possible - no choice

Nope, I missed out but I heard all about it from other guys. Yep, shots for things that they had no idea what they were for. I heard two different schools of though on later vaxes...1) I've had enough shots for my lifetime, I'm not getting any more and 2) With all the shots I had already, what's one or two more?