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Offline Waveeater

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Re: How to keep the sparrows from eating my bees?
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2018, 07:01:03 pm »
A good hungry Tom Cat can usually discourage small birds from getting to close to the ground.  :wink:
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Offline moebees

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Re: How to keep the sparrows from eating my bees?
« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2018, 07:46:24 pm »
Quote from: Waveeater on May 22, 2018, 07:01:03 pm
A good hungry Tom Cat can usually discourage small birds from getting to close to the ground.  :wink:

Excellent because we have too many birds and not enough cats around.  But if you know anything about cats its the females that do most of the hunting. 

Why don't beekeepers worry about things that actually impact their bees?
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Re: How to keep the sparrows from eating my bees?
« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2018, 09:06:28 pm »
Bob tail cats are the best kind. Cut their tails off approx. 1 inch behind their ears.
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Re: How to keep the sparrows from eating my bees?
« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2018, 10:19:01 am »
>So you are telling me the latest research on queen laying capabilities was done 136 years ago?

I don't know, but Dzierzon was a careful scientist.  For some reason people have seldom readdressed what Jan Dzierzon and Francis Huber did.  They were both consummate scientists who always carefully distinguished between what they had observed and what they speculated.  Many of the things both talked about have just been ignored and I don't know why.
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Re: How to keep the sparrows from eating my bees?
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2018, 01:26:56 pm »
Quote from: Dabbler on May 22, 2018, 04:28:57 pm
Quote from: 2Sox on May 22, 2018, 10:58:10 am
Quote from: Acebird on May 22, 2018, 08:38:39 am
My only concern about birds preying on live bees would be virgins on mating flights.

Yep.  That definitely has crossed my mind.

I just ordered this.  Curious to see how it works.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XXPF32J/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I wonder if hanging old CD's on a string would also work. . . . gotta be some recycle/reuse  use for those things.

That is a GREAT idea!

And by the way, the reflective "scare tape" is actually working!  Just saw once brazen bird give it a try but that's it.
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Re: How to keep the sparrows from eating my bees?
« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2018, 03:42:37 pm »
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Re: How to keep the sparrows from eating my bees?
« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2018, 07:20:11 am »
Latest research LOL,

I think they were trying to convey that that bit of knowledge was easy enough to figure out (simple math), and it has been known for a heck of a long time.

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