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- From: Kitty Cunningham <klparmley AT gmail.com>
- To: "Orange County Beekeepers Association" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <NaturalBeesinNC AT yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:53:54 -0400
Chuck found an interesting site last night. http://www.savethehives.com/ It is
connected to NCSU and works better with IE than Chrome. I didn’t any any
other browsers.
It’s a map of feral honey bee colonies all over the country. Some of the
colonies people have included are NOT honey bees, but most are and it is an
interesting project. I emailed the person to contact to see if it is still
going on, since it looks like it’s been a couple of years since there were any
new entries.
A friend of mine has a feral colony in a tree on some property his family
has in South Boston, VA. He says it has been there for at least 20
years. I would love to put an enticing hive nearby to try to persuade them
into a box. We don’t want to cut down the tree and take all
the bees because they are surely helping the farmers in the area.
I’m curious to see for myself if these feral bees are more varroa
resistant, but that will be a project for another year. I think getting
started with the packages we have ordered from Jeff Lee is probably enough
project for this year.
Has anyone here succeeded in luring feral bees into captivity?
http://mebanelabyrinth.blogspot.com/ |
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[ocba] Feral Honey Bees,
Kitty Cunningham, 03/14/2012
- Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees, Lewis Cauble, 03/14/2012
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Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees,
Kitty Cunningham, 03/14/2012
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Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees,
Randall Austin, 03/14/2012
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Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees,
Kitty Cunningham, 03/14/2012
- Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees, Lewis Cauble, 03/14/2012
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Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees,
Kitty Cunningham, 03/14/2012
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Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees,
Randall Austin, 03/14/2012
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Re: [ocba] Feral Honey Bees,
Kitty Cunningham, 03/14/2012
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