To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Honey Bees?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:35:56 -0500
We have plenty of bees at our place, south of Cookeville. I watched
blueberry bees at work, while carpenter and honeybees cheated. Rescued what
must have been a blue orchard bee from a bucket, it was almost as big as a
honeybee. And we've had lots of the little fuzzy bees that nest in the
dirt. I guess there must be beekeepers near us doing the normal sized bee
foundation. For many years the only honeybees in our area were the wild
black ones. I know there were people saying that only the tame ones could
survive the mites because they were being chemically treated, but they were
wrong. The wild ones with their normal size honeycombs were suffering less
than the tame ones. Donna