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Post by caskur on Oct 14, 2014 4:23:12 GMT 10
Not here in WA... plenty of bees here,...in fact my mums neighbours complained to the council there were bees at my mums place.
People eradicate them when they find them...
My new neighbours were complaining about one of our greavelia (sp?)and trying to pick off the blooms because one of the householders is allergic to bees and my plant attracts them apparently.
Well, I'm allergic to bees and I don't bother them and they certainly don't bother me.
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Post by caskur on Oct 15, 2014 7:04:46 GMT 10
We've got 1500 species of native Aussie bees... don't worry so much!
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Post by slartibartfast on Nov 8, 2014 7:04:38 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 8, 2014 8:33:54 GMT 10
Where are all the bees? It's none of your beeswax!  Yes, that was horrible---I'm not sorry. |
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Post by caskur on Nov 20, 2014 4:53:38 GMT 10
There are that many bees buzzing around WA I'm surprised we haven't rounded some up and shipped them offshore.
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Post by KTJ on Jun 27, 2018 17:56:03 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Jun 28, 2018 23:21:43 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on Aug 3, 2020 14:44:33 GMT 10
Speaking of Bees ... My favourite honey has gone up in price again.  I suppose the bushfires wiped out a lot of bees.  |
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Post by Stellar on Aug 5, 2020 9:01:47 GMT 10
My DIL comes from Melbourne. She always brings me back that Beechworth honey as she stocks up on it every time they go down there. I do have a problem with honey though as I think I'm allergic to bees. I was stung once as an 11 year old and I get an allergic response when I eat honey. The odd hot honey and lemon drink is ok but I can't have too many of them. Which is ok because I don't like the taste or texture of honey anyway.  |
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Post by pim on Sept 6, 2020 16:18:12 GMT 10
Kangaroo Island bushfires may have destroyed a quarter of island's Ligurian beehivesBy Casey Briggs and Eugene Boisvert Posted Tuesday 7 January 2020 www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-07/quarter-of-kangaroo-islands-ligurian-beehives-lost/11845372 Kangaroo Island apiarist Peter Davis has lost up to 400 of his beehives.About a quarter of Kangaroo Island's beehives may have been lost in bushfires that devastated the western half of the island. Key points: 1. About 1,000 of Kangaroo Island's beehives could have been lost in bushfires 2. The honey has a unique taste because the island's bees mainly feast on native flowers 3. Bees cannot be brought onto the island to repopulate due to quarantine 4. The island is home to the world's purest strain of Ligurian honey bees, which originally came from Italy. Apiary Alliance SA chairman Danny LeFeuvre said Kangaroo Island was a "bee utopia" because they mostly fed on native flora and were free of most diseases. He estimated about 1,000 of the island's 4,000 hives were damaged in the fire, which burnt most fiercely on Friday. South Australia's beekeeping industry has more than 60,000 hives. "It's not a large proportion of the industry, but it's certainly a vital and very important part of our industry," Mr LeFeuvre said. "There's always something flowering and bees did really well." He said bees would normally huddle in their hive during a fire as the temperature rose. Most hives are made of timber; beeswax is also highly flammable. Consumers are unlikely to see a spike in honey prices because of the damage, but Mr LeFeuvre said many people sought out Kangaroo Island for its unique taste coming from the bees' diet of mostly native flowers. "We're going to see a downturn in honey production come off the island," he said. "Absolutely we'd encourage any consumer if they see Kangaroo Island honey to definitely buy it. Hopefully that can be passed or driven back to the farm gate and drive some profitability for the beekeepers on Kangaroo Island." Devastating losses for apiaristsPeter Davis's Kangaroo Island beekeeping business was ravaged by the fire. He lost up to 400 of his 1,000 beehives. His son's house burnt down, and in it 600 kilograms of honey turned into a sticky pool on the ground. Some of Mr Davis's hives are still under threat from fire. "We have a community spirit here on Kangaroo Island that is not burnable," he said. "It hurts. It hurts to see this and I don't want anyone to go through this again — but I will be here helping them." But even those that have survived are facing a dire future and may not be able to produce honey. "If we can't get them onto a resource where there's flowers, nectar and pollen, the queens will stop breeding and they'll just decline in numbers," Mr Davis said.  Damaged beehives on Kangaroo Island.Bees and honey are not allowed to be brought onto the quarantined island, in order to protect the Ligurian strain. Another 400 hives were lost in last month's Cudlee Creek fire, along with up to 600 at Padthaway. Most of the state's bees are currently in the South-East.
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Post by caskur on Sept 8, 2020 8:57:10 GMT 10
god they speak tommy rot....any bee will work, pollinating and making honey. farmers LOVE making mountains out of molehills there are too many whingers on the other side of Fortress WA.
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Post by KTJ on Sept 8, 2020 13:32:15 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Sept 8, 2020 17:01:50 GMT 10
Toots, remember"oils ain't oils!"? Well honey ain't honey. The Ligurian bees were originally brought to KI as a type of Noah's Ark where the species could be warehoused as a hedge against it coming under ecological pressure in its native Mediterranean habitat. In fact KI serves as a Noah's Ark for other species as well including a particular and unique species of macropod (kangaroo) unique to KI. Plus other marsupial critters and birdlife. Those fires were an environmental holocaust for those species.
I seem to recall that WA also hosts a particular species of bee endemic to Europe but I can't recall offhand which one.
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Post by Gort on Sept 27, 2020 12:09:30 GMT 10
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Post by KTJ on Sept 27, 2020 12:59:29 GMT 10
Right … I'm off for a drive to take some photographs of scarecrows along the fence of a country school about fifteen or so kilometres from my place.
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Post by pim on Sept 27, 2020 13:36:51 GMT 10
Interesting little factoid: there are 1700 species of native bees in Australia.
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Post by Stellar on Oct 4, 2020 9:34:03 GMT 10
I'd like to see more of them. But one place I can always find them is in my Mum's lavender bushes.
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Post by caskur on Oct 11, 2020 2:36:32 GMT 10
Interesting little factoid: there are 1700 species of native bees in Australia. I knew that so I never got worried about having no honey bees. The honey bees are secure in WA anyway. |
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