[New post] Provisional observations on a free-living colony, the timing of the onset of swarming, and comments on a recent Citizen Science survey of free-living bees.
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#beekeeping #freelivingbees
Dappled sun for late afternoon foragers returning from a flow yesterday. #bees #insects #freelivingbees
Turn your back for 5 minutes and s swarm pitches up to one of your empty hives! Didn’t even have time to wipe away the cobwebs. #freelivingbees #bees
Want to know where all the #childwickbury #bees are? In this tree!! You can hear it ring for almost 100 mtrs 🥰 #BeekeepersHour #freelivingbees #sycamore #trees #pollinators
3 different colonies sending out scouts to the bait hives now. Including this stack of empty equipment 🙄🤦🏻♀️ lovely black #bees though. #freelivingbees #pollinators
Something from Summer. This is a free living swarm, on week old wild comb. The queen is already in the process of laying. As the eggs are still standing we know they were laid that day. #bees #honeybees #freelivingbees
