White clover is a spring-blooming pollinator nutrition source. These flowers have been documented to see ~50 species of insect pollinators with the primary pollinators being honey bees and hover flies!
In fields where the tall hay hides the sky,Beneath a canvas vast and high,Dandelions bloom in golden hue,A tribute to the love I knew.
Fierce daughter of the emerald isle,With alabaster skin that bore a smile,A Celtic warrior in disguise,A mother’s mother with ancient ties.
Born of struggle, born of strife,In the thirties’ years, a vibrant life,She taught me strength, she taught me grace,In…
I think it’s important to mark the date that you first see bees at work. …Hopefully it’s pretty early in the year if you’re a beekeeper. #honeybee #spring #heather #seasonalphotography #parksandgardens #alexandragardens #erica #cardiff #apis #apismellifera (at Cardiff) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqAz-Q6orVd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The queen bee is essential to the honey bee colony. Without a queen, colony will not last longer and eventually will die off. For backyard beekeeping, it is recommended to supersede the queen bees for every 2 years. There are many methods of rearing queen bees. The common way of queen bee rearing is through grafting. When grafting applies, the beekeeper needs “mother” colonies, from where he/she should take the larvae and some queenless colonies, where the queen bees should be reared. The beekeeper should utilize up to 1-day old worker bee larva from the “mother” colony and that beehive is usually with desirable traits such as calm and hygienic behavior, honey production, the level of swarm instinct etc. The beekeeper should graft the larvae either into the beeswax cups or plastic cups and put grated frame into the quennless colony for the bees to rear the queens. From the egg to queen emergence is takes 16 days on average. If the beekeeper takes 1-day old larvae for rearing the queen bees, he/she should follow up in about 10 days after grafting buy inserting all queencells into the cages. Otherwise, the queens will emerge and destroy the queen cells or will fight with each other. Larvae grafting can be done with plastic comb special for queen bee rearing. That comb is attached into the general comb and is embedded into the hive. Beekeeper releases the queen onto this isolated comb from where the queen cannot come out and starts laying eggs into the plastic cups. The worker bees can enter the plastic comb and take care of larvae, but the queen cannot go out because she is too big to pass through the comb grids. After queen hatches in all 110 cells, the beekeeper takes plastic cups with larvae and attaches to the grafting frame.
Scenes From My Walk - Golden Crownbeard AKA Cowpen Daisy (Verbesina encelioides) and Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera). Photos from August 21, 2021 #BestOfThePastYear #WesternHoneyBee #ApisMellifera #GoldenCrownbeard #CowpenDaisy #Wildflower #VerbesinaEncelioides #WildflowersOfNewMexico (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgiD37oP5Qe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
@apismellifera submitted: Saw this spider on the wall, and the seek app wasn’t able to recognize it. Any idea as to what spider this is? (This is in Austria)
Excellent url first of all. Secondly this spider is REALLY GOOD. Great stance. Very spidery, 10/10. They’re a Mediterranean spiny false wolf spider :)
was tagged by @metalgearsolidyuri to do this ^_^ SOOOO CLOSE. so close to a bingo. but ur music taste rules as always. tagging @rhaaclaws @apismellifera @starplatinumgold @juniebugsss @gravestoneangel @dreamsofabsolution and anyone else who wants to do it ^_^ IF i tagged you dw abt doing it