Environment

Save our bees

Environment

Posted by: 888shelley

2nd May 2011 07:20am

please think before spraying bees which may have swarmed into your garden or taken up residence in a wall of your house! bees ,both native and honey bees, are the basis of most foods we consume as well as providing us with honey and other hive produce. firstly leave the bees where they are, then phone your local council or primary industries department, they will have contact numbers for bee collectors in the area. the honeybee is in dire straits at the moment, drought,floods and the sth african hive beetle have depleted hives. we now have the asian bee incursion to add to the problem and disappearing bee syndrome is another problem. ozzie native bees and the european honeybee co exist quite happily. do you realise the honeybee industry is worth 3-4 billion to australia!

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maria
  • 16th Sep 2014 10:23pm

Bee is an amazing creatures and gives good health. I love what you can get out of bee products. especially honey.

jjdrer
  • 12th Apr 2014 08:38pm

Many people won't call professionals to collect bees because some charge hundred of dollars to collect and take them away.

jjdrer
  • 12th Apr 2014 08:47pm
Many people won't call professionals to collect bees because some charge hundred of dollars to collect and take them away.

In addition to that some bees love yellow cars too which was most annoying especially as one family member is highly allergic to bees and avoids them at all cost. On many occasion they left their car outside when they knew they were going out again within an hour or so, only to go out and find bees sititng on it.
Consequently the car was traded in a lot earlier than anticipated.
I didn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes.

marlu
  • 23rd Mar 2014 03:30pm

I agree and David Suzuki would agree with you. I have barely seen any bees .Bees are vital for pollination. I am sure this is the reason why my tomato plants did not flourish.

blackgirl
  • 17th Oct 2012 12:07pm

I never realised the floods effected the bees. like u said bees r very important to amost of our food needs to grow. please help to protect them busy little bees doing their jobs.

cazzie
  • 28th Sep 2012 03:18pm

Just Love Bees and all the by products. It's always such a joy when I see bees in my garden although I have noticed there a fewer and fewer every year. I do not use pesticides on my garden as I do not wish to poison the earth or kill any of Mother Natures creatures.

Anonymous
  • 19th Sep 2012 05:22pm

If you can buy honey from your own area, you are supposed to get all the natural antibiotics for the common alments in that area. I believe this to be true, what do you think?

Anonymous
  • 27th Aug 2012 01:59am

Bees are amazing, so are worms, we have a lot to thank nature for. Thanks for the new knowledge :)

josh909
  • 1st Aug 2012 11:34am

If you are interested in this topic you should check out the documentary 'Vanishing of the Bees'

wardjacqui
  • 21st Feb 2012 05:37am

it is good to see others are aware of the decline in bee populations, the more awareness the better the situation will become

Eugine
  • 18th Feb 2012 04:18pm

We had a 200 acre property in Qld with lots of bees and small birds until our neighbour decided to grow cotton. Then we had no bees and no birds. We found birds dead in the grass after arial spraying. They probably ate poisoned bugs or blooms. We planted pumkins afterwards and with no bees there were very few pumpkins. Our nephew had to hand pollinate his pumpkin crop in another area.When we moved on to a smaller property in a different area we found a hive of bees in one of my big flower pots. A kind person with bee hives came to get the hive after dark--obviously came from the hives that were kept in the area.

888shelley
  • 15th Feb 2012 01:00pm

Hi again and thanks for replies!! My husband is an apiarist, we have hives in our backyard which are doing very well. Our garden looks a bit wild as I am trying to preserve space for birds,bluetongue lizards,frogs etc as we are surrounded by 'minimalist' garden fans..in fact while we were overseas last year one neighbour cut down most of our trees not only on his fence line but all over our property!! We have some unattractive stumps which will take many years to grow back if at all.

Anonymous
  • 15th Oct 2012 12:28pm
Hi again and thanks for replies!! My husband is an apiarist, we have hives in our backyard which are doing very well. Our garden looks a bit wild as I am trying to preserve space for...

My hubby is a bee keeper as well, we have 3 hives and two have swarmed already.

Anonymous
  • 15th Feb 2012 12:24pm

my kids used to chase to squash the bees ( only because they thought they would chase and sting them ) but until i explained excactly what there role was they now leave the bees alone and now admire what they do and also let other people know not to harm these busy little workers so we also say save the bees

Anonymous
  • 15th Feb 2012 12:24pm

my kids used to chase to squash the bees ( only because they thought they would chase and sting them ) but until i explained excactly what there role was they now leave the bees alone and now admire what they do and also let other people know not to harm these busy little workers so we all say save the bees

Cake67
  • 14th Feb 2012 01:05pm

Bees are of vital importance to our environmental structure, where possible plant natives in your garden that will attract bees and if you have a larger back yard consider producing your own hive and enjoy the benefits of home grown honey.

maria
  • 17th May 2011 12:26pm

i love bees especially their buyproducts: the honey, beepollen, beepropolis. they are good to our body.

s
  • 16th Sep 2014 09:36pm
i love bees especially their buyproducts: the honey, beepollen, beepropolis. they are good to our body.

Hello Maria - I like the variety of different honeys you can purchase today. See if you can find a variety that you like.
I have noticed there are less bees now than there was twenty years ago.

Anonymous
  • 17th May 2011 09:56am

What a very interesting talk on bees, I must say I didn't know how impotant that bees were. We have quite few in our garden in New Zealand. But how do you tell the diference in bees and wasps. Are wasps any good or do they also collect honey

Anonymous
  • 15th Oct 2012 12:23pm
i love bees especially their buyproducts: the honey, beepollen, beepropolis. they are good to our body.

yes! bees die after they sting someone of something. Mind you bees just dont go out to sting people and I find it very amusing that people think when they see a bee that they will get stung........... no - bees are not like that, they only sting when they feel threatend or in some of my cases with having a husband as a bee keeper, I have trodden on one or have gone to slap one on my arm that was annoying me because it was cranky that I was annoying it (which I wasnt of course). So I went to slap it completely dead as in flat but I only got to slap it with not my whole hand but part of it and hence, vwallah.......OUCHAROO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. (i would recommend that you dont go slapping bees especially if you dont know what your doing). just for your interest when bees are born, they are only alive for 6 weeks then they die off. It is the boy bees (called drones) that stay with the queen bee (mummy) and its the girl bees that go out and fly around collecting their source for the hive etc. Also bees are attracted to water and they will especially buzz around freshly washed laundry that one has pegged out on the clothes line as they sometimes are known to land on a piece of clothing and put their baboskas (tongue) into the clothing and retrieve moisture that is in the clothing. This happens regularly as my husband has 3 hives in our back yard.

Anonymous
  • 15th Oct 2012 12:12pm
i love bees especially their buyproducts: the honey, beepollen, beepropolis. they are good to our body.

Wasps are not good, they are the bees enemy and they do not collect pollen and/or nector which in turn is then taken back to the bees hive then the honey is made from those two sources, bees do not naturally just fly out and collect honey, they fly out to retrieve what is in flower and get their source that is needed from that flower then they zip back to their hive home and drop off their load that they have collected from various flowers along the way. My husband is a bee keeper and yes it is not a good idea to spray bees, especially when they have swarmed, one will only make the bees very cranky. So its best to hire an expert to collect the swarm and take them away.

Anonymous
  • 18th May 2011 05:39am
sorry, but wasps do not collect honey! Bees make honey from nectar gathered from flowers. wasps only have2 wings and cannot hover in one spot, they do not build a proper hive to house their...

Thank you for answering me so soon. Do all bees die after one sting or is it just bumble bees?

888shelley
  • 17th May 2011 04:44pm
sorry, but wasps do not collect honey! Bees make honey from nectar gathered from flowers. wasps only have2 wings and cannot hover in one spot, they do not build a proper hive to house their...

sorry, but wasps do not collect honey! Bees make honey from nectar gathered from flowers. wasps only have2 wings and cannot hover in one spot, they do not build a proper hive to house their colonies and they don't swarm like bees. They also have differently shaped bodies to bees, wasps can sting multiple times, but a bee dies after stinging. These are some of the differences, if you are interested in learning more about bees as a hobby contact a local beekeepers group.

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