Pet Lovers

bees are vital!

Pet Lovers

Posted by: 888shelley

28th Oct 2008 11:47pm

a little known fact is that bees are vital to human life on this planet. if there are no bees the planet's food sources can die out in as little as 7 years. so don't spray swarms of bees, contact a local beekeeper to come and remove them(or local council). bees are also under threat from pests(small hive beetle) and disappearing bee syndrome which is being studied as noone knows the cause of this yet


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flossbloss
  • 25th Jun 2011 02:55pm

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Anonymous
  • 8th Dec 2010 11:08am

I defiantly agree that they are important and that you should contact a local Beekeeper if you have a swarm. I also understand how some people could freak out if they see a swarm (my husband is allergic) but my advice stay clear of the swarm and immediately contact the local beekeeper association.

mandy
  • 7th Dec 2010 09:21pm

i do not understand why us humans are so good at distroying things. Look at all the animals that are so close to been wiped out all because of humans. There is enough distruction. save the bees look out for our future and the future of our children. Look out for the animals they can't look after themselves.

Fireflyz
  • 19th Mar 2010 12:51pm

So much beauty in this world has already been destroyed, so no bees to pollinate our beautiful flowers would be devastating-and my daughter would also be devastated without her honey sandwiches.

Lisa-Jo
  • 15th Mar 2010 10:14pm

We recently had a swarm of bees and I tried to do the right thing and contact beekeepers, but phones were answered by pest control companies who wanted you to pay them to get the bees. If bees are such a valued commodity why does no-one want them

888shelley
  • 8th Dec 2010 10:07am
We recently had a swarm of bees and I tried to do the right thing and contact beekeepers, but phones were answered by pest control companies who wanted you to pay them to get the bees. If bees are...

best thing is to contact your local council insect/animal control dept, they usually have a list of swarm catchers or DPI same list...your local bee society usually has members who catch/remove swarms. it is illegal to kill bees except in very unusual circumstances....if they cannot be removed by any other means or if they are uncontrollably vicious

888shelley
  • 15th Mar 2010 11:48pm
We recently had a swarm of bees and I tried to do the right thing and contact beekeepers, but phones were answered by pest control companies who wanted you to pay them to get the bees. If bees are...

as i said...contact a local beekeeper through your local council or department of agriculture ( apiary section) or google beekeepers in your area.

many beekeepers do not charge but it depends on how far they have to travel so a donation toward their petrol is appreciated. also it depends on the difficulty of the collection of the bees..eg in a wall (can take 2 or 3 weeks with several trips) there is also the cost of making hives to put the bees in, this can be $60-80. my husband is a swarm collector and very often he uses up his apiary boxes in collecting swarms....in swarm season we have had 3-6 calls a day which makes it a very expensive enterprise.

you do not usually get any honey from a collected swarm for at least 6 months as the bees are busy setting up their new hive, the queen needs to go on her mating flight(she may be killed during it and not return) before she starts to lay, new bees take 21-24 days to hatch, so there is a lot of monitoring of a collected swarm.
pest controllers always advertise and then want to spray the bees this makes the bees useless for a beekeeper as australian honey is chemical free. so try contacting the right people as i suggested

Sutho
  • 17th Dec 2009 11:33am

Amazing that the word for backside reduced to three letters is censored by the computer!! If this is a bumbled comment will it be censored? Your comments on our under paid over worked and exploited insect friends are so true. Only a pity that they are prepared to sacrifice their lives by stinging us.

Lani6
  • 2nd Mar 2009 11:14am

Anyone who has seen Bee Movie can relate. For a Jerry Seinfeld project, it was very informative.

sammie
  • 29th Apr 2009 01:03pm
Anyone who has seen Bee Movie can relate. For a Jerry Seinfeld project, it was very informative.

yes i ageww bee's a very important to this planet to male honey same as all mammels have thier little place on earth.

skinny
  • 26th Feb 2009 05:06pm

In SA we don't tend to get too many bees!!! But recently our neighbours had their roof infested with European wasps. & european wasps are often around. They like to nest in places like air conditioners. We had some in ours once.

Anonymous
  • 19th Jan 2009 05:25pm

Bees are indeed important but we do not appreciate the vital work Bees and other insects carry out in which we benefit

Dirk
  • 30th Oct 2008 05:24pm

I agree with you that bees are absolutely vital for the pollination of fruit and crops (although, just like us poor blokes, they have been replaced by vibrators in some areas) but it does not have to be introduced bees as our native ones have done a pretty good job for a few million years prior to European settlement. The advantage of hive bees is that you get the double benefit of pollination and honey to eat.
I am concerned about the growing use of ***blebees by the hydroponics industry. These cute-looking fluff ***** are another introduced challenge to our native bees on top of the pandemic spread of the European wasp.
"disappearing bee syndrome"!!! As far as modern science can tell, no animal or insect has acquired the ability to disappear (other than my children when the dishes need washing). I think it is more likely that they have followed a Queen bee somewhere, died or expanded their territory. I recently had a ***blebee land on the sail of my yacht about 3 kilometers out to sea. He rested for a while and then took off again heading for New Zealand!

888shelley
  • 16th Mar 2010 12:00am
I cannot believe that my posting has been censored just because the name of that fat, furry, black and yellow bee starts with a b, u and a m. The other censored word refers to round objects often...

dirk.....disappearing bee syndrome is a fact.......scienctists the world over are puzzled by this, various theories have arisen, radio waves interfering with the bees homing instinct, g m food crops, are among the most common.

fact is that many apiarists are experiencing this world wide......in the u s, one beekeeper put 200 hives in an orchard and overnight 150 hives full of bees disappeared.
peter garrett has passed a law that no bumblebees may be imported to the mainland...they have them in Tassie......native bees do not pollinate many species of plants and their hives are so small they would never be able to do it all ,although there are some native beekeepers who specialise in pollination of some crops.....there is no competition between native and honey bees as they have vastly different habits

crispy
  • 16th Jan 2009 11:15am
I cannot believe that my posting has been censored just because the name of that fat, furry, black and yellow bee starts with a b, u and a m. The other censored word refers to round objects often...

thanks for the clarifiaction

Dirk
  • 31st Oct 2008 11:52am
I agree with you that bees are absolutely vital for the pollination of fruit and crops (although, just like us poor blokes, they have been replaced by vibrators in some areas) but it does not have...

I cannot believe that my posting has been censored just because the name of that fat, furry, black and yellow bee starts with a b, u and a m. The other censored word refers to round objects often used in sport. I hope this helps with understanding my post.

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