[NatureNS] Garden bees

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:21:39 -0300
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That's a good summary of my comments Peter. I'm sure that you
personally can ID a honey bee.

To Dave re dates of NS bee trees, the Annapolis Royal one would have
been about 1990 & the Hants Co. one was in 2006 & was still active on
June 24/07. I don't think I ever checked again.

Rick Whitman

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Peter Payzant <pce@accesswave.ca> wrote:
> So I take it that if we can differentiate hover flies from bees, anything we
> see that looks like a honeybee probably is a honeybee, and moreover is
> probably "tame", that is from a hive somewhere. Is that a reasonable
> statement?
>
> Peter Payzant
> Waverley, NS
>
>
> On 2012-05-14 10:25 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:
>
> On 5/14/2012 4:24 AM, Rick Whitman wrote:
>
>  The vast majority of honey bees seen in NS are "tame". This is
> not so further south.
>
> I have seen 2 "bee trees" in my life with feral honey bees. One was in
> Annapolis Royal&  one was in the wilds of Hants Co. at least 5 km from
> the nearest remote habitation.
>
>
> * there used to be lots of wild Honey Bee colonies, at least in southern
> Ontario, and I assume in NS, until the arrival of the Tracheal Mites -
> http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/apiculture/factsheets/219_hbtm.htm - in our area in
> 1992.
>
> We always had a wild colony in one of our Sugar Maples, but when we came
> back from the field in 1992 the bees were all stinking and dead. Since then
> the Varroa Mites have also arrived, and made the survival of wild colonies
> even more precarious, though there are tales of selection leading to
> colonies which are resistant to both species of Mites.
>
> fred.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad

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