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Index of Subjects 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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