Feral colonies in very remote locations

[bee-nuts]

This is what big daddy Bud does, throw a rope over a branch, hoist up whatever size trap (I like big for big swarms) when you get a swarm, you just lower it down, simple as that.


...JP

Hoisting up the swarm box.............  Sweet idea!!  I suppose a bigger cavity is a good idea as well.  Who id Big Daddy Bud?  I suppose I should know this.

This is Big daddy Bud with Alan Bukley, during my last trip to Bud's: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TzAOsFM_blYtKC5gES9zqw?feat=directlink

Deeps make good swarm traps, have caught some that filled a deep and a medium. I like no smaller than a deep for my area.


...JP

Which ones Big daddy Bud?  LOL

I guess deeps it will be.  Good thing I can buy cheap boxes from a commercial beek from there scrap pile cheap or free for this purpose.

[Jim134]

bee-nuts .................

This may help you


"Which ones Big daddy Bud?  LOL"



 http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?action=profile;u=3842



  BEE HAPPY Jim 134  :)

[bee-nuts]

I have been searching endlessly for research/studies or anything related to feral honeybees.  It seems there is little interest or funding to investigate feral colonies, their health, their population, lineage, survival traits or any other things of value from what I can tell.  It seems absurd to me that we spend billions to send crap into outer space yet we invest next to nothing in comparison into stuff that really can impact out lives and survival.

Here is one good article of research done by Thomas D. Seeley.
http://www.§¤«£¿æ.com/library/background_theory_research/Seeley_Arnot_feral.pdf

If you have any that you find of value, please share them with me.  I will post any other good ones I find if anyone is interested.

Thanks
bee-nuts

[Grandma_DOG]

Your link came across as garbage. Let me fix...
Try http://www.bio--bees.com/library/background_theory_research/Seeley_Arnot_feral.pdf to get the study. Just remove the "---" from the url.  For some reason, the name (Bio...Bee) is changed when posting.  Did someone at beemaster not like this website?

I also recommend
http://kelab.tamu.edu/standard/honeybees/
for re-establishment study after varroa wiped out the ferals.

And also
http://www.ece.osu.edu/~passino/PapersToPost/GrpDecMakHoneyBees-AmSci.pdf
for honeybee group decision on finding a new hive location.

But don't look at
http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1132/5/05chapter4.pdf
unless you want to see a paper that contains the most equations dealing with bee movement and heuristic analysis of uninformed vs informed bee scouts.

I have been searching endlessly for research/studies or anything related to feral honeybees.  It seems there is little interest or funding to investigate feral colonies, their health, their population, lineage, survival traits or any other things of value from what I can tell.  It seems absurd to me that we spend billions to send crap into outer space yet we invest next to nothing in comparison into stuff that really can impact out lives and survival.

Here is one good article of research done by Thomas D. Seeley.
http://www.§¤«£¿æ.com/library/background_theory_research/Seeley_Arnot_feral.pdf

If you have any that you find of value, please share them with me.  I will post any other good ones I find if anyone is interested.

Thanks
bee-nuts

[heaflaw]

Your link came across as garbage. Let me fix...
Try http://www.bio--bees.com/library/background_theory_research/Seeley_Arnot_feral.pdf to get the study. Just remove the "---" from the url.  For some reason, the name (Bio...Bee) is changed when posting.  Did someone at beemaster not like this website?

For me, it comes up as URL not found.

[bee-nuts]

I dont know what up with that.  Its a pdf document so that must have something to do with it.  If you do what Grandma_DOG say it works fine.  I found it interesting and I wish more people would do what Thomas Seeley has done to see if there are traits that are desirable in feral colonies.