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Last Edited by rbs January 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM
10000 bees + 1 queen
Extra Queens will cost you $22 each
shipped by UPS ground
10000 bees plus a queen [gabees.com]
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Extra Queens will cost you $22 each
shipped by UPS ground
10000 bees plus a queen [gabees.com]
It is a real deal and a very fun post. If you like bees, please help other people like you see this post. If you enjoy this post, please help those who share the same sense of humor enjoy it too.Let us push it onto the front page.
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$78 + Shipping for 100+ bees and queen...not 10,000 as indicated. <
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do you think it could ever be feasible to keep a small hive in a residential home? 2800 sq feet?
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I really wish I had been paying more attention during middle school science class. I can't remember if I was sick that day when students went on a field trip to see a bee farm.
Also, I don't imagine bees have much to do with beets? It's a blatant one-letter difference in the word. But I guess the meaning, origin, use, color, and organic composition must all be vastly different.
"Son, let me tell you about the birds and the beets." The former flies. The latter is sometimes used to add flavor, texture, and color to garden salad.
1.buy 100 lbs of bees
2.start bee farm
3.????
4.profit
what about buying 5 packs of bees and releasing it around your college campus, while people are taking finals (and i'm one of them)
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You don't want to do this to the Queen though. Those things are so dramatic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIEdzaA
Swarms: Hives sometimes "swarm" if they are becoming too large, or if there are multiple queens. Typically a queen will kill off any new queen cells, unless she is becoming too weak. In the event that a new queen lives, they will either try to kill one another and take control of the hive, or one will leave, and part of the hive will follow. A swarm is typically pretty weak and inactive, and the drones will land wherever the queen does, often resulting in a basketball sized mass of bees on a tree limb. These can be "captured" by a beekeeper to start a new hive.
What you might be referring to is the recent concern over CCD, or colony collapse disorder. In the last few years both kept and wild (more rare for honeybees) colonies have experienced unexplainable die-offs and collapses. It's a pretty big concern for commercial beekeepers and the farms/orchards they service. Some people have speculated it has to do with the stress on a hive from the transportation involved in commercial beekeeping operations.
Oh yeah, and you will have to pick this up from your local post office, and you should warn them a large buzzing package is going to arrive to play it safe.
Apparently this cause is a pesticide used in genetically modified crops (the modify the plant so it excretes the pesticide out every plant cell, including the pollen), apparently even a very small exposure can make them prone to sickness and cause colony collapse...and EPA knew it all along (See naturalnews link):
Beekeepers and environmentalists called on EPA December 8, to remove a pesticide linked to CCD, citing the leaked EPA memo that discloses a critically flawed scientific support study.
Clothianidin and imidicloprid are members of the neonicotinoid family of systemic pesticides, which are taken up by a plant's vascular system and expressed through pollen, nectar and gutation droplets from which bees then forage and drink. Neonicotinoids kill sucking and chewing insects by disrupting their nervous systems. Beginning in the late 1990s, these systemic insecticides began to take over the seed treatment market. Clothianidin is Bayer's successor product to imidacloprid, which recently went off patent. Both are known to be toxic to insect pollinators, and are lead suspects as causal factors in CCD. Together, the two products accounted for over a billion dollars in sales for Bayer Crop Science in 2009. Imidacloprid is the company's best-selling product and among the most widely used insecticides in the U.S. Starting in about 2004, seed companies in the U.S. began to market seeds treated with a 5-X rate of neonicotinoids (1.25mg/seed, compared with the traditional 0.25 mg/seed).
Colony Collapse Disorder is the name given to the mysterious decline of honeybee populations around the world beginning around 2006. Each winter since, one-third of the U.S. honeybee population has died off or disappeared (more than twice what is normal). While CCD appears to have multiple interacting causes including pathogens, a range of evidence points to sub-lethal pesticide exposures as important contributing factors. Neonicotinoids are a particularly suspect class of insecticides, especially in combination with the dozens of other pesticides found in honeybee hives. Key symptoms of CCD include: 1) inexplicable disappearance of the hive's worker bees; 2) presence of the queen bee and absence of invaders; 3) presence of food stores and a capped brood.
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http://www.beyondpesti
http://www.naturalnews
These GM pesticide crops also has some negative effects in the human intestines..
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