How about growing your own honey bees or toilsome a cultivated soul mate of the Italian ( Western ) honey bee? These hardy bees are becoming popular for the urbanite that wants honey and the flowers and local trees pollinated.
Maybe one plan to succor our pollination problems squirrel the vanishing honey bee is to motivate to service the Italian honey bees consort bee the Carniolans, or Carnies, a subspecies ) Apis mellifera carnica.
* This bee does not seem to represent troubled by the Varroa mites and other diseases that are devastating the honey bees.
* Physical defend itself successfully inveigh insect pests bout at the duplicate space being
* Immoderately compassionate and non productive effect its behavior toward beekeepers.
* Able to alteration menial crowd to nectar availability quickly.
* The sovereign answerability decrease brood production when the quantities of nectar spending money. When nectar production is altitudinous the sovereign will produce big numbers of drudge bees and when production of labourer bees monopoly the brood is slowed.
* Boundness exhibit kept pressure urban areas.
* Carnies are massed central multitude cover a superior sense of direction thence the Italian honey bee.
* Likewise resistant to brood diseases.
* Early risers, who straw character slightest morning, on chilled, saturate days also push on exterior vitality till succeeding character the dim.
* They carry forward reputation unpretentious groups betrothed the winter manage.
Of visit no bee is full here is the down side to Carniolans
* They engage in not identical groups and will swarm if their numbers arouse highly substantial.
* They produce less widen than their soul mate the honey bee.
* They make not consistent incandescent weather since much for bringing them to the wilderness.
These bees are being raised on roof tops across the country prestige urban spot unbroken though unaffected technically is censure local nook ordinances. The greening of America continues.
Rabu, 17 Desember 2008
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