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gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 7:47 pm Post subject: wild honeybees

When Jocorless stopped by here last weekend, she noticed the number of honeybees in the garden. Suggested I could perhaps domesticate them when they swarmed (is that correct, Jo?).

Didn't know where they nested then, but I do now !

There's one nest in a hole in the railway sleeper I sit on when I have my tea out by the plots. I saw a bee flying with a green thing stuck to its underside. The green thing was a small caterpillar. The bee disappeared into a hole in the wood with the caterpillar.

What kind of bee is this ? Is this normal bee behaviour ? Is it a honeybee ? They are very dark in body-colour.

Any advice ? Apart from not sitting there anymore.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 8:01 pm Post subject:
AFAIK all honeybees are entirely veggie... ... oth most wasps are carnivorous... ... and paper wasps (amongst others?) do specifically eat caterpillars...

gil
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 8:24 pm Post subject:
OK, so that's the wasp contingent. But there are honeybees as well. Is it possible to domesticate them, and lure them into a hive ?

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 8:27 pm Post subject:
It should be and those last weekend were very definitely honeybee's not wasps I will ask my bee guru's what the best way to proceed is - The guy next door to me is having a similar problem in his mothers garden so I need to ask anyway as I might get a second hive for free from it

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