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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Beehive (and ergo bee) manipulations
Today is a somewhat rainy day (light rain) here in Fukuoka. Since it is Saturday and I had time, I visited the western honey bee hives at Teruo Shiki’s house. Teruo san was picking ume (Japanese plums used to make … Continue reading
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Bait hive
What good is knowledge if you don’t apply it? Since I’ve learned more about how to attract honey bee swarms using bait hives and swarm lures, I decided to try it while there might still be some swarms coming out. … Continue reading
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How not to keep bees
Yesterday I visited a western honey bee hive on the Hakozaki Campus that is being kept by a female Taiwanese graduate student and she happened to ride up on her bicycle at the same time I arrived, so I was … Continue reading
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Small cell beekeeping experiment update
On Saturday, May 25, here in Fukuoka, Japan, I checked the bees in the hive I am trying to convert to small cell. To explain, during the past 100 years, honey bees have been “upsized” by various beekeepers and scientists … Continue reading
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Wasted Effort
We got a call today at the university about a swarm of bees. They said that the bees had already been sprayed and there was a big pile of dead bees, but there were survivors and they wanted to know … Continue reading
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A Visit to Dr. Tashiro
This past Saturday I had the opportunity to visit Dr. Tashiro with my wife in Itoshima and talk to him about beekeeping in Japan. He is 90 years old now, and just started keeping native Japanese honey bees (Apis cerana … Continue reading
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