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Food&Fish
 Post subject: Re: Gary's System
PostPosted: Feb 5th, '07, 17:36 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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Yes these blokes are talking a green house where there are 1000 flowers [big time]
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 Post subject: Re: Gary's System
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Hi Nova,

Have you considered the possibility of using the dead bees for fish food (assuming your fish are big enough to eat them)?

I've read about an aquaculture set up where a hive was mounted with its entrance over the fish tank. When the bees died in the hive, they would be carried to the entrance and chucked over the edge.....by the other bees.

I would be more worried about the bees trying to drink from the tank and then the fish trying to eat the live ones swimming in the water and getting stung.

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do bee stings affect fish? :shock:
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If I was fish sized I think they may affect me. Don't really know though...

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Weren't these bees aussie stingless bees?
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Yes... Aussie native bee is "stingless"
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most of them - there are some species that sting
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Hello, this is the hive product we use in our greenhouse. They do sting if directly agitated, but are very docile and will not attempt to do so under normal circumstances. Disturbing the hive may indeed result in defensiveness, but otherwise they are very effective.
We do have to order them occasionally as they obviously won't naturally live during the winter here, and their population does slowly dwindle.
I acknowledge and appreciate the striving for natural native species, but I thought this may be of interest.

http://www.koppert.nl/e003.shtml

Related to stings:
http://www.koppert.nl/cgi-bin/x0127.pl? ... D=3&lang=e

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Hi,
I have a hive of native bees (trigona cabonaria) Have been trying for 2 years to get these little critters to set up a new hive in the box I have attached to the main one. Looks like they are finally getting the message.

The bee that is great for the greenhouses is the blue banded bee. It is a buzz pollinator. They move onto the flower, shake it through buzzing so it releases pollen, then backs off to rub the pollen of it's body onto the back legs. Unlike honey bees that stop on flowers, these continue to flap the wings when pollinating. I have them at my place and the amount of tomatoes I get from a few plants is outstanding.

If you want more info, go to this link at Aussie bee http://www.zeta.org.au/~anbrc/anbrc.html

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Hi Jonty, haven't seen you for quite a while... update... what have you been doing?
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Hi Jonty - I get some of those at my place too. Saw one at my AP bed a couple of weeks back. Bugger was putting bits of cut-off leaf into an old bamboo stick.
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Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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veggie boy wrote:
Hi Jonty - I get some of those at my place too. Saw one at my AP bed a couple of weeks back. Bugger was putting bits of cut-off leaf into an old bamboo stick.


The stick wasent then joined to a bottle with water was it
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Bee then gets a major case of the pollen munchies
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Just when I thought I was getting my head around (to a degree at least) most of the various aspects of AP this comes up.

Unfortunately a hive of stingless bees might be a bit tricky for me (I don't think they like snow). We do have native bees but they are the solitary or semi social type rather than the eusocial. They live among other places in my driveway (not next to IN).
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