[Pil-pc-oceania] Seen many bees around lately?

[mossmans]

Speaking as an ex president of the NSW Amateur Beekeepers Association I
would urge you to find your local beekeeping group, and learn from them.
You may also pick up a course that may be run by your local Agriculture
department or TAFE.  Then you read and help others as much as you can on
club hives so you are confident before you get yours..
 
Now is a great time to join, because you start learning before the next
swarm season, and then you should be able to pick up some bees when your
club members collect the swarms.  Even some of our autumn days are warm
enough to open the hives so you can learn how to do that properly also,
 
Enjoy,
 
sue
 
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From: pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org
[mailto:pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org] On
Behalf Of James Sprunt
Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 6:42 PM
To: 'permacultue discussion list'
Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] Seen many bees around lately?
 
Hi Joel,
 
How difficult is it to start a hive? Have often worked with projects
overseas that have had hives as income generating projects but there were
always specialists - so I left it to them. 
 
Are there any good websites or books to get to start?
 
James
 
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From: pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org
[mailto:pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org] On
Behalf Of Meadows, Joel
Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 11:37 AM
To: permacultue discussion list
Subject: [Pil-pc-oceania] Seen many bees around lately?
 
Dear All,
I keep bees so there is always a high concentration of bees in my backyard,
and no collapse issues (yet). Even through the drought there has been an
abundant nectar flow in inner urban Melbourne.
 
We have one hive (usually gets to 5 boxes high by autumn). We extracted 55kg
of honey at Easter, a good season, but not our best. This honey contained
704,000 kilojoules of energy (or 195 Kilowatt Hours). This is equivalent to
103 days of average electricity output from our 500 w Photovoltaic system
with a good deal less embodied energy.
 
But there is so much more than just honey that we get from the bees, wax,
propolis, (pollen and Jelly - which we don't collect) and of course
pollination.  I liked the quote from Einstien "If the bee disappeared off
the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.
No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more
man." 
 
Joel Meadows
 
 
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From: pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org
[mailto:pil-pc-oceania-bounces at lists.permacultureinternational.org] On
Behalf Of David Arnold
Sent: Monday, 23 April 2007 12:02 PM
To: permacultue discussion list
Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] seen many bees around lately?
 
plenty of bees here, Violet Town, NE Vic
 
david

 
On 23/04/07, Adrian Wedd <adrian at adrianwedd.com> wrote: 
hi folks,

having noticed less bees around i've been keeping a keen eye on the news on
'colony collapse disorder'. 

i'm wondering if anyone else in australia has noticed less bees buzzing
around this year? 

A.


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