The Aussie Flora and Fauna thread ..

Donald Mallard said:

hey teddy ,
i asked old mate , he said put your hive near a native hive and rub some of the propolis from the front of the native hive on the opening of your hive ,
that should lure them and they will take care of the rest apparently, hopefully this saves spending so much on getting a queen , eu queen bees are only about $25 usually , a bit of a bargain compared to what you said about the native queens ...



i have a few mangoes , but they are only young and no flowers this season , maybe next one and ill take a good look when they do flower to see whats doing the pollination here ..

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Teddybrae said:

Good morning Wallymod!


Here's a pic of the Bees in question last summer when I was trying to hydrate them. I have posted this pic before here so take it down if you wish. Ooroo!


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Teddybrae said:

Just wundrin Wal ... so AFTER my hive has got a Queen I move it home at night when all the Bees are asleep and they will commence foraging from the new place and return there to feed the Queen?
I have seen on the Web that Native Bees locate VISUALLY and wonder if they will get lost if moved from their old surroundings?

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mexcurandero420 said:

European black bee

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Is a native in the north of Europe, but what is used most common is the South-European bee.In Belgium and on one of the Friese eilanden the black bee is still kept and preserved.

Australian bees are very nice colored with turquoise blue.Read btw that the humbag whale found his way to open sea from the crocodile river.

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Donald Mallard said:

ohh he looks like the variety we have here in our hives called caucasian ,
i think the other we have is an italian bee ..


heres that green one i mentioned , apologies about the quality of the photo , he was just too fast for me to get a clear picture ,
the others are taken while we were doing an inspection of a hive ..


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Chi13 said:

Are you sure they're bees? They look like a species of soldier flies to me. Ptecticus Tenebrifer?

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Teddybrae said:

No Man ... they're Native Bees alright, although I don't know their Scientific name. We found their hive in a tree up the road and sometimes stop to listen to the activity inside. Buzz, buzz!

(Strange what amuses ancient Hippies! We're stoned of course ...)

Wally, I think I recognise the feet in the photo!

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Donald Mallard said:

I might go and check this out next week ...



https://wheresongbegan.com/?fbclid=IwAR0TDPj0YXuKUkdqjhYzYB8V48pVSPIT9KC7lpfm2zfvTTHPBp5UAiCX7OM


sounds interesting ,
i wonder how many know the first song birds were from Australia ,
and that all the songs birds sing stem from those ??

those melodies haved also shaped music humans have made ,
its important to look back to the roots of things to understand the full picture ,
id urge any aussies able to check this out if it comes to their town ,
im sure im not the only one to appreciate this sort of thing ...

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