evolution – The Walrus and the Honey Bee

Room For All Types Of Beekeeper

27th September 202526th January 2025 by Steve Donohoe

Listen instead of read: https://share.descript.com/view/iXbI3vkK9PH I went and bought “Genetic Priorities for Conservation of Native Honey Bees” by Dorian Pritchard, one of the “big voices” in an area of beekeeping that is foreign to me. It seems well produced and has some interesting ideas, but I find the logic a little confused. But maybe it’s … Read more

How are Bees like Turkeys?!

27th September 20251st January 2018 by Steve Donohoe

Now that the days are getting longer bees in healthy colonies will have swarming on their minds, except that they don’t have minds, but you know what I mean. Obviously they have to build up to it, so it isn’t going to happen tomorrow, but the preparations will be underway. Honey bees reproduce by swarming … Read more