Posted by terryc on February 4, 2009, 8:27 am
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:06:07 +0000, Jonno wrote:
> Also sound louder than their european cousins.
> Sounded a bit like a mini chainsaw (note Jonno sometimes exagerates)
I take it that you don't get teddy bears then?
Actually, all this bee talk is a bit sad as we haven't seen any this
spring and summer and normally we would see at least one BB each day.
Posted by Trish Brown on February 4, 2009, 8:59 am
terryc wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:06:07 +0000, Jonno wrote:
>
>> Also sound louder than their european cousins.
>> Sounded a bit like a mini chainsaw (note Jonno sometimes exagerates)
>
> I take it that you don't get teddy bears then?
>
> Actually, all this bee talk is a bit sad as we haven't seen any this
> spring and summer and normally we would see at least one BB each day.
We've been noticing an *awful* lot of your ordinary Australian Hornets
lately. Must be a bumper year for them. We've also got Paper Wasps
nesting under our eaves and foraging in the garden. Can you imagine how
I cheered when I saw one carting a Cabbage Moth caterpillar off to feed
its family?
--
Trish Brown
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Posted by Jonno on February 4, 2009, 5:29 pm
> terryc wrote:
>> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:06:07 +0000, Jonno wrote:
>>
>>> Also sound louder than their european cousins.
>>> Sounded a bit like a mini chainsaw (note Jonno sometimes exagerates)
>>
>> I take it that you don't get teddy bears then?
>>
>> Actually, all this bee talk is a bit sad as we haven't seen any this
>> spring and summer and normally we would see at least one BB each day.
> We've been noticing an *awful* lot of your ordinary Australian Hornets
> lately. Must be a bumper year for them. We've also got Paper Wasps nesting
> under our eaves and foraging in the garden. Can you imagine how I cheered
> when I saw one carting a Cabbage Moth caterpillar off to feed its family?
How can I train the European wasps to do that?
They kill anything and everything. They love blood and bone.
I reckon theyre a pretty slack bunch. They get with it and relax on the side
of my birdbath during our heatwave in Melbourne, using it as their version
of a beach. I reckon out native bees are partial to water as well, so people
should have a birdbath for them. Anything too deep will drown them...
A family of magpies were stressed enough to hang out under out verandah the
other day, beaks open and looking for the water placed under there.
While it was for plants we didnt mind of course. The birdbath had been
empied the second time that day, that how much they splashed about, and how
it evaporated.
> --
> Trish Brown
> Newcastle, NSW, Australia
>
Posted by Ross McKay on February 8, 2009, 12:01 am
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:03:21 GMT, "0tterbot" wrote:
>on a slightly different note, i thought i'd pass on the following as it was
>in my local paper - if you see a bee (of any kind) with a raised shiny lump
>on it's back, it may very well be the ghastly verroa mite (the mites attach
>to the bees) & one should contact one's council, r.l.p.b. or similar, to try
>to track down the infected hive/s & destroy the mites.
Is your local paper printed outside Australia? We don't have varroa
mites here (yet). If you find them, tell the Dept. of Ag. straight away.
--
Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia
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> Sounded a bit like a mini chainsaw (note Jonno sometimes exagerates)