Only just read this tonight on RTE's (S Ireland) site. The working lego beehive in this short clip is apparently going 'viral'.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/05 ... ve-things/
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Re: World Bee Day
oldapple wrote:Only just read this tonight on RTE's (S Ireland) site. The working lego beehive in this short clip is apparently going 'viral'.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/05 ... ve-things/
Obviously didn't get the Gardener's World memo about eradicating plastic in the environment.
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Re: World Bee Day
Like it! 
The two wild honey been colonies in our chimney stacks are on full song at the moment - so much to do, and so little time to do it all in. Our bird bath is permanently crowded with bees, which are coming down for a (very) long cool drink and then heading straight back to the hive, where I guess they've probably got a full time job just to keep the overheating colonies supplied?
Indeed, I've been impressed by how much water bees can drink. Our bird bath is at least 18 inches in diameter, and it holds the better part of two gallons, but its level is dropping by as much as an inch and a half a day, and I'd seriously doubt that a lot of that is evaporation, since the bath is made of granite and it stays pretty cool all the time.
So my curiosity was piqued. These US beekeepers seem to be suggesting that 8 hives will drink two (US) gallons a day (https://www.beesource.com/forums/showth ... bees-drink), which would seem to agree with my own experience. But then, if a worker bee drinks its own weight in water every day, it's bound to add up to quite a lot?
BJ
The two wild honey been colonies in our chimney stacks are on full song at the moment - so much to do, and so little time to do it all in. Our bird bath is permanently crowded with bees, which are coming down for a (very) long cool drink and then heading straight back to the hive, where I guess they've probably got a full time job just to keep the overheating colonies supplied?
Indeed, I've been impressed by how much water bees can drink. Our bird bath is at least 18 inches in diameter, and it holds the better part of two gallons, but its level is dropping by as much as an inch and a half a day, and I'd seriously doubt that a lot of that is evaporation, since the bath is made of granite and it stays pretty cool all the time.
So my curiosity was piqued. These US beekeepers seem to be suggesting that 8 hives will drink two (US) gallons a day (https://www.beesource.com/forums/showth ... bees-drink), which would seem to agree with my own experience. But then, if a worker bee drinks its own weight in water every day, it's bound to add up to quite a lot?
BJ
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