Backyard Bees anyone?

[SpunkyTheMonkey]

at the risk of annoying an awful lot of your partners, omlet, (the company who make the eglu coops), now make beehives.

you're welcome

 

[ranchhand]

Very cool! I'd love to raise bees!


Thanks!

 

[mamagardener]

That would make raising bees so easy. I have always wanted bees, but my husband is worried that the kids would be stung.

 

[wegotchickens]

I'd like to raise bees, but DH says no more pets

 

[SpunkyTheMonkey]

bees don't really count as pets...

 

[wegotchickens]

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I know. But you could never convince DH of that.

Which is strange, because he knows I farm lady bugs on the rose bushes, black widows in the base of the raised beds, and praying mantis in the upper portion of the veggie/herb beds.

I don't spray pests, I find bugs that will eat them. And companion plant the beds.

Maybe because I kept bringing butterfly chrsalysis onto the screened porch to watch them emerge?

But I'd still really love to have bees!
There's a house down the road around the corner that has some hives. I often think of stopping and asking if they'll teach me in exchange for my helping them....

 

[MagsC]

Someday soon I will be in a place where I can raise bees..thanks for the info!

 

[wegotchickens]

Course it will be a while before we can get a beehaus in the US...

 

[SamG347]

I think I will just stick with building my own hives out of Barnwood.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Hives are usually white, that I've seen anyway.
Would colorful hives confuse the bees? I saw a how that talked about how they see purple (black with iridescent sparkles) and I wonder how they'd like to live in a dark sparkly house....