Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
Cold march morning makes for a beautiful spring day!
#spring2024 #honeybees #abeekeeperslife #willow #blooms
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Met my first yellow legged hornets, asian hornet, aziatische hoornaar that goes by the official name of Vespa velutina a couple days ago at my home apiary.
And i am totally not happy about it. These hornets actively hunt for (honey)bees and can truly devastate an entire apiary in the end.
These invasive species entered europe(and they also have been spotted in america recently) via a boat entering the south of France and from there they spread like wildfire. No natural predators and enough bees to hunt made them succesfull very fast.
They cam into the Netherlands a couple years ago and this year is the first time i encounter them.
Steps are taken to find and locate the nest and hopefully eliminate this threat to our pollinators.
Are you fellow naturelovers interested in a video (or videos) about how to locate them?
Let me know in the comments below
youtube.com/shorts/0bz-UB5i4o...
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Guess what i am doing today 😁🐝🐝🍯🍯
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Hello little larvae, may you grow to be a beautiful and productive queen bee.
🐝🐝🐝🥰
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Getting there 😁
Just a few more hives for this apiary, so they deserved their own playlist:
The Pollinator Brigade: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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The bramble is starting to bloom(and the linden is starting anytime now)
Bramble is one of the best plants for bees(and other pollinators), high sugar content in the nectar and a very long blooming time supplying food right into the beginning of autumn. Not to mention the delicious fruits 😁🐝🐝🐝👍
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She took quite a while longer to bloom this year, normally she blooms februari for me. But finally she is opening her blooms, my absolute favorite orchid!
Better late than never with this beauty 😊
Dendrobium harveyanum
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Yesterday we organised the 2nd annual Insemination Day at our local beekeepers society 😁
Beautiful queens, great semen and we had a great time connecting to fellow beekeepers from all around. And of course an excellent inseminator too 😁
Onto 2023 for the third one 😁
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I am busy editing a video about the new apiary.
And now i am wondering, how shall we name this apiary?
As these hives will be for pollination projects my suggestion would be:
The Pollinator Brigade
Vote and leave your suggestions in the comments.
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Hello and welcome to a Beekeeper's Life. My name is Maykel, i started keeping honeybees in 2013 and since a couple of years i am trying to expand the business into a full time beekeeping enterprise. On this channel you can find everything there is to know about the life of honeybees and the daily struggles as a beekeeper. I will make videos for absolute beginners and for more experienced keepers too. The life of a beekeeper is a busy life but still this beekeeper has hobbies. I will also show videos of my hobbies of growing orchids and keeping ants as pets. We choose to work with the carniolan honeybee, Apis mellifera carnica, but there are many different breeds and hybrids but that will not effect the general care for them.
Please join me on my journey towards being a full time beekeeper
Email:
imkerijdemeierij@gmail.com
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