July 2023 - ACT Beekeepers Association

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Bee Buzz Box – August 2023 Let’s Talk about Wasps

24/07/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off

Alan Wade A remarkable feature of members of the social stinging wasp family is that they behave very much like the social corbiculate bees. However to obtain any semblance of how these two social groups […]

Bee Buzz Box October 2023 The Social Life of Bees Part II – The Sweat Bees

24/07/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off

Facultatively eusocial great banded furrow-bee Halictus scabiosae:(a) female with pollen on whole body, Toulouse, France;i and(b) contiguous 1-5 queen nests, Geneva, Switzerland.ii Alan Wade Social bees, not honey bees Sometimes we might ponder about how we […]