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22.01.2022 Salt-seeking bees Unsurprisingly, given bees' need for nectar, the insects' feet are incredibly sensitive to sugar. But they're even more attuned to salt. The bees need salt for their own metabolic processes, and to carry back to their hives to help larvae develop. Thus, homeowners' saltwater pools attract bees. The first-ever investigation of the honeybee ability to taste with their front feet may explain a persistent bee mystery: Why they visit saltwater swimming pools.Salt...water swimming pools don't require chlorine or other chemicals, but they attract honeybees en masse. Now, scientists find that bees have taste receptors on their feet that are so sensitive to salt, that they even dwarf the bees' capacity to taste sweets. They might just sense, with the tips of the legs, the presence of the salty solution and then decide to land. The solution to stop bees going into pool is to create an alternative safe place for bees to drink. #savethebees See more

21.01.2022 SAVE THE BEES GIVEAWAY To celebrate the launch of our Australian Teddy Bear Bee Eco Cutter Set we have teamed up with Save The Bees Australia to help spre...ad awareness about the importance of bees! One lucky winner will win one of our Teddy Bear Bee Eco Cutter Sets, a Natural Beeswax Pack & a Save The Bees Resource Info Pack including a packet of Wildflowers for bees. TO ENTER: 1. Follow Save the Bees Australia & this page 3. Tag a friend below (1 entry per tag) 4. Share this post For every Bee Eco Cutter Set purchased via Sage & Ivy during the giveaway, we will donate $1 to Bee The Cure. Competition is open to Australian residents only, you must be over the age of 18 to enter. This giveaway is in no way endorsed or sponsored by Instagram or Facebook. Entries close 04/12/2020 at 9pm AEST. Image credit @ournatural_daily

17.01.2022 35% of food crops around the world rely on pollinators like bees! If we don't take care of them, future visits to the grocery store could look like this! Bees, ...butterflies and birds help fertilize plants by moving pollen from flowers and it's a crucial part of food production. We need to plant more native flowers, take it easy on pesticides and support sustainable agriculture. Let's #savethebees! Ministry of the Environment, Slovakia / adelkaloc via Reddit

17.01.2022 From https://www.facebook.com/WildernessSocietyTasmania

14.01.2022 Bee on the lookout Our honey producing bees are under attack! The varroa mite is a tiny parasite that attaches itself to honey bees and honey bee brood, we...akening the bees and potentially, wiping out entire colonies. Hear what all the buzz is about in our latest episode of Turf’n’Surf, which looks at the impact of varroa mites on the honey industry overseas and how we are working to eradicate varroa mites detected in Townsville. Check it out here https://www.daf.qld.gov.au//eradicating-varroa-mites-the-s

11.01.2022 Australia has over 1500 native bees the majority are solitary bees which means they live alone or in small families. Some indigenous bees like the blue banded bee are superior pollinators as they are able to utilise buzz pollination, a method that European Honeybees do not use. Some flowers hide their pollen inside tiny capsules. A Blue Banded Bee can grasp a flower of this type and shiver her flight muscles, causing the pollen to shoot out of the capsule. She can then collec...t the pollen for her nest and carry it from flower to flower, pollinating the flowers. Quite a few of our native Australian flowers require buzz pollination Unfortunately, Australian Indigenous Bees like the blue banded bee are experiencing health and population decline due to the use of toxic pesticides such as neonicotinoids. Unlike European Honeybees, solitary bees nest in the soil or vegetation meaning their exposure to these pesticides is greatly increased compared to bees that live in a hive. Sydney Sock Projects Blue Banded bee socks are a fantastic conversation starter not only about native bees but about their increased risk to toxic agricultural controls. 10% of proceeds are donated to Save the Bees Australia which we use to help fight the battle against these nasty pesticides. If you want to learn more about neonicotinoids head over to our website and make sure you sign our petition calling for the ban of Neonicotinoids in Australia. https://www.change.org/p/ban-neonicotinoids-in-a/u/27729669

08.01.2022 Santa is delivering something very special for Christmas this year And it makes a BEEautiful gift! Comprising more than 200 full-colour pages and complemented ...with beautiful photography, For the Love of Bees is the result of years of experience and research. Covering every conceivable aspect of bees and beekeeping, this labour of love is bursting with amazing facts and figures and intriguing information you won’t be able to put it down! ‘Honey bees have evolved a complex social system and, in the construction of their nests, have scaled the heights of engineering perfection. They produce a natural sweetener that keeps forever, plus an incredible ‘superfood’ with magical properties and a utilitarian substance beeswax that is almost unparalleled in its versatility. Constrained by a brain the size of a sesame seed, these enigmatic insects can nonetheless perform the complex calculations necessary to navigate unerringly to a food source the coordinates of which are communicated to the colony using the only known abstract language not invented by humans. Honey bees are armed with a battery of sensory equipment capable of detecting temperature, humidity, wind speed, chemical signatures and polarized light, as well as magnetic and gravitational forces, and have also acquired the ability to see ultraviolet light. As essential pollinators, they are vital for the continued integrity of the floral landscape and, by extension, for the very survival of the human race. Blessed with an enquiring mind thirsting for unusual facts and figures, together with an ‘organic’ philosophy that embraces anything homemade or bespoke, Ben Moore also possesses an innate regard for the merits of determined labour and exudes boundless enthusiasm. It seems almost inevitable therefore that he was destined to be drawn to bees and beekeeping. For the Love of Bees is a tribute to one man’s voyage of discovery, fuelled by a desire to give back something to his chosen calling, and to promote awareness of bees and beekeeping, and a lifestyle more attuned with the natural world. It is packed with fascinating information and imbued with a shared sense of wonder, which emanates from every page.’ (Estimated dispatch 17 December) Click this link to pre order your very own copy! https://www.bensbees.com.au/product/5960/

07.01.2022 On 10 December 2018 Capilano Honey Limited was officially delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange. A private equity group specialising in China-focused agri...cultural exports has taken over Capilano Ltd and turned it into a private company. Why did the Chinese aligned consortium known as Wattle Hill RHC Fund 1 and ROC Capital Pty Ltd pay $200 million dollars for Capilano and make it a private company after the the 7.30 report / Fairfax media fake honey exposé and the competition watchdog ACCC’s investigation? Because Capilano Ltd will now make a fortune for its shareholders selling premium Australian honey to China and be free to operate without the ASX monitoring its corporate behaviour. Capilano Ltd CEO Ben McKee told Fairfax media prior to the take over: "I think the privatised model for a company our size is more suited, than the current listed model. (Privatised) we can take long-term investments in markets and developing markets, rather than having our results analysed every six months. It is clear that Wattle Hill's Mr Albert Tse is now calling the shots. The Chinese aligned consortium he heads up now owns Capilano Ltd. This includes apiary sites from Queensland to Western Australia. The company is transforming into a honey marketing vehicle focused on upper middle class Chinese customers who can’t get enough of our pure natural resources. "We want to create products with a higher margins Mr Tse said. "Asian and Chinese consumers see this as a wellness product... and are therefore happy to pay a higher price for it. Ben McKee from Capilano Ltd has assured Chinese consumers that Capilano Ltd will only ever sell Australian honey to the Chinese but has not given a guarantee to Australian consumers that his company will not sell Australians honey blended with foreign honey. Coles supermarkets have stopped selling imported blends however Woolworths is still selling blends riddled with imported honey. Despite 180,000 signatures on a petition honey in Australia still is not required to display which country the honey is from. http://change.org/honeylabelling The same consortium that sells premium Australian honey to China blends imported honey with Australian and sells it to Australian consumers using subsidiary brands including Allowrie, and "home brands. It is now more important than ever for Australians to buy honey from their local beekeeper direct. If you don’t already have a local legend supplying you honey use the honeymap to identify one and go and say g’day https://www.beethecure.com.au/honey-map-2/ Sharing will save the bees.

07.01.2022 Yesterday the swarm flew away than returned. Being amongst a swarm like this is the closest feeling I have experienced to magic. @rose_caulfield #savethebees

06.01.2022 2 A battle between bees and hornets They are European honey bees. They can't do a heat-bolling and will be wiped out by the Asian giant hornet. A... beekeeping net is their lifeline. However, the native Japanese honeybees are able to repel the Asian giant hornet with a heat-bolling. See more

05.01.2022 Australian blue banded bee roosting on a Christmas tree!

05.01.2022 On my way to collect Rose Caulfield Photography to work yesterday I saw a commotion on the side of the busy Melbourne road. Rose managed to stop this echidna from getting run over. Fortunately we had beekeeping gloves in the car. Drivers be careful this time of year there is a lot of wildlife on the move on the #mornintonpeninsula . For others watching this. Echidnas live on road verges. This echinda isn't tame this is stressful. Move off roads, but don't relocate echidnas please. They may have a puggle nearby and moving it may put both in more danger.

02.01.2022 I've been keeping bees for over 40 years.

02.01.2022 @nicolas_trainerbees_cannah My friend Nicholas is testing the cannabis resin collected by #bees as #propolis for healing benefits. There are humans laws and natural laws . Fortunately some of us are born with a spiritual immune system and have the courage to flaunt laws that are not in the community's interest. The best #Marijuana is outdoor #organic. In many lush areas around Australia courageous people are growing bush #weed to medicate and relax other Australians. Scienc...e is catching up to wisdom of mystiques. The parliament has just legalised marijuana for medical use. Death by marijuana intoxication has never occurred unlike common prescribed pharmaceuticals such as benzodiazepines #Xanax #vallium and #serepax. This group of prescribed drugs kill more Australians than all illicit drugs combined including ice. We hear little about this in the media. Is this because big pharmaceutical makes so much money out of misery. #Marijuana like #alcohol should be used in moderation and avoided by adolescents. Side effects include chronic laughter, heightened sexual experience , paranoia , hunger. #cannahoney #nicolastrainerbees #rawcannahoney