Author Topic: hive underground (Read 2632 times)

TwT · « **on:** February 27, 2006, 12:40:18 am »

here's a article I found about underground hive and they are not agressive so they say>>>watch the video

http://www.wesh.com/news/7374703/detail.html

Finsky · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2006, 12:59:50 am »

Quote from: TwT

underground hive

That is not Apis mellifera. That is something as we say "earth bees" or pollen bees.

TwT · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2006, 01:06:45 am »

if the were all black and not have brown heads and thorax, I would say they were sweet bee's, never seen that kind in the pic before, sweet bee's are real small and hive in the ground and live in will nest close to each other, about 20 holes with them across the road from me in a 20'X20' area.

Finsky · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2006, 01:09:43 am »

Quote from: TwT

if the were all black and not have brown heads and thorax, I would say they were sweet bee's, .

I have seen in nature alot. Look at it's antenna and legs.

Look at these

http://images.google.fi/images?q=Mason+Bee&btnG=Hae&svnum=100&hl=fi&lr=

http://images.google.fi/images?svnum=100&hl=fi&lr=&q=Andrenid+Bee&btnG=Hae
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TwT · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2006, 01:22:48 am »

yeh, sweet bee's looks like that except the color,, did you watch the film, wish I could see someone holding one and get a size of the bee's..

Finsky · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2006, 01:51:03 am »

Quote from: TwT

yeh, sweet bee's looks like that except the color,, did you watch the film, wish I could see someone holding one and get a size of the bee's..

Color is not essential. The form of body, pollen leg and antenna tell what bug is.

downunder · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2006, 05:50:42 am »

Apis mellifera in outback Australia have been found regularly in abandoned rabbit burrows (when there are no trees around. In our remote mating experiment we had a site without trees for 15km, and the genetics told us there was another colony in the area. We tracked it down by beelining and found it in a rabbit burrow.

Wombat · « **Reply #7 on:** March 03, 2006, 08:17:44 pm »

"I don't think Raid cans can fix the problem."

Haha. Yeah...proooooooobably not.

wombat

Apis629 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 06, 2006, 12:16:15 am »

That's just an aggrigation of semi-social sweat bees. I was lucky enough to find a small one in Gainsville last year, though much smaller. Probably closer to 5 feet by 5 feet area with about 6-7 holes per square foot if I remember correcly. They're always cover the thistles.