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D'oh! Wrong sort of bee. Common carder, Bombus pascuorum, I think.
I expect the Amm were all out hammering the lime. For once we had a lovely calm evening and you could hear the trees humming with activity from 100 yards away. It sounded wonderful (to a beekeeper at least).
SNHBS Winter workshop on identifying native honey bees in Aberdeen on the 18th November !
Should be good day and pretty hands on.
Its free to members (www.SNHBS.scot to join !) and there are about 15 tickets remaining.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ident...ts-38578048983
Thanks to the 40 odd members of SNHBS who attended at the weekend ! Great fun and very informative. Hope to run similar workshops next year and to start on a larger survey.
No idea of the full 150 strong membership DR but if the workshop was representative then a high proportion !
One of the surprising aspects of the day was the number of Amm like types that people brought along from their stocks. Obviously it can look Amm and have wings like Amm but still not be. Encouraging though. A bigger survey is planned next year so hopefully can get a better idea of the situation.
There's some info online now at the SNHBS website to help you identify Amm, DR.
You might have some - or perhaps just near native.
Kitta
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note I know -
The yellow small queen on the LEFT is Amm because the commercial supplier says so and sold it as such
The big black one on the RIGHT is not Amm because I bred that one myself and I say its not
just to make sure there is no confusion
Last edited by The Drone Ranger; 07-02-2018 at 01:11 AM.
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