interessant stukje (engels)
Geplaatst: wo 11 jun 2008, 15:38
don't know about America, but in
Australia flowering is unpredictable,
and forests are being rapidly reduced
to islands of plants. The average beekeeper
knocks out well over a thousand
kilometers a week. Some do
1500 a week, just shifting bees and
getting water to them, traveling to
them, and carrying off the honey. It
has already reached the point where,
if beekeepers stayed home and started
planting forage systems, they would
be infinitely better off.
There is a whole set of bee forages.
They range from useful crop, such as
rape and buckwheat, to marshland
trees, the water tupelo, and marshland
plants such as purple loosestrife
and Caltha, the marsh marigold.
There are very reliable honey trees,
such as basswood, Tilia americana.
There are many basswoods, not confined
to America. The Tilia are elsewhere
called lime trees. Purple loosestrife
is a problem to marshes, but
if it is there, it is good bee fodder. If
you have it around you here, you
might as well be using it as bee fodder.
The Tasmanian leatherwood might
grow in this climate. It has a superhigh-
quality honey. It has the interesting
characteristic that the cherry
laurel has. It produces nectar from its
leaves, and from its flowers. Leatherwood
has very active leaf nectaries.
Just before the end of the season,
empty the hives out and carry them
into the leatherwood, and they will
put out 100 pounds of honey every three days. Leatherwood will grow up
with the forest and flower in it at
crown, or flower as an interface. It is
an indigenous species in Tasmania.
This plant is a really fine tree in itself.
It is good wood, a fine forest, a
beautiful tree, and an incredible bee
plant. In a two mile range it is customary
to put in about 150 to 200
hives. Within this range, every one of
these hives puts out 100 pounds of
honey every three days, and all the
time. Here, you would probably be
lucky to hit 60 pounds in a season, unless
you have a lot of Tilia. Leatherwood
is an evergreen that grows in
wet, snowy forests. It flowers the
last of the season, mid-January with
us. So it is going to be mid-July here.
What happens to a tree when it is
moved from Australia to North America?
It keeps its wits about it. It operates
on day lengths as usual. We have
shipped everything down, and it all
grows. You send us autumn fruits
from these oaks; we put them in and
they don't drop till autumn. If it is
springtime, we just plant them right
away. Often we just give them a chill
factor and plant them.
If you are planting for bees, there
are a few rules. You plant a lot of the
forage together. Clump your forages.
It is not good to dot these things about
the landscape. If you are going to put
in leatherwoods, put 30 of them together
in 10 different places. Put
them in full sunlight, or on the sunny
side of the situation. Don't put them
near the hive. Keep them at least 100
yards or more from the hives. If you
put them closer, the bees won't work
them. I don't know why this is, but
they don't. It is impossible to have too
much low hedgerow between your
hive sites and your forage sites. I
mean as low as four feet. This enables
the bees to work in unfavorable conditions.
In very bad weather, the bees
fly along the very low hedgerows that
lead to the forage systems. These
hedgerows are windbreaks, so they
might as well be productive. Start out
with thyme, rosemary, or whatever,
and go on to low forage.
Wetland plants are excellent bee
plants. People with wetlands might profitably go into apiary work. Conventional
hives are built to shift bees
around. Now we could re-think beehiving
altogether, given that we don't
have to lift hives around. I imagine
what we might build is the bee barn,
in which we pay far less attention to
the weatherproofing and insulating individual
hives. We would insulate the
whole structure and have a whole set
of exits for bees. We would work inside
it and have a high<
Australia flowering is unpredictable,
and forests are being rapidly reduced
to islands of plants. The average beekeeper
knocks out well over a thousand
kilometers a week. Some do
1500 a week, just shifting bees and
getting water to them, traveling to
them, and carrying off the honey. It
has already reached the point where,
if beekeepers stayed home and started
planting forage systems, they would
be infinitely better off.
There is a whole set of bee forages.
They range from useful crop, such as
rape and buckwheat, to marshland
trees, the water tupelo, and marshland
plants such as purple loosestrife
and Caltha, the marsh marigold.
There are very reliable honey trees,
such as basswood, Tilia americana.
There are many basswoods, not confined
to America. The Tilia are elsewhere
called lime trees. Purple loosestrife
is a problem to marshes, but
if it is there, it is good bee fodder. If
you have it around you here, you
might as well be using it as bee fodder.
The Tasmanian leatherwood might
grow in this climate. It has a superhigh-
quality honey. It has the interesting
characteristic that the cherry
laurel has. It produces nectar from its
leaves, and from its flowers. Leatherwood
has very active leaf nectaries.
Just before the end of the season,
empty the hives out and carry them
into the leatherwood, and they will
put out 100 pounds of honey every three days. Leatherwood will grow up
with the forest and flower in it at
crown, or flower as an interface. It is
an indigenous species in Tasmania.
This plant is a really fine tree in itself.
It is good wood, a fine forest, a
beautiful tree, and an incredible bee
plant. In a two mile range it is customary
to put in about 150 to 200
hives. Within this range, every one of
these hives puts out 100 pounds of
honey every three days, and all the
time. Here, you would probably be
lucky to hit 60 pounds in a season, unless
you have a lot of Tilia. Leatherwood
is an evergreen that grows in
wet, snowy forests. It flowers the
last of the season, mid-January with
us. So it is going to be mid-July here.
What happens to a tree when it is
moved from Australia to North America?
It keeps its wits about it. It operates
on day lengths as usual. We have
shipped everything down, and it all
grows. You send us autumn fruits
from these oaks; we put them in and
they don't drop till autumn. If it is
springtime, we just plant them right
away. Often we just give them a chill
factor and plant them.
If you are planting for bees, there
are a few rules. You plant a lot of the
forage together. Clump your forages.
It is not good to dot these things about
the landscape. If you are going to put
in leatherwoods, put 30 of them together
in 10 different places. Put
them in full sunlight, or on the sunny
side of the situation. Don't put them
near the hive. Keep them at least 100
yards or more from the hives. If you
put them closer, the bees won't work
them. I don't know why this is, but
they don't. It is impossible to have too
much low hedgerow between your
hive sites and your forage sites. I
mean as low as four feet. This enables
the bees to work in unfavorable conditions.
In very bad weather, the bees
fly along the very low hedgerows that
lead to the forage systems. These
hedgerows are windbreaks, so they
might as well be productive. Start out
with thyme, rosemary, or whatever,
and go on to low forage.
Wetland plants are excellent bee
plants. People with wetlands might profitably go into apiary work. Conventional
hives are built to shift bees
around. Now we could re-think beehiving
altogether, given that we don't
have to lift hives around. I imagine
what we might build is the bee barn,
in which we pay far less attention to
the weatherproofing and insulating individual
hives. We would insulate the
whole structure and have a whole set
of exits for bees. We would work inside
it and have a high<