Bees can recognize human faces, study finds

[neutr...@yahoo.com]

Honeybees may look all alike to us. But the reverse isn't necessarily
true.
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051209_beesfrm.htm

[bryan]

So your ladies really DO love you!
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[PhoenixWench]

I feel better now - that explains why out of a half dozen folks
wandering around the property at any given time they always came looking
for me when the feeder went dry ;-)

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liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
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[danfan46]

On 2010-10-18 20:32, PhoenixWench wrote:
> On 10/17/2010 11:09 PM, bryan wrote:
>> So your ladies really DO love you!
>> <neutr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1134220300.8...@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> Honeybees may look all alike to us. But the reverse isn't necessarily
>>> true.
>>> http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051209_beesfrm.htm
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> I feel better now - that explains why out of a half dozen folks
> wandering around the property at any given time they always came looking
> for me when the feeder went dry ;-)
>

Hi PhoenixWench!

You never told us what happend next? What did the local bekeepers say about your feeder.
We are ell curious to know.
/dg

[PhoenixWench]

Sorry for the long delay - I was unable to contact any truly local
keepers, and nobody claimed them, so I just kept feeding them. As of
yesterday I still have two feeders up both for them and any late
migrating hummers (saw another two days ago) The closest keepers I
located were too far away to bee connected with these bees (sorry - I
hang out at alt.callahans and it shows).

Since the only phone number I got was for a keeper over 10 miles away,
who has not returned my calls (might have been old info, so I'm giving
him the benefit of the doubt), I guess I'll try the Cornell Extension
after all, and see if they can suggest who might rescue these lovelies
before the big freeze sets in. In the meantime I'll keep those feeders full.

[PhoenixWench]

OK - I have talked to the partner of a master bee keeper recommended by
the Cornell master gardener. It seems unlikely that anyone will come to
try to capture the swarm - probably a late breakaway swarm - but I have
been given info on feeding them to give them all the help I can.

Tonight I'll be buzzy making up a pot of 'bee tea', and putting it in
the feeders first thing in the morning, and will continue as long as I
see interest and activity - all winter if necessary. What a wonderful
website they have, and it has info and the recipe;
http://www.honeybeelives.org

[PhoenixWench]

On 10/20/2010 9:37 AM, PhoenixWench wrote:

OK - I have talked to the partner of a master bee keeper recommended by
the Cornell master gardener. It seems unlikely that anyone will come to
try to capture the swarm - probably a late breakaway swarm - but I have
been given info on feeding them to give them all the help I can.

Tonight I'll be buzzy making up a pot of 'bee tea', and putting it in
the feeders first thing in the morning, and will continue as long as I
see interest and activity - all winter if necessary. What a wonderful
website they have, and it has info and the recipe;
http://www.honeybeelives.org

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[PhoenixWench]

I tried posting this earlier but it never appeared on my server - sorry
if it is a repeat.