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French wildlife and beekeeping: Honey bees are wild, it really is that simple.

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Tuesday, 14 April 2015. Honey bees are wild, it really is that simple. Let’s start by taking a quick look at some of the mainstream bee keeping practices;. Wings to prevent them from being able to fly when the colony attempts to divide and swarm. Use Plastic pre formed honey comb.

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French wildlife and beekeeping: Horned Osmia ( Osmia cornuta )

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Wednesday, 18 March 2015. Horned Osmia ( Osmia cornuta ). Is one of the first solitary bees to emerge in spring and as such is an important pollinator of fruit trees such as apricots, plums and almonds. Present in most of. Please Click on images to enlarge. The Two Coloured Mason Bee.

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French wildlife and beekeeping: July 2014

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Wednesday, 23 July 2014. Asian Hornets in a Bee hive. Like most tales there is a history of events and like most tales that involve me it contains a somewhat casual randomness of action that is characteristic of my approach to life. Click on images to enlarge. 8221; but it’s a...

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French wildlife and beekeeping: May 2014

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Thursday, 15 May 2014. Pesticides, Herbicides, Fungicides and GM crops all in the French news. Click on images to enlarge. On the agricultural front there has been some good news recently in. This has been principally in the overseas territories of. Grape growing regions. A stud...

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French wildlife and beekeeping: Interesting Honey bee links, downloads and videos

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Interesting Honey bee links, downloads and videos. These are just some different bit's and pieces I've picked up and found either interesting or useful and would like to share. Needless to say I will be adding to them from time to time. Well worth a read. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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French wildlife and beekeeping: Violet Oil Beetle in France

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Violet Oil Beetle in France. Oil beetles are another one of those species that not everyone is comfortable with due to their interesting life cycle which we’ll come to. They belong to the genus Meloe which is a large group with some 35 species of Oil beetle in.

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French wildlife and beekeeping: April 2015

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Tuesday, 14 April 2015. Honey bees are wild, it really is that simple. Let’s start by taking a quick look at some of the mainstream bee keeping practices;. Wings to prevent them from being able to fly when the colony attempts to divide and swarm. Use Plastic pre formed honey comb.

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French wildlife and beekeeping: June 2014

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Saturday, 14 June 2014. In our fields recently. 5 Spot Burnet moth, ( Zygaena trifolii. Reverdin's Blue butterfly ( Plebejus argyrognomon. And large numbers of Burnet Companion moth, ( Euclidia glyphica. Click on images to enlarge. None of these species, (and many, many more), were ...

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French wildlife and beekeeping: Glow-worms – Gardeners’ friends

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. Monday, 6 April 2015. Glow-worms – Gardeners’ friends. Glow worms are great but many people never see them, perhaps because they simply aren't where they live or perhaps because there is too much light where they are. Click on images to enlarge. Females have a similar appearance to ...

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French wildlife and beekeeping: The part of France we live in.

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French wildlife and beekeeping. A blog about French wildlife with a wide focus on French species, conservation, habitat management including keeping honey bees and honey production managed organically in a sustainable manner. The part of France we live in. A short background to where we live. If we take the Departement where I live, La Vienne, these days it is sub-divided into 8 Pays as follows which provide a useful division:. Pays du Haut-Poitou et Clain,. Pays des Six vallées,. Overall area : 88 780 ha.