Bees.

[Jerome Marot]

Just a few pictures of bees I took yesterday. Spring is coming!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Beautiful, Jérôme!

This is wonderful! I gather, all your own devotion!

You must be a proud father!

How does one mitigate against diseases and colony collapse?

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

How does one mitigate against diseases and colony collapse?

Same as for humans. Eat varied foods, warm and dry housing, treatment when necessary and disinfect in case of disease.

 

[Jim Olson]

Very nice. I worked pest/weed control a few years back and I would see the bees around where I was spraying weeds and people would say "Don't get stung" and I would tell them "I'm not worried, they are to busy collecting pollen to get me"

Jim

 

[Asher Kelman]

Very nice. I worked pest/weed control a few years back and I would see the bees around where I was spraying weeds and people would say "Don't get stung" and I would tell them "I'm not worried, they are to busy collecting pollen to get me"

Jim

Jim,

Think twice about spraying when the bees are about as you don’t want to destroy them!

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

That is not the only risk. When plants are sprayed when insects are foraging, the insects will bring the spray back home if it is not toxic for them. The spray will then accumulate. This is why we sometimes have high concentrations of fungicides or antibiotics in honey, rendering it unfit for human consumption.

 

[Jim Olson]

Jim,

Think twice about spraying when the bees are about as you don’t want to destroy them!

Asher

That was many years ago & I was just spraying the weeds on the ground around the buildings.

Jim

 

[Antonio Correia]

Allow me Jerome, to share this modest clip I made while outside the garage.
It is recent. Today we have a general orange light all over town due to the sends coming from north Africa through Spain.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Allow me Jerome, to share this modest clip I made while outside the garage.
It is recent. Today we have a general orange light all over town due the sends coming from north Africa through Spain.

If everyone would dedicate a portion of their garden to flowering plants, we could help the bees thrive!

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

Allow me Jerome, to share this modest clip I made while outside the garage.

Very nice. That insect is a bumblebee, probably the white-tail bumblebee (Bombus locorum). At this time of the year, this may be a bee who is starting a new nest. That species builds its nest underground.

It is recent. Today we have a general orange light all over town due to the sends coming from north Africa through Spain.

Same story in Munich yesterday. My car is orange now.

 

[Antonio Correia]

All is connected. I don't want to remember nuclear disasters, nuclear war head accidents, Ukraine... you name it !
I am a pessimist !

 

[Asher Kelman]

All is connected. I don't want to remember nuclear disasters, nuclear war head accidents, Ukraine... you name it !
I am a pessimist !

Don’t be pessimistic. The Russians will deal with Lutin. The most it will take will be 2 years. In every military field disaster of the Russian Army, from thr time of thr Czar, the rulers were overthrown after the army’s defeat or humiliation.

Slavs are proud of their brotherhood. When they discover they were duped into murdering their brothers and destroying “sacred cities of the “Slav Tradition”, Putin will be removed!

Antonio, let me reassure you, essentially we will see from the Hungarian, Polish, Philippines, Turkey and China, a reversal of popular fortunes of autocratic governance and by contrast, Western Liberal Democracies will pull together and face tge reality that they can’t bicker over luxury lifestyles and nationalism as the authoritarian monsters are at our gates.

We can than Putin for turning Russia into a failed state with a gas station and no line of customers, but an endless supply of nuclear weapons that no one can use!

Asher

 

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you for your comment Asher !

 

[Jerome Marot]

Allow me Jerome, to share this modest clip I made while outside the garage.

I forgot to tell: the flowers are, probably cistus albidus. Native from the south of Europe and very useful to insects.

 

[Antonio Correia]

Good morning
Right Jerome.
Those are the flowers !

 

[Antonio Correia]

Perhaps you have also seen this about the Sahara plumes... 🤷‍♂️

 

[Jerome Marot]

No, I wasn't aware of these studies. Thank you!