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Re: Backyard beekeeping
Reply #15 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:19am

rhino wrote on Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:02am:

Jezus Bobby, Im still alive. Take a chill pill. I have a friend who has been bitten by dugites a few times because hes a snake handler, its given him a degree of immunity. First time nearly killed him, now he gets stronger every time. I wont tell you about the tiger snakes. I steer clear of monitors generally if they are out and about and I have never been attacked or bitten.

Are they as big as these ones?
If you have a barby do they turn up and want to be fed?

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rhino Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17179 Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #16 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:25am Ones up north are, about 6 foot some of them. Generally about half the size where I am , see how harmless they are?
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Reply #17 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:31am

rhino wrote on Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:25am:

Ones up north are, about 6 foot some of them. Generally about half the size where I am , see how harmless they are?

That one in the video is a bit tame -
it's seen many people before.
I take it that the ones in your backyard know you?

From what I heard they learn to turn up
for free food at a barbecue.
If you give them a piece of meat or sausage
they won't attack you -
they are quite smart lizards.

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rhino Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17179 Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #18 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:37am I had a bobtail lizard knocking at my front door once, true story. Using his snout to bang on the door, it was a very hot day. Just a bizarre thing, I picked him up and took him round the back. Probably still there, lots of frogs, insects and water.
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Reply #19 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:45am

rhino wrote on Apr 11^th, 2021 at 11:09pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 11^th, 2021 at 10:38pm:

Native Australian bees? Stingless?

Oh Ive been stung all right. where I live its a constant battle against wasps, bees and possums. Bloody possums eat our mangoes, bees try to create hives all over the place and the wasps build their nests literally everywhere. I get stung regularly a few times a year,. Theres native animals all over the place, animals I have encountered in my backyard, dugites, blue tongue and bobtail lizards, monitor lizards, wasps, bees, enormous amount of frogs, thats what draws the snakes and lizards.

Sounds like Paradise. . .not!

Unusual to have such numbers of frogs?

European wasps? Trust me, we have had them wasps in the droves here for a good 30 years! Every summer!
My son was following the slashed part of property after his dad went through with a tractor, only to disturb a wasps nest which my son then, 9 years of age, was attacked by a swarm!
He has his helmet and long sleeve mx top on and got stung a few times on his neck, he threw off his helmet at them and had them in his hair, luckily his dad saw it and rushed to him to bring him inside, and was squashing and killing wasps along the way, and getting a few stings himself also, because unlike bees that only sting once, and die, the EU wasps keep on stinging!
We took son to hospital and he was administer anti histamine.
It was lucky he didn’t have a bad reaction luge swollen throat.

Now, we have these weird little ugly nests all around the house, which I do not clear away once I found out it’s our Australian paper wasp. I had heard once, that they are a natural enemy to the EU wasp.
I think it’s true, because... I havn’t seen many wasps in the last few years, although I see their nests in between the bricks, or behind seats etc. we just scrape it out.

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #20 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 6:35am European wasps are also in Tasmania. Great Seems some nests are maintained over winter and are enlarged the next year. Wonderful, not! But this is not beekeeping.
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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #21 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 7:10am Bit of an introduction: VEry basicL
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Re: Backyard beekeeping
Reply #22 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 8:32am

rhino wrote on Apr 12^th, 2021 at 12:37am:

I had a bobtail lizard knocking at my front door once, true story. Using his snout to bang on the door, it was a very hot day. Just a bizarre thing, I picked him up and took him round the back. Probably still there, lots of frogs, insects and water.

Thanks but you didn't answer my question above?

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #23 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 9:38am So you have a couple of hives, and keep bees What to do with all that honey? Make mead! I made apple butter recently, so I am going to make Apple Butter Cyser. A cyser is a mead flavored with apple juice. https://polanimal.com.au/index.php?threads/apple-butter-cyser.6575/ (In the Fermentations board on my forum.)
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95453 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #24 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 1:02pm Monk - leave the bee hives to the professionals. You're just going to get stung and cause untold trouble. Get a professional bee keeper to put a hive in your yard and arrange for him to service it. forgiven namaste
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Reply #25 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 1:31pm

That is actually what I said I would likely do, Booby.

Interesting to look at what is involved tho. I am most interested in the bees as pollinators, doesn’t matter whose bees.

I would put the hive/have an apiarist put his hives in between the rows of perry pears—pears do not deliver as much nectar to the bees as other flowers, apple and cherry blossoms etc do.

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Reply #26 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 1:33pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 12^th, 2021 at 1:31pm:

That is actually what I said I would likely do, Bobby.

Interesting to look at what is involved tho. I am most interested in the bees as pollinators, doesn’t matter whose bees.

Monk,
cross your bridges when you come to them.
It's possible that there will already be plenty of bees in your area
so you won't need a beehive.

Bees will travel for miles to gather pollen.

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #27 - Apr 12^th, 2021 at 1:35pm Don’t teach grandmaw how to suck eggs. The subject of backyard beekeeping is interesting. I might yet take it up. Fun learning new things.
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Reply #28 - May 2^nd, 2021 at 5:12pm

In George Town, with no apple or pear trees I saw my Bramleys Seedling apple tree had fruit. One of my pears and one of my cherries had fruit. So did one of my peaches but they are self fertile. Wonder where those trees were that pollinated mine?

I will have close to 100 fruit trees and currants/gooseberry bushes plus a lot of raspberry canes and, hopefully, grape vines. Good pollination is essential

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Super Nova Gold Member Offline Posts: 3039 Everywhere Gender:	Re: Backyard beekeeping Reply #29 - May 2^nd, 2021 at 9:24pm Let's hope the Murder Hornets don't make it to Australia. Watched a special on them as they invade Washington state in he US. They are major bastards.
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