From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:45:38 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Bees, Bugs & Plant Predictions!

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping

While I dig out EC guidlines sent to me from a dear beekeeper friend in
Belgium concerning bee pasture to add to the current discusison on lines
61-63 by Clay and Don, figured I'd get some other general dialogue possibly
going, as I don't want others to be bored!

It's active season now with our bees and we are all out working them and
hopefully having fun and making a crop, be it either honey, pollen, etc

But how do we know when to work and what to expect?

How does one gage honeyflows to come, or even to be prepared for the weather
for instance, over say, the next 30 days or so?

Do beekeepers still read the height of newly built ant mounds anymore for
rain predictions? Do they read the signs of plant buds and leafing out for
flow predictions? Do they watch for flying ants and what it supposedly
means?

What do you all look for to know you have a good season coming on or a bad
one?

Are there any internal signs within bee colonies themselves to look at and
for?

Just curious.

Dee