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A year in the bee garden –January

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A year in the bee garden –January

In January, the squirrels hop across the lawn digging up their buried treasure. It’s a good idea to keep the squirrel house full of monkey nuts unless you want spring bulbs unearthed and bird feeders raided. The magpies like the nuts too, and squabble with the squirrels.

Shoots of snowdrops and crocuses begin to poke above the ground. It has been so cold this winter that few brave bumblebees have been seen.

There is not much to do in the garden while the ground is hard, and little point in tidying up fallen leaves where insects and other creatures may …

Meet Roma, Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue’s vacation miracle

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ROLLA, ND (KXNET) — The Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue has seen all types of instances. Each month, Keith Benning and Wanda Gonzalez rescue 60-100 animals out of their storage. Nonetheless, one significantly scary case proved to finish in a Christmas Miracle as a pet with an iron coronary heart and a will to outlive captured hearts all throughout the globe.

On December 21, the rescue obtained a name a few mom canine and her pups trapped in a precarious place. As they labored frantically to avoid wasting the household, one of many rescue crew members stay streamed the event, exhibiting

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Legal professional: Man concerned in prepare killing shot in self-defense

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A person who shot and killed a passenger on a San Francisco subway commuter prepare shall be charged with gun crimes however not murder in what was “clearly” a case of self-defense after he was attacked with a knife, his legal professional mentioned Monday.

Javon Inexperienced, 26, will face expenses of getting a hidden weapon in a public place and having a loaded gun in a public place, each felonies that probably might be lowered to misdemeanors, legal professional Randy Knox informed the San Francisco Chronicle.

Inexperienced was scheduled for a court docket look on Tuesday.

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What do bees and infants have in widespread?

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What do bees and infants have in widespread?

What do infants and bees have in widespread? They do not learn the identical books as me.

Our queen bee arrived on July 20. We named her Constance Amelia Maund. She is about three months previous right here and staring on the daylight by means of the bushes for the primary time.

As you might have guessed, I’ve been on ‘bee maternity depart’ since then.

You see, I learn a lot of child books earlier than she arrived however threw them out not lengthy after. Constance clearly hadn’t examine ‘the routine’. As a substitute, I caught to Dr. Spock’s reassuring …

Iowa ARL: Surrender, don’t abandon animals this summer

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“We get about an average of 50 animals per day as an organization throughout the summer,” said Michael Lovien, director of ARL shelter operations.

ALTOONA, Iowa — The Animal Rescue League of Iowa is the state’s largest nonprofit animal shelter, caring for thousands of pets each year — but summer brings a variety of challenges for the rescue organization.

“We get about an average of 50 animals per day as an organization throughout the summer. And that’s our high sort of peak season,” said Michael Lovien, director of shelter operations.

But recently, more unwanted pets aren’t making their way to

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First inspections of the spring

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In sunny Cornwall I’ve just done my first inspections for 2021 inside the hives. It’s been warm enough for some people to walk around in just t-shirts and for me to wear a t-shirt and cardigan, so it was time.

Good news: both colonies are alive and queen-right. Bad news: one (Kensa) is showing signs of chalkbrood disease.

My inspecting of Demelza went comically wrong. I started by trying to get all my equipment ready so that I could do some queen marking. I opened a brand new queen marking pen bought last summer and tried to use it on

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Moving bees | Adventuresinbeeland’s Blog

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A few weeks ago I moved my two little colonies in nuc boxes to a new location closer to home. I’d never had to move bees before, so asked other beekeepers for tips beforehand and as luck would have it the BBKA News that landed through my door that day had an article all about moving bees.

The main thing with moving bees is make sure the bees can’t get out.

Earlier in the day I had put ventilated travel screens on top of both nucs, then left their roofs resting on them just in case it rained (it didn’t).

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An unexpected arrival | Adventuresinbeeland’s Blog

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I’d left some equipment behind in the old location I used to keep bees, and hadn’t got around to moving it yet. Some new visitors took advantage of this des res – a brood box with a few frames in, a floor, and an inspection board acting as a roof, all piled up on top of a load of empty equipment. They’re against a wall and have a hedge and trees on the other side, providing shelter from the Cornish rain, and – in the last few days – the Cornish sun!

I was surprised at how large a swarm

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