{"id":2535,"date":"2016-07-10T21:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T09:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2019-08-18T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T23:00:15","slug":"update-on-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/update-on-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you’ve been wondering, the feral bees<\/a> are alive and buzzing.\u00a0As you would expect,\u00a0activity around their\u00a0totara\u00a0tree home\u00a0has quietened considerably with the change of season.<\/p>\n

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This was taken in summer. It’s too cold just now for the ladies\u00a0to be out socialising on the front porch.<\/p><\/div>\n

Bees don’t like rain, wind or cold, so in winter they stay inside the hive, warm and dry, living off honey stores laid down in warmer times. They huddle around the queen to keep her cozy,\u00a0and when they need to leave the hive to go and\u00a0powder their noses<\/a>, they try to wait for\u00a0a sunny day.<\/p>\n

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Another summer bee photo. The sort of nose powdering we are talking about in this post is less literal.<\/p><\/div>\n

It has been a bit quiet around the tree, but every so often I stand out\u00a0in the Seven Acre Wood for a few minutes of bee obs<\/a>. Each time there have been\u00a0enough\u00a0comings and goings to reassure me that all is in order.<\/p>\n

And what about the Auckland bees<\/a> I hear you ask? Well, AndyMan sent me an email update recently. Apparently they had a thorough hive-clean and health check last month and they are hale and hearty.\u00a0He has tucked them up snug\u00a0for winter with some Bayer treatment strips<\/a> and a nice store of honey. What more could the ladies of the hive want?<\/p>\n

See you in spring-time little\u00a0buzzers.<\/p>\n

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In case you’ve been wondering, the feral bees are alive and buzzing.\u00a0As you would expect,\u00a0activity around their\u00a0totara\u00a0tree home\u00a0has quietened considerably with the change of season. Bees don’t like rain, wind or cold, so in winter they stay inside the hive,… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}