Marking stingless bees

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Marking stingless bees Advanced Marking stingless bees is a way that we can gather information for future stingless bee keepers. What we know today about how long a queen lives for in Australia is because of this method. Here is a video showing how I mark my bees.  Why mark bees? Marking bees has…

Marking bees for experiments

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Marking bees for experiments Guest post by Dean Haley   Marking bees for experiments Nick came up with an ingenious method for watching native bee behaviour. Non toxic pigments are put in a jar, which catches bees leaving a nest. The inspiration for this was the tales of Aboriginals coating bees in flour to track…