ANTSTORE World of Ants

[adam james]

Questions and advice about my hive gladly accepted here

[JimmyVe]

I'm looking forward to learn about them Adam.

[adam james]

Thankyou jimmy I myself are too , Just absorbing all info i can at the moment and looking forward to getting them .

[kashmir79]

wow, very interesting, looking forward to seeing them.
I was talking to a guy who keeps them in hives where you can see them all working, i had a good look, and the queen looks just like the workers, except she just had a little white dot on her abdomen.

hope it all works out !

[ant dude]

good luck with the bee's adam

are u gonna start a ''bee store'' now lol, or a ''honey farm'' or somthing lol. dont worry just messing, i'm not fond of bees just fault i would ask.....lol but why bees if i may ask??? i'm gonna stick with ants i hate buzzing things like them.....befor i got stung twice lol.....well so much for bees having only 1 sting lol, i had a massive swollen brused foot for bout 2 weeks lol now since that i hate bees lol

[mpir]

Bees are great. I would have them if they wouldn´t be such horrible stingers. A friend of mine once kept bumble bees. The whole colony grew to a nice size. I can tell you for sure that thir honey tastes way better than the one from bees.

[JimmyVe]

I removed a few post because of the small talk. Be careful with that. Thank you.

[SteveUK28]

I also know some1 who keeps bees.. but they do not observe them.. just keep them for the honey.. Good luck

[adam james]

Hello Ant dude , theres no one reason for me wanting to keep them as there are a few . The main thou are they are easy to breed and there is allot more interaction with the colony and the development stages are interesting .They are also quick growing .Eggs take 3 days to hatch and the whole growth stages take about 20 days for workers , 16-17 for queens and 24 for drones, . I like the fact that honey bees travel upto 5 miles to fetch nectar and pollen and they always return back to the hive . Its just a sense of pride they can come back and forth. And after all this i have the oppertunity to harvest honey if i wanted .

[kashmir79]

you could make a little business from it !

[ant dude]

@adamjames: hmmm when u put it like that bee keeping sounds like an quite intresting thing to do. even tho its not for me lol. but anyway i never new all this about bee's thanks u knw your stuff then

[Pugberto]

Is this one of your scams to get free honey again?

lol

[adam james]

Hey ant dude , Il have to say no i dont know all my stuff lol its just wot i have absorbed from books and gpt from the internet , Still got alot to learn lol . Hi pugberto , Nah not in it for free honey lol just thats a extra bonus , they will need there honey stores for winter when there are no more flowers . So will not be nicking it of them .

[Phasmid]

How do the frames hold the nest. Also, how will you extract the honey.
Your bee project looks facinating btw.

[adam james]

Hi phasmid There is a wax sheet (called foundation to bee keepers )held in place by a wooden frame , The bees draw out this foundation into loads of hexagonal cells , this is where the queen lays her eggs and where the workers store there necter to turn it into honey and where pollen is stored as well. Honey can be extracted in varios ways , you can cut the comb up into sections to produce comb honey and also there are small devices that after decapping the frames you load the frames in. Once the frames are in you spin the handle on the device and the frames spin in a tray , the honey flys out the cells and drips down the device into the bottom where there is a tap that the honey comes out .