I just watched an interview with a Dutch scientist about how bad it is in the world of bees, that their excistance is under pressure, and thought about the wild bees in Stockyard Gully NP I photographed last year during our Easter camping trip. There were heaps of this kind of structures hanging on the cave wall which where all burned off this year when we were there end of April. Why?
13 August, 2009
Bees
I just watched an interview with a Dutch scientist about how bad it is in the world of bees, that their excistance is under pressure, and thought about the wild bees in Stockyard Gully NP I photographed last year during our Easter camping trip. There were heaps of this kind of structures hanging on the cave wall which where all burned off this year when we were there end of April. Why?
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They are feral European bees, so not native. They take the nesting sites of local parrots and other birds. That is probably why the combs were removed from the cave.
These bees forage earlier in the day than the native bees and this means the local bees and birds don't get enough pollen and nectar as the greedy feral bees have used it all up by the time our little fellers get there.
Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know this were not native bees, didn't expect European bees so far from civilisation... why did they bring bees over when there were already bees here???
Stupid question probably as they brought all kind of damaging animals in those days...
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