Tag Archive for "bees"
Tuesday May 15, 2012Posted by DonnaWalker
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
The earliest methods of beekeeping (apiculture) are recorded on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs. Sugar was unknown in the region and Egyptians had to rely on honey to sweeten their breads, cakes, beer, and wine. Egyptians captured wild bees and created hives out of baskets made from reeds. The reliefs from Egyptian tombs show hives stacked on top of one another, similar to today’s beekeeping practices. Beekeeping was a migratory occupation; Egyptian Beekeepers loaded the basket hives onto small boats that sailed along the Nile in search of blooming flowers.
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Posted by DonnaWalker
Hearts Pest Management’s pest control technicians understand the essential role bees play in nature and do their utmost to respect honey bees while keeping in mind the safety of home and family.
Pink Lady Indian Hawthorne
“Excuse me…can’t you see I’m buzzy working?”
Honey Bees in the Spring
The Bee-ginning Part I
Springtime is a buzzzy time for bees with all the garden flowers and native plants in bloom, you’re sure to see many honey bees about their buzzziness of collecting nectar and pollen. OK, I’ll stop with the buzzing but first, let me say, that although many kinds of bees grace the springtime flowers, it’s the honey bee, this multi-task worker who is number one in the game of pollination.
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Saturday May 14, 2011Posted by gerryweitz
For common home invading insects and arachnids like ants, spiders and earwigs, even outdoor roaches that come in sporadically, we are able to price over the phone. These situations we handle day in and day out. This type of work is predictable enough that we can price up-front.
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Tagged: bed bugs, bees, gophers, mice, mites, rats, squirrels
Sunday June 8, 2008Posted by ana
I encourage consumers to follow my articles with Pest Management Professional (PMP) magazine and PMP’s contemporary on-line edition . My latest “web exclusive” about fear based selling, with examples from the bee, bed bug and bite segments within the pest control industry can be found at this link: “Killer Bed Bugs for Sale” Please also follow my ever-changing Hearts consulting blogsite, where I attempt to address issues in the industry and of concern to the public.
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Tagged: bed bugs, bees, conservation
