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Pete
Pete sounds good go to the site realhoney.net and shoot me an email there.
I actually looked for this thread last week, and gave up. Thanks for finding it. It is now, like honey, sticky.A pity this thread got a bit buried...
I know nothing of solitary bees but a lot about honeybees. Do some research to find what kind of flowers solitary bees can pollinate. Just because there is a flower does not mean the bee can access it. For instance, I have acres of honeysuckles that bloom every year but honeybees do not pollinate not collect nectar from them.
Wax moth.There are quite a few beekeepers on the forum. I thought this would be a good place to collect the bee wisdom.
We recently had a hive vacated by the bees. When we broke it down there was a big spider web like thing in the middle, but I don't think it was spiders. There was no honey and nothing in the brood chambers. It's possible the other hives robbed the honey, but is that big web thing what drove them out and what made it?