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26 Mar 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Solominer
I have been live streaming my bee home for about a week now. Though due to stability issues I had to migrate from VIMM to 3speak. A new link is below for the stream. The Bees are busy working from sunrise to sunset. On colder days they are less activ...
20 Mar 2020 1 minute read 16 comments Solominer
A few days ago the Bees started visiting the boards I made for them. I finished up the webcam setup running USB and audio cables through the wall. These two cameras are facing bee boards that I have built to attract Mason Bees and Leafcutter Bees....
14 Mar 2020 2 minute read 3 comments Solominer
When the sun comes out, the flowers warm up and attract the near by pollinators. These are Solitary Bees, and do not make honey like bees that like in a colony do. Though they are excellent pollinators and I am thankful for that. It increases fruit y...
5 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
The flower petals of the Peach tree were burned by the recent frosts, though this did not stop the Mason Bees from getting nectar from inside the flower and helping to pollinate it at the same time. These Bees do not have pollen sacks like Honey Bees...
2 Mar 2020 2 minute read 6 comments Solominer
My first sighting of the Bees feeding this year. I recorded macro video of them feeding and give commentary in the video as the Bees are observed. It was around noon that day and was getting into the 60s. Calm wind and only partly cloudy, though w...
12 Feb 2020 2 minute read 3 comments Solominer
In this final segment I clear out the remainder of the solitary Bees, I had many bamboo tubes to open but over many hours I was able to process all of them. I did enlist the help of my friend @ryulincoln and he helped me do the rest of them. I think...
9 Feb 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer
As I open the Bamboo reeds I find it hard remove the Bees gracefully. Sometimes the cocoons and whatever else inside goes flying everywhere due to the Bamboo being hard to open. The Bamboo has a spring to it and making it hard to open slowly and care...
3 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Carrying on with opening up Bamboo tubes, I remove the Solitary Bee cocoons that were laid last spring. By removing them, I tend to them and make sure mites wont be an issue when they emerge. There are also little Wasps that have taken over some of t...
29 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Using my new GH3 camera and a macro lens, I got some close up photos of this 3D printed object. It took over 6 hours for the printer to make this. And close up each layer of resin can be seen in its design, using a macro lens and some bright lights....
26 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
On a cold day I worked out in the garage with my camera recording above me. This was the first time I opened these homes so I slowly went through them. It took me a few hours to process a few hundred cocoons so I split this video up into four parts....
