Native (stingless) bees

[aap1966]

This will horrify apiarists, but I was thinking of putting a native bee hive in or near the finch aviary. These bees are ant size and entirely stingless. Any experience out there on using these as livefood?

[gomer]

Defiantly an interesting concept for live food.Don't know if they eat them though.

[jusdeb]

how you going to keep the bees in the aviary for the birds to catch them?

[Jayburd]

I tried feeding my quails some drones (the male, stingless, european honey bees) and they ate them with gusto!

if you put it near the aviary, they would probably fly in, and the birds would get them.

maybe plant a flowering plant inside the aviary?

[finchbreeder]

Curious to hear how it goes. Keep us posted.
LML

[GregH]

Sounds like would make an OK meal but given the price of a Trigona hive I think that it's going to be expensive and perhaps unsustainable if the hive is located in the aviary as the birds will soon catch the lot or severly weaken the hive so it can't collect enough food to survive the winter.

[Diane]

how to build a hive

Edited......they must have taken that video offline, it was working yesterday.
This link leads to a page full of bees and hive links.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&c ... es&spell=1

[finchbreeder]

Link does not want to work for me.
LML