oh, sweetie, you have way too much going on. The beehive thing sounds just awful and so very sad. I glad, though that you did receive an email from the CA company, that's good anyway. After following you for as long as I have, I know things will work out, maybe not just as you want, but close. Just stay clam and level headed and you'll know what to do.
I really don't know what to do with these flights. If I get so far as being invited to come interview with them, should I still plan on returning here after or should I officially quit this job (well I think I'd have to do so anyway, taking this many absences in quick succession) and move back?? And if I do just cut and run, coming so soon after returning from Africa, I'll have no time to do all the touristy things here that I was goign to do before returning to the states!
But yeah I got an email from them AND an email from one of the people I used as a reference sayign they had called them (:
If you are that close to the end of your Visa, book the flight as late/close to interview time as possible and count on "not returning" after the interview.
Eh, Australian visa would run out at the end of August, employment-wise would term me out at this job at the beginning of June, and the interviews are first two weeks of may, so they're still three months away from the actual end of the visa...
Traveling is so expensive especially airfares they change from day to day. On a brighter note you must be getting a wonderful education with all your travels.
whether I was, as he suspected, neglecting to spray an insecticide that's harmful to bees into hives to fight a problem they don't have. Well, yes. I think he's missing the first part of that equation, somehow! Let us not spray the hives with things harmful to bees, please!
I'm sorry your time in Australia is coming to an end, though it sure seems as if you've made the most if it while you were there! I hope this all settles out soon, so you're not so stressed. "Up in the air future" is one of the most stressful things of all. :(
Oh it drives me crazy, it seems to be the only thing he cares about "are you spraying the trays? are you spraying the trays?" He claims since I'm not spraying it directly on the bees (and they can't come in contact with these trays because there's a mesh over them, it won't have any effect ... but all these chemcials dissipate, esp off a metal tray which doesn't absorb chemicals and into the wax which absorbs everytihng like a sponge .........
Especially in the Australian heat! The fumes will be ongoing to start with, and then yes-- they'll permeate the wax.
Assuming they didn't kill the bees already. :(
Why not try oil of thyme instead? It's supposed to kill off bee mites, without harming the bees... IF they were afflicted with whatever he's worried about in the first place. :O
Hmmm I haven't heard of this oil of thyme thing. Do you know how it is applied?
Another simple thing that works for mites is powdered sugar! Sprinkling it into the hive, it doesn't effect hte bees, but the mites choke on it. Yay organic and non-poisonous!
Fortunately we do not have mites here ... yet. What we do have though is hive beetles.
Yesterday while I was putting hives down that had foulbrood, by sloshing a bit of gasoline into hives and letting the fumes kill them, I noted that it doesn't seem to effect the hive beetles, unfortunately.
One kind of crazy idea I think would be interesting is that the Australian native bees, Trigona carbonaria can "mummify" hive beetles with resin quite easily, and the hive beetles usually go to the top or the bottom of a hive, so what if one were to attache a T carbonaria hive directly below or above a beehive???
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Well, yes. I think he's missing the first part of that equation, somehow! Let us not spray the hives with things harmful to bees, please!
I'm sorry your time in Australia is coming to an end, though it sure seems as if you've made the most if it while you were there! I hope this all settles out soon, so you're not so stressed. "Up in the air future" is one of the most stressful things of all. :(
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Assuming they didn't kill the bees already. :(
Why not try oil of thyme instead? It's supposed to kill off bee mites, without harming the bees... IF they were afflicted with whatever he's worried about in the first place. :O
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Another simple thing that works for mites is powdered sugar! Sprinkling it into the hive, it doesn't effect hte bees, but the mites choke on it. Yay organic and non-poisonous!
Fortunately we do not have mites here ... yet. What we do have though is hive beetles.
Yesterday while I was putting hives down that had foulbrood, by sloshing a bit of gasoline into hives and letting the fumes kill them, I noted that it doesn't seem to effect the hive beetles, unfortunately.
One kind of crazy idea I think would be interesting is that the Australian native bees, Trigona carbonaria can "mummify" hive beetles with resin quite easily, and the hive beetles usually go to the top or the bottom of a hive, so what if one were to attache a T carbonaria hive directly below or above a beehive???
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