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Beez Pleez

So the enclosure is ready and there are 16 hives being delivered and installed tomorrow or next Monday if it is a shit day here.

I am so chuffed for this. I realize though that I have to get myself a white suit and bee-hat for when I am doing the lawn around them so they won't think I am a bear driving a lawn tractor and coming to steal their honey....
 
I'm reminded of when a local Ace was selling (IIRC) Mason bees. Docile, but I gather only useful for pollinating. Not sure all that was included for $20. Actually, what I remember was the struggle to resist the temptation to get some bees... I really don't need them--plenty of wild bees fly around the yard as it is...
 
We value our pollinators and our farm is a university study location for bumblebee health and populations because it is a working farm, but organic hay and is a bit of an island of refuge in the midst of some large uniculture crop farms in the area that don't try to protect beez.
 
me203 said:
I'm not completely comfortable...

I wonder if it's programming when I was young to stay away from bees...
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I can guarantee you that the bees would like to avoid you as much as you avoid them. I have worked in the garden literally surrounded by hundreds of bees and never been stung because of that.

Wearing black, swatting at bees or accidentally stepping on them or disturbing them can get you stung.

And a honeybee sting, unless you are highly allergic, is just a momentary ouch.
 
We learned to not walk through clover barefoot as children. We occasionally caught bumble bees in baby food jars from the spirea bush, but I can't remember ever bothering honey bees. We did give a busy buzzing bush a little space, but we were never really afraid of bees, more focused on whether the bumble bees had white patches on their heads, as we were told they would not sting. Or was it the black-faced ones? :LOL:
 
Definitely suspicious:

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Not sure how I missed this thread, but I love bees. I even studied under one of only two master beekeepers in Oregon.


NotHardUp1 said:
Your finding hives on the ground is news to me. I've found all sorts of other nests in the ground -- bumble bees, wasps, and yellow jackets -- but never honey bees. Will have to read up on that behavior.
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Honey bees can be found anywhere they can form honey comb. In the US most build high for protection, but there are some bees in Asia that are known for building high up in rocks/ground areas of mountains. It is some of the most expensive honey in the world just because of how hard it is to get to.


Personally if I was ever rich I would want to put some hives on top of schools and let kids learn about them as a science class. Also on top of grocery stores and skyscrapers if conditions were right.
 
72-Jay said:
1000's of bees in the wall... that is a major .EEEK. :eek: (actually anywhere in/near the house or yard :eek: )
If I had something like that, it'd either be spend a small fortune in bugspray (don't care how toxic that stuff is, whatever amount it took to make riddance) or spend even more & call an exterminator. But whatever it took to kill off those nasty insects is what I'd do. (sorry guys, while not quite as bad as wasps, I still hate bugs like that)

Then there'd be the issue of tearing apart the wall to clean all than nasty stuff out of it.... .ug. just the thought of having to do a project like that. The time & effort it would take.

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Somebody needs to invent a solor powered AI drone bee that just does its thing of pollinating flowers & thats it! No stinger. No buzzing wings. No bothering people. When not pollinating it either goes to the roof to sit & charge, or returns to its storage pen.
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If you ever do need some removed, Jason is right. Many beekeepers would gladly do it for free. Just look up your local beekeepers association. I have been in meetings when they were taking dibs on who got to go up a huge tree and get a hive. A lot of keeps love that kind of thing.
 
rareboy said:
So the enclosure is ready and there are 16 hives being delivered and installed tomorrow or next Monday if it is a shit day here.

I am so chuffed for this. I realize though that I have to get myself a white suit and bee-hat for when I am doing the lawn around them so they won't think I am a bear driving a lawn tractor and coming to steal their honey....
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You don't really need a suit if you don't want one. Any light clothing will work unless you are worried about being stung. A vail is always nice though as some bees become pricks if they don't like the smell of your breath.

Do you have killer bees up that way yet?
 
PrinceCory said:
Why are bee suits white?
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Bees don't see well so light colors they pay less attention to. Dark colors are predators or food usually. Hawaiian shirts are a huge no no when beekeeping as they will think you are a walking flower. There are other colors though. I have seen light pink and light greens before and yellows.
 
I have a few fruit trees ... and come spring when they're in bloom, on warm sunny days there's usually lots of bees buzzing around them & crawling on the flowers (.eek. nasty bugs, try to avoid being in that part of the yard)
Some are the standard honey bees, but most are something smaller. don't know what they are. This year there wasn't so many around, could be the weather/times I happened to be out weren't optimal, I certainly didn't mind. Have a couple less trees than previous years (well they're still sorta there), but there was still tons of blossoms on those that did bloom.

Occasionally you'll see one of those big fuzzy monsters(ie: a bumblebee) in the yard. Yuck. nasty beasts.
And last year some sorta leaf-cutter (bee or wasp I don't know...but whatever it was got wasp-sprayed) made this weird 'nest' of leaves/eggs in one of my potted tomatoes. I got rid of all that shit once I was sure the vile thing that made it were done.
 
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