Bee hive
-
- Fledgling
- Posts: 134
- Joined: Mar 29th, 2011, 11:07 pm
Re: Bee hive
mexicalidreamer wrote:
The post referred to 7 being seen at the entrance, not that 7 was the total. The same post said that they had no idea how many are in the hive.
Thank you for posting that :) It saved me from having to
-
- Walks on Forum Water
- Posts: 11639
- Joined: Sep 18th, 2009, 11:58 am
Re: Bee hive
As soon as I read about there being only 7 bees, I immediately thought of the Monty Python song "every sperm is sacred".
You and 71 others Like this post
- Lady tehMa
- A Peer of the Realm
- Posts: 21697
- Joined: Aug 2nd, 2005, 3:51 pm
Re: Bee hive
So have the bees been rescued and relocated to a new home?
I haven't failed until I quit.
-
- Guru
- Posts: 5704
- Joined: Sep 4th, 2012, 12:21 pm
Re: Bee hive
OP contacted me, we're making plans.
The true business of people should be to go back to
school and think about whatever it was they were
thinking about before somebody came along and told
them they had to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
school and think about whatever it was they were
thinking about before somebody came along and told
them they had to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
-
- Lord of the Board
- Posts: 3538
- Joined: Sep 15th, 2008, 8:03 pm
Re: Bee hive
One thing I have done this year is put a couple planters of flowers around the veggie garden. Man I get way more bees now its great
- Barney Google
- Lord of the Board
- Posts: 3875
- Joined: Feb 6th, 2010, 9:10 am
Re: Bee hive
PLANT FLOWERING PLANTS FOR THE BEES!!!!
Plant a flowering plants and save the World!!!!
http://www.beesmatter.ca/
http://www.simplyfrugal.ca/free-flower- ... matter-ca/
http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/bee-identification.html
Plant a flowering plants and save the World!!!!
http://www.beesmatter.ca/
http://www.simplyfrugal.ca/free-flower- ... matter-ca/
http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/bee-identification.html
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away and barefoot. ”
- Unknown
- Unknown
-
- Lord of the Board
- Posts: 3350
- Joined: Sep 30th, 2009, 10:06 am
Re: Bee hive
Barney Google wrote:PLANT FLOWERING PLANTS FOR THE BEES!!!!
Plant a flowering plants and save the World!!!!
http://www.beesmatter.ca/
Interesting site. At the house I work at there is an abundance of red raspberry bushes through out the yard and the bees LOVE them. There won't be a bee on any other flowers in the yard, but there will be a party at the raspberry bushes. Interesting to read it is one of the pollinator-friendly plants in BC!
hail Satan y'all
- Barney Google
- Lord of the Board
- Posts: 3875
- Joined: Feb 6th, 2010, 9:10 am
Re: Bee hive
^^^I hear ya WhatWhat...there are a LOT of 'time wasters' up here on the farm.
Watchin' the long-legged baby colts play in the pasture, seeing the lambs and goat kids playing "King of the Manure Pile" with each other...spying on the ducklings as they take their first swim...but the BIGGEST "time waster" of all is following the diligent worker bees as they carefully sort through each petal, stamen and anther getting covered in pollen and then drunkenly buzzing back to the hive with their 'pants' full of pollen and tummy full of flowery goodness.
Beekeeping is a very grounding experience...puts the World in a whole new perspective.
Watchin' the long-legged baby colts play in the pasture, seeing the lambs and goat kids playing "King of the Manure Pile" with each other...spying on the ducklings as they take their first swim...but the BIGGEST "time waster" of all is following the diligent worker bees as they carefully sort through each petal, stamen and anther getting covered in pollen and then drunkenly buzzing back to the hive with their 'pants' full of pollen and tummy full of flowery goodness.
Beekeeping is a very grounding experience...puts the World in a whole new perspective.
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away and barefoot. ”
- Unknown
- Unknown
-
- Guru
- Posts: 5704
- Joined: Sep 4th, 2012, 12:21 pm
Re: Bee hive
Update : OP posted some pics for me and it turns out that bumblebee's and wasps have decided to both make a nest under the OP's porch. You can't capture or farm honey with bumblebees and a wasps nest is just a pain in the *bleep*.
It's a very common mistake that people make confusing bee's/wasps/bumblebee's etc.
These are what we have locally to deal with :
Honeybee
Bumblebee
Wasp
Bald Faced Hornet
It's a very common mistake that people make confusing bee's/wasps/bumblebee's etc.
These are what we have locally to deal with :
Honeybee
Bumblebee
Wasp
Bald Faced Hornet
The true business of people should be to go back to
school and think about whatever it was they were
thinking about before somebody came along and told
them they had to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
school and think about whatever it was they were
thinking about before somebody came along and told
them they had to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
- Barney Google
- Lord of the Board
- Posts: 3875
- Joined: Feb 6th, 2010, 9:10 am
Re: Bee hive
Thanks for the update...^^^
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away and barefoot. ”
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Lady tehMa
- A Peer of the Realm
- Posts: 21697
- Joined: Aug 2nd, 2005, 3:51 pm
Re: Bee hive
Were you able to get rid of the wasps? Can you relocate the bumbles for him? I like bumble bees. They may not produce honey, but they're a good pollinator.
I haven't failed until I quit.
-
- Guru
- Posts: 5704
- Joined: Sep 4th, 2012, 12:21 pm
Re: Bee hive
Bumblebee hives are too small to relocate and they nest inside structures. They do not behave like honeybees either.
My advice was to plug up the hole in the day when the bumblebees were mostly out flying. They will try to return and when they can't they will find a new home. Given there is a wasps nest apparently inside the space with the bee's it proves to be a very unique and unfortunate situation. Once the wasps nest got big enough it would have taken the bumblebees out anyways - both doomed from the start.
My advice was to plug up the hole in the day when the bumblebees were mostly out flying. They will try to return and when they can't they will find a new home. Given there is a wasps nest apparently inside the space with the bee's it proves to be a very unique and unfortunate situation. Once the wasps nest got big enough it would have taken the bumblebees out anyways - both doomed from the start.
The true business of people should be to go back to
school and think about whatever it was they were
thinking about before somebody came along and told
them they had to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
school and think about whatever it was they were
thinking about before somebody came along and told
them they had to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
- Lady tehMa
- A Peer of the Realm
- Posts: 21697
- Joined: Aug 2nd, 2005, 3:51 pm