Hey guys; nothing beats a free colony of Bees for a Beekeeper. Caught this one in my back yard.
Capturing a Swarm of Bees.
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WAY COOL!!! Free honey.
Had a friend that had bees, I sure do miss that honey. First time he had me help with getting the honey it put me on edge just a little!!! HONEY HONEY!!! Good stuff!!
Had a friend that had bees, I sure do miss that honey. First time he had me help with getting the honey it put me on edge just a little!!! HONEY HONEY!!! Good stuff!!
The box we put them in is a nucleus hive. they will stay in there for a few months and will then be transferred into a full size hive. That step is very easy; just lift the frames out of this box and put them into the hive. They were taken about 20 miles away where there are alfalfa fields in bloom.
There were about 40,000 bees in this swarm and most of them appeared to be very young bees so it will rapidly build a full strength colony. I think this swarm came from one of my hives because they are doing very well and had to expand. I tried to get the camera right into the bees so you could get a little feel of what it is like to have them flying all around you. It is awesome.
There were about 40,000 bees in this swarm and most of them appeared to be very young bees so it will rapidly build a full strength colony. I think this swarm came from one of my hives because they are doing very well and had to expand. I tried to get the camera right into the bees so you could get a little feel of what it is like to have them flying all around you. It is awesome.
That's cool, but gives me the heeby jeebies
I actually got the pleasure of working with some of those last week. Only got three stings on my head before I could veil up. they were a little moody. The Africanized bees are the absolute best at honey production far exceeding the production of other species. This is the very reason they were brought to the Americas in the first place. Few people know there were Africanized bees in the southern United States about twenty years before they were released in Brazil.
h-man, you do cool stuff!
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Yowzers... everything you see on TV about 'em is another layer of horror, like "The Birds" of old.
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That was fascinating, love that stuff!
That is really cool histopicker. I bought a bee suit a couple years ago to try to get rid of some hornets that took over my carport. It still gives me the creeps to be that close to thousands of critters that all want to do me harm.
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Histo can't respond, he's waiting for the swelling to go down so he can see the keyboard again.
Back in the day the guy I helped out once in awhile would charge 25 for people to come to his place with arthritis in their hands and he would sting the people in the knuckles. They would show up with a doctors note stating they were not allergic to bee stings and he would go get a couple and use these padded forceps he made up and give them one or two stings in the ole hand!! OUCH OUCH!!!
I have heard that about arthritis and bee stings, but I am highly allergic to bee sting...........pain.
They call it Apitherapy. There is no scientific evidence that it works. I received no stings with this swarm, they are very docile when swarming as they have nothing to protect. I remove Hornets with a rolled up burning newspaper. Their wings melt very rapidly so they fall to the ground. Kinda like a chopper with no rotors!!
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Poor Chopperdrvr. Pretty soon he's gonna start feelin' unloved 'round here.
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Histo's alive! Whew, we were worried about you.