1:29 am
I got a call for help from my Father in Law on Thursday. He lost a tree in his back yard and needed some help cleaning it up. No problem, plus I'm a sucker for free wood. The city hauled a bunch of it off because it fell across the road. The tree was at least 40" at the base.
On Saturday, when I got there he said he had called a bee keeper because there was a big hive in the tree. We cut brush around the tree for a few hours until the bee keeper showed up. When he got there he said it was probably the biggest hive he had seen. He didn't have enough equipment to clean them out and would have to come back on Sunday.
Today he and a friend showed up. They figure they pulled 20,000 to 30,000 bees out of the tree. They were stoked to get the bees. We let them have them in exchange for some honey comb. 8) Anyone know what the going rate for bees is?
I loaded the truck (F350) and trailer as full as I could with wood and left half of it behind. LONG two days of work. Here some pics. And Larry...I waaaaay underestimated the job, but it was miserable working in the pouring rain dodging the remaining bees. 😀
4:37 am
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July 10, 2003
Offline Dang Pooh Bear 😯
I used to wheel a lot. . .
4:07 pm
January 7, 2003
Offline Pretty neat. Those bee keepers were probably stoked to get some bees as the US has been suffering in the last few years from the bee colonies collapsing. There is a growing fear that there could become a shortage of bees to pollinate crops.
5:03 pm
"Howdy" wrote: Pretty neat. Those bee keepers were probably stoked to get some bees as the US has been suffering in the last few years from the bee colonies collapsing. There is a growing fear that there could become a shortage of bees to pollinate crops.
They were very excited. There wasn't any discussion of us paying for them to take care of our bee problem. The first guy could hardly talk he just kept saying, "wow...wow...wow..." The second guy sounded like Huell Howser, drawl and all..."that's amazing". There were a bunch more in the stump, but I didn't get a picture of those.
Apparently these bees are even more valuable than the "farmed" bees because they seem to be more resistant to the whole colony collapse thing.
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