Posted on 04/05/2019 5:50:20 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Bee removal is a common practice for many bee owners. Well, it’s about to become illegal in Texas if an Irving lawmaker has her way. When a local bee keeper gets a call concerning a swarm or hive in a nearby residence or tree, they load up and ride to the rescue. They arrive and set up their equipment and carefully bring the bees home to a new location where they can grow and thrive.
However, new legislation being filed in Texas would prevent most bee keepers from performing this valuable service unless they first jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops and red tape. What was once a sometimes cheap or free service from local bee keepers looking to expand their hives or preserve local bee populations for the benefit of a community, will turn into an expensive fee for whomever calls needing a bee removal.
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We keep Russian and Italian bee's. Lost our bee's over the transition from winter to spring. Too much moisture nailed our hives. The last batch we received and have now homed are a real treat. We have a chill queen which makes the hive very easy to work with. Have a couple more nukes coming this weekend and are hoping for more of the same..
At any rate, be safe out there and remember, unless you are messing with a hive, bee's could care less about us humans. Please don't kill them. ;)
Swarm traps out yesterday. Sloppy with old comb and dripping with honey. I will throw in some Swarm Commander when it shows up in a day or 2.
Bees are great! It’s wasps and hornets that are the bad guys. They’re very aggressive.
Do you have a ‘Bee PING’ list going yet? There are more BeeFreepers than seem to want to admit it.(?)
I stopped keeping bees in the mid 80s due to mites.
I still keep up on the issues though.
I live in hollywood florida so we honey production all year.
Wild swarms here are destroyed as they fear the killer bees.
I told them, if they’re killers, you won’t be able to exit your car.
I work with the dept. of Ag. and try to get a local beekeeper access to the swarm before they’re destroyed. Sometimes I get lucky some not
I despise small hive beetles. Pretty darn, sure one of my collapsed colonies earlier this year was due to those varmints. The other was either mites, or a virus. Uncertain. Neither starved. That’s for sure. Plenty of stores.
As with most pests, those horrid little monsters originated elsewhere (Africa). Naturally...let’s import honey bees all over the place and spread whatever parasites they have. So now they are here.
Some say they are not a major pest, but I know better. They cause a mess.
Oh yeah.......she’s fugly.
“Someone check the water.”
Check the surnames.
“He HAD to have been beat up every day at school”
A tradition that should have been followed.
Russian honey bees. I understand they are a bit more aggressive, but winter well. The only one I ever saw was a queen, and she was pretty much solid black. What do yours look like? I’ve considered purchasing a queen for a split, but they are $$$$$.
Ohh...I never put honey in a swarm trap. Attracts wasps and mice too. BUT..if it’s worked for you in the past why not? I use lemongrass oil. they seem to like that ok.
Any cure for the small hive borers?
“I take it you went to the ER for the anaphylactic shock?“
I did indeed.
“ I was one of those people that thought I was allergic, turns out I am just overly sensitive; well, was. Its decreased quite a bit since I became a bee keeper.”
My situation is the opposite. The more times I was stung the worse the reactions became. I went from small blisters and itching to full blown anaphylactic shock. So I’m not willing to test the theory. LOL.
“At any rate, be safe out there and remember, unless you are messing with a hive, bee’s could care less about us humans.”
I have no intentions to mess with them. Honey bees are very beneficial creatures and I love me some honey. I have a friend who keeps bees and every year I get 12 pounds or so of his product to make mead. He keeps me in honey and I keep him in mead. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship. :-).
Enjoy your day.
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I’ve found that getting the stinger out by scrapping it out with a knife or card credit reduces the amount of venom injected. I also put some tobacco on the affected area quickly. This seems to neutralize the poison to some extent. I also will bandaid an aspirin directly on the sting site as this thins out the blood and sucks the poison out.
Of course when you’re heavy into robbing the hives it’s kinda hard to stop for first aid.
Go back in time and do not allow the bees to be imported from Africa. Sadly, that’s all I can say about that.
Lucrative barter going on between beeks and citizens......Big gubmnt cant have that happening without a HUGE piece of the pie, fines for non-compliance and JackBoots without veils or gloves raiding your bee yard.
Its a free for all for a day or 2 but everyone knows where its at. Havent seen any yellowjackets yet but the bees are buzzing. My package delivers has fell thru so I’m shooting from the hip.
I have 2 quarts of goldenrod honey in reserve that the wife doesnt know about, so I gotta get something going!
S.S.S. (spray,spray,spray)
Just pull her heart plug.
See post #63.
That works.
I've seen that work.
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