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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REPRINT ARTICLE ARCHIVES => Topic started by: Understudy on January 13, 2008, 02:30:54 am

Title: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: Understudy on January 13, 2008, 02:30:54 am: http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080112_tnt_bees.17603cec.html (http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080112_tnt_bees.17603cec.html)

450 lbs of honey?

Someone needs to put those bees in a hive box.

Sincerely,
Brendhan
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: Jerrymac on January 13, 2008, 11:27:06 am: Hey I know. Let's do a lot of banging and make them really mad.

Also after seeing that, I will stick with my circular saw.

Now I got to go find Harris County :roll:
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: JP on January 13, 2008, 11:39:27 am: Couldn't load the video, tried and re-tried. Sounds like that house needs to be condemned.

Sincerely, JP
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: annette on January 13, 2008, 02:15:44 pm: Why didn't they smoke them?? And why did they say the honey smelled bad?? Maybe it was the house that smelled bad. It was very crude and irresponsible. Why did they not call a beekeeper??? I felt so sad for the bees.

Annette
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: Jerrymac on January 13, 2008, 03:03:11 pm: In the article it mentioned dead animals found in the house. That is where the smell came from. These were pest control people. just out to make a buck.
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: Scadsobees on January 14, 2008, 09:44:25 am: Quote from: annette on January 13, 2008, 02:15:44 pm
Why didn't they smoke them?? And why did they say the honey smelled bad?? Maybe it was the house that smelled bad. It was very crude and irresponsible. Why did they not call a beekeeper??? I felt so sad for the bees.

Annette

I didn't watch the video, but in my experience, honey that is from old combs with pollen will sometimes smell funky. Dead animals would smell worse, though.

Rick
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: Kathyp on January 14, 2008, 11:28:26 am: didn't those bees seem pretty aggressive right from the start? just pulling off a board shouldn't have been enough to have them pinging and stinging? not sure i'd have tried to take them home!
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: Jerrymac on January 14, 2008, 11:48:49 am: They started the banging right from the start. And boards popping sure doesn't help.
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: JP on January 14, 2008, 01:42:22 pm: kathy, for some reason I could't get the video to load but to respond to your question, just pulling boards off is indeed enough to get a hive riled up. A lot of time you will have comb that is attached to the boards, and when you pull them off, you are breaking comb, which the bees do not like. Plus in my experience, older hives, say 3 yrs or older can be a bit testy. Seems the longer they've been there the more defensive they can be.

Sincerely, JP
Title: Re: Jerrymac may have been busy. ;)
Post by: Understudy on January 14, 2008, 01:52:47 pm: If you don't smoke bees, pulling off boards is more than enough to upset them. If some of the comb breaks when you pull it off you can be sure they will be upset.

Sincerely,
Brendhan