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Beekeeper, are you out there? As you know I love honey.
Almost every year I have a swarm of bees arrive on my place here in Los Angeles. It may be worth mentioning have lived in the same home over forty years. I love honey, so have nothing against bees.
Originally, looked in the Yellow Pages under bees and selected a firm that warmly indicated all bees would be quietly moved to a bee farm and live out their lives in pastorial splendor.
This year I elected to keep the bees and pay to have the honey harvested. Any Thoughts?
Question by Happy Myles. Uploaded on October 16, 2010
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Happy Miles,
Good for you, your doing the right thing either keeping the bees or moving them out to a proper place as my sister and I did four years ago on our parents place. I'm not a bee guy like Bee but I pay attention and there seems to be a plague on American honey bees and experts are working hard to figure out why. We can't lose them, what a catastrophe.
Myles, I meant to write. Sorry, jim
Jim, good to here from you.
Must confess, now have two hives.
My home sets on a couple of acres, we have lots of fruit trees, oranges, plums, plus blackberries, many others, plus flowers, so we seem to attract bees.
This summer we have had one swarm take up habitat in our parrot aviary and one in an olive tree. I decided they need all the help they can get, so I guess I am in the bee business
Happy Myles,
Sounds like your in the bee business whether you want to bee or not to bee.
I found two hives this year. I suspect that both are escaped from the blueberry fields up here where they bring in many hives to pollinate. I rarely see wild hives any more and I don't know if I could recognize the difference between the two. I remember "beelining" when I was a kid with a older guy who captured wild hives and kept them to produce honey that he sold at the local grocery store.
Happy,
Beekeeper is off the grid most weekends and will probably answer your Q Monday. He is hitting the road Tuesday with P.B. for the Colorado hunt.
Warm regards
Last month Wesley and I scouting for a deer stand near Wesley's home found a huge hive in an old abandoned farmhouse. The bees had two entrances about 12 ft apart in the side of the old house. We notified s locsl beekeeper.
Bee and Parshall should arrive here around noon Wednesday.
Ed J,
To bee or not to bee, that is the question
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The stings and barbs of outrageous bee hives...
(President of Shakespeare Club in high school. Hey, there were lots of girls)
Happy,
Sorry I missed your post. This is really Beekeeper posting on WAM's notebook from a Craig CO. Nothing wrong with that. I always recommend that folks leave natural hives alone if they are not in a place where they might become bothersome. In your case be very cautious as the LA area is solidly inhabited by African Bees. If you experience any agressive behavior I'd recommend having them removed. You may want to talk with your bee contractor about placing several managed colonies on your property to make honey and aid in pollination of your fruit trees. If you would ever like to discuss bee related "stuff" just drop me an email or give me a call.
Bee
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Happy Myles,
Sounds like your in the bee business whether you want to bee or not to bee.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The stings and barbs of outrageous bee hives...
(President of Shakespeare Club in high school. Hey, there were lots of girls)
Happy Miles,
Good for you, your doing the right thing either keeping the bees or moving them out to a proper place as my sister and I did four years ago on our parents place. I'm not a bee guy like Bee but I pay attention and there seems to be a plague on American honey bees and experts are working hard to figure out why. We can't lose them, what a catastrophe.
Myles, I meant to write. Sorry, jim
Jim, good to here from you.
Must confess, now have two hives.
My home sets on a couple of acres, we have lots of fruit trees, oranges, plums, plus blackberries, many others, plus flowers, so we seem to attract bees.
This summer we have had one swarm take up habitat in our parrot aviary and one in an olive tree. I decided they need all the help they can get, so I guess I am in the bee business
Happy,
Sorry I missed your post. This is really Beekeeper posting on WAM's notebook from a Craig CO. Nothing wrong with that. I always recommend that folks leave natural hives alone if they are not in a place where they might become bothersome. In your case be very cautious as the LA area is solidly inhabited by African Bees. If you experience any agressive behavior I'd recommend having them removed. You may want to talk with your bee contractor about placing several managed colonies on your property to make honey and aid in pollination of your fruit trees. If you would ever like to discuss bee related "stuff" just drop me an email or give me a call.
Bee
I found two hives this year. I suspect that both are escaped from the blueberry fields up here where they bring in many hives to pollinate. I rarely see wild hives any more and I don't know if I could recognize the difference between the two. I remember "beelining" when I was a kid with a older guy who captured wild hives and kept them to produce honey that he sold at the local grocery store.
Happy,
Beekeeper is off the grid most weekends and will probably answer your Q Monday. He is hitting the road Tuesday with P.B. for the Colorado hunt.
Warm regards
Last month Wesley and I scouting for a deer stand near Wesley's home found a huge hive in an old abandoned farmhouse. The bees had two entrances about 12 ft apart in the side of the old house. We notified s locsl beekeeper.
Bee and Parshall should arrive here around noon Wednesday.
Ed J,
To bee or not to bee, that is the question
Post an Answer