Anyone keep Bees?

WARRIORWELDING said:
Been stupidly busy. Honey harvest hurt by delayed gathering of the nectar from the "GODS".

Should have pulled supers a month ago. Little girls ate good and reduced my poundage. Well less I have to feed due to all this dry hot weather.

Worked all day yesterday and started early. Uncapped an extracted our whole harvest after pulling supers before lunch.

2 am we have about 7 five galloon buckets of spring honey.

Now to get those wet supers cleaned up by the bees and reset for fall/ winter prep and treat for pest.
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Put me down for a quart!
 
awheelterd said:
You ever tried shipping any?
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Nope. Bubble wrap and a good box? What location?

Edit: we do put some in plastic containers for our pound size.
 
I need more bees. 2024 Honey crop is sold out for us. Been a good year.
Winter bees are looking decent. Few more months of hard weather and keeping my fingers crossed for next year. Late warmth and these cold snaps have been hard on food stores. This will be the first year I have to use emergency feed instead of it being just a preventative measure.
Getting ready to hit them again with some patties of fondant to prevent starvation. All that honey sales is gonna go back in the hives as food. 😂
 
wasn't planning on having bees again this year... and still might hold off. but cleaning out some storage at work i found 2 flow hives. No one knows who they belong to and the boxes have never been opened. Told me to trash them or take them home.... so in the truck they went
 
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Could have worse addictions I guess.
 
If anyone is thinking of keeping bees, just know you will get stung. And sometimes it may be on the eyelid when you are just watching someone else keep bees :D
 

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BigClay said:
If anyone is thinking of keeping bees, just know you will get stung. And sometimes it may be on the eyelid when you are just watching someone else keep bees :D
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Be prepared to go to urgent care if you have an anaphylactic reaction and feel your throat start closing up, even if you’re not allergic. Happened to me with a yellow jacket on the ear. Been stung many times before and after that moment without issue, but that one tried to kill me.
 
BigClay said:
If anyone is thinking of keeping bees, just know you will get stung. And sometimes it may be on the eyelid when you are just watching someone else keep bees :D
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My wife says: "we sent them home and disciplined them accordingly!"
Man I hate you got hit. I guess large figures in dark clothing looming next door was a bad recipe.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
My wife says: "we sent them home and disciplined them accordingly!"
Man I hate you got hit. I guess large figures in dark clothing looming next door was a bad recipe.
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LOL

It is all good, I learned a lesson on clothing color, and that I am not allergic to stings in the face so a win win in my book!
 
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No arthritis for a few days after the swelling goes down! Caught two swarms last night one was to darn big for my container. They rained down on my hand. Next time I'll wear gloves, glad I had my view on.
 
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Round four pulled before 9:30. Being a bee keeper is like getting square bales of hay dodging yellow jackets. Time for a shower cool down and swimming trunks. Bee room is kept at 80-85 degrees. Flip flops, hydration, and light clothes. At least it's not a tin covered barn!
 
Friend had a couple hives blown over and open tonigh by a storm. He got a big straight line blast on camera.

He is out of town so I got the call for help.

Exciting, dark, fumbling with pissed off bees. I cant imagine working a tractor trailer wreck with hundres of boxes.

Learned uniform grade cotton blend Carhartts are a very poor choice of attire. ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch....oh the hell with it lets get this done.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
not good..they keep coming back too. Electric fence helps, death or relocation fixes it.
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We have several of them in the woods on our road, nobody ever sees them out, but we get them on camera frequently.

His hives are in a fairly remote area on his land. They used to have to cross a creek and climb up a steep hillside to access it prior to me buying my property. Now that I have my driveway built, they are able to drive to the top side of their property. But no power on their property and my closest power source to feed an electric fence is probably 1500-2000 feet away.

They live about 20 minutes away, I told him to call me if Yogi trips the camera again.
 
YotaOnRocks said:
We have several of them in the woods on our road, nobody ever sees them out, but we get them on camera frequently.

His hives are in a fairly remote area on his land. They used to have to cross a creek and climb up a steep hillside to access it prior to me buying my property. Now that I have my driveway built, they are able to drive to the top side of their property. But no power on their property and my closest power source to feed an electric fence is probably 1500-2000 feet away.

They live about 20 minutes away, I told him to call me if Yogi trips the camera again.
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Solar, battery back up. 🐻 want the protein first. Larva. Yeah they like the sweet stuff too but like us to much sugar hits them too. Sad thing is they drag off and destroy everything. I'll be darn surprised if you dont see it again.
 
Did your friend move all his hives? Or did the critters already destroy that many?
 
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