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Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by Freak_NL » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 10:35 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #7

This gets a solid "nope" from me, and probably everyone else who has a memory of a very painful sting in their past.

I don't hate bees. At all. But the aggregated buzzing sound of a lot of tiny buzzy insects means one thing to me as homeowner: wasps found ingress and a nest was built somewhere in your house. It is a sound I do not want to hear anywhere near my house, because you can't let them be, and getting rid of them is a damn stupid chore which more often than not involves dismantling part of the house to even get at them. I did this once, and that was enough (didn't get stung though).

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by paranoidrobot » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 10:40 AM UTC

If the idea of inside /obervation bee hives interests you, you might enjoy the Youtube channel run by Frederick Dunn. He has an observation hive built into the wall of his recording studio.

It's quite a relaxing channel to watch.

https://youtube.com/@FrederickDunn

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by teddyh » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 10:47 AM UTC

dumbmrblah wrote: post #3

This year I put a beehive in my backyard. I can sit for hours (not really, minutes more likely) just staring at them working, going in and out of the hive. Maybe in a year or two I'll actually get honey.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by teddyh » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 10:49 AM UTC

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #8

userbinator wrote: post #7

This gets a solid "nope" from me, and probably everyone else who has a memory of a very painful sting in their past.

Yeah, I have no particular animus towards bees but they terrify me. Without a doubt the thing I'm most afraid of on this earth. I would be a nervous wreck if I had this in my home.

You might secretly be an elephant.

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by hasbot » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 12:05 PM UTC

schwartzworld wrote: post #13

gorfian_robot wrote: post #10

hmm. bee's can easily cause a lot of damage inside your walls. not sure how this is avoided.

If the space is sealed, how would they get into the walls?

Carpenter bees tunnel into wood.

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by b112 » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 12:23 PM UTC

danielbln wrote: post #48

snickerbockers wrote: post #37

How did the ancients come to view beehives as a sign of prosperity? Did they actually understand that bees play a necessary role in plant reproduction cycles?

Honey is yummy, and very sweet. Not something that's easily come by in the days of yore. Maybe that's enough to give it a special status, a golden extremely tasty goop that's protected by a bunch of spicy yellow flies.

Indeed! As zombo.com says, honey bees can do anything. Anything at all!

https://zombo.com

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by maxglute » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 12:39 PM UTC

Neat, reminds me of when I all I wanted was a interior antfarm wall after playing too much sim ants. Cursory research and bummed antfarms aren't nearly as cool in real life.

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by fhdkweig » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 12:43 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #51

userbinator wrote: post #7

This gets a solid "nope" from me, and probably everyone else who has a memory of a very painful sting in their past.

I don't hate bees. At all. But the aggregated buzzing sound of a lot of tiny buzzy insects means one thing to me as homeowner: wasps found ingress and a nest was built somewhere in your house . It is a sound I do not want to hear anywhere near my house, because you can't let them be, and getting rid of them is a damn stupid chore which more often than not involves dismantling part of the house to even get at them. I…

And you can't just poison them either. It leaves a wall full of honey that the cockroaches will find and feast for months or years. The whole hive has to be completely physically removed.

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by loa_in_ » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 12:44 PM UTC

Could Stonehenge be a beekeeping prospect?

Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by giantg2 » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 1:27 PM UTC

55555 wrote: post #31

ajdude wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my state, routine inspections are required by a State Apiarist: > All honeybee colonies must be registered and inspected for diseases, mites, and Africanized bees. Surveys are conducted for Africanized bees along Delaware’s coastal anchorages and in the Ports of Wilmington and Delaware City. By law, the State Apiarist and state bee inspectors may enter any public or private premises and have access to and from all…

My brain is so rotted from the news that I can’t read this and not think it’s some sort of bee racism. Is this related to averting nationwide colony collapse? Seems like government overreach to my uninformed self.

The main reason for inspection laws is to control American Foul Brood. It's very destructive and since bees travel miles, it can spread similar to a public health outbreak. Africanized bees are only a concern in some area, but can be a threat to human life. The fact that Delaware wants to inspect for them does seem to be overreach as their range seems to be stalled much further west for unknown reasons. The inclusion of mite inspections seems like overreach as there are no therapies to completely eliminate them and they are already in every hive.