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A 2 degree tolerance allows the bee's to survive than a wasp which enters the hive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNroEwFxh6I&t=1s
Cue the typical "Nature is Healing" especially because pollinators are under massive pressure due to pesticides and herbicides. Having said that, I'm glad they called a good beekeper who was able to rescue the hive. Also, I've heard that if you have a bee infestation in your attic for example, not to call an exterminator, but to call a beekeeper. Often these new hives are valuable to hobbyists and they are happy to c…
Reminds me of when a honeybee swarm occupied the parking lot behind our building and eventually mostly settled on a bike rack (this also happens to be the building of the downtown Palo Alto Philz). As a beekeeper, I was so excited that I emailed our head of ops and physical security in all caps asking if I could have them. After he called me to confirm that I wasn't trolling, he graciously offered to stand guard to k…
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Carpenter bees are awesome, they pollinate flowers (so we can have fruits in our backyard) and have an awesome short life of minding their own business.
They also have a voracious appetite for Georgia Pine which happens to be the material my inlaws summer home is made from. Not to be outdone, woodpeckers also enjoy eating a carpenter bee and their babies, so we end up with holes from the carpenter bees along with a string of holes made by woodpeckers in search of said bees. Im not really too worried about being stung by them, and I agree they generally dont want to m…
They were always busy workers, but used too many buzzwords. The boss was too gossipy, a real queen bee type. They were pretty good at crosspollinating ideas, but the cubicles felt like cells. They liked to keep the workers in the dark most of the time. They did all feel like members of one big family, though. I know, you're going to downvote me. I have no regrets.
Despite being just a few feet above a sidewalk, they didn't harm anyone.
A beautiful sight, first time I've ever seen a peaceful swarm up close, hope it's not the last.
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What about carpenter bees? I've seen a lot of those around lately and have been thinking about checking the roof. Do they have the same value as honey bees?
Carpenter bees are awesome, they pollinate flowers (so we can have fruits in our backyard) and have an awesome short life of minding their own business.
I was amazed to see that the male kept returning to the same spot for what seemed like weeks looking for its partner in the now relocated piece of driftwood. I naively had expected it to track down the piece of driftwood just 40 ft away in the front yard, and it was kind of heartbreaking to see it searching for it in desperation.
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It seems like it got 15 upvotes, so it might have been worth it.
This isn't reddit who cares about upvotes here?
Points help you calibrate your own behaviour to be more helpful to others in this community.
Whatever helpful means in a context.
In this case it was a funny comment well received by the community.
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Finding a hive that can survive the winter can be a multi-year event (at least for me it was). The hive which ended up surviving came from a captured swarm
What was the cause of the deaths? Here is usually varroa - I’m just contemplating getting my autumn treatments in, as the little horrors are actually visible on frames now. I hate them so much.