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An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Re: An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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Post by hinkley »

ajdude wrote: post #20
wredcoll wrote: post #18

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Wait, what? Inspected by whom? How often? Who requires this??

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…

Which is sort of dumb because it turns out Africanized bees have better resistance to varroa mites. They’ve cross bred with the locals as they’ve come north and the majority of them have mellowed out considerably.

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Post by maxglute »

Loughla wrote: post #69
maxglute wrote: post #57

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.

Sim ant also made me get an ant farm. That's hilarious. I went out and dug up a big black and nest to find the queen and put her and some workers in my farm. Apparently that caused some kind of peasant revolt, because they killed her the first day. 0/10 experience for young me. Luckily Sim Copter didn't have the same effect on me.

I did some playground digging as well! Bailed after getting nasty pinky bite and realized housing an army of them in an elmer glue ant farm crafted by 10 year old me was bad idea.

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Post by Sabinus »

Lio wrote: post #79
maxglute wrote: post #57

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.

> Cursory research and bummed antfarms aren't nearly as cool in real life. For the uninitiated, what is a "bummed antfarm"?

I took it to mean it was borrowed/a hand me down/ otherwise scrounged.

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Post by cryptonector »

giantg2 wrote: post #61
cryptonector wrote: post #39

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In Texas if you want to use bees for ag exemptions (property tax breaks), you need to show that you have active beehives, but no inspections take place. In other rather stupid states you have to have your hives inspected because oh-no-it's-varroa!

This is incorrect. TX has an aviary inspector whose purpose is to check for infectious diseases. As in most states, varroa is not considered a concern since it can't be fully eliminated.

But they don't get to come into your property, unannounced, without a warrant, to do an inspection. In fact, they can only inspect your hives if you ask them to. See Texas Agriculture Code § 131.044.

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Post by ikr678 »

cryptonector wrote: post #40
55555 wrote: post #31

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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.

It's state control for the sake of control. Beekeepers have varroa under control. But the state loves to be able to declare medical emergencies for animals (cull all the chickens!!), including beehives.

It's not control for the sake of control, it's control for the sake of agricultural economy.

Orange production in florida is on the way out, thanks to citrus greening from an introduced pest.

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Post by AngryData »

quantadev wrote: post #29
AngryData wrote: post #27

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I would think that was mostly because of the relation bees have to honey and all the wonderful imagery and thoughts people have about honey. But there is also a lot of general cultural tradition in bee keeping going back atleast 5,000 years.

wow. I didn't know it went back that far, but it makes sense mankind discovered hives are basically a free sugar factory that long ago!!

There is some evidence of it going farther back to 9,000 years, essentially trying to harvest wild bee honey without killing the bees themselves, however 5,000 years is generally considered the time period when honey bees first became domesticated and we were actively managing and colonizing multiple artificial hives.

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Post by quantadev »

AngryData wrote: post #96
quantadev wrote: post #29

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wow. I didn't know it went back that far, but it makes sense mankind discovered hives are basically a free sugar factory that long ago!!

There is some evidence of it going farther back to 9,000 years, essentially trying to harvest wild bee honey without killing the bees themselves, however 5,000 years is generally considered the time period when honey bees first became domesticated and we were actively managing and colonizing multiple artificial hives.

I mean it was probably easier 250,000 years ago for primates to steal some honey, because we still had our long body hair back then I think, so that's more protection from bee stings.

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Post by cafard »

A tech writer I worked with many years ago said that once during his adolescence he heard a humming from the exterior wall of his bedroom. This proved to be a beehive between the siding and the installation. He found that a bit creepy.

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Post by rcxdude »

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?

Yes. The ancient egyptians kept a lot of bees and moved the hives up and down the Nile with the seasons to help pollenate crops.

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Post by Lio »

evan_ wrote: post #80
Lio wrote: post #79

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> Cursory research and bummed antfarms aren't nearly as cool in real life. For the uninitiated, what is a "bummed antfarm"?

Bummed meaning disappointed. They’re disappointed that ant forms aren’t nearly as cool etc.

Aha! Thank you.
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