Bees!

“Bees on rampage my butt!

How would you feel if your house was crushed with you in it?

Bees are our friends.”

“My butt didn't feel too good after stepping in their home....!!! There were plenty that escaped too!!!”

“I just came back in from gassing a few bumblebees with the Ortho. They were congregating in the empty lot next to the house.”

“Well, ya know what ya get when ya get a bee sting on top of a mosquito bite....”

“I'm a Beekeeper.
I keep Honey Bees.

Please don't call anything that flies and stings a 'Bee'.
Most are wasps, yellowjackets, deer flys, black flys, horse flys, ect.

Honey Bees only sting in self defence or defence of the hive. They die in the act of stinging. Their stingers pull away from their bodies and kill them when they sting.”

“SS he was hauling beehives, so I think it would be correct to call them bees. Probably honeybees, why else would he be hauling their hives?”

“I was directing my comment to crazygurl. Bees don't build their home in the ground very offen.
That's yellowjackets down here that build nests in the ground.”

“Yellowjackets and those black and white hornets are the two they you have to watch out for. They seem to sting unprovoked.”

“Stove..I didn't mean to offend you...I stand corrected...you are right..they were yellow jackets...I always thought they were bees. Don't get me wrong..I greatly respect bees, yellow jackets etc...in fact after my experience I have developed a nice little fear!

I know they were only protecting their home.

My comment was a bad attempt at humor.”

“crazygurl - You didn't offend me.
I was just trying to educate you about bees.
That kind of thing drives beekeepers crazy! ;-)”

“Yeah, if you want to act stupid sometime, throw a rock at a hornet's nest. They can follow the trajectory of the rock right back to you. At least that was my perception as a kid. Then there was the time I was using a weedeater and sliced right through the middle of a hornets nest laying on the ground. It was about the size of a softball, but it felt like 500 hornets came out of it.”

“when i was a kid, i came very close to dying from being attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets.
they were nesting in the ground.

i had a phobia of all the suckers until i saw that 3-2-1 contact show and they showed you can "pet" honey bees when they're busy doin' their thing on a flower.

took me a year to work up the courage but i did it.
it kinda 'cured' my phobia.

i still pet the honey bees once in a while.”

“"It wasn't until 3 a.m. Tuesday that a tow truck got in to haul out the tractor-trailer, leaving behind pools of honey from the overturned hives."



Sounds like honey bees to me.

SS, don't honeybees go into a frenzy when one of them gets crushed?”

“chili - Yep! Beekeepers try NOT to crush any bees when working the hives. The crushed bee has a smell that warns the other bees of danger. They don't go on "rampages" though.”

“Well, it sounds like they got pretty pissed at the truck driver.”

“Well, he deserved it! He should have driven better! ;-)

Bee Power Now!
Bee power Now!
Bee Power Now!”

“Maybe it was more of a riot than a rampage. ;-)”

“with all that shaking and crushing going on anything would be pissed off.

if they were wasps or yellow jackets the driver might be dead right now.”

“if they were wasps or yellow jackets the driver might be dead right now."
sacco
02:39:14 PM

Yea, those MoFos are bad to the bone! ;-)”

“Instead he just looks like the Puff Marshmallow Man.”

“Maybe it was more of a riot than a rampage. ;-)"
StoveStomper
02:38:47 PM



nah, they'd only riot if they were from L.A.”

“I betcha for the next few weeks the traction in that curve will bee wicked good!”

“LOL”

“I have a collection of short stories compiled by Hitchcock, the book's probably 35 years old now. Anyway, in one of the stories, a beekeeper and his wife can't have a child. Then one day a child is born. At the same time, the wife notices how "fuzzy" the man looks, and how much time he spends with his bees. The child is sickly, won't eat, etc. The woman is worn out from staying up late trying to get the baby to eat. The man convinces her to let him try. After a few days, the baby is healthy, gaining weight, but won't touch its bottle. The woman is confused, and concerned by the yellowish color her child has taken on, and how it's starting to get lots of hair on its body. Long story short, the guy has been giving the child a bee product called "Royal Jelly", which he was taking when the wife got pregnant. The child won't eat anything but that, and the story leads you to believe the woman is afraid her husband and child are turning into bees. I think the guy who wrote the story was high or something.”

“Sting Along with Itch.”

“It's those Japanese hornets that scare me
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html”

“Early in my beekeeping hobby, I had about a hundred or two bees stinging me before I got the hive I was robbing back together. Some of the stingers made it thru the beesuit I was wearing!
Scared the crap out of me. I learned to be way more gentle with the hive boxes after that.

This year hasn't been a good year for honey. I've only gotten about half of what I did last year at this date.”

“so hows it end?

did they turn into bees ?

i love old hitchCOCK - oops sorry, wrong thread.”

“oh dam. that sounded pretty gay.”

“stomper, don't you gotta smoke'm up ?”

“It just kind of ends with her realization that her family is being transformed into bees. I left out important details, I'm sure. I haven't read the book in 10 years, at least.”

“sacco - You don't need smoke if you know what you are doing.
Be gentle, don't crush any bees, don't be knocking boxes together, etc....”

“Early in my beekeeping hobby, I had about a hundred or two bees stinging me before I got the hive I was robbing back together. Some of the stingers made it thru the beesuit I was wearing!


"sacco - You don't need smoke if you know what you are doing.
Be gentle, don't crush any bees, don't be knocking boxes together, etc...."
StoveStomper
02:53:27 PM




your last two posts. LOL (j/k)”

“SS
Cool!
Dude you gotta try to make it to the Ithaca trip!!!”

“Sacco
Pleeez, Can yoU NoT Bug me man!”

“That canyon it happened in is narrow and the wreckage blocked evrything. I guess it was a real mess with the honey all over the place.

Then the bears had to butt in and nobody could get anything done!

”

“sacco - Note the "early in my hobby" line. LOL
I have learned a few things since then.”

“there's a guy down the street from me who has an apple orchard.

also has bees for the apple trees, and collects the honey. it's dam good $hit.

i like his cider, the honey and especially the honeycomb slices he sells.

the honeycombs are like chewy-gooey honey wax candy/gum.”

“Well that's kewl!
Nice to see another beekeeper kinda on TT.
I like the wild colors she used on her new hives.”

“You're a beekeeper, SS? I think the hives were delivered with the bees? They Be Florida Bees, I believe.”

“I've always wondered why the hives were white.

Also, what steps take place from harvesting the honey to bottling?”

“The hives are white down here to help keep them cooler in the hot summer sun.

Dani's bees were shipped in the containers shown with the Queen in the little bitty Queen box. Her colored hives look brand new with unused wired wax foundation for the new bees to build comb on.

I've bought bees like that before. You place the Queen in her little box inside the new hive and then pour and shake the 2 or three pounds of worker bees into the hive. They will go to the Queen and release her by eating a candy filled plug on the side of her little box. They then start making comb for the Queen to lay 1000s of eggs in.

I keep my harvesting simple. I remove the full frames of honey one by one and brush any bees off. Take the full frames of honey inside and cut the combs away from the frames, crush them up, and hang them in a clean clothsack to drip. Takes about a day for all the honey to drip out.”

“nm. LOL!
last edited: 4/17/06 6:33:43 PM”

“So that's all there is to it? I assumed you had to boil it or process it somehow. How interesting!”

“Ruby, I do sometimes heat the raw honey up to 150 degrees for about 10 minutes before pouring it into jars. This will help keep the honey from turning into sugar crystals while being stored.
Most people want completely natural honey (like me) so most of the time I just pour the raw honey straight into a jar.
last edited: 4/18/06 9:01:19 AM”

“I'm not sure, but I don't think the very young should eat "unprocessed" honey.”

“Same thing as Peanut Butter, bear.
One in a thousand kids have a reaction.”

“When my boys were young, the pediatrician told me no honey at all in any form until they were 2 or 3. After that, it was no problem.”