The bee keeper diaries

[Iowanian]

It's a great time to buy stock in eppy pens.

This thread is a repository for bee keepers or those interested.

A couple of years ago, a couple of friends an my brother started puttering with honey bees. I didn't buy off because, well, I've never been a big fan of bees or getting stung by them. Last summer I tagged along a couple of times to check their hives and to remove honey bees from a house, public building and an old garage.

I realized at the end of the summer when I was helping them process some, that it's actually pretty interesting, and fits into my expanding "grow my own" logic. I'm not full blown hippy but I see a lot of logic in the self sustaining food thing and I'm doing some of that too.

That said, this thread is about bees, honey bees, bee keeping and bee fighting war stories.

I'm taking the leap and plan to get 2-3 hives this spring and maybe build some bee swarm traps to make it cheaper or to make a few bucks.

Join me and I'll share the real life lessons of an ameture bee keeper. I'm sure I'm going to learn some things the hard way.

[wazu]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

Did they move the hives during the day? That really dumb if so because the foragers are out and confused.
They can live a few days if it’s warm, if it gets cool enough at night Nehru going to die.

If I were you, just before dark go see where they cluster…will be near where the hive was….and spray them with raid.

If they are just gonna live a few days I think I'd just wait them out.

[crayzkirk]

Originally Posted by wazu

If they are just gonna live a few days I think I'd just wait them out.

They did move them during the day, it's been a week since then. There's lots of flowers around for them to forage. They're fairly aggressive. Not very knowledgeable about bees; they don't live long without the hive and without a queen, can't make a new hive. Seems like they should be dead by now. Without a hive, what happens to the honey that's produced from them consuming pollen?

[Iowanian]

They’re just confused. If they cluster in the evening and they’re getting mean….spray them. They won’t last a long time. It they may get meaner as they get more desperate.

[crayzkirk]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

They’re just confused. If they cluster in the evening and they’re getting mean….spray them. They won’t last a long time. It they may get meaner as they get more desperate.

Thanks for the info...