Got Bee's? This is pretty neat, 60,000 of them!

[Rule3]

Salt Lake City. Seems a cabin owner found a bee hive in their rafters. Called in a bee keeper to remove them. Might be an all time record for the Beehive State

That there is a lot of Bee's!

Here is a link if I can do that?

60,000 bees removed from Utah cabin

 

[Lost Lake]

Great story and I'm glad to see the cabin owner didn't just kill the bees!

But why did he get charged to remove them? I would think the beekeeper would gladly PAY for that many bees.

At least the cabin owner got some of the honey! Ever have fresh honey right from the hive? Mmmmmmm.


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[mc5aw]

The collective buzz of 60,000 bees must have been something ...

 

[chief38]

At least he never had o run out and buy honey!

 

[Rule3]

The Bee Keepers around here used to remove them for free also, now they do not. Now most people just call pest control and they are killed They do not even check if they are true honey bees or partially cross breed Africanized.

 

[JWNathan]

When I was about 6 we had a huge swarm of bees move in to our attic. Don't know if it was no 60k but it was a lot. The hive was in a corner, about 4 feet tall and about 3 at the base tapering up and probably 2 feet thick.

Mom starts calling around and no one wants them, several people said give them some time and they'll just move on, we gave them several weeks and the hive just kept growing. We didn't have the money to have them removed, so unfortunately a couple bug bombs later the poor *******s were dead.

Now this was in late Aughust so it was hot, real hot, the hive started to melt after all the lil' cooling fans died, so my dad gets on some old coveralls grabs a flat point shovel, climbs up in the attic and starts to scrape it all up. There were two big trash cans worth of dead bees, honey comb and honey. Dad guessed about 3 hundred pounds.

Our house smelled like honey when ever it got hot for the next several years and my dad only recently started eating honey again, only took 23 years!
-Jesse

 

[Rule3]

Yes, you have to get all the honey and dead bees out or it rots and molds and is a nasty mess.

 

[Onomea]

There was a post here that I recall from years ago by a forum member who knew bees very well. Probably a beekeeper. He said that he communicated with them. It was a great post, which is why it has stuck in my mind.

I hope someone figures out what is causing the decline in the honeybee population before we run out of honeybees....

 

[jkc]

The collective buzz of 60,000 bees must have been something ...

Two weekends ago I camped under a canopy of mesquite trees, which, like lots of other desert plants, were blooming vigorously. I awoke around dawn, but as it was a little chilly, I lingered in my cozy sleeping bag, dozing and waking intermittently. I could hear bees buzzing overhead, but took little notice. I waited until the sun rose high enough to shine over the mountains on the opposite shore of the lake, and bring some direct, radiant heat to my campsite. That's just when the bee buzzing volume was turned up to "11". That radiant heat must have energized the bees, as well as me. The volume was amazing, and the sound was quite like that made by a very large electrical transformer --- a little unnerving! Anyone knowledgeable about this phenomenon?

 

[jkc]

Two weekends ago I camped under a canopy of mesquite trees, which, like lots of other desert plants, were blooming vigorously. I awoke around dawn, but as it was a little chilly, I lingered in my cozy sleeping bag, dozing and waking intermittently. I could hear bees buzzing overhead, but took little notice. I waited until the sun rose high enough to shine over the mountains on the opposite shore of the lake, and bring some direct, radiant heat to my campsite. That's just when the bee buzzing volume was turned up to "11". That radiant heat must have energized the bees, as well as me. The volume was amazing, and the sound was quite like that made by a very large electrical transformer --- a little unnerving! Anyone knowledgeable about this phenomenon?

A little nosing around on the net confirms insects' abilities to thermoregulate, and respond to environmental conditions as I'd described, and to my satisfaction, explains and confirms the sudden increase in activity, and thus the noise volume, of the bees, harvesting nectar and distributing mesquite pollen, at sunrise.

 

[El Bombardero]

They should have hired these guys

Hornets From Hell - National Geographic - YouTube

 

[dcxplant]

We have several flowering trees in our yard.

Right now from 9 to 12 noon the noise is so loud it's hard to talk while standing under the tree!

They are hitting the thousands of flowers opening up. I can stand still, and watch them do their thing, and I can even see the pollen on their legs.

They fly off all wobbly from carrying so much weight back to the hive; it's fascinating as all get-out to watch.