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The bees are pretty busy today....PIC
William81
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For years we have had a swarm of bees living in a hollow spot in one of our trees. I like having them around and have tried hard to keep them. When it is hot out, we make sure there is water in the fountain and bird baths. On days like today, they are coming down in groups all day long and getting water....They are certainly interesting to watch. (Even to a guy that is allergic to bee stings).....Thankfully I have a couple zoom lenses so I can stand back and still get a decent shot of them....
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I bet they feel as if they live at a buffet with your crops to feed them.
I am happy to have them....they are welcome to any and all of my place as they need it... !!!!! Just please don't sting the landlord !!
Honeys and bumbles are always welcome. Yellow jackets, hornets and wasps get the spray...
I love honey bees and bumble bees. They are just wonderful critters. But all the yellow jackets, bald faced hornets and wasps can die a painful death a thousand times over.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I have had no reason to kill any of them as long as they don't nest on the house.
...Honey Bees are pretty cool, while I dont care for Yellow Jackets, Bumble Bees etc...been stung too many times by those little bastages...honey bees only sting once while those other suckers can sting a you bunch of times...got stung 9 times on my face once by yellow jackets...
...I was on a roof years ago and noticed a honey bee fly by...not too long afterwards, another flew by and went the same way...I started watching as one after another flew by on the same flight path....around this, over that...following the EXACT path as the bee that had just flown by in front, amazing!...I guess they leave some type of scent trail, even in the air, and others can pick up on that...there must have been a 100 fly by that way...you could see on their back legs(?) they each had a big yellow fuzzy ball, guessing it was a pollen of some sort...
Fellow that worked for me had a few honey bees.
He would hunt bee trees for a hobby.
Best method to find them was to find a leaky waste plumbing pipe or make make his own with corn cobs and pee. Bees would come to it for a drink of something they needed in their diet.
He would catch one and put a little flour on it back, watch which way it went then wait for it's return.
By doing this he would figure out which way and how far he need to travel before looking seriously for the tree. He knew how long the bee was gone and how fast they flew. He did find several trees with bees.
"Best method to find them was to find a leaky waste plumbing pipe or make make his own with corn cobs and pee. Bees would come to it for a drink of something they needed in their diet."
...Dang, 😯...that kinda killed my notion that bees were clean little critters...
Bee's around here seem to be alcoholics! I have to put something over my beer can if I leave it sit for even a single moment! 😲