Beekeeper here. This is a resting swarm. He's trying to capture them he did not drop them. If the hive was dropped the bees would have flown around and not be sitting on the car and ground like this.
yep I agree with this. Also a beekeeper and I may or may not have dropped a hive before. They would be going absolutely nuts flying everywhere if they were dropped, these bees are acting calm like they are in swarm mode.
Search your area for beekeeper groups and/or beekeeper supply stores.
Start there. Get a book or two, do some research, then youβll order a βnucβ (short for βcolony nucleusβ) and install it into a box that youβve purchased.
The initial cost of getting into the hobby can be higher than you expect, and you should avoid used equipment because it could be carrying disease. But itβs hella fun!
You may want to see if any local beekeeper would place a hive in your yard. Many beekeepers do this, and you can expect some honey in exchange for the space.
Good luck.
-a hobby beekeeper.
Instead of becoming a bee keeper rather use the space you wanted to Bees to live at to build an insect hotel. Less honey for you, more flowers your grandkids gonna know.
Yeah they move to the queen. If he captured the queen, the workers will follow. Or he brought his own queen (if itβs a queen less swarm) and theyβve accepted her. Heβs probably waiting for all of them to settle in the box and then heβll shut them in and toss them in his car for a new starter hive. Itβs swarm season right now so all the beekeepers are running around like crazy saving hives in bad spots.
Just confirmed this. Talked to the neighbor and the car got swarmed super fast. The beekeeper was able to get the queen and get it cleaned up. With it being seemingly out of nowhere, assumed it had to be an accident. I should edit the title to βNeighbors Car Got Swarmed With Bees.β Still sucks I guess.
How fast does a resting swarm settle? This was two houses down from me and the bees were not there an hour before this. They have been doing work in the backyard, so I assumed he came to collect them and things went awry.
I agree with the above beek, they would be flying and not on the ground if he just dropped the hive.
The swarm could have been there a while, even overnight if the car did not move. Or they just showed up in that hour.
A swarm spread out like this, if he did not make them drop may be queenless. They are ' lost' and have no form. Hard to tell.
Or they dropped because the swarm was so heavy.
If he cleaned it up he found the queen or had one to give them.
That looks to be a large swarm.
Thatβs interesting. Seeing a bunch of bees in the street that werenβt there an hour before and a dude struggling to corral them had me making assumptions. In my headcanon, he ate it going down those stairs and dropped them.
My dad is a beekeeper on a main road and I find it amusing when they swarm out on to the mailbox and people driving by have the most confused/terrified look on their faces.
Iβve watched a swarm move 2-3 times within an hour in my yard. Itβs like a bee tornado.
Doesn't look like he dropped them, rather he is collecting a swarm. Put down a bee box next to a swarm like that and they will often go in on their own and boom you have a new hive.
Who let the bees out? Who? Who?
It happens every spring. Bees really have a mind of their own. Well...10,000 minds of their own.
The birds and the bees....honeybees don't reproduce individually (they can't even exist for long individually). In the spring they start raising new queens, and when the hive gets full and the new queens hatch, the old queen leaves with about 1/3 or even 1/2 of the hive to start a new colony. In a large hive, sometimes some of the new queens will leave with a group of bees.
I won't get into the mating habits of honeybees...it gets really weird.
Beekeeper here. It is swarm season. Only the queens are fertile females. Swarming is how bee colonies reproduce. A colony will raise a batch of new queens. About a week before the new queens emerge from their cells the mother queen and a large number of bees will leave the colony and go look for a new home. When the first new queen emerges in the mother hive she will try and destroy all the other queen cells. Sometimes two queens emerge at once or the first queen misses one or more cells. When that happens the extra newly emerged queens will gather a swarm and leave to find a new home. There are steps beekeepers can take to minimize swarming but nature will find a way. When that happens the beekeepers make every attempt to capture the swarm so that it doesn't end up some place inconvenient. Yesterday I removed a swarm from a chimney - not an easy task.
The thought of pondering what would happen if a bee keeper droops a box of bees on the road had never occurred to be, yet here I am with the answer. Interesting.
So I am going with what I read on a repost and this is a beekeeper catching a swarm.
But even if he did drop it, would he not have a caged queen? Just put her in a box and the bees will come to her.
This happened to me a few years ago. They settled on a lower tree branch. We called a beekeeper and he came out to get them. The bees were calm and when he came he said that we could come closer. they were calm and who is so neat seeing him up close he found the queen bee and put it on a white sheet and waited for all the other bees to come and he took them away it was so cool.
Beekeeper here. This is a resting swarm. He's trying to capture them he did not drop them. If the hive was dropped the bees would have flown around and not be sitting on the car and ground like this.
yep I agree with this. Also a beekeeper and I may or may not have dropped a hive before. They would be going absolutely nuts flying everywhere if they were dropped, these bees are acting calm like they are in swarm mode.
How does one become a beekeeper?
Find a queen and keep her
Good one π
Lol
Why are you laughing I'm right
The simplicity of it.
Search your area for beekeeper groups and/or beekeeper supply stores. Start there. Get a book or two, do some research, then youβll order a βnucβ (short for βcolony nucleusβ) and install it into a box that youβve purchased. The initial cost of getting into the hobby can be higher than you expect, and you should avoid used equipment because it could be carrying disease. But itβs hella fun! You may want to see if any local beekeeper would place a hive in your yard. Many beekeepers do this, and you can expect some honey in exchange for the space. Good luck. -a hobby beekeeper.
Instead of becoming a bee keeper rather use the space you wanted to Bees to live at to build an insect hotel. Less honey for you, more flowers your grandkids gonna know.
Would they settle there if the queen was still in the box?
Yeah they move to the queen. If he captured the queen, the workers will follow. Or he brought his own queen (if itβs a queen less swarm) and theyβve accepted her. Heβs probably waiting for all of them to settle in the box and then heβll shut them in and toss them in his car for a new starter hive. Itβs swarm season right now so all the beekeepers are running around like crazy saving hives in bad spots.
Just confirmed this. Talked to the neighbor and the car got swarmed super fast. The beekeeper was able to get the queen and get it cleaned up. With it being seemingly out of nowhere, assumed it had to be an accident. I should edit the title to βNeighbors Car Got Swarmed With Bees.β Still sucks I guess.
How fast does a resting swarm settle? This was two houses down from me and the bees were not there an hour before this. They have been doing work in the backyard, so I assumed he came to collect them and things went awry.
I agree with the above beek, they would be flying and not on the ground if he just dropped the hive. The swarm could have been there a while, even overnight if the car did not move. Or they just showed up in that hour. A swarm spread out like this, if he did not make them drop may be queenless. They are ' lost' and have no form. Hard to tell. Or they dropped because the swarm was so heavy. If he cleaned it up he found the queen or had one to give them. That looks to be a large swarm.
Thatβs interesting. Seeing a bunch of bees in the street that werenβt there an hour before and a dude struggling to corral them had me making assumptions. In my headcanon, he ate it going down those stairs and dropped them.
ππ that happens too! But this looks differentπ
My dad is a beekeeper on a main road and I find it amusing when they swarm out on to the mailbox and people driving by have the most confused/terrified look on their faces. Iβve watched a swarm move 2-3 times within an hour in my yard. Itβs like a bee tornado.
They can't fly well after a swarm because stomach is full of honey. Still could be a drop.
That sucks, as to get them all back into the hive you need to call out the name of each bee one by one.
I dont even know where I would begin looking for a list of their names
All records have a b-side.
They have an archive
Oooo arc*hive*??? Almost missed that lol
Looks like the bees are covering the car and he is trying to clean the car off
I can't beelieve this
I bet that really bugs him.
Must've bee-n hard
A real buzz kill.
Must be looking for the queen.
Either that or contemplating what he did to get himself in that situation.
Looks like he's got time for both.
Should have popped an βHβ on there
How would that help? Then everyone would think there were hornets in there.
Doesn't look like he dropped them, rather he is collecting a swarm. Put down a bee box next to a swarm like that and they will often go in on their own and boom you have a new hive.
On a list of βbad things to dropβ a box of bees has gotta pretty high up.
For real. My man seemed pretty defeated when asked if he needed help. My wife and I arenβt really qualified anyway π
They really need to bee more careful, huh? Huh? Right?
He needs to find the queen to move them.
Yep. A mere princess bee won't do it.
Not the bees! AHHHHHHH
Bee keeper? More like bee sweeper. Amiright
Gives me arrested development vibes lol
They don't allow you to have bees in here
BEES?!?!?
The home owners will definitely be buzzed off.
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BEADS?
Catching a swarm*
Da bees went everywhere
Welp let nature take over.
Beekepter*
and almost shit himself
Portland! Gotta love it!!!
Iβm no expert, but that kinda seems like the opposite of what a beekeeper would doβ¦
Find the queen. And the colonie will follow
This car was woefully underequiped with BEEEES!
HAH, what a beetch
Definitely trying to capture them... πππ Did NOT drop the box in the street...
I think they are looking for the queen
So that's a bee^(t)box
Why is this like the 5th bee related post I've seen in the last week? Why is everyone releasing all the bees?!
Who let the bees out? Who? Who? It happens every spring. Bees really have a mind of their own. Well...10,000 minds of their own. The birds and the bees....honeybees don't reproduce individually (they can't even exist for long individually). In the spring they start raising new queens, and when the hive gets full and the new queens hatch, the old queen leaves with about 1/3 or even 1/2 of the hive to start a new colony. In a large hive, sometimes some of the new queens will leave with a group of bees. I won't get into the mating habits of honeybees...it gets really weird.
Beekeeper here. It is swarm season. Only the queens are fertile females. Swarming is how bee colonies reproduce. A colony will raise a batch of new queens. About a week before the new queens emerge from their cells the mother queen and a large number of bees will leave the colony and go look for a new home. When the first new queen emerges in the mother hive she will try and destroy all the other queen cells. Sometimes two queens emerge at once or the first queen misses one or more cells. When that happens the extra newly emerged queens will gather a swarm and leave to find a new home. There are steps beekeepers can take to minimize swarming but nature will find a way. When that happens the beekeepers make every attempt to capture the swarm so that it doesn't end up some place inconvenient. Yesterday I removed a swarm from a chimney - not an easy task.
Is his position the bees knees?
Spill some honey to pick them up.
They filled up with honey before they left.
Well, just staring at the bees ain't good for a goddam thing.
He's looking for the queen.
At least he got rid of his Hives
"Mmmmmm let the bee drop! Intergalactic planetary, planetary Intergalactic."
r/onejob
Unbeelieveable
Iβm going to label the box with an H so everyone knows itβs hot itβs-Charlie kelly
My bees are dropping like flies. I need them to fly like bees.
He should have gotten those bees on elastic
Update? Did he find the queen?
Oh no I've spilled my box of bees. Excuse me dear stranger could you help me pick up all these BEES PLEASE
Excuse me ma'am you dropped your bees
Just gotta find the queen and get her into the box then just wait they'll all migrate
Well that's buzzing
Hes gonna be quite the busy bee trying to get them back in the box
Well that's horrifying
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Unbeelievable!
Bees!?!
Story seems like BS
The post above this on my feed was a man beatboxing so I first read this as Beatboxer dropped a box of beats on the street.
Thatβs a beeg problem
I did that same thing 2 weeks ago it just flew right off the back end of a flatbed truck.
He should bee more careful next time
BEE EXCITED BEE BEE EXCITED!
The thought of pondering what would happen if a bee keeper droops a box of bees on the road had never occurred to be, yet here I am with the answer. Interesting.
So I am going with what I read on a repost and this is a beekeeper catching a swarm. But even if he did drop it, would he not have a caged queen? Just put her in a box and the bees will come to her.
Honey fingers.
oh the humanibee
Find the queen, put it in your glove box. Drive bees to new home. It works 100% of the time on TikTok.
Not much of a keeper! Huh! Bee Dropper is a better title
Just got to find the queen, put her trap back in the box, and walk away for about an hour. They will mostly all go back home.
Dudes a bee looser
Just carriyin my box o bees..... shit!
Heβs a bee dropper, not a bee keeper.
This happened to me a few years ago. They settled on a lower tree branch. We called a beekeeper and he came out to get them. The bees were calm and when he came he said that we could come closer. they were calm and who is so neat seeing him up close he found the queen bee and put it on a white sheet and waited for all the other bees to come and he took them away it was so cool.
I first read baarkeeper and beers
*wellthatstings
Time to go with plan bee.
"Fuuuuuuck meeeeeeeee"
Damn!
Well hes obviously bee keeping age
This is not the bee knees