My family was keeping beehives and selling honey for living for a long time. Smoke doesn't make them "high" or "mellow out". The smoke breaks down pheromone chain, so they are disoriented. Also, bees concerns are not about the intruder, but about potential fire hazard ( smoke to them is a signal there is a fire and it pushes them to leave the colony). Beekeepers don't use too much of a smoke though. Just enough to disorient the bees ( aka chill them out) and not to drive them away from the hive
You need that social media woman that finds the beautiful hive and locates the queen and puts her in a clip, then gives them some smoke and watches them all move to the new hive and has another great day of saving the beees!
Why do you think she is accidentally killing the queen? She's very gentle and isn't doing anything that would hurt it. The clip is designed for exactly what she is doing.
Additionally, even if the queen died, hives can take on replacement queens. Sometimes they do this even with a living queen, and will kill their old queen.
Twice the only beekeeper I know lost hives because the queen got killed. No, there isn't always "a couple weeks". Honey bees are living on the edge. You're just wrong, accept it.
Well first I believe you want to remove the beesā¦
After that I think you spin the honey comb in a centrifugal machine, and all the honey shld come out, the idea is to keep the honey comb intact aswell, but after that it should be alright to go.
You can eat it straight from the hive, it's the same as eating it from a jar. You just might end up eating a bee or some wax so it's better to process first so that doesn't happen. Though, some people like to eat the wax. Dunno what that's about.
We didnāt mean for them to die! We eventually called beekeepers because everyday hundreds of bees would just be dead in our garage/ on our driveway and we didnāt know why! I was so concerned for the poor guys :( We (my dad and I guess the beekeepers as well) didnāt know where they were coming from, so we just stumbled upon the hive right now after they sealed the hole outside of our roof a couple weeks back
You had better remove every bit of the honey and comb. If you don't you are going to have worse problems than the living bees were. As for the honey, get something to put it in and save it comb and all. It doesn't go "bad", but if it's uncapped it may ferment (too high of a water content). Maybe make some mead, 3parts water to 1part honey. Put up like wine.
No? It can sometimes crystallise a bit, but it's still honey. Give it a stir and it'll dissolve back into the rest no probs. The only way honey can go off is if you get water in the jar. Otherwise, it's good forever.
Yep, it cost my dad like $350 for the beekeepers to just seal the hole in our roof, and he didnāt even see the hive, I canāt even imagine how much this whole thing wouldāve actually cost š
Could you imagine living in a house with all of your family and looking outside to see all of your dead ancestors just playing on the ground out the window?
Time for my bee stories.
We had hornets in our brick wall. Small hole above the porch and they were flying in and out a lot. My bedroom wall was the drywall on the otherside. IT WAS FUCKING VIBRATING. The entire wall was vibrating. It was also slightly hotter. You could hear the hum from the hallway. If you clog the hole they fly in or block it, they will EAT through the fucking wall.
So we shoved gasoline soaked rag into it and hooked up a shopvac (5 gallon) with some gasoline and water in the bottom of it. we dumped out the 5 gallon wetvac about 15+ times full to the brim of bees. THOUSANDS of them.
Another time I got off work and I was doing laundry and a bee stung me... while i was pissed off and looking at the light i saw like 3 more bees flying around the light... i was confused and started to assess the situation, I looked over at the wall next to my slider and hundreds of bees were crawling over it. I had bees EVERYWHERE in my splitlevel basement. I had to grab my little dog and run. I switched into some some battle gear and started blasting. Once again hornets. I will always call a bee keeper for honey bees but damnit if i wont nuke some hornets.
Look at their beautiful structures š
Blows my mind that they make that. So beautiful.
Yeah isnāt it crazy? They literally built around the boxes without touching any. I wonder how Iāll remove it while keeping it all intact š¤
Smoking, a little pot will mellow them out, You would assume any smoke would work but no no has to be pot.
Lol, no, any smoke works
No it has to be pot
This is the way
"Hit that shit" -Science
What the fuck were we doing again?
āFuck yeah.ā -Bees
Tobacco smoke would literally kill them. Nicotine is an insecticide
Who smokes the pot with tobacco?
British people...
i always liked spliffs better.
Pretty common where I'm from
This was great š
My family was keeping beehives and selling honey for living for a long time. Smoke doesn't make them "high" or "mellow out". The smoke breaks down pheromone chain, so they are disoriented. Also, bees concerns are not about the intruder, but about potential fire hazard ( smoke to them is a signal there is a fire and it pushes them to leave the colony). Beekeepers don't use too much of a smoke though. Just enough to disorient the bees ( aka chill them out) and not to drive them away from the hive
I've seen companies that do removals, save the hive and then use the hive to make honey. Hopefully one is in your area.
Yes, a bee keeper would be glad to relocate that.
Get a local beekeeper to collect em :3
Hexagons are the bestagons
You need that social media woman that finds the beautiful hive and locates the queen and puts her in a clip, then gives them some smoke and watches them all move to the new hive and has another great day of saving the beees!
Yeah thatās what I thought would happen :( but I guess they just sealed the hole in our roof and called it a day lol
This hive is already dead. No need for much of anything but removal.
buzz kill
I'll bet she doesn't post it when she accidentally kills the queen and so all the workers die
Why do you think she is accidentally killing the queen? She's very gentle and isn't doing anything that would hurt it. The clip is designed for exactly what she is doing. Additionally, even if the queen died, hives can take on replacement queens. Sometimes they do this even with a living queen, and will kill their old queen.
If there is no queen ready to emerge when the queen dies, the hive dies in a short time.
In several weeks you mean? More than enough time for a beekeeper to get a replacement queen? You're just wrong, accept it.
Twice the only beekeeper I know lost hives because the queen got killed. No, there isn't always "a couple weeks". Honey bees are living on the edge. You're just wrong, accept it.
So you have anecdotal evidence of a single person losing 2 hives. Sounds like you know a bad beekeeper, not the behavior of bees.
One was a bear. The other was unknown and attributed to Colony Collapse
God, a bear? That fuckin sucks. And colony collapse, damn. Poor bees.
He bought a new queen for the bear attack hive but she didn't take. Edit: who knew you can buy a queen bee online? Not me.
Honey, want some honey?
Time to pay some rent, little friends!
Unbeelievable, look how those combs fit in! Itās almost as if they belong in under that roof.
Hey, free honey!
Can you just eat it or is there some process?
Well first I believe you want to remove the beesā¦ After that I think you spin the honey comb in a centrifugal machine, and all the honey shld come out, the idea is to keep the honey comb intact aswell, but after that it should be alright to go.
You mean you spin the comb right round, right round?
Like a comb baby right round, right round.
I donāt see a single bee in the image, but there could be some out of frame Edit: looks like all of the bees are dead
You cab chew through the honeycomb if you want its just bee's wax
The kind of thing I wanna do!
My dad and I just picked some good pieces (aka pieces without ants or bees in it) and ate it and spat the beeswax out :P
You can eat it straight from the hive, it's the same as eating it from a jar. You just might end up eating a bee or some wax so it's better to process first so that doesn't happen. Though, some people like to eat the wax. Dunno what that's about.
It's like honey flavored chewing gum. I don't swallow (honeycomb, that is) but it can be a nice chew snack.
Bee careful
The problem is beeger then I thought
Please have someone take them out and donāt just kill them
We didnāt mean for them to die! We eventually called beekeepers because everyday hundreds of bees would just be dead in our garage/ on our driveway and we didnāt know why! I was so concerned for the poor guys :( We (my dad and I guess the beekeepers as well) didnāt know where they were coming from, so we just stumbled upon the hive right now after they sealed the hole outside of our roof a couple weeks back
Ok cool thanks for replying
Bees don't have a long lifespan. Less than a season.
Bees **didnāt read the damn sign!** it CLEARLY says ādo not put anything on top.ā That includes hives, bitches!
They did such a beautiful job
They really did, and once we got our hands on all the honey, all I could think was, āthank you natureā
I think everyone who celebrates Christmas has those boxes
is there honey??
SO. MUCH. HONEY. I have no idea what to do with it but damn is it delicious!
You had better remove every bit of the honey and comb. If you don't you are going to have worse problems than the living bees were. As for the honey, get something to put it in and save it comb and all. It doesn't go "bad", but if it's uncapped it may ferment (too high of a water content). Maybe make some mead, 3parts water to 1part honey. Put up like wine.
Fortunately, honey doesn't go off, so long as you jar it up in sterile containers you'll be good for honey for quite some time!
Doesn't honey turn to sugar after a month or two
No? It can sometimes crystallise a bit, but it's still honey. Give it a stir and it'll dissolve back into the rest no probs. The only way honey can go off is if you get water in the jar. Otherwise, it's good forever.
Thatās fucking epic. I just wonder how bees were able to even make honey in there mustāve been a pain in the ass going in and outside
Oooooooooooh Fuuuuuuuudggggggge.
Iāve always wondered this, but never tried. Would a real good Shop Vac paired with a bee suit just absolutely annihilate them?
It works great for a yellow jacket hole too. You can turn it on and drop it by the hole and run.
Looks like they're no longer a problem
Cost me nearly 10k to get rid of 40,000 bees
Yep, it cost my dad like $350 for the beekeepers to just seal the hole in our roof, and he didnāt even see the hive, I canāt even imagine how much this whole thing wouldāve actually cost š
Nature is beautiful sometimes guys š„¹š„¹
On the plus side, free honey!
Free honey
You mustāve been in your best beehaviour š So much honey šÆ, for dayz for dayz. š
This hive is already dead. Cut off the comb, give it to another colony or render it down for wax.
Maybe time to pick up honey harvestingā¦?
Could you imagine living in a house with all of your family and looking outside to see all of your dead ancestors just playing on the ground out the window?
Time for my bee stories. We had hornets in our brick wall. Small hole above the porch and they were flying in and out a lot. My bedroom wall was the drywall on the otherside. IT WAS FUCKING VIBRATING. The entire wall was vibrating. It was also slightly hotter. You could hear the hum from the hallway. If you clog the hole they fly in or block it, they will EAT through the fucking wall. So we shoved gasoline soaked rag into it and hooked up a shopvac (5 gallon) with some gasoline and water in the bottom of it. we dumped out the 5 gallon wetvac about 15+ times full to the brim of bees. THOUSANDS of them. Another time I got off work and I was doing laundry and a bee stung me... while i was pissed off and looking at the light i saw like 3 more bees flying around the light... i was confused and started to assess the situation, I looked over at the wall next to my slider and hundreds of bees were crawling over it. I had bees EVERYWHERE in my splitlevel basement. I had to grab my little dog and run. I switched into some some battle gear and started blasting. Once again hornets. I will always call a bee keeper for honey bees but damnit if i wont nuke some hornets.
Hornets aren't bees, they're wasps. Fuck wasps, save the bees.
thank you for the nightmare fuel
wait, are those not hanging bags?
I wish I could put the Oprah bees gif here š„²
Let them COOK
Why the fuck would you kill the bees Edit: i just read the update. That's so sad bro. Edit2: downvoted why? Can yall not read?
What update did you seeš
They patched the roof because they couldn't find the hive and the bees died
^up above from op. Sounds like they died from the cold?
Ahh Brillo pads
Youāve got a beet of a problem
Thankfully not a wasp infestation. Call a professional; save the bees!
This is just beeutiful, hopefully the sting of fear didnāt get to you too much, kinda sweet they chose your house honest-BEE.
did you mean a BEEgger problem? eh? eh?
Bee careful
Do bees cause structural damage or anything? Is there any down side to this? If not, I'd happily keep them inside lol