Honey Bees
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Timewasmoney1
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I was thinking of doing this myself also. Honey ftw
jrainman
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Ha just bought honey bees, all I can say is do your home work ,lost alot of them and my queen ,so now $20 for a new queen , dont rush make sure you have the proper equipment to handle the bees.
on another note when I went to get my bees ,the bee keeper 60+ yrs , as he was gathering my order ,with no protection getting stung everywere ,OMG this guy is insane totaly have a converstation with this guy with litterly stingers hanging out of his face as he telling me how to handle these things. LMAO just pure insantity.
on another note when I went to get my bees ,the bee keeper 60+ yrs , as he was gathering my order ,with no protection getting stung everywere ,OMG this guy is insane totaly have a converstation with this guy with litterly stingers hanging out of his face as he telling me how to handle these things. LMAO just pure insantity.
Timewasmoney1
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LOL!!! What happens to the coloney if there is no queen?
hornedfrog2000
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They will develop nuclear weapons sooner or later, and take over another colony with a hierarchy already in place.
jrainman
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I did not transfer properly(no smoker) got swarmed by 2000 bees , lots died, lots took off after queen so basicly have to start over , Alls good get to go back and watch this sideshow again crazy i mean craZY LMAO show ,worth the lost , when I asked him the obvious question about getting stung (doesnt that hurt his reply was ,BEEEN STUNG OVER 50 MILLON TIMES, YOU HAVE TO PICTURE THIS OLD GUY SAYING THIS WITH AGGRAVATED BEES EVRYWHERE STINING HIM AND HAD HAVE LIKE 5 OR 6 STINGERS HANGING ALL OVER HIS FACE.
jrainman
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Yea ordered some more gear like that, yea ya need space, this is one of those snowball effect things, I started with a few gifted cherry and peach cuttings from a apple grower friend I hunt with 4 yrs ago , then ended up clearing 1.5 acre las yrs and planting apples. peach , cherry and blueberry, all cuts from him, so now bees , also just did shtaki mushrooms spores in logs. but this all started with Deer plots on my land. Its crazy the things I get into.
The Outdoorsman
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Make sure you don't live too close to a farmers field, I believe the GMO plants farmers use produce insecticide pollen which is what kills most bees. I could be mistaken.
Keep us updated.
Keep us updated.
jrainman
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Nothing big around me like that , small people like myself ,organic people. Lots of vacation ers from the big city they love the organic vegs and fruit road side stand guys.my broccoli rabe is in and doin well ,just gotta keep cutting a head of the deer ,I plant it for them really but there always plenty. same with my turnips.
giggles26
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I use to have bee's, been thinking about getting them again. I had them out in the corner of my yard about 60 yards from my house. The queen bee is your most important. I've been stung a lot but they don't even mess with me anymore.
2 or 3 people that live about 3 miles from me have honey bee's. They honey is deff worth it
2 or 3 people that live about 3 miles from me have honey bee's. They honey is deff worth it
HeartlandHank
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yeah. bee's are the new chickens.i would much prefer my neighbors having bees than chickens.
Dannoo93
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If the queen flys away all the workers follow....my gramps buddy has 2 honey boxes for all the bees i walked right next to em didnt get stung but dropped my soda from the shit gettgettin scared out of me last time i helped gim move the queen bee and the fuckers started chasing me and the owner man never ran so fast in my.life when 100 bees are on ur ass
hornedfrog2000
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id fightem. did you even try to stand your ground? Bees can smell fear, if you stand up to them they won't sting you.
giggles26
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Hey buddy, don't believe I've seen you around these parts much
oh and yes bees can smell fear. I use to have honey bees and if you swat at them or make sudden movements those bastards swarmed but if you just watched them it was awesome.
I use to get stoned and watch them lol
hornedfrog2000
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My buddy is so afraid of bees its hilarious. I just sit there and watch him swatting and galloping around like a buffoon. hahaha. if he just chilled the fuck out it would probably just fly away. I've let them land on me before, and just flickem if they land. Wasps on the other hand are a bit more scary to me, not really that I run away but when I was a kid I remember feeling a tingling and looking down. There was a fucking wasp stinging me over, and over. Probably stung me a good 5 times. Hurts so fucking bad since it was on my hand. My hand was right above their nest though...Hey buddy, don't believe I've seen you around these parts much
oh and yes bees can smell fear. I use to have honey bees and if you swat at them or make sudden movements those bastards swarmed but if you just watched them it was awesome.
I use to get stoned and watch them lol
giggles26
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Lol ya I feel ya, I don't care for wasps either. I've been stung one to many times to care for them. I have to kill hundreds of them every year at my place. My best child hood friend got stung like 5 or 6 times once. I remember it we were at his house and they had a wood gate to their backyard and we were walking in and I saw it the moment we walked up to it and I was like ah fuck this I'll go the other way and he decided to go that way and well long story short he got stung multiple times in the neck...