The Honey Factory

[OhZark Biddies]

Oh great..now all the stalkers will be looking.

Sorry Ralphie. Joke backfire

I tried to stalk Ralphie just now and find the pics of him that were mentioned...

I get a little lost on BYC threads I’m not familiar with but I assume this is the picture mentioned?

I didn’t even know palm trees could survive in MN?

 

[duluthralphie]

There are no native honey bees in North American, all of the ‘wild’ hives are various strains of European honey bees that have escaped from bee keepers... that might be a bit of a generalization... as feral hives cast swarms too, so some ‘wild’ hives could come from other ‘wild’ hives etc..
but in any case for the most there isn’t any difference in ‘domesticated’ bees and ‘wild’ bees...

So more or less, all honey bees in North America are the same... the big exception would be Africanized bees which are very aggressive and can be dangerous... it would be unlikely that you would have those in North Florida... but i THINK it is technically possible for your location... I’m not certain about that though

since your bees are in a big red oak tree, removing them without destroying the hive or the tree is a bit of a low odds proposition...

generally bee keepers will do a ‘cut out’ for hives that make a home in the wall of a building or an old tree that is being removed anyway... but capturing the queen without cutting the tree is just kind of lucky...

but you can search for bee keepers in your area bee and they might come look it over and would likely know if your area has had africanized bees ...

I’m not on Facebook, but my state has a state beekeepers group on FB where folks post messages about hives they would like help with, and there are always beekeepers in the area that are interested in obtaining a new hive, so it generally works out for all involved ....

obviously. You did not follow through on my way to retrieve the feral bees from the oak tree.

Reaching in the knot hole and removing the bees one at a time will do no harm to the tree or the bees.

I really don’t understand why you did not simply embrace my green method of retrieving the bees?

 

[duluthralphie]

I tried to stalk Ralphie just now and find the pics of him that were mentioned...

I get a little lost on BYC threads I’m not familiar with but I assume this is the picture mentioned?

I didn’t even know palm trees could survive in MN?


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I think you have me confused with R2elk, I can’t grow a decent beard like that.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

obviously. You did not follow through on my way to retrieve the feral bees from the oak tree.

Reaching in the knot hole and removing the bees one at a time will do no harm to the tree or the bees.

I really don’t understand why you did not simply embrace my green method of retrieving the bees?

I was considering the ‘one bee at a time’ method as one of the ‘low odds propositions’ , lol

I did start to mention a ‘bee vac’ that some beeks use for extraction... but those things suck

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I think you have me confused with R2elk, I can’t grow a decent beard like that.

ahhh, I knew those palm trees looked wrong for MN... I should have known they were WY palms, lol

 

[R2elk]

obviously. You did not follow through on my way to retrieve the feral bees from the oak tree.

Reaching in the knot hole and removing the bees one at a time will do no harm to the tree or the bees.

I really don’t understand why you did not simply embrace my green method of retrieving the bees?

I thought it was @BantyChooks with her fake beard.

 

[R2elk]

ahhh, I knew those palm trees looked wrong for MN... I should have known they were WY palms, lol

I got rid of my palm tree a long time ago.

 

[duluthralphie]

I thought it was @BantyChooks with her fake beard.

That could be, but I can’t tell, I am so use to seeing her in her amauti, without it she could be anyone.

 

[R2elk]

That could be, but I can’t tell, I am so use to seeing her in her amauti, without it she could be anyone.

That is the point to all her disguises.

 

[BantyChooks]

That is clearly not a photograph of me.... I would never stoop so low as to set foot in a location where it is warm enough for palm trees to grow.