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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: shark tits on February 11, 2016, 04:33:29 AM
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i think it would be a great hobby and it is encumbent upon me and anyone aware of the monsanto - nicotine poisoning that caused mass bee die offs over the last decade to replace em.
can i just get a packet of bees and throw em in a box and call it a day? like, asides harvesting the honey can i just let the bees run amok and pat myself on the back for helping nature bounce back or do they require more care? anyone in the new england area want to go in halves on a 3 pound packet of bees w/ me? i can keep them in my yard but i might be more likely to be on top of things if i had a partner in my apiary adentures. i know people that are good at bees can bring their hive to an orchard [for a fee] and let their bees pollinate the place then somehow they return to the vehicle at the end of the shift and get brought home. i'm not 100 how the whole thing works but sounds fascinating.
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Creepy...
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A coworker of mine has a couple of hives. He brings in samples of honey every so often and its awesome. Apart from that I got nothing...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2kc4oZTVU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2kc4oZTVU#)
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Definitely do it. Not sure how, beats me. But you're doing good for our dying planet, and we need more people like you.
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thanks hooman. i wanna get a partner so i don't space it but i'm pretty good at my garden. my downstairs neighbor will water it too but i'm consistent enough that it's not necessary for him to do it and i'm the only one who weeds. w/ the bees though, i don't know what i'm doing so i feel like learning together would guarantee that i don't space it. i spose though just buying them and putting em out there is good for the earth. even if they don't like my yard and they tell me to screw and swarm to another area, i've added to the bee population of my area and hopefully they'll reproduce into more hives and make up for a small portion of the nicotine poisoned honeybees. my sisters and upstairs neighbor are into it but into me doing it more so than committing. i think i'll do it and hope it's so neat that i get helpers along the way.
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Eddie Izzard - Covered In Bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-tl6GBOBo#)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2kc4oZTVU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2kc4oZTVU#)
Damn you for beating me to this.
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Never had the space, you gotta live on a farm or have some acreage. Very interesting stuff. Guess you buy the bees from another keeper, queen bee is like the golden snitch. There is no failing, what's the worst that can happen? Best case scenario is sharktits branded fresh honey, sign me up for a pre-order!
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You got a bee on your hat! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X5VosYo8nQ#)
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Never had the space, you gotta live on a farm or have some acreage. Very interesting stuff. Guess you buy the bees from another keeper, queen bee is like the golden snitch. There is no failing, what's the worst that can happen? Best case scenario is sharktits branded fresh honey, sign me up for a pre-order!
yeah, i guess my worst case scenario is i buy a packet of bees and they decide they don't like me and swarm away. or died somehow? you're prolly right though, it's a winning game. best case scenario i'll send ya some honey in the fall, tracer.
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I'll ask my woman tomorrow, she's been keeping bees for a bit. If you have any specific questions let me know and I'll see if she's got the answers, but to my knowledge it is very low key and costs are reasonable although there are newer boxes that remove the honey really easy without destroying the comb, but I think those are more. I'm definitely not the expert on this haha
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When I was working in Singapore I was trying to set up / convince my boss to start up some bee colonies at our farm . We didnt use much honey in our dishes but it could have been cool for some stuff , and the honey comb could have been used aswell
I went out afew times with a gang who used to re place bee hives " civilians" didnt want around . They would replace them or start a beehive for honey with them
Anyways the farm we used was about 8 hours from where I lived , so I would have to spend 16 hours a day on my day off just to get to the bees and then care for them when Im there for afew hours
Just didnt work out . I might try something here in Sweden for the next restaurant I work at
Bees are cool
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Dad has multiple sclerosis. One of the many crazy treatments he tried when I was a kid was some kind of acupunture with bees. He'd keep a plastic bag full of bees, pick them up carefully and stab himself in certain points of the body with the little bees. My mother made dad stop after my brother found the bag and stuck his hand inside.
Bee raising always looked like a big operation to me. The place where he'd get the bees was an apiary by an airfield. So maybe if you have the right place, are not allergic or squeamish, you should totally try that, and keep us updated.
ms sucks, sorry to hear. my therapist has ms, i'm gonna tell her about BEE IY acupuncture but i doubt she'll try it. sounds neat. hope he gets better.
thanks everyone, coneklr i prolly will lean on you once i get my packet of bees.
monty, 8 hours is really long drive in a car and 16 hours is too long inside a car. i don't have a huge yard but i can stash some bees i think. hopefully they like my ma's flowers and my veggies enough to stick around and hopefully i'm balls enough to retrieve the honey. i'll definitely update everyone even if it's more questions than my little victories.
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You should do it, a high school friend of mine, her dad kept bees and used to make all kinds of stuff out of the wax and honey. It was pretty cool. Plus, bees are good for the planet.
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This is quite cool
New Invention - Flow: Honey on Tap Directly From your Beehive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_pj4cz2VJM#)
For the next restaurant I work for I would like to set up a bee keeping project if they do have a garden or maybe I could rent a small garden plot and keep bees on it . Maybe even ontop of a apartment roof I live in maybe
Going to try to set up some hunting aswell where I do the hunting and harvesting and the restaurant pays for the transportation and the weeks of hanging in a meat fridge . Combined with foraging mushrooms and herbs
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Dad has multiple sclerosis. One of the many crazy treatments he tried when I was a kid was some kind of acupunture with bees. He'd keep a plastic bag full of bees, pick them up carefully and stab himself in certain points of the body with the little bees. My mother made dad stop after my brother found the bag and stuck his hand inside.
Bee raising always looked like a big operation to me. The place where he'd get the bees was an apiary by an airfield. So maybe if you have the right place, are not allergic or squeamish, you should totally try that, and keep us updated.
Hit me up when you get them with any questions you have and I'll relay them and get you any answers I can
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Cool idea!
Bees are awesome! Hornets are horrible
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Bees are gross, just buy honey from the store
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Bees are gross, just buy honey from the store
Fresh honey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> honey in bottles from stores....
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Mead is one of the easiest kinds of alcohol you can make.
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Mead is one of the easiest kinds of alcohol you can make.
i don't drink, mead ain't gonna replace the bees monsanto killed and pollinate the plants in my neighborhood.
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The Wicker Man: The bees extended cut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAsOmiberI#)
Kind of an obscure topic, but I honestly, I agree it could be kind of cool... you know, if I had the time/space.
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The Wicker Man: The bees extended cut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAsOmiberI#)
Kind of an obscure topic, but I honestly, I agree it could be kind of cool... you know, if I had the time/space.
granted he has all the time in the world for he is immortal but candyman lived in the projects yet he had enough room to keep bees. i hear ya lookin for candyman, bitch?
Dirty Horror: "We Hear You're Looking For Candyman, Bitch!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbASL3GOEaQ&ab_channel=DirtyHorror1#)
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I have about a quarter acre of blackberries and for many years now, a beekeeper friend has kept hives on my property during the summer. He keeps hives at our other friend's place, who has apple trees, my understanding is that without fruit in close proximity, the bees won't stick around. There doesn't seem to be much upkeep, he comes and visits the wooden boxes a couple times a summer, I guess he harvest's the comb, but I've never watched the process.
Anyway, just some more anecdotal encouragement, I think bees are pretty fascinating and definitely good to have around. It might be in my head, but I feel like they get used to individuals too, maybe through smell or body language. Sometimes I move in close and watch their operations, they don't seem to mind as long as I keep it slow. Good luck.
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I wanted to get one of those urban beekeeping boxes you can put in front of your window, but my lady is not hyped on the idea of sleeping next to a bee colony.
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Mead is one of the easiest kinds of alcohol you can make.
and one of the most fattening.
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I have about a quarter acre of blackberries and for many years now, a beekeeper friend has kept hives on my property during the summer. He keeps hives at our other friend's place, who has apple trees, my understanding is that without fruit in close proximity, the bees won't stick around. There doesn't seem to be much upkeep, he comes and visits the wooden boxes a couple times a summer, I guess he harvest's the comb, but I've never watched the process.
Anyway, just some more anecdotal encouragement, I think bees are pretty fascinating and definitely good to have around. It might be in my head, but I feel like they get used to individuals too, maybe through smell or body language. Sometimes I move in close and watch their operations, they don't seem to mind as long as I keep it slow. Good luck.
that's rad and good to know about the fruit. i've got 2 mulberry trees that don't produce much berries, strawberries in june and tomatoes and hot peppers the rest of the summer. might have to step up my garden a bit but hopefully i can entice them to stay. i think you're right about the bees, i read a fiction story 'the secret life of bees' and one of the old black women who made honey said to project love to the bees and be calm and they'll be likewise.
pica, that's understandable. bees kill more people than sharks and alligators combined. i made that up but i bet it's true and you can prolly add snakes and moped crashes. bees are wicked deadly!
not necessarily honeybees but mostly criminal bees from africa. ???
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i got my bees and it opened up my eyes and i am happy now that i got my bees. rain is a setback but i'll unload em from that wood box to the 'deep' or hive later today when we get a warm spell.
at long last (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCGD4ldFXk&ab_channel=jackmackeral#)
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i got my bees and it opened up my eyes and i am happy now that i got my bees. rain is a setback but i'll unload em from that wood box to the 'deep' or hive later today when we get a warm spell.
at long last (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCGD4ldFXk&ab_channel=jackmackeral#)
Rad. So happy you got 'em.
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thanks a lot sodajerk! here's another vid that doesn't translate but it feels like a victory moving frames of bees from one box to another w/ their permission. seen it on youtube but stepping to the plate is something else! only got stung once and can attribute that to my mother being slow on the smoke when i cracked open the ceiling of that box. after that it was mostly smooth and exciting. hope to hang onto this hobby and meet other beezers.
my beez!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1anbCEQdGUE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=jackmackeral#)
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What's the deal with working with them, do you have to gear up and smoke them every time you go near the hive?
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What's the deal with working with them, do you have to gear up and smoke them every time you go near the hive?
it's subjective. just met a freind's gf who did it for 8 yrs, fullblow, she'll show up at your house and vacuum your honeybees for a hefty price then go home and put them into her own hives. she didn't use any protection, i think she used smoke the whole time or more often than not but i'm not 100. i think people may play up their own 'oneness' w/ the bees but there's a youtube guy 'dirtrooster628' and i've seen vids of him never wearing a suit [he's a heavy man in mississippi, better stung than hot] and he'll yank down a branch of bees then back away from the calamity before rebounding '60-70 lbs of bees'. he's rad!
i didn't wear gloves cause i want to be connected but i'm half a pussy. it was a good start since gloves didn't make me clumsy and a little sting ain't no thing, may even treat arthritis.
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Your neighbors are going to be upset. I would be if 2000 bees just moved in next door
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eh, the fat guy who owns the home shrugged it off when i told him about it and smiled back at me today when i pointed at the box [pre-unload]. his junkie/dope dealer tenant might be bummed but he don't spend much time outside. anyone w/ plants would be stoked to have bees pollinating and perpetuating nature's cycles.
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Can you see her? Had a good 3 wks of spying her & no stings but lately the bees have been 'hot' for whatever reason. They're still gentle bčes but they've handed out some stings lately & I've seen em rat pack invading yellowjackets.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jwzu0t_Eho (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jwzu0t_Eho)
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Hey....I was wondering why are some bees big and fuzzy? Some aren't.....can all bees make honey?
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Hey....I was wondering why are some bees big and fuzzy? Some aren't.....can all bees make honey?
I'm glad you asked j.soy.
Bumblebees are the great big fat bees you're thinking of. They're furry & cute but they don't make honey. They are pollinators (as are wasps) just not as proficient as apis melliflera aka euro honey bee. As such it's wicked important to save our honey bee although it's possible other insects (& hummingbirds) may step to the plate & pollinate our food. There is no honeybee indigenous to the Americas so either Indians had less fruit or other bugs were helping them eat.
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Im licking honey off a plate right now. It a payoff forsure, honey is liquid gold. Specially that natural shit.
Honey
Weed
Watermelon
Eggs
Peppers, plus a whole bunch of other shit, its my dream to grow shit in my yard. Using the ecosystem instead of rape-ing it.
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Hey....I was wondering why are some bees big and fuzzy? Some aren't.....can all bees make honey?
Bumblebees are the great big fat bees you're thinking of. They're furry & cute but they don't make honey. They are pollinators (as are wasps) just not as proficient as apis melliflera aka euro honey bee. As such it's wicked important to save our honey bee although it's possible other insects (& hummingbirds) may step to the plate & pollinate our food. There is no honeybee indigenous to the Americas so either Indians had less fruit or other bugs were helping them eat.
Thanks....be careful....a guy I know found out the hard way....allergic to bees....throat swelled up and everything.....I guess it's like the second time you get stung in your life shit can go bad?
Good to know wasps are good for something.....
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Yeah, that & predation on pest insects. Mostly they're bad for business though. Here's my girls beating the heat.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KeullqJ7zz4
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HangING out in the bee yard & what do I see? One girl telling her sisters about a food source through interpretive dance! It's called the waggle dance & it's accurate w/in 15 ft. Better than GPS right there. Turd-ass drones land on her/interrupt since they don't forage.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0fqYDfGzs
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Not for sure how long to leave the 3rd floor (honey super) on but it's looking like my grrrls might make excess honey their first year. I've got really great bees!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ9hRDy3F2Y
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I'm happy for you dude, very cool. And it makes for interesting reading too, being able to interpret their dances is pretty wild.
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Preciate ya, botefdunn. Here's vid from today. It's my understanding that they can survive off whats stored in 2 deep floors so anything on the smaller 3rd floor is fair game. Only got 2 stings, great bees!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5_S0-L_fSg
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Only a little related, but I really liked the bees in this book. It's science fiction
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202148.Flyboy_Action_Figure_Comes_with_Gas_Mask (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202148.Flyboy_Action_Figure_Comes_with_Gas_Mask)
(http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1181187045i/1124404._UY200_.jpg)
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my girls are mostly clustered for the winter [when it breaks 40 they come outside to crap and stretch] but this video is inspiring. VSH bees can smell varroa mites inside a larvae/pupae's cell, break it open and abort the infected bee and destroy the mite! revolutionary because this mite [varroa destructo] has wreaked more havoc than neonicotine pesticides, humans encroaching and all the other bullshit collectively referred to as CCD. i bought a 2nd hive and just waiting to decide if i want to buy the same italian/carnolian bees [wonderful, gentle bees that gave me 18 pound of honey the first year!] or russians, VSH or some other hardier but less friendly bee. also, i got my bees from the south and it might behoove me to get some local ladies who we know can overwinter in our climate.
keep yuz posted!
VSH-Bee-Behavior (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me1eaYUYsEg#)
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How the bees doing? Did you up your hive count?
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i'm in massachusetts so i can't get a new nuc [package of bees] til late april/early may but i ordered all my woodenware and have it in a hallway, waiting for inhabitants.
the ones i've got, about a wk ago it was in the 40s and they were out using the bathroom but the past wk has been 20s-30s so they're all clustered together for warmth. i hope they're ok, i knocked on the hive hoping they would buzz irritatedly to let me know they're there but i couldn't hear anything. i'm sure they're good, i just hope they have enough honey/low mite counts to survive until spring when i can survey whether they need mite treatments or not.
i like the idea of 'treatment free' [kind of like organic] bees but if you've gotta give them medicine to keep em alive it's better than letting them die.
lots of treatment free beekeepers think our domestication and treatments have made them weak [makes sense].
so yeah, i'll have 2 next spring and i'd love to get more if i had a friend/relative in the area who'd let me throw some bees on their yard but most people are scared.
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when i laced my girls w/ pollen yesterday i thought they looked weak. today, w/ warmer temps i realize that my girls are strong! thank goodness they like me or could've tore me a new asshole. i was gonna put some bee candy on them but i almost would have to suit up to deal w/ this mob. [or not, they are gentle bees]
Worcester bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Ukur2o4fE#)
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when i laced my girls w/ pollen yesterday i thought they looked weak. today, w/ warmer temps i realize that my girls are strong! thank goodness they like me or could've tore me a new asshole. i was gonna put some bee candy on them but i almost would have to suit up to deal w/ this mob. [or not, they are gentle bees]
Worcester bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Ukur2o4fE#)
yay! this is nice weather
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happy spring soulstice!
if you see that yellow stuff, that was a pollen patty. obviously the girls been hungry cause it's no longer rectangular. this 2nd fondant aka bee candy [i like using the phrase 'bee candy'] is sposedta help them bridge across one frame to the next and not starve in the proverbial belly of a whale. this time next month i'll be kissing my bees [hopefully 2 hives] goodbye and going to nebraska to play w/ someone else's bees.
Last day of winter X bee candy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zC9WVWdQwo#)
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I would never imagine that "bee candy" was a thing. Raising bees through the winter never really occurred to me as a necessity... guess I learned something today. Nice bees! Someday I'll raise them too, hopefully.
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happy spring soulstice!
if you see that yellow stuff, that was a pollen patty. obviously the girls been hungry cause it's no longer rectangular. this 2nd fondant aka bee candy [i like using the phrase 'bee candy'] is sposedta help them bridge across one frame to the next and not starve in the proverbial belly of a whale. this time next month i'll be kissing my bees [hopefully 2 hives] goodbye and going to nebraska to play w/ someone else's bees.
Last day of winter X bee candy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zC9WVWdQwo#)
your bees dank.
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thanks, somethingmustbreaknow!
20matar, you don't have much of a winter, do you? that bodes well for keeping bees and not having to supplement them in times of dearth.
what doesn't bode well is brazil is where european X african bees mated and started the hybrid 'killer bees' or 'africanized'. they're hardy and prolific but they're supposedly no fun to work [except in puerto rico where genetically 'africanized' bees lack the defensiveness endemic to their genes]. nobody knows why but perhaps it has to do w/ rainfall? like in the states AHB go from texas west but haven't gained a strong foothold in the southeast.
here's some more of my ladies enjoying the weather today.
Gratuitous bee footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTi4zBizhUc#)
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kinda crazy that from last winter when i started this thread til now i've successfully overwintered my bees and i've got an intern i'm training. ideally i'd have a few to help my mom w/ this hive and install my 2nd jawn if it comes while i'm away. my other buddy is getting bees this yr so i'm building a little community, pretty hyped on that.
they're clustered towards the top of the hive amidst bee candy and pollen patties w/ mad honey stored. my freind was reticent but all those bees and no stings. total sweethearts!
(http://i64.tinypic.com/29m1sw9.jpg)
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Added bonus is you now have an all white everything bee suit in your wardrobe.
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The mental image of bees just eating a chunk of foundant is too much for me to bear. Good thing there are pictures. Your girls are awesome!
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it's a cumbersome kit, soda. i'd look like a fencer trying to skate but i prolly could wear it to the bar and make out w/ girls.
thanks 20matar. look what my girls laced me w/ last yr!
the dark almost red honey is better than anything at the store but the lighter colored stuff damn near made me juice myself! wish i knew what flowers went into it cause i would for sure plant more.
only got one frame since winter is barely over but come june, i'll be able to lace everyone i fuck w/.
Last yrs honey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_M7bWALCbw#)
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got out in the field today, quick inspection of the 2nd floor. seen some open brood, some pollen, some capped brood and some honey. my deputy beekeeper freaked out and dropped a frame!
it was distressing, not least of all to the bees!
somehow nobody got stung even though he deserved it for that move [until later he was stung independent of that act] and we continued the inspection. next wk i'm gonna put a new floor on it and reverse the first and 2nd stories to 'trick' the bees out of swarming. soon after it's gonna be time to put honey supers on and a month later, take em away.
i might have some excess wax down the way if people are into skate candles.....
April 9, 2017 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7jTcITrb-E#)
Honey!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wiWBO48M1o#)
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diggging it.
have gnar.
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got out in the field today, quick inspection of the 2nd floor. seen some open brood, some pollen, some capped brood and some honey. my deputy beekeeper freaked out and dropped a frame!
it was distressing, not least of all to the bees!
somehow nobody got stung even though he deserved it for that move [until later he was stung independent of that act] and we continued the inspection. next wk i'm gonna put a new floor on it and reverse the first and 2nd stories to 'trick' the bees out of swarming. soon after it's gonna be time to put honey supers on and a month later, take em away.
i might have some excess wax down the way if people are into skate candles.....
April 9, 2017 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7jTcITrb-E#)
Honey!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wiWBO48M1o#)
Killin it man!!!
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I think it's time to ramp up production, the planet depends on you.
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i'm not sure who killed her or why but i'll know on sunday if we need to replace her or the bees already have. Queen substance will inundate the hive for 72 hours and keep the bees productive and happy but once it dissipates they'll know she's dead, throw down their tools and strike. but also riot. i'm hoping they had a new queen or this was a new queen and the old one who laid so well for me survived [she looked a lot like this though].
Dead queen bee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_o3Y8GjJnU#)
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i'm not sure who killed her or why but i'll know on sunday if we need to replace her or the bees already have. Queen substance will inundate the hive for 72 hours and keep the bees productive and happy but once it dissipates they'll know she's dead, throw down their tools and strike. but also riot. i'm hoping they had a new queen or this was a new queen and the old one who laid so well for me survived [she looked a lot like this though].
Dead queen bee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_o3Y8GjJnU#)
The Queen is dead, long live the Queen!
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Have you ever tried eating the larvae?
"Crickets might be the most accessible, but I think one of the best places to start might be bee larvae. One of the things I find exciting about bees is in many places they are a by-product of beekeeping. Beekeepers are keeping bees all over the world, and many are removing these male bee larvae, or drone brood, as a strategy to reduce the population of this parasite called the Varroa mite, which many scientists think is one of the contributing factors to colony collapse disorder."
http://www.avclub.com/article/ever-growing-case-eating-insects-253764 (http://www.avclub.com/article/ever-growing-case-eating-insects-253764)
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Have you ever tried eating the larvae?
"Crickets might be the most accessible, but I think one of the best places to start might be bee larvae. One of the things I find exciting about bees is in many places they are a by-product of beekeeping. Beekeepers are keeping bees all over the world, and many are removing these male bee larvae, or drone brood, as a strategy to reduce the population of this parasite called the Varroa mite, which many scientists think is one of the contributing factors to colony collapse disorder."
http://www.avclub.com/article/ever-growing-case-eating-insects-253764 (http://www.avclub.com/article/ever-growing-case-eating-insects-253764)
funny you should ask. no i haven't yet but i don't want to use chemicals on my bees to rid them of varroa mites so removing [and freezing] a frame of drone brood is going to be one of my 'treatment free' treatments.
and i've considered eating the drones behind this article or one like it. spose it comes down to how i'm feeling mid-summer when it's time to freeze the drones, i'm not aghast at the idea.
sposedta requeen today if the rain lets up. buying a 'varroa sensitive hygenic' queen who's daughters are sposedta be able to detect and remove mites from inside cells where they are feasting on larva. seems too good to be true but we'll see.
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Damn please try to make a larvae taco like this:
(http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/6286/21/original/800.jpg)
and post a review.
I really liked that interview, that section about "bee bread" was really interesting too.
I'm gonna order that book for my mom for Mother's Day, and read it quick before I give it to her.
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it looks good as hell on that dia de los muertos pano, childhood!
i'll see about eating some drone brood in mid-summer.
my deputy came by today and we installed a new Queen. either they accept her and feed her or they gather around her in a ball and suffocate her. from videos usually she comes w/ a few 'handlers' but this one is alone in her cage. i couldn't tell if the worker bees came in peace or war but i did see a proboscis going into the hole which leads me to believe a little friendly 'trophallaxis' or 'breaking bread' is going on. bees feed each other mouth to mouth or in certain cases of newborn bees, ass to mouth.
anal trophallaxis, as described by rosario dawson.
so i'll pop the top in 3 days time and see if the Queen has been liberated from her cell and accepted as the new matriarch or if the bees have turned on her in a suicidal bid to raise their own queen.. tbc....
Queen install (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVJlj_t_ld8#)
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hey ya'll, having the time of my life at bee camp! we created a swarm, caught another, installed packages, now the newbies are learning to graft queens [we work traders learned last wk]. life is good!
everyone's geared up except me, they called me 'bee whisperer'. skating has made me tough to where a few stings ain't no thing.
(http://i65.tinypic.com/mwths6.jpg)
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Killing it as always, Shark Tits. Especially now that the sun is out! You should definitely mail some bees to your PALs so more people can get started. Although I'm sure there is a hive nearby, we're having too many bees flying in my home.
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There is at least 30 words in this post I don't understand lol.
I bet that honey is unreal good. I have a local beefarm that produces on a small scale, but the honey is fuckin top notch.
So sick what your doing man!
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Killing it as always, Shark Tits.
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review of "Bee Quest" thought of you
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/09/bee-quest-dave-goulson-review-science-and-nature-travel (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/09/bee-quest-dave-goulson-review-science-and-nature-travel)
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How much you slangin a jar for?
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prolly $20 a pound, fullcab. here is our updated 'american gothic' w/ rusty's hoodie X bandana.
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2rqgi6r.jpg)
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i've always wanted to stick my hand into a swarm of bees and feel blessed to have been afforded the opportunity. shit was amazing! started a mini trend whereby everyone else wanted a pic w/ their hand in the amorphous ball of bee humanity.
touching a swarm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euc4xOBwytc#)
here's me dumping out a package so we could make the swarm above. then a natural swarm happened while this was going! incredible experience!
pouring out a package of bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nna7RvNsH2c#)
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super dank!
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can you spot the queen?
Vsh queen of grafton hill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGH3IrKe-Bk#)
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honey flow is on!
i'm not gonna screw myself like i did last yr so every time i make a jar for someone i make a big one for myself.
gotta get boxes and ready to ship.
honey frames july 2017 grafton hill bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i0zkvPxRss&feature=youtu.be#)
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pretty dope. always hyped on new shark tits'
posts in this thread. either way i get to know
and see something about bees and honey &
it all confirms that you are well and alive tits.
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thanks a lot, somethingmustbreaknow!
got out there today and added a 4th floor to my 2nd hive [got em in may] and borrowed this frame offa hive one, my hive from 2016. my girl got zapped twice and i had a bee land on my ankle and stab me through the sock but mostly they seemed really relaxed considering this time last yr we were in full on nectar dearth and they were defending their stores w/ their lives.
whoever was contemplating getting bees, make it happen. it's up there w/ skating as far as great hobbies.
http://youtu.be/qGH-6Yl3QMQ (http://youtu.be/qGH-6Yl3QMQ)
this ain't why i do it but what a great ancillary benefit! my bees rule so fucking hard!
light and dark honeycomb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBf3QdtcjR4&feature=youtu.be#)
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dude the shit is lookin fuckin good I'm finna grow and produce hella shit when I can get some land
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autopsy and truncated explanation of varroa mites.
thanks bawtawd, you definitely should live a range life if you can settle down. then you would settle down.
removing varroa mites from frozen bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDq_qsl7BoU&feature=youtu.be#)
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a bee tree got felled at my mom's work so i got called to do my first ever 'cutout' or 'bee transplant'.
my beekeeping gf just left me so that sucked but my mom knows bees and her coworker manned the chainsaw. grabbed thousands of bees, a lotta honey, alotta fucking shit and made it back home. i hope they get sitauted, not robbed by my 2 pre-existing hives and keep doing god's work. had a few bites of honey from the comb, bruin style. oh muh god!
Bee related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK2BHvAbYmw#)
Midwife skills (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubK1_XAzJA0#)
From grafton to grafton hill, bees have arrived (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVwYzQzPYTc#)
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i know it's insects not mammals but picture you saved a dog and come home a month later and your other dogs are devouring her.
i think i'm gonna write a short story about these poor bees, Alamo brave and eternal fidelity.
*taps playing
my poor feral hive getting robbed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1LqhlQBrs&feature=youtu.be#)
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Just sat here and read through this whole thread. Amazing work! i just learned so much rad shit about bees that i didn't know. really awesome work you're doing. gotta replenish our ecosystem.
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hey gang, not much going on bee-wise in new england. before i got into bees i thought they died or hibernated all winter so this is still neat or novel to me. that white stuff is bee candy, basically sugar boiled into a rock like hard cocaine. i'll prolly put some more on them later to supplement til they can forage again in april.
really i just like to see my bees whenever i can like a rich man checks his balance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiUqUkwNBQ&feature=youtu.be
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Bees ain't shit but hos and tricks.
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that cold snap killed the hell outta my bees. i'm an optimist so instead of loosing 2 hives, i just came up on 200 lbs of honey. well not 'instead' but as well as. win some, loose some. hopefully i can sell a bunch of honey, buy some new NUC's [nucleus colonies] and i'll rebuild my apiary in spring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG76SKYQdsA
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About how much land would you say you need, in order to start raising bees?
I've been thinking about maybe starting to do it, when I'm housesitting for my parents in the Summer.
Like they have a moderately sized, side yard, but there's neighbors on the other side of the fence.
You think they'd get pissed about it?
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About how much land would you say you need, in order to start raising bees?
I've been thinking about maybe starting to do it, when I'm housesitting for my parents in the Summer.
Like they have a moderately sized, side yard, but there's neighbors on the other side of the fence.
You think they'd get pissed about it?
bees will travel for forage so your yard don't have to sustain them. in fact, they seem to go up and out, totally neglecting flowers w/in feet of their home. they describe distances to nectar via inerpretive 'waggle dances' and i don't think they have a piece of language [dance] for short distances so they can only say 'roses 200 ft south' or whatever. that's my theory.
so for neighbors, i've got mine on a fence line and the plumber on the other side got stung once but he also swatted at the bee. i told him 'just walk away if they're warning you' and i give him a little jar of honey every yr.
some people are real pussies about it but the thing of bees is they're only defensive of their home. bees on flowers are peaceful. even at the hive they're usually sweet unless i start hitting yellowjakcets w/ my electric tennis racket and they just seem me wil'in and don't realize i'm on their side.
i recommend it. they'll change the flora of your area, pollinating what they want and making more of it. they're the opposite of people, everything they touch improves.
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i installed 4 new nucs today. 2 in my yard and 2 at the golf course. the Queens are marked which takes the sport out of finding them but sure is convenient. think i saw 3 of them today.
received some gentle coercion [bees landing on my hands like 'we could be stinging you, be gentle'] as well as a few deserv-ed stings. overall, great day, happy to be around bees again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdwd3duPMgY&feature=youtu.be
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out of curiousity, how many times a year do you get stung? i think ive only been stung like 5 or 6 times in my life and it pisses me off every single time. the last time they got me right on the tip of my nose and i looked like rudolph for an hour.
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i've gotten like 5 in 2 days but then i installed 3 hives w/ no stings. sometimes i'll go a few wks, a month w/ none but i prolly average one a wk for half the yr more or less. 26?
that sounds low, maybe 50 a yr but it's not that bad. to me it's like falling on some stairs or something. mildly painful, mildly enjoyable pain if that makes sense.
sposedta be great for you immune system too.
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I'm really jealous and at the same time stoked on your bee keeping Sharktits. One day I hope to have enough spare land to host bees.
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i've gotten like 5 in 2 days but then i installed 3 hives w/ no stings. sometimes i'll go a few wks, a month w/ none but i prolly average one a wk for half the yr more or less. 26?
that sounds low, maybe 50 a yr but it's not that bad. to me it's like falling on some stairs or something. mildly painful, mildly enjoyable pain if that makes sense.
sposedta be great for you immune system too.
That's not too bad! Bees don't bother me at all, it's hornets and wasps that annoy the fuck outta me. I get those fishing/camping all the time in NW Ontario.
I once got stung by a bee on my nipple though and that hurt like fuck lol.
I'm stoked on your bee keeping and stories!
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Sign of spring, beekeeping thread bump
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that's it, i love these little ladies. we got marked queens this yr which makes em easy to find but i like that game of finding them w/out the assist. oh well. i've got wicked gentle bees this yr. i've installed and inspected 6 hives and i barely got 2 stings. i got more buying them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd-39oZJ-TM
yo, it's a pleasure every time they let me enter their home. beekeeping is so... consensual!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwaRo343djs
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so my Russians arrived last night, i put them in a hive this morning. here's a little clip of my 3 hives in my garden w/ tori amos song. my out yard i 4 deep [2 mine, 2 my pals'] and i know a few people who got bees since i've known them. i don't wish ill on any bees and they're an integral part of the ecosytem but lowkey i feel a little competitive. i want my bees to style on everyone else's bees.
i'm getting really good at spotting the Queens and i got my little Salvadorean neighbor to help me inspect yesterday.
maybe he'll get bees when he's older.
there's a skater at my DIY who got a package of bees, are there no slap pals w/ bees yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_BZS4yjXec&feature=youtu.be
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just some garden footage of 2 forager bees. one getting pollen to feed the children, one getting nectar to turn into honey. i wanted to open the hives and hassle the bees but you're not sposedta work them on gray/rainy days and the sky is on the brink like j.mascis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skEVcofeK7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euT6NeIIb2A
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so we're in a nectar flow right now and at least one of my hives is producing on a level we'll have a harvest. first yr bees, you're not really sposedta take from but if they fill a 3rd floor, it's ok. my Russians are slow on the draw and my pastel hive just received a 3rd floor [honey super] so hopefully they'll kick in this yr too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1Ygrk9_rE&feature
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i'm like one of those youtube beekeepers now that normal people look at aghast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKc44XkKdQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mjqwlPR6uk
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Loving the honey, meng!
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Roll that beautiful bee footage.
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here's my pastel hive swarming on me. i was so good to ya'll and this is how you repay me?
i lost half of hive one yesterday. swarms are beautiful and amazing but there goes half your workforce [including the Queen] so it's potentially costly if i gotta buy a new Queen. oh well, my neighborhood just got some new bees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAhYqfd_uYg
i spoke too soon and my bees came back!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pT0ac30Fog
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here's my pastel hive swarming on me. i was so good to ya'll and this is how you repay me?
i lost half of hive one yesterday. swarms are beautiful and amazing but there goes half your workforce [including the Queen] so it's potentially costly if i gotta buy a new Queen. oh well, my neighborhood just got some new bees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAhYqfd_uYg
i spoke too soon and my bees came back!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pT0ac30Fog
If your beekeeping was a reality show, I would be so psyched. It seems dramatic, keeping the hive healthy, installing a new queen, etc. Watching you scrape the comb for honey is also oddly satisfying.
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thanks pugmaster. i would love to do a documentary, just philosophizing and hassling the bees. processing the honey is so satisfying to actually do as well.
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these girls are in a good mood. i got stung once today but i made of w/ 9 frames of insect sugar! i could've taken more but i only had 9 empties to switch out. these are from my 'bee collective' so i'm gonna tip out the house half of what i get [then i'll tax half of theirs' but my bees are the real producers].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvBxG3JNOu8
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bees are interchangeable like one's as good as the next except the Queen. she's the $40 bee. it's thunderstorms outside cockblocking me from installing her but she's gotta get put in a hive tonight.
(http://i63.tinypic.com/15fn32v.jpg)
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got new bees today in new hampshire. come a long ways since starting this thread and thinking/reading about bees a few yrs ago to being comfortable around them like this. life is good. prolly get banned in 5-4-3-2-1. happy spring.
RIP rusty berrings [that's his hoodie]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvMZpNaAT78&feature=youtu.be
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You getting any good sales with the honey yet? I remember you saying the farmer's market was giving you grief.
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I miss shark tits beekeeping updates.
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https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=104956.0
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being hanging out with this girl, she took me out to her hive a couple days ago. We opened it up and took out all the racks to check for queen brood pods or whatever they are called, she was worried they might be preparing to abscond. I tell you, no gear on and bees getting louder and louder as you take their house apart, you better be on your most zen shit, it was a lot of fun and I was given a jar of honey for my troubles. And yes, I saw the queen!
Wherever you are shark, hope your bees are doing good.
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I bet she goes off like a frog in a sock
Just like if she doesn’t care about getting hurt by the bees or anything she probably a real one in the sack
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Hope to get something up and running once we get our permaculture garden started
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I bet she goes off like a frog in a sock
cannot confirm or disconfirm but you made me laugh pretty good with this visual.
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https://youtu.be/Zp0N5PJxamE
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beekeeping is dope. my cousin does it. dude's got 6 or 7 hives. I helped with a harvest last year and put in a full days work on that. Last time I was back that way we checked a couple hives and found a swarm from elsewhere which was really cool. Homie is deathly allergic and suits up every time. My lady and I talk about getting a few hives when we buy a spot.
Aside form the beekeeping activities, a supply of fresh honey is always excellent