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BEEEEEEEEES!
12 years ago
"MORELS taste good in omelettes..."
Possibly Africanized ones, we don't know, and they're less than thirty feet from our porch in one of the trees on our property.
[UPDATE] It seems it may have been a false alarm, thankfully. That big blob of what I'd thought was wax and honey (bummer) turned out to be solid bees all the way in. It seems- and I'm just guessing, here- that a queen was either moving her colony to a new site and her hive followed her, or she was a new queen just off of her mating-flight and taking a portion of the old colony with her to establish a new hive. I'm not sure, but I think that's what bees do. Either way- NO BEES. I went back out to keep tabs on the "hive" and the blob was gone. The entire thing, disappeared as if it had never been there. If it hadn't been for the fact that
kanis had seen them, too, I'd think I was dreaming. LOL [/UPDATE]
Scared the pants of of me when I heard the buzzing... I wouldn't even have known about them if I hadn't been releasing a wasp that had gotten caught inside the house and something had disturbed the hive around the same time. Big, fat blob of wax and honey just sitting out of reach, dammit! I estimate the hive to be about a foot tall and six inches thick (it's shaped in a thick sort of backwards-facing 'j' and attached to the fork of a branch)- it might hold around a thousand bees?
In other news, Kani and me are coming up to Winnipeg for Keycon, our local science-fiction convention, so any furs who know me and want to meet up, lemme know! We should be arriving around May 15th and we're staying until the next Monday or Tuesday. So, yes, it's on May long.
Cheers!
[UPDATE] It seems it may have been a false alarm, thankfully. That big blob of what I'd thought was wax and honey (bummer) turned out to be solid bees all the way in. It seems- and I'm just guessing, here- that a queen was either moving her colony to a new site and her hive followed her, or she was a new queen just off of her mating-flight and taking a portion of the old colony with her to establish a new hive. I'm not sure, but I think that's what bees do. Either way- NO BEES. I went back out to keep tabs on the "hive" and the blob was gone. The entire thing, disappeared as if it had never been there. If it hadn't been for the fact that
kanis had seen them, too, I'd think I was dreaming. LOL [/UPDATE]Scared the pants of of me when I heard the buzzing... I wouldn't even have known about them if I hadn't been releasing a wasp that had gotten caught inside the house and something had disturbed the hive around the same time. Big, fat blob of wax and honey just sitting out of reach, dammit! I estimate the hive to be about a foot tall and six inches thick (it's shaped in a thick sort of backwards-facing 'j' and attached to the fork of a branch)- it might hold around a thousand bees?
In other news, Kani and me are coming up to Winnipeg for Keycon, our local science-fiction convention, so any furs who know me and want to meet up, lemme know! We should be arriving around May 15th and we're staying until the next Monday or Tuesday. So, yes, it's on May long.
Cheers!
Do be careful.... I wonder who you could even call about that :(
Luckily enough, they've actually moved on- no hive, it had just been a migrating swarm, probably following their queen to start a new colony
Dang it... I'm not gonna be in the 'peg until July again for Ai-Kon, so I'm gonna miss you again
They can come out and identify the bees, and they will collect them and relocate them to a honey farm where they can be protected.
Anyway, they've moved on, oddly enough, and if they'd hadn't, I would have found an apiary or an entomologist/specialist to possibly move them to a location where they'd be safe and so would we.
I'm glad I wasn't home at all for any of that- any insects give me the jeebies. :<
Cool that you could have the bees helped to a better site.