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Post by cff on Apr 12, 2009 14:12:53 GMT -5
Is a small pin oak, kinda short so I can drive right up to it.  Bees just seem to love this tree.  I can sit a Nuc on a limb and show the girls a new home.  After I've got a few ladies inspecting the new house I can find the queen in this pile and put her into the hive  Then they all march in like solders   |
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Post by ceara on Apr 12, 2009 19:13:01 GMT -5
That's so neat!
But what the heck is that shiny bit in picture #4?
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Post by canadamike on Apr 12, 2009 20:07:12 GMT -5
I would suspect it is an ols standard picture, not a numeric one, and this happens sometimes in processing when 2 films stick together, stopping the chemicals to d otheir job properly. If it is numeric, you are looking at an alien micro ship hiding itself in some alien fog  |
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Post by cff on Apr 12, 2009 20:15:39 GMT -5
Actually that's a bee, it must have been real close to the lens and the flash
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Post by ceara on Apr 12, 2009 23:44:05 GMT -5
Alien micro ship... good one! Sorry but I kept looking and looking at the pictures trying to figure out what it was. Never thought it would be a bee too close to the camera. My last thought before coming back to check for new posts was that maybe there was something in the photo you did not want to share, and so Photoshop'd it out or something. Are they nice bees? Well I guess so because you were giving them a new home! It sure did not take them long to move in. |
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Post by grungy on Apr 13, 2009 3:30:46 GMT -5
Good luck eith your new hive. And when you mentioned a bee to close to the camera, on second look one can actually make out the bee shape. Thanks for sharing cff.
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Post by ottawagardener on Apr 13, 2009 8:32:34 GMT -5
Man, it took me a while to see the giant bee.
That is so neat. Thanks!
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Post by plantsnobin on Apr 13, 2009 8:59:16 GMT -5
Your land looks so wonderful. No houses in sight, at least from that angle, and flat land. Just about makes one want to pack up and take a trip. If we didn't have a grandson on the way we would be looking for greener pastures.
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Post by cff on Apr 13, 2009 22:16:07 GMT -5
Karen its the angle; there are houses all around us, we were planning to sell this place but the real estate market isn't doing too hot around here - Your welcome to visit anytime and I would be glad to put ya on the EZ payment plan if ya wanna keep it  |
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Post by flowerpower on Apr 14, 2009 5:31:09 GMT -5
So you are moving to Binghamton, right? It doesn't snow that much there. lol |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 14, 2009 6:19:53 GMT -5
Not in July there isn't, LOL
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Post by cff on Apr 14, 2009 21:56:14 GMT -5
You know that's kinda tempting considering all the 100 degree heat we have down here but I've spent a little time in NY and I noticed that I have a heck of a time commutating; no one understands southern English so I recon I'll stay south of Interstate 40 and deal with the heat |
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Post by flowerpower on Apr 15, 2009 21:57:19 GMT -5
100 degree weather y'all can keep. lol But you should come up to cool off this summer. 80 in the day 55 at night. Now do your close neighbors have veggie gardens that might depend on your bees? |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 17, 2009 7:58:42 GMT -5
That is positively awesome! My husband wanted to put 3 of his hives in the van with us when we moved from California to North Carolina... He said that when we stopped for the night he could let them out to fly around and have a bit of a stretch... This was in January... He nearly asphyxiated laughing at the "gasping fish" expression I had as he detailed his plans.
This is a pretty novel approach to the process of swarm retrieval. Do you somehow attract the bees to that particular spot or were they there voluntarily? It occurs to me that you could attract them with a smear of honey.
Our hive has done something interesting this year. On two separate occasions they became "agitated". We thought they were going to swarm but never did. They were active about 3 hours before sundown and by sundown they were calm and running in and out as normal. Any thoughts?
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Post by macmex on Apr 17, 2009 9:37:51 GMT -5
Our hives have done that, and my take on it, was that we had inclement weather for a couple of days. Then, when there was a break in the bad weather, they all piled out like kids, eager to use the rest room. Could that be the case with your hives?
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