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| Bee Stories from Indiana |
Indiana Beekeeper Indiana Another story of humor, (see what ya did, Ya got me on a roll) I was called to "rescue" a man from a swarm of bees just north of our town. When I got there he was in the house with his doors locked. Apparently thinking that the bees would do like the ones on cartoons and form into a giant hand and open the door. When I walked to the door he asked if it was safe to come out. I assured him it was. He took me to the back of the house and pointed out a beautiful swarm hanging from an equally beautiful evergreen tree at about eye level. He wanted them gone. I went to the car and retrieved a nuc box. (Hadn't made that bucket yet) and the pruners and returned to the bees. He asked if I was going to put on a suit and I told him I didn't realize it was a formal affair. When I got to the tree to take a close look I realized they were wrapped on a couple of branches making it difficult to give them enough of a shake to drop them into the nuc box. He asked how I was going to do it and I told him that if it wasn't such a nice tree I would trim the branches and set them into the box but didn't want to ruin a nice tree. His comment was, "Cut the whole tree down if you need to. Just get them out of here." I trimmed the branches and lowered them into the box but there were a lot of bees still flying. When it appeared that most were inside and some were starting to leave again I put a screen lid on it and waited until the flying bees were setteled on the screen on the outside of it. I then picked up the box and started to the car. He told me to let him get in the house before I shook the bees off of the outside and I told him they were not going to be shook. I placed them on the front seat with me and he stood there shaking his head as I drove away. My next stop was in the town of Kentland at the grocery store where I was dropping a bundle of newspapers. (My wife owns the county newspaper called The Benton Review. I put the windows up so the bees on the outside of the box wouldn't get away and went inside. Coming back about 5 minutes later my car was surrounded by people. I asked one teenage lad, "Hey, what's up with that car." He told me that it appeared that a bunch of bees had attacked it and gotten inside. There were probably 50 bees or so on the windows. I looked at the boy and said, "boy, sure would hate to be in there, wouldn't you." He quickly agreed. Then I made my way to the driver's door, carefully opened it and brushed the bees off of the seat and shut the door. As I drove off I wished I had a camera to take a picture of the faces of the boy and the group of people. Priceless. |
| Bee Stories from Indiana |
Indiana Beekeeper Indiana Another humorous story before I quit boring you. The Catholic Church in our town (Sacred Heart) has a colony that lives in the peak of the roof. It must be a very good breed because they have survived the mites and still produce two spring swarms every years. The first year that I lived close Father Gross came knocking on my door and, not knowing I was a bee keeper but as a police officer, told me there was a big bunch of dangerous bees in a tree where the children were about to be sent out to play and they were going to have to keep the kids in. He wanted to know if I had anything that could "kill them quickly" for the sake of the children. Putting on my best serious face (which is hard since I am rarely serious) I told him I would come apprehend the intruders. He went back over and was standing about 50 feet from them. I walked up with a plastic bucket that I had cut large strips out of the sides of and covered them with #8 screening. The lid also has most of the center plastic removed and is covered with the same screen and on the edges also has a couple of bee escapes pointing inward. When I arrived with the bucket he thought I has some magic killer potient in it. He freaked out when I sat the bucket below the swarm that was hanging about four feet above the ground and started examining the swarm from about a foot away. They were attached to a fairly small limb so I pulled the pruners from by back pocket and cut the limbs away from the swarm. When the only limb left was the one they were on I took a grip on it, cut it from the tree and turned to place it in the bucket. Father was crossing himself, sweating like he had just finished the Boston Marathon and shaking his head. I Gently laid them in the bucket and put the lid on. The few bees that were still flying soon found the bee escapes and entered with the rest of the bees. Father Gross then carefully walked up to peer into the bucket and asked me if I would consider some mental counceling if he provided the funding for it. Since then though, he has been much braver about the bees. I have removed enough swarms from his parsonage that he is now almost brave enough to hold the bucket. After each swarm is removed the following Sunday's sermon is on the "Beautiful creatures God has blessed his church rafters with." He cracks me up. His comment now, when he finds a new swarm is, "Don, there's more girls for you." Of course he never turns down the free jar of honey. |
Weird Apiary  |
Weird Apiary Indiana * My first hive. Ran out of wooden supers so had to put a styrofoam on * Really wierd apiary. Speaks for itself. |
Weird Apiary |
Weird Apiary Indiana Haley's hive. Haley is 8 years old and crazy about bees. She was present when I gathered a swarm so I gave her a hive body to paint as she liked and she is now the owner and keeper of that hive in my yard. |
Weird Apiary  |
Weird Apiary Indiana Here are photos of my rather strange apiary. I am sure it will only get stranger as time goes on. I've seen some hives that have carved faces and such attached. Who knows what all I will end up with. The barrel in the photos was removed from property of a grandfather who was afraid his grandkids would go poking into the hole and get stung. I have a strong hive from those bees and had some great white wax from inside. The yellow hive is my most productive. It is called a D.E. Hive manufactured by Dave Emery of Canada. It has a ventilation chamber on top that causes air to rise throught he hive much as the attic of a house does. In so doing it draws fresh air in from the bottom and exhaust the moist air at the top. Instead of 2/3 of the bees fanning and working the honey while a third are gathering, the roles reverse. 2/3 are gathering and it only takes 1/3 to process the honey and maintain a proper temperature. The hive is actually most efficient when set right out in the sun. The others are regular hives, although one, my first ever, has a copper roof on it. Enjoy and feel free to use the photos as you desire. All of my hives are operating without chemicals. |
Haley's Bees   |
Weird Apiary Indiana While neighbors were running for cover because of this large tornado of bees crossing the yard, Haley was standing in a crash course location so that the swarm passed directly around her. Smile and all. |
Urban Hives |
TX Beekeeper Texas 3 Hives, urban style, Fall 2009, YUMMY! |
Solar Bees |
Littleton Beekeeper Colorado That is a solar powered fan on top. I have no idea if it helped or not. They put 210# of honey in seven medium supers. These were 10 frame boxes but I only put 8 drawn frames in them. Some of my other hives did over five supers. Spring 2010 Littleton, CO |
| Bee Feedback |
Clevlan Beekeeper Ohio I know that sometimes it must be frustrating for you to send so many of your "children" away and never hear anything about them. Well, I received my queen and her workers in the spring of 2009. We are now a year and a quarter on and they are doing great. They superseded their queen in August last year (no sign of injury but something obviously had gone wrong). They survived a tough winter and a cold wet spring and are now booming. They are incredibly gentle, easy to work and so far, there has not been a Veroa issue at all. Thank you from a very satisfied customer! Spring 2010 Cleveland, OH |
Bees on their porch |
Refugio Beekeeper Texas Bees are thinking about leaving! Add several supers... 5-6 are not too many if the flow is on. Spring 2010 Refugio, TX |
Package Progress |
BeeWeaver Texas Frame from package hived for nearly 2 weeks. They are drawing out comb, storing syrup, nectar and pollen, Queen is on top of the frame.... but always check for eggs at the 2 week check up. |
| grandchild bee story |
Columbia BeeKeeper Missouri I’ve started keeping bees on the farm. I purchased five queens and 15 pounds of bees from an apiary in Texas and installed them a few weeks ago. When I examined them a week or so ago I didn’t see three of the queens and while I figured the queens were still there I wasn’t 100% sure. So a couple days ago I look for them again and found them all. > Yesterday when I was over at my daughter’s house for a few minutes I reported to my daughter and her husband that I had seen all five of my bee queen’s yesterday. Xan, my 3 year-old granddaughter, was standing in the driveway with us and she asked, “Do they have crowns?” Spring 2010 Columbia, MO |
My Girls  |
Bartonville Beekeeper Texas Spring 2010 Bartonville, TX I know your busy, but if you get a moment check out the fruits of your labor in the pictures |
Bees from Beeweavers        |
Arlington Beekeeper Texas We picked up the bees with no incident. Except for stopping three times to let the curiosity seekers out to get back home, the trip was a non-event. Arriving back in time to get them installed in their new homes by 3:00 PM. Spring 2010 Arlington, TX |
Papa Beekeeper, Boy Beekeeper    |
Mo Beekeeper Missouri Here are some pics of my soon to be 4-year-old son and I installing our package of BeeWeaver bees a couple of weeks ago. That was so much fun. Thanks again. The first 2 inspections have gone well and we already have several frames of capped brood. Diamond, MO Spring 2010 |
Damaged Package |
BeeWeaver Texas This is a damaged package... hive the bees as usual and contact us immediately. |
feeding bees |
anonymous Other The sugar syrup sent with the bees can be used... but not the feed can. The can does not leak syrup when it is stationary. Sadly the bees will starve if the can is used. |
Package and TBH   |
Alpine Beekeeper Texas Spring 2010 Alpine, TX Package after shipment, very normal "drop". Being put in a package and being in the package is very stressful for the bees. Top Bar Hive, a new home. |
Swarm Timea       |
Belton Beekeeper Texas Bees... thinking about swarming, getting ready to swarm, the swarm, and what was left (notice swarm cells). Belton, TX Spring 2010 |
Top Bars |
Austin Beekeeper Texas Hiving BeeWeaver Packages into Top Bar Hives |
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