Video of beehive removal from the walls of a house (vs exterminated)

This guy gets a good sized 50,000+ bee beehive removed from the walls of his house instead of getting them exterminated.

Pretty cool stuff. I guess I knew bees generate heat, like how Japanese honeybees kill giant Asian hornets but never thought about how much 50,000 bees could generate in an enclosed space.



The video says they were removed to a bee farm. I wonder how confused the navigation circuitry in these bees get when the hive is moved.

 

With the Beepocalypse underway, I wonder how hefty a price this guy can fetch for them.

 

That's an interesting question.

I'd assumed that the guy whose home it was paid for the removal. The bee removal guy has to be paid, right? But I guess the bee farm is will to pay, too. Maybe the beekeeper pays for the removals guy and the homeowner just pays for the cost to repair his house. Can't imagine homeowner insurance covering that.

Or maybe the removals guy is a beekeeper? Now that I think about it, if I wanted bees removed and not killed, I'd try to find a beekeeper.

 

#beeslivesmatter

 

There are some farmers that would pay to have the bees relocated to their farm for the increased pollination. (if they had a shortage of bees)

 

Some apple and pear orchard owners become bee keepers and not for the honey. More bees equal larger yields of fruit.

Orchards have been known to buy bees. There is a market for them.

The guys seemed to know what he was doing so I imagine he is involved in the bee industry somehow.

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More from Google. It looks like someone got a nice established colony.


"Firstly, if you are establishing a colony, you will probably purchase a nucleus colony or a ‘nuc’. A nuc consists of a queen, brood, and workers in four or more frames."

 

My neighbor across the street in Baltimore was a beekeeper and the president of the area beekeepers association. Just never thought about it much.

I spent a huge chunk of the summer working on an apple orchard, but didn't see many bees around.

 

holy shit

 

I hate bees.

They can suck it, for all I care.

Fuck them.

 

how u gonna get dat sweet sweet honey

 

No bees, less food, humanity starves to death.

 

That's pretty cool.

I would have killed them with fire.

 

Where the trees in bloom?

The only time to bees care about the trees are when they are flowering.

Apples require pollen to be come from another tree and the bees transport the pollen.

The flowers are there producing nectar to get the bees to do the work for them.

Bees and flowing plants need each other. Well, the flowing plants need something to move the pollen.

The the pollen they want moved is across different apple types. A granny smith does not do well getting pollen from another granny smith. It needs pollen from a different type of apple tree.

 

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The flowers give nectar to the bees to make honey with. The flowers have pollen that sticks to the bees legs and it gets spread to other trees.

 

Good on the homeowners for paying for the bees extraction, rather than exterminating.