Then you don’t want to read about this guy... https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wild-bee-keeping
-D > On Jun 13, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > How do people end up in this line of work? I cannot imagine getting stung > with regularity... > > When I was in Fiji I was stung twice by Asian (?) hornets. My heart almost > stopped beating from the pain. The hornet lived to carry on its business. > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:37 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> So after the rains of the last few days stopped the bee guy came to deal >> with these bees I have in an eave on my side porch. He opened up the >> soffit and there are 11 combs up in there between the rafters and >> nailers. He said the combs look empty, no honey (but something else in >> there I forget what he called it), but there is one new comb in the >> front. He says the bees might be robbing it of honey and taking it >> somewhere else if the queen has vacated. he had to go home and get some >> more equipment or something. One bee hit him on the ear as he was not >> wearing his protective gear, even though he has been stung hundreds of >> times he says it still affects him, his ear will likely swell up. >> >> He's supposed to come back and try to find the queen or deal with it all >> somehow. It is all quite interesting. >> >> -- >> --FT >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
