Worldwide Beekeeping

Beekeeping => Swarms, Cut Outs, Trap Outs and Bee Trees => Topic started by: neillsayers on April 24, 2016, 11:15:15 pm

Title: feral hives in beech trees?
Post by: neillsayers on April 24, 2016, 11:15:15 pm

Beech trees are prolific in this particular hollow I live in. Many are ancient, hollow giants, still living. In thirty plus years of hunting the Ozarks I come across many feral bee hives but I can't remember one in a beech tree. Has anyone ever found a colony in a beech?

Title: Re: feral hives in beech trees?
Post by: Dunkel on April 26, 2016, 04:30:45 pm

Neil, same thing here.  I have only found them in Red or Black Oaks.  Not that I have found that many.

Title: Re: feral hives in beech trees?
Post by: neillsayers on April 26, 2016, 10:20:51 pm

Thanks Dunkel,

I have seen them in elm and gum trees also. Maybe the bees make a judgment on the strength of these old snags.

Title: Re: feral hives in beech trees?
Post by: lazy shooter on April 26, 2016, 10:32:49 pm

Our bees in West Texas are usually in live oak and post oak trees, especially the post oak trees.  Post oaks tend to have more hollows in them than do most trees.  We don't have beech trees.  I'm not sure what a beech tree looks like.