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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: brooksbeefarm on June 02, 2016, 11:00:16 am
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Was working a outyard last Monday when my brother called and said one of my hives was turned over on his property about 15 miles from where i was? It was late when i got there and they were all home and it was the biggest hive in the yard. 3 deeps and 4 med. supers mostly full but not all capped and they were not happy :no:. Must of happened 3 to 4 days earlier/ they had built comb between the separated supers? the skid they were on had rotted so i set concrete blocks for a stand and started setting it back up 8). If you've ever had this happen you know what happened :yes: Lost count of the stings, mostly ankles and legs, i never taped my pant legs :o it was hot and muggy and my bee jacket was sticking to me with sweat, gloves also. Well got it back up, had to separate the frames they were stuck together, and hang them straight in there boxes. The top super had two frames of honey stuck together and when i broke them apart UGH, there was hundreds of shb larva crawling through them :o a sickening sight that no beekeeper would ever want to see :no:. I went through the rest of the frames and never found any more or signs of shb, odd that i never seen any adult shb while putt the hive back? One reason is, this is an extremely large colony and i had to keep brushing the bees off my veil so i could see. I know iddee, perry squirt, mammy, Lazy's and many others on the forum are worried about me, But i'm all healed up now, working in the truck garden and ready for more action. :yes: Jack
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"Lost count of the stings, mostly ankles and legs, i never taped my pant leg"
Yes! I Was Worried! Dag Nabbit Jack! You Should Have Gone Back To The House And Got Suited Up For An Event Like That!
But, I have to admit that earlier this spring I got nailed about 30 times.... Soooo....
But Dag Nabbit Jack! We Should Be Smarter Than That!
I hope you get yelled at real good by Iddee!
Glad you are okay my friend, and I mean that! ~Hugs~
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SHH...it happens. :D
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Jen, home was 60 miles south of where i was, it was hot and muggy and i only use a jacket with the hood and gloves. When you sweat and the jacket sticks to your skin (i only had a T- shirt on under the jacket) the girls can have a field day stinging through it, you don't usually get the full sting, but enough you know it. The worst of them was my ankles :o i took so many there that they felt like they were on fire, didn't feel like stings and when i got home they looked like Popey legs :D, but after taking a shower and supper most of the swelling was gone and i scratched like a dog all night :sad: Mourning came and i was healed up. :yes: Jack
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I'll be you won't have any aches and pains for a few days ;) 8)
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NO, CBT. Here's the way to work bees. :yes: :yes: :yes:
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Yeeeah... that's a pic of Iddee about 20 years ago he he he he :laugh:
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He is right I get more sting from bees that think they are trapped in my clothing.
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Yes Apis, like my armpits ~ Geez
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Geez Jack, sorry to hear about your hive. :sad:
About those stings................ ;D ;) Karma baby, karma!
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SHH...it happens. :D
It sure does!
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Good One Perry !! :D
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jack.........
love your adventures with bees, sure teaches me WHAT NOT TO DO............. :D :D :D
also.........would ya rather be working bees stinging your ankles to beejeebers (or anywhere else) or standing on and swinging in the wind on an aerial fire ladder???
personally i would pick the bees!................ :D
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If you ask me, Jack, the bees WORKED YOU OVER! not the other way around. Wow!
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Yesterday i went to a bee yard at a neighbor friend only 5 miles from home. I had made a split 3 or 4 weeks ago? really i had forgot about them? The mother hive had bees bearding all over the front, the temp. was in the upper 70's and humid, i smoked them and took the lid off and things got bad in a hurry :o (2 deeps and 2 med. supers) the top deep and both supers were both full of brood and honey, the bottom deep was empty. I was going to rotate the two deeps when all a sudden bees are flying inside my veil :o, i took off through the Cedar trees taking the veil off on the run, but took 2 stings under the lower lip, 2 behind left ear, 1 on the neck before i got it off :sad:. Found i didn't have the zipper closed all the way on one side,went back to put the hive together and they were waiting for me :yes:, i got it together and put another super on top taking more hits. I never got to look at frames to many mad stinging bees, had to run through the Cedars to loose them again, that hive had never been hot?? Checked the split that made there queen and found eggs and new larva, so all was well except i could of used my lower lip for a ash tray(if i was a smoker) driving home. Swelling was mostly gone when i got home and drank a beer :yes: It wasn't over, i opened the garage walkout door to go check the cows and a red wasp nailed me on the back of the neck :o. I'm thinking Blabber mouth may have a Voodoo doll ??? Taking all these hits and i haven't started robbing yet :sad: Jack
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That'll larn'ya, darn ya...
Get'im, Perry. I told you that doll would work. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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"Found i didn't have the zipper closed all the way on one side,went back to put the hive together and they were waiting for me :yes:, i got it together and put another super on top taking more hits."
Wait! Am I reading this right?! So this means you didn't put the veil back on? or put the veil back on and did finish zipping the veil?!
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Jen I don't know if it matters if Perry is working that doll. :laugh:
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Agreed CBT... siiiigh... I think Jack needs to be supervised when he go's bee checkin'
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I didn't mess with those girls today, took the queen bee out to eat to celebrate her 57 years of being married to the King. Also took a 11/2 gal. of home made ice cream and a birthday cake to our daughters house, her birthday is tomorrow, but she's not thrilled about it being her 50th birthday. I got on the trampoline with my 9 year old grandson and we had a blast, but made everyone nervous, when they weren't laughing and hollering that grandpa was going to go through it. :D Jack
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I forgot to mention that old granny cow had a heifer calf today that i'll keep on the farm, her ear tag will be #57 :yes:, but i only keep 20 cows. :D Jack
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Glad you had family fun today Jack.
Iddee, pass me a few more pins will ya? ;)
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Glad you had family fun today Jack.
Iddee, pass me a few more pins will ya? ;)
I'm thinking Blabber mouth may have a Voodoo doll
OMG.. At least I wasnt drinking coffee this time... laughed so hard there were real tears... Been a LONG HARD day, I so needed that, thank you guys!!!
Jack.. I have an Ultra Breeze Full suit, JUST for those occasions the bees are ticked... Unfortunately... I never have it with me....
I think I have been stung so many times that my blood is half venom.. I dont even swell any more.. Got nailed twice today cutting hay near the hives.. I knew they might be cranky since I stole the queen from a hive so I could make more queens in a couple days... man they came in RIGHT NOW,, VZZZZZZT POW... Ear and neck.. forgot about it till just now.
So, as many times as you have been nailed.. does that make you an official member of the hives??? Careful, they toss the drones out come fall!!!
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Lazy, i'm a member :yes: and they are trying to toss this old drone out early ???. For the last two years they have made my left ear a target?? and when i go to town for feed, gas, ect. with a swollen ear people will say, hows your bees doing? i see you've been into them. :D Jack
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heh, when I used to swell the wife always claimed it.... Yeah, see that swollen eye? He wont mouth off to me anymore...
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Jack Sprat, for me it's the right nostile... Every Dang Time! I took down two queenless hives last week, down sizing to two hives now, of which I accomplished. But the one hive was stinky. The next 3 mornings I would walk up to the sliding screen door with my morning tea to watch the back yard for a minute or two, and those bees saw or sensed me and came after me butt first, so we stayed out of the back yard for 4 days and all is well now.
Glad you're okay Mr. Sprat ;) 8)
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Went to a outyard today took 2 capped supers off two hives, one hive had 5 supers full but not all capped. I took two off and made one fully capped super put a empty super on and put the other uncapped super on top. the other hive had 4 supers and the top one was capped, took it and set an empty back on top. They rewarded me with a sting behind my left ear and one on the left ear while another one stung my right ear ??? i guess they wanted to balance my head to keep it level.Now those hurt, but the swelling is down and i'm going to my grand daughters Volleyball games. Jack
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Jen, were you eating bananas for breakfast till you ran out now all is well. :)
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I am definitely gonna try to stay on Perry's good side! :D
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My brother and his son went with me to some outyards yesterday Nathan (my nephew ) wanted to help me and learn what beekeeping was about? I gave him a jacket, veil, and gloves, but he said he wasn't afraid of them and wanted to take pictures with his phone ;D. I took lid off a started one deep hive,no eggs, brood, and the queen was gone and started to dwindle and back fill?? The next new hive one deep and one med. super, took the lid off and they weren't happy :no:, i had told Nathan not to stand in the front of the hives, but he wanted to take pictures, well one nailed him in the eyebrow, another on the hand and more after him while he was running, i hollered and told him to run threw the Cedars and he did. On the way to the next beeyard i stopped and got him a large twist ice cream cone, made my brother buy his own. :yes: Well the next beeyard he had the jacket, veil, and gloves on :D and was a lot of help getting empty supers from the truck and putting them on the hives. He must have got into a nest of ticks? he was picking them off his pant leges and throwing them out the window on the way home :sad: Haven't heard from them this mourning??
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Jack,
That ought break him of the habit. :D
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Ok ..... The more I read the more I learn. The more I realize that I AM going to get stung!!!! That's very disapointing .......... I am ( believe it or not ) 4 hives and 4 months into this and I have not had the pleasure yet!
On a brighter note I also learned from this thread that if I do get stung I am allowed to have a beer ......... Sooooo I am now hoping I get stung 2 or 3 times a day ......... once or twice a week!!
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Ok ..... The more I read the more I learn. The more I realize that I AM going to get stung!!!! That's very disapointing .......... I am ( believe it or not ) 4 hives and 4 months into this and I have not had the pleasure yet!
It will happen Grasshopper! You must be patient! :D
Regarding the ticks. The state university dept. of horticulture sends out e-newsletters. They included a warning about the ideal conditions we had for ticks to flourish this year. Cool and damp=ticks.
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Here latly if i drank a beer every time i got stung i wouldn't be able to stand up :no: Kind of like trying to walk back to the barrack after leaving the PX and avoiding the MP's :D. My brother said Nathan's eye was swelled shut this mourning and a big lump on his arm and leg, he thought it looked cool ??? and my brother heard him tell his buddies when they left his house that he had been in a fight, but he won. :laugh: My son hurt my feelings a few years ago, any time we went into the fields he would get a load of ticks and i would get 1 or 3 ur none, i told him they liked him because he was a young and tender boy not big and tough skin like old dad ;D. He puffed up and said the reason they don't get on you is because you sweat bad and stink :o. I thought that was uncalled for. :no: Jack :laugh: :laugh:
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For the most part my bees had been little angels all spring. A real joy to work. Friday I sold a hive to a guy in Springfield. Since he had a suburban to haul them in I said I would deliver them. I was going to town anyway since my first great granddaughter was born on Friday and I wanted another peek at her.
Since I don't have any single box hives I went down Friday evening to break them down, make sure the queen was in the bottom with plenty of brood and food. Had my jacket on and flipped my hood over but didn't zip it all the way. I've hardly needed it all spring. When I opened the hive they darkened the sky. I don't know how many got inside my veil but the side of my head was swelled pretty good. Not sure if it was all the stings or me slapping myself in the head to kill them. No idea how many stings I got thru my jeans.
I have learned the hard way to put the hive tool down before slapping side of head.
When I delivered them and pulled the screen they nailed the other side of my head which evened me out a little. They got the new buyer several times and I expected him to say take them away but he didn't. Said he had been getting arthritis and was hoping to get a few stings along. I hope they settle down. My bees could often be described as "testy" but their generally not this mean. I had robbed some honey off a few days earlier and I'm hoping that was their issue.
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WOW I am learning a lot. Got my first sting tonight above the eye. A little embarrassed until I read this string. I will admit to knocking my glasses off twice and having to go look in the weeds to find them. I already had that beer thing down so maybe that's why I did not swell?? VV
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I have learned the hard way to put the hive tool down before slapping side of head.
Dang but that was funny, sorry Woody, but sometimes the painful lessons are the ones we remember longest... Like, never spit the Skoal out when the veil is UP...
I have found over the years, that when you SWAT it only makes them angrier... I have also found that if they land, and sting, it is easier to kill them and get it over with..
My wife, kids, most of my friends swat, scream, and RUN.. i usually stand their patiently and wait, sting, smash, smoke, and keep on going... Stopped over to see Tim Wilbanks a few days ago, we were in the hives.. watched about three bees bounce off his forehead, and he never even blinked or paused the conversation.... Give it time, you will get used to it.
For some reason, my wife is TERRIFIED the bees will get caught in her hair?? She said the same thing when a BAT was zooming about in our last house... she was terrified it would get tangled in her hair.... I am still somewhat confused by this.. OK, so... if it does get caught in your hair, doesnt that mean i can then CATCH it easily and toss it out? Or if it is a bee, squish it and drop it on the ground? I think I was about to be harmed physically, but was saved by the BAT zooming past, so she screamed and ran..... WHAT am I missing?
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:D you guys are so funny! Thanks for the laugh! But I see that you forgot to zip all the way up.........twice!!!!!!!!!! :laugh:
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MICHELLE!!! NO PEEKING! :-[
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I had the wagon behind my garden tractor to break down an absconded hive & pull some supers. I kept the tractor running as I've been procrastinating about buying a new battery for it & it ran out of gas. walked up to the shed, grabbed some gas, fueled her up, & of course the battery was dead. one of the hives I was in was pretty cranky so I gave them about 45 minutes to spread out, fired the IH & went down to jump the Ingersoll without donning my bee suit. I took 20 or so stings within seconds so I retreated to get my suit. & Michelle-I've not completely zipped more times than I can count. USUALLY it's not an issue. I think I posted about this last year but I opened a nuc that was near African in behavior while not zipped. having 30 or more angry bees on your face is not something you'll forget. I took over 100 stings that morning, not counting the stingers in my suit! then I had to put spare suit on ( the suit I'd been wearing was laying in the yard covered with bees ) & went back to close up the still open nuc & took more stings thru the suit.
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Another day in The University of Life rober. ;)
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Rober, that reminded me of the time i came out of my overalls,and flannel shirt on the run over laced up boots in front of a family gathering (between 25 to 30 relitives :-[) naked to get away from bees inside my clothes many years ago. I still don't know how i got the overalls off over those boots on the run ??? Several are still alive and won't let me foreget it. :no: Jack
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Rober, that reminded me of the time i came out of my overalls,and flannel shirt on the run over laced up boots in front of a family gathering (between 25 to 30 relitives :-[) naked to get away from bees inside my clothes many years ago. I still don't know how i got the overalls off over those boots on the run ??? Several are still alive and won't let me foreget it. :no: Jack
:o >:(
Once something is SEEN.. it can never be UNSEEN... even if it was seen in ones own Imagination... Thanks Jack! Now I have to live with this!
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i came out of my boots & jeans in the middle of west end blvd in nawlins' when i unknowingly stood on a fire ant hill. i'd just moved there & had never heard of them before. i would rather be stung by bees than these ants any day!!!!!! i was at at 400 stings when i quit counting. luckily they did not get above mid thigh.
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rober,
Been there, done that! Fire ants have the ability to get all over you before the first one bites. Then they all bite!!! :sad: :sad: