Author Topic: Only a beekeeping forum would understand my excitment over this phone call (Read 26061 times)

Yankee11 · « **Reply #60 on:** July 17, 2014, 11:55:46 pm »

Whats really amazing is I have yet to see a single SHB, not a single one.

2 of the 3 that are left are double deeps and appear to be very crowded. I hope they are like #3. And yes, there will be queens grafted out of these hives next spring.

Also, these all are very, very gentle bees. We could have done what we did without our gear, but you just never know. They flew but didn't get in our face, no high pitch buzzing. They were very fun to work with. I dodn't even remember them head butting any.

I am straining some of the capped Honey tonight. It is really dark and no crystallized.

Jen · « **Reply #61 on:** July 18, 2014, 12:10:36 am »

This story just gives me the goose bumps. Yankee! if I were you, I would write a small book about this! I'm not kidding!

Yankee11 · « **Reply #62 on:** July 18, 2014, 12:25:46 am »

Yea Jen this is something else.

To give you an idea how old this is. Not sure if you can see it in one of the pictures, but there is a fence buried in that Honeysuckle. I figured out that we are actually at the back of these hives, The landing boards and entrances are facing away form us and into the Honeysuckle.

This tells me that the fence used to be clear and the hives facing the fence,

Jen · « **Reply #63 on:** July 18, 2014, 12:35:38 am »

Amazing! 20 years.... I'm glued to your story

Jen · « **Reply #64 on:** July 18, 2014, 01:18:17 am »

Yank- "#3.

This one is a whopper.

This is a very cool project just in and of itself, look at the history there! give me goose bumps

Jen · « **Reply #65 on:** July 18, 2014, 01:19:45 am »

I know Tbone, if I sent Yankee a little jar to put some of that honey in it, I would love to taste it on my toast

lazy shooter · « **Reply #66 on:** July 18, 2014, 02:41:47 pm »

I think this is the greatest discovery since King Tut. The bees may have the genes that put us all into treatment free bees.

It is an amazing find, and I can't believe how healthy these bees are.

Jen · « **Reply #67 on:** July 18, 2014, 02:46:16 pm »

The Tut Hives..........

Yankee11 · « **Reply #68 on:** July 18, 2014, 02:52:24 pm »

Ha, My wife's maiden name is Tutt.. No joking.

What I am most amazed about is the non existence of a single SHB. I mean, the things have plenty of placed to hide and mate in the old rotten hives. Heck,
all the larva have to do is fall to the bottom inside the hives. They are practically dirt floor hives.

Jen · « **Reply #69 on:** July 18, 2014, 02:57:21 pm »

Yankee- "Ha, My wife's maiden name is Tutt.. No joking.

Well if that don't beat all!

Yankee- "What I am most amazed about is the non existence of a single SHB.

And yet another brilliant part to this story

Yankee11 · « **Reply #70 on:** July 18, 2014, 02:58:02 pm »

Another thought on the SHB beetle. They say have hives in full sun. These haves havn't seen summer sun in years and years and years.

Jen · « **Reply #71 on:** July 18, 2014, 02:59:24 pm »

I'm tellin ya Yankee... you have a publishable story here..

The Honeysuckle Hives

By Yankee Tut and Mrs Yankee Tutt

....

tbonekel · « **Reply #72 on:** July 19, 2014, 09:02:01 am »

Quote from: Yankee11 on July 18, 2014, 02:58:02 pm

Another thought on the SHB beetle. They say have hives in full sun. These haves havn't seen summer sun in years and years and years.

That's true. These bees really had it figured out.

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #73 on:** July 19, 2014, 10:08:21 am »

Bees living in the dark for years without shb? and a Yankee living in Arkansas? The mystery deepens???

All kidding aside, i'm very interested in your experience, i had a similar experience a few years ago with two hives that had been abandon in a woods with buck brush grown up all around them and there bottom boards rotted off. Keep the info coming. Jack

barry42001 · « **Reply #74 on:** July 19, 2014, 10:41:02 am »

"Bees living in the dark for years without shb? and a Yankee living in Arkansas? The mystery deepens???

All kidding aside, i'm very interested in your experience, i had a similar experience a few years ago with two hives that had been abandon in a woods with buck brush grown up all around them and there bottom boards rotted off. Keep the info coming. Jack

ANOTHER MOUNTIAN MONSTER ADVENTURE lol

Retroguy · « **Reply #75 on:** July 19, 2014, 02:36:39 pm »

I just finished reading this entire string. Fascinating and educational!

Yankee11 · « **Reply #76 on:** July 19, 2014, 10:24:59 pm »

Local TV station coming out to film and interview tomorrow at 2pm. Been in the works for a little while. Is interested in us since we catch all of our bees
locally, swarms, cut outs and trap outs.

He wants to go out to this Honeysuckle Yard and here at my house. May take him to one of our trap outs we have going on.e

He was really interested in this abandoned bee yard we are working on.

We will see how this works out.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #77 on:** July 19, 2014, 10:42:07 pm »

Heh, this story only gets better!

Jen · « **Reply #78 on:** July 19, 2014, 10:47:02 pm »

I KNEW IT! This is a news worthy story. Next? The Discovery Channel Yankee

barry42001 · « **Reply #79 on:** July 19, 2014, 10:55:37 pm »

That's fantastic Yankee 11, so now we have a action/ adventure star among us;)