Author Topic: A Day Working Bees. (Read 8842 times)

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #20 on:** June 05, 2016, 09:07:51 pm »

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.

Jack

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #21 on:** June 05, 2016, 09:13:46 pm »

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

, but i only keep 20 cows.

Jack

Perry · « **Reply #22 on:** June 05, 2016, 09:22:28 pm »

Glad you had family fun today Jack.

Iddee, pass me a few more pins will ya?

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #23 on:** June 06, 2016, 12:16:25 am »

Quote from: Perry on June 05, 2016, 09:22:28 pm

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!!!

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #24 on:** June 06, 2016, 10:13:40 am »

Lazy, i'm a member

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.

Jack

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #25 on:** June 06, 2016, 11:06:40 am »

heh, when I used to swell the wife always claimed it.... Yeah, see that swollen eye? He wont mouth off to me anymore...

Jen · « **Reply #26 on:** June 06, 2016, 12:05:56 pm »

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

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #27 on:** June 06, 2016, 07:41:02 pm »

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

CBT · « **Reply #28 on:** June 06, 2016, 08:23:55 pm »

Jen, were you eating bananas for breakfast till you ran out now all is well.

neillsayers · « **Reply #29 on:** June 06, 2016, 09:56:37 pm »

I am definitely gonna try to stay on Perry's good side!

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #30 on:** June 14, 2016, 12:05:51 pm »

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

. 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

, 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.

Well the next beeyard he had the jacket, veil, and gloves on

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

Haven't heard from them this mourning??

neillsayers · « **Reply #31 on:** June 14, 2016, 05:27:38 pm »

Jack,

That ought break him of the habit.

J-grow · « **Reply #32 on:** June 14, 2016, 06:57:33 pm »

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!!

Bakersdozen · « **Reply #33 on:** June 14, 2016, 07:10:54 pm »

Quote from: J-grow on June 14, 2016, 06:57:33 pm

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!

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.

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #34 on:** June 14, 2016, 10:07:46 pm »

Here latly if i drank a beer every time i got stung i wouldn't be able to stand up

Kind of like trying to walk back to the barrack after leaving the PX and avoiding the MP's

. 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.

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

. He puffed up and said the reason they don't get on you is because you sweat bad and stink

. I thought that was uncalled for.

Jack

Woody Roberts · « **Reply #35 on:** June 14, 2016, 10:26:34 pm »

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.

vvand111 · « **Reply #36 on:** June 14, 2016, 11:52:37 pm »

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

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #37 on:** August 09, 2016, 10:30:06 pm »

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?

Michelle · « **Reply #38 on:** August 10, 2016, 06:12:15 am »

you guys are so funny! Thanks for the laugh! But I see that you forgot to zip all the way up.........twice!!!!!!!!!!

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #39 on:** August 10, 2016, 10:36:15 am »

MICHELLE!!! NO PEEKING!