Beekeeping in Snake Infested Creeks & Rock Bluffs

[keeperofthebees]

DDT knocked out the nations bald eagle numbers, years ago.  Cornfield-soybean-big ag chemicals are doing a number on frogs-snakes-bees-etc.  Wouldn't it make sense that the mountain & swamp areas away from the fields would be a good spot for bees?  If everything else is swimming around, crawling, living happy...Why wouldn't bees buzz about equally the same?

[barry42001]

your biggest issue would be making sure that the colonies would have enough food for the winter. up in the mountains or down in the swamps, the blooming cycles are late spring through early summer and then nothing.. at least in the northern latitudes the nectar flows are stretched out over the entire summer for the most part down here what you get the spring and summer and early summer is all you're ever going to get except for possibly a minor fall flow

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[LazyBkpr]

DDT knocked out the nations bald eagle numbers, years ago.

  Indeed. Growing up here in the midwest I never got to see an eagle fly.  After a few years away, I returned to find that the Eagle had too. They are quite numerous now, amazingly big birds when seen up close.

[LazyBkpr]

Very true. We dont have those silver carp yet.. would take them getting  past a couple of substantial dams.. but I am sure eventually some MORON will toss a couple over the dam.

[LazyBkpr]

The orange and yellow ones that taste fantastic when smoked?

[LazyBkpr]

Yep, lots of everything. Even had fox in the den at the back side of our field for the first time in several years. Caught a youngling this fall in the live trap by the chicken pen, wife wanted to keep em, but I let em go..   They have a better chance of catching one of those eagles than getting into the chicken fort.