sunbathing with swarming bees.
I mowed my backyard yesterday, in the buff which is the norm. I noticed a honeybee or two coming and going from an old wooden barrel that is part of my landscaping. I did not think much about it. I finished up mowing and came inside to check emails for a few minutes and went back out. The backyard was literally humming with thousands of swarming honey bees. I sat in my lawn chair and watched them congregate around the barrel. I got the camera and took some pics some as close as only a few feet away from it. It was hard to see the 2ft tall barrel for all the bees.All of this done nude, with never a bee bothering me. Later I sat in the hot tub and did have a few bees come check out the water source. For some reason they found the cover latch fascinating. One bee did decide to do the backstroke in the tub, but I fished him out. Now the bees come and go from the barrel. Hopefully they will stick around and pollinate all summer.
That sounds really cool! You're much braver than me - I would appreciate them from a much larger distance. Glad to hear you're letting them hang around and not calling an exterminator. With all the weird bee hive failures going on in recent years they need all the help they can get.
I'm no beekeeper, but my understanding is that swarming bees are rarely aggressive - too busy swarming to make trouble. Beekeepers love to collect wild swarms so they can set up a new hive, so if you encounter a swarm in a place where you don't want to have a bunch of bees, call a local beekeeper to collect them. Definitely don't try to kill them.
I'm no beekeeper, but my understanding is that swarming bees are rarely aggressive - too busy swarming to make trouble. Beekeepers love to collect wild swarms so they can set up a new hive, so if you encounter a swarm in a place where you don't want to have a bunch of bees, call a local beekeeper to collect them. Definitely don't try to kill them.
I agree...My grandfather was a beekeeper and had several hives and can remember on several occasions were bee would swarm on the farm and he would catch them to create a new hive...so important these days to save as many as possible with all the pesticides killing them off...and if your a honey lover always buy from local beekeepers its better for you!
Happened to me at a small, rustic resort nearby where we used tolive. Bee hives and swarms were a big deal around this time ... thekiller bees had made their presence known and everyone was calling911 every time they saw a hive or swarm and wanted us to come outand foam them. Luckily, we had training prior and called beekeepers that were as busy as we were.
Okay ... seems some have gotten the wrong idea ...
THERE WERE NO BEES HARMED on my watch! ;-)
I did think anybody here thought anybody harmed any of the bees...I just think we all are expressing our experiences and how harmless honey bees are when they are swarming.
I am content to let them thrive where they roosted. I live rural it and have no near neighbors to worry about, I am thrilled they took up residence. I know they won't bother me unless I mess with them and I have no intention of messing with them.
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