Nesting bees!!

[hamdogg]

We felled a big beech tree today that was deemed extremely dangerous by the council, it certainly was dangerous when the bees that were up there got pissed off! Anyone had an interesting time with bees?

[Stubby]

We felled a big beech tree today that was deemed extremely dangerous by the council, it certainly was dangerous when the bees that were up there got pissed off! Anyone had an interesting time with bees?

 

Yep had the same in an old willow . Big honey comb in the middle .

[Joe Newton]

I rigged out a lump of dead chestnut that had a bees nest in the middle. I was about 60' up, and I couldn't get down fast enough!

[Mr Fowler]

Yup, Black Poplar dismantle. I panicked pretty bad and got out of the tree super quick which everyone on the ground thought was well funny. They were still there weeks later when we went back for the last of the log.

[hamdogg]

We were lucky we had the Vermeer skid steer so we could pull big lumps out and away to the chipper

[Nick B]

Yes we had a bees nest 30ft up a dead ash tree not nice for the climber

[A Pettersen-Firewood&Chip]

 

We had 30,000+ bees migrate to this oak. Working together with a beekeeper we managed to relocate them successfully to a hive box pictured and he took em away to make honey our first time seeing bees nesting like this so far

[carlos]

yep, never again. in my wisdom i thought if i cut the limb with the nest in it would fall to the ground and the bees would be there.... well they were for about 30 seconds till they flew back up to look for there nest!!! they wernt happy, couldn't descend quick enough then ran off in my spikes and tripped over my lanyard into a load of nettles... the lads were all pissing themselves laughing whilst heroically hiding in the jeep ,

so i keep away from bees now

[Will Heal]

Two summers ago I removed overhanging branches and pruned back some other over a power line, on a beech tree that had a bees nest in a hollow 20 feet up. The work didn't seem to bother them. If you leave them alone they will you.

Wasps on the other hand- I've hedgecut and strummed there nests before they don't like it and also tried to cut a wind blown willow tree off wasps in the root plate and they stung me to ****.

[GlobalNewark]

My colleague rang me this afternoon, got back off holiday yesterday & the bee's chased him & his wife today into their new house where they made there way into his roof. He described it as aBlack cloud, last I heard he was looking for the beekeeper.