Nesting bees!!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

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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

 

 

Nice one!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

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

 

 

That made me chuckle!! Sounds like a mare but funny in the re-telling!

[Steve Bullman]

Blocked up a cavity in a large Beech last year whilst we carried out a reduction, unfortunately the bee's found another way out in the meantime which made uncovering the hole at the end of the job an interesting proposition....amazingly not one single sting!

 

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[Stefan Palokangas]

When clearing power lines in Sweden we walked in to aggressive bees that lives in the ground alot of times, they go in to your cloth and you end up undressing jumping dancing shouting in your underwear.

If you go with a clearing saw and take away the small growth below big power lines you wont notice them till its to late. And then you are sorry !

[tree79]

Yep came both bees and wasp nests, not just in tree. Had a couple in the ground to.

Local bee keeps will come and move a nest for free(long as they can get to it).

Some halves/nest can be 40K odd bees, and the bee keeper I know tells me that there worth around £1000, long as the queen is ok.

 

some bees are protected to? I think

[Farmersboy]

Not bees but was swarmed by wasps when I was a kid, storm blew up out of nowhere and I was playing under an old willow tree when the wind got up and it started to rain. Unfortunatly I was between the wasps and their nest as they all rushed for cover in an old willow, stung that many times around my head that they actually shed their stingers, had to comb them out of my head, not a very nice experience.

[Mick Dempsey]

Did a lot of strimming in a previous life.

Going along nicely on a bank, "oh there's a wasp" two seconds later "oh there's two thousand wasps" drop strimmer and run......

[hamdogg]

Yep came both bees and wasp nests, not just in tree. Had a couple in the ground to.

Local bee keeps will come and move a nest for free(long as they can get to it).

Some halves/nest can be 40K odd bees, and the bee keeper I know tells me that there worth around £1000, long as the queen is ok.

 

some bees are protected to? I think

 

 

The beekeeper today told us it was a myth that they were protected!!!

[Burgess]

Found a wasp one when reducing a beech hedge. Girt massive thing made of paper, was October and a very wet day so they weren't really too fussed about being moved. We do a lot of strimming and I've never come across one in grass though luckily.

[Billhook]

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?

 

Sounds like another fast rope scenario!