honey bees

[jacob 28]

CNN have been reporting on honey bees dying out throughout the u.s, and europe ,through colony collapse, is there any truth in this?

[Ossie 11]

i can't say i've seen any in my garden this year... but i have a colony of wild bees, and they seem pretty healthy. i wish i knew where the sodding hornets nest is, they keep getting in my house!

[Guest Lurcherbitch]

Yep, i saw it on news....thankfully, we have got a few here, they love it when the yellow tree flowers.xx

[Guest Frank]

All dieing here in Ireland.

[alimac 882]

had a hive in a tree in the garden for the last 3 years, got 3 masts within 600 / 700 yards of the house... there still going strong

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

There's been a buzz about this, in the Pest Control fora for a couple of years now. Sorry to say I haven't really followed it as, quite simply, I Will Not touch Bees.

 

Wasn't it on here that I posted, just the other day, about some c*** who'd just bought an old property here and the first thing he wanted done was the bees in his roof space wiped out? I told him to go f*ck himself! C***!

 

Last year, a young woman in town approached me and asked if I could take out a bees nest in her garden. " In case they stung her four year old boy. " I was rather more gentle with her. Explained they did no recordable harm to anything and that her lad had far worse things in life to look out for than some gentle and innocent bees with which he was sharing a tiny bit of his world.

 

I often see her and a few times after that asked her how her boy was. Fine, of course. They never have attacked in a massed swarm and stung him to death. Just quietly gone about their business of pollinating the flowers.

 

Sounds of it then, I'll be getting less and less misguided requests of that nature? Had a nest behind my cow shed last year. In fact ~ now I think of it ~ only the other evening I heard a very pronounced buzzing, coming from the bushes over the lower part of my ditch. (The Ditch). Thought that might have signified a bees nest? Or maybe the recent showers had just dislodged half a ton of guess what and it was just a swarm of feasting flys!

[Autumnbriar 0]

I don't mind honey bees but man, let those black hornets get their bonnets in a twist and you'll be singing all the way home!

[Guest peter]

I don't mind honey bees but man, let those black hornets get their bonnets in a twist and you'll be singing all the way home!

i saw bill oddie was on about this last monday on loosewomen he was saying that it a big mystrey. he did say that it had nothing to do with telemasts. he was concerned about them. the reason that he give. is if the honey bees disappear that with in 5 to 10 years we could be in serious trouble. due to insuffient pollentation. NO POLLENTATION NO PLANTS AND WE ALL NEED PLANTS. SCARY.

[TOMO 26,689]

There's been a buzz about this, in the Pest Control fora for a couple of years now. Sorry to say I haven't really followed it as, quite simply, I Will Not touch Bees.

 

Wasn't it on here that I posted, just the other day, about some c*** who'd just bought an old property here and the first thing he wanted done was the bees in his roof space wiped out? I told him to go f*ck himself! C***!

 

Last year, a young woman in town approached me and asked if I could take out a bees nest in her garden. " In case they stung her four year old boy. " I was rather more gentle with her. Explained they did no recordable harm to anything and that her lad had far worse things in life to look out for than some gentle and innocent bees with which he was sharing a tiny bit of his world.

 

I often see her and a few times after that asked her how her boy was. Fine, of course. They never have attacked in a massed swarm and stung him to death. Just quietly gone about their business of pollinating the flowers.

 

Sounds of it then, I'll be getting less and less misguided requests of that nature? Had a nest behind my cow shed last year. In fact ~ now I think of it ~ only the other evening I heard a very pronounced buzzing, coming from the bushes over the lower part of my ditch. (The Ditch). Thought that might have signified a bees nest? Or maybe the recent showers had just dislodged half a ton of guess what and it was just a swarm of feasting flys!

think your getting confused ditchy. its bumble bees that are harmless, this thread is about huney bees, which will sting the feck out of ya

[Ossie 11]

think your getting confused ditchy. its bumble bees that are harmless, this thread is about huney bees, which will sting the feck out of ya

 

honey bees only sting as a last resort, as stinging means death for them. when they sting, their stinger is left behind, and the bee dies shortly after. they will only sting when provoked in some way.

now, wasps? Hornets? their stingers don't come out. they can sting, and sting, and sting, with no harm to themselves. they're the feckers you need to watch out for!

[TOMO 26,689]

mate i am fully awaer of the diffrence between the species. i have worked in pest control for 5 years now .

 

. i did not mean they sting you repetitivly . but honey bees can be agresive. where as bumble bees are very dosile

[Guest Frank]

mate i am fully awaer of the diffrence between the species. i have worked in pest control for 5 years now .

 

. i did not mean they sting you repetitivly . but honey bees can be agresive. where as bumble bees are very dosile

 

Agree. my experinces with honey bees has not been good.

I have several times, even just by walking passed nests, been chased by several angry bees, stinging me to shit.

Ditch, that women was right, i know i would want them shifted. I have a 6 year old son and if their is a nest anywhere near him, garden ect, i would want them out.

Bill Oddy, another doo and gloom twat, that fella should of sticked to being a funny man.

 

Frank.

[Guest Lurcherbitch]

I'm getting all confused now when i saw it on tv, they was talking about the big fat bumble bee.

Can we have some pics to let us know which is which. I thought A hornet was like a wasp.?

[Guest Frank]

Here you go LB:

 

http://www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm

 

http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/wasp.htm

 

http://www.bumblebee.org/

 

Hope that makes it clearer for you mate.

 

Frank.

[juckler123 707]

Read loads about this for since last summer theres definitely a die off funnily enough the africanised bees dont seem to have the same problem. some folks are saying mobile phone masts others are saying its the GM crops that are to blame whats most puzzling is the absence of the dead bees they are not dying in the hive as is usual for any bee disease it was Einstein who said we would face starvation in four years without the bees pollinating our crops.