Anyone here keep bees?

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 15 Oct 2006, 16:57

Ive got to add that the honey is made of win tho. We have a local beekeeper here that we buy honey from, the honey is made of golden sugary win.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 15 Oct 2006, 17:22

All today, I've been eating honey in comb form, which contains 110% sugar. FAncy bees and there enzymes. I'm twitching right now y'know :D

Weaver · Post by **Weaver** » 16 Oct 2006, 00:40

My Uncle and Aunt keep bees, and do shows about them. My aunt even wrote a book.

http://www.mbbka.org.uk/html/body_bees_ ... culum.html

overkill · Post by **overkill** » 18 Oct 2006, 03:57

i hate ants, am afraid of wasps, but i love bees (my dad has a few boxes of dem)i tink thei so cute when buzz around my head i just wanna (did) catch one and hug it to death (not one of my greatist ideas)

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 18 Oct 2006, 05:15

I am deathly afraid of bees, and even more afraid of wasps, and even more afraid yet of yellowjackets, and even more afraid yet of hornets.

In other words, put me in a room with a hornet and I'll probably go completely insane and curl up in the fetal position in a corner and start gibbering and crying. I'm serious. I mean, I got the creepie crawlies just writing that.

Cherubim · Post by **Cherubim** » 18 Oct 2006, 12:03

We own a very large beekeper supply store

And have lots of hives ourselves - but bees dont like me

One small note why wasps are even more annoying than bees:
After a bee stings you, it dies (cause its spike has a hook and thus the bee can't get away without detaching the spike - and with it vital parts).
A wasp can sting multiple times in a row, cause its spike doesn't have a hook.

duncs · Post by **duncs** » 18 Oct 2006, 15:34

My dad is a lawyer, but when we had a farm in South Africa we kept bees for a bit, on weekends.

we had about 30 hives before about half of them were killed by waxmoths and I helped my dad take the frames out of the hives a few time. my mother and father would uncap (or whatever it's called) the frames and put them into a centrifuge extractor. That room was full of bees. I got stung a few times and it really hurt but no big deal. it was the best honey I've ever tasted :D

ApathyZer0 · Post by **ApathyZer0** » 18 Oct 2006, 17:28

Well, perhaps if it wasn't potentionally fatal I might. Would be unwise to keep bees when your allergic to them.
But they are interesting to watch, very sophisticated for an insect.
That goes for the ancestors ants, as well.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 18 Oct 2006, 22:06

I like ants; I can sit and watch ants just going about their business for like half an hour.

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