It wasn't big. They were in a hollow 12" lead with about 1.5" of wood. The hive was less than 2' top to bottom.
And I'm not watching your nekkid beekeepers! :O
Bad news, John. I ran into another small bee hive today on a very rotten tree. No time or capacity to move them. I never saw them until I hit the hive entrance with a log about 5 minutes into the removal and fired them up. The ground guy got stung 4-5 times and I had one that was incredibly...
Good for you for working to save the hive. I've had 4-5 hives just this year (more than I've seen in the last 5) but I don't have the resources to save them. And I'm usually only seeing the tree for the first time on removal day so there's never any time to make other arrangements.
But the...
I got stung by a wasp on my tongue when I was a kid. Hurt like hell! I was drinking a glass of soda or juice, something with ice in the cup. I had drained the cup and had it tipped up trying to lick the last of the juice off the ice cubes. I guess the ice rattling set off the wasp and he flew in...
Yup, bees really do not want to sting you unless they must in order to protect the hive. They have one bullet in their gun and once they fire, they die.
Hornets are a different story. Which was it, bees or hornets?
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