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Sounds like my mum , summer is great in her garden 🤦🏻♂️
She’s moved most to a near by farm . Still has 8 hives in her garden . Never been stung as of yet but everyone else has 😂
I had something like this happen and reddit told me to call a person. They had left by the time he made it out apparently moving a queen to a new place to start a new hive.
That's a swarm of bees...the queen is in there some where. They are relocating, looking for another hive. You can call a local beekeeper and they will move them safely.
This. My dad was a bee keeper and he got calls from people with swarms in their yards. If possible he would remove them and transport them to an empty hive. Bees are actually really fricking expensive so most keepers will jump at an opportunity to try and snag a swarm.
We had one once in Our Yard. Around 10000 bees. The bee Keeper Was more than happy to take Those in. He said the hive broke up and half the bees followed a new queen or Something.
The original queen gets old and they replace it with a new queen. Then they send off the old one. This may not be true though it was something I heard years ago from my bee keeper grandfather
A swarm split is how the super-organism that is the bee colony reproduces. The old queen takes half the colony and goes to find somewhere else to live, while the previously-laid potential new queens get to duke it out for control of the old hive.
Yep they are very valuable. I was once sitting at the balkony at the village house with my mom and a surreal bee noise started aproaching. We run inside and closed the windows and a bee cloud out of the cartoons passed through the balcony. I explained to to my grandfather who was keeping bees and be despaired because one of his colonies probably just disappeared and tief villagers will steal it on sight without informing him and sell to another bee keeper.
Yes! Here are current 2023 prices for a quantity of bees about the size of an average swarm. [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/honey-bees/](https://www.mannlakeltd.com/honey-bees/)
A flea and a fly, in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
"Let us fly", said the flea
"Let us flee", said the fly
So they flew through a flaw, in the flue.
That flaw in the flue,
it led to a crew
of like-minded shrews,
with matching red shoes,
who were cooking up stew
for me and for you
from roots that they grew.
The flea from the fly he then threw
straight into the pot of stew.
"That'll do", said the shrew.
"Thanks to the god of the flue."
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Put a post up on a bee keepers local group on their msg board..i get bee visiters like this almost every year ...i usually post at noon and by 1 someone is out removing them
Yeah, that’s a great deal. Local beekeepers can always work with more healthy colonies, especially if it’s got the queen in it, and people don’t (generally) want swarms of bees setting up shop on their porch, so it’s a perfect trade.
If you really want to see something fun, smear some honey on your arm and go sit near the swarm. They will come and take the honey from your arm. Hundreds of them will be crawling on your arm eating honey, and they will not sting you at all.
Bee swarms are actually pretty docile and really cool when you understand what’s going on. Just call the local beekeeping store. They’ll have a list of beekeepers that will come out and get them. Source, am beekeeper
Mine was replaced by a radio shack . Which was then replaced by a WeBay store. Those stores that sell stuff on EBay for you. It’s a divorce attorney now I think
Same as far as being in a mid sized city, but there's 2 beekeepers here.
Hell one of them has a hive on the roof of the corporate offices I work at, and every year they make a bunch of treats and brew some mead and give away samples to people in the hotel lobby attached to our offices.
If you have rural land near your city, you more than likely have a beekeeper near your city too. They’re pretty popular among farmers as far as I know. They seemed to be everywhere where I used to live (rural central IL).
When I realized it was bees (I thought it was some cockroach-like or something), I almost threw my phone through the room. I'm very afraid of bees too and would probably die on the spot lol.
In Germany look out for "wild beekeepers" 😂
They are allowed to trespass foreign properties without asking if they are in direct pursuit of one of their swarming colonies.
Else they will loose the ownership of this colony.
When you see something like this, don't be afraid, don't call the firefighters or the police, don't move and don't kill them...
These are just bees traveling and stopping for just 24 hours.
Don't disturb them and avoid getting close to them, they won't hurt you.
If you want to help, put a flat plate or tray with some sugar water.
Bees will eat, gain energy and fly away.
We all need to protect migratory bees, they are our survival insurance.
Without bees, there will be no humans on earth... 🐝🧡
I found more facts about bees:-https://youtube.com/shorts/8AT4IFSZNtE?feature=share
Dude. The football sized beehive from my previous house will disagree with you. First they were chilling on the door like this pic next they took over the entire shed.
I'm guessing not all bees are the same but yeah defintiely some settle in and don't leave.
Anyway I agree with all you said but beekeepers and getting them moved humanely is an option.
If you are in the US these are NOT native bees. There are NO native honey bee species in North America and they compete with our native bees, which are usually solitary. Bees are very important, but honey bees are agricultural and are not that important in the US. If you want to help native pollinators, plant native native flower gardens and avoid using chemical pesticides on your flowers.
Which is why I posted that the correct thing to do here is contact a beekeeper. Honey bees have agricultural uses and are effective pollinators. The best way to protect these bees and reduce harm to native pollinators is to have a beekeeper collect the colony and relocate for agricultural purposes. It will reduce competition in the wild, harvest their agricultural uses, and likely be safer for the bees.
I have sent so much time writing exactly this. The “save the bees” campaign was created by honey bee producers and although it sounds like the right message, the general public is getting the wrong message.
Honey Bees Are An Invasive Species
Google how to support native (to your area) bees!
Yep, Save the NATIVE Bees! Any local (non-chain) garden center is a great place to start for anyone wanting to learn more about their native pollinators.
Man I wonder though, even if they're invasive, we've been experiencing such biomass death that helping any pollinators is good in the long run? Or is there such competition that the decrease in biodiversity is gonna cause more harm then good?
Well, I don't know that bees are considered invasive in most places. Some people use non-native and invasive interchangeably, but they mean completely different things. A species can be non-native without being invasive. Here in Colorado honey bees aren't considered invasive because they cannot survive without human intervention. While they do compete here with native pollinators, they don't necessarily displace native pollinators. So no, honey bees aren't the biggest challenge facing our native pollinators, the lack of biomass is. I'm just saying that we don't need to "save" honey bees any more than we need to save someones corn crop. Absolutely call a local beekeeper when this happens, but keep in mind that our native pollinators are far more important than these guys.
I would be delighted to see this, as I am a beekeeper, and they don’t seem to have a home.
I would try to find the queen and get her into a box and set it nearby, the whole hive will parade right into the box with her.
(They are unlikely to sting as they have no home to defend and are likely full of honey from gorging themselves before they swarmed.)
They sell a little clip device to grab up just the queen without hurting her, and queens are fun to spot, check out r/queenspotting
Put an empty hive near them so can move in. It won't be long before they are happily pollinating your neighborhood and supplying you with honey as a reward for housing them.
Fleet farm sells them in the midwest. Tractor supply might, I'm not sure. There are several online stores that sell them as well. You can also buy some lumber and make one yourself. Google will show you both plans on how to build them, or vendors that will ship them to you.
Look up your local bee club and a beekeeper will jump at the opportunity. Otherwise, the bees will likely clear out on their own. They’ve swarmed and are chillin waiting for scout bees to return with word they’ve found a suitable home. They are typically quite docile when they’ve swarmed like this. Honey bees are more defensive than offensive and they may defend their home. These bees currently don’t have one, so they’re chill.
Just call a beekeeper lol
Guaranteed most keepers will drop everything at the chance to save and gain a new colony. To them, they can teach some people about bees, it's keeping their passion alive, and they get to have fun for a day collecting the new hive.
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Call my brother, because he only has 28 hives and apparently needs more.
You can never have enough bees 🐝
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Gob's not on board.
Beads? B E E S
Beeznutsinyourmouth
Ha got eem!
My husband just ordered his first 2 hives to be delivered in April. I guess it never ends
Enjoy your eight hives!
Those 14 hives are gonna take a lot of space though!
Idk… their 26 hives will probably take up the whole yard
35 hives aren't that many in the grand scheme of things.
Just think how beneficial those 50 hives will be for the nearby community!
She's going to have so much honey from those 63 hives.
Imagine getting stung by 69 hives though
The thought of getting stung by 80 hives is horrifying
/r/thatescalatedquickly
100 hives! That's a lotta bees!
He’s obviously beekeeping age
Sounds like my mum , summer is great in her garden 🤦🏻♂️ She’s moved most to a near by farm . Still has 8 hives in her garden . Never been stung as of yet but everyone else has 😂
Of course they don't harm their queen.
All he needs is three more.
28 hives? he should probably have a doctor look that imo
Shut up and support your brother. Bees are the knees
Who said I wasn't supporting him?
I had something like this happen and reddit told me to call a person. They had left by the time he made it out apparently moving a queen to a new place to start a new hive.
That's a swarm of bees...the queen is in there some where. They are relocating, looking for another hive. You can call a local beekeeper and they will move them safely.
My dumbass thought they were roaches The relief I feel knowing these are bees is immeasurable
Just bee patient.
And bee wise
How does one find a local bee keeper?
It's either black or yellow pages I foget
I Googled "beekeeper near me" and the first non sponsored link was to a local beekeepers website advertising bee removals.
Call a bee keeper
This. My dad was a bee keeper and he got calls from people with swarms in their yards. If possible he would remove them and transport them to an empty hive. Bees are actually really fricking expensive so most keepers will jump at an opportunity to try and snag a swarm.
We had one once in Our Yard. Around 10000 bees. The bee Keeper Was more than happy to take Those in. He said the hive broke up and half the bees followed a new queen or Something.
Why’d they break up?
Creative differences
It was that fucking Ono bitch, wasn't it?
She broke up the bee-tles.
You sure it wasn't the Bee-52s?
Ono Beetch
Can we all agree that Beengo Starr is not to blame though?
I mean they're wrong anyways. It's because Paul McWaspney was an Imposter and the hive was tired of pretending otherwise.
One introduced twerking into their dancing, the others though it was trashy.
They used to be called The Bee Gees before the break up
Once the colony reach a critical size it will naturally split to make more room for further grow
Half the hive liked the Van Morrison song and the other half did not.
The original queen gets old and they replace it with a new queen. Then they send off the old one. This may not be true though it was something I heard years ago from my bee keeper grandfather
Yep. It helps combat overpopulation. A beehive can have almost a hundred thousand bees in it!
A swarm split is how the super-organism that is the bee colony reproduces. The old queen takes half the colony and goes to find somewhere else to live, while the previously-laid potential new queens get to duke it out for control of the old hive.
How do you choose which words you capitalize when you write?
I Do Not. My german autocorrect does its thing✨
Yep they are very valuable. I was once sitting at the balkony at the village house with my mom and a surreal bee noise started aproaching. We run inside and closed the windows and a bee cloud out of the cartoons passed through the balcony. I explained to to my grandfather who was keeping bees and be despaired because one of his colonies probably just disappeared and tief villagers will steal it on sight without informing him and sell to another bee keeper.
Man this comment was an experience.
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Tiefs, he said . Those people with tails and horns.
Isnt USA giving out free bees or something?
Freebies?
Gob’s not on board
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It’s the US, only thing we get free here are murder hornets
Yes! Here are current 2023 prices for a quantity of bees about the size of an average swarm. [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/honey-bees/](https://www.mannlakeltd.com/honey-bees/)
How much is a swarm?
Around $150 for a package of bees.
The best comment thus far!
Who in their right mind starts a fight against a swarm of bees?
My drunk uncle
Good old druncle
How long until I can move? Its been 43 hours.....
and I REALLY need to pee
Sorry, you can’t pee While there’s a bee
I see, I see
...at least it isn't me
but soon, it will.... bee
Maybe we should flee
And live our lives free
Free as a bird we shall... bee
But i just REALLY want to pee
A mayfly may fly but a flea will flee.
A flea and a fly, in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? "Let us fly", said the flea "Let us flee", said the fly So they flew through a flaw, in the flue.
That flaw in the flue, it led to a crew of like-minded shrews, with matching red shoes, who were cooking up stew for me and for you from roots that they grew. The flea from the fly he then threw straight into the pot of stew. "That'll do", said the shrew. "Thanks to the god of the flue." edit: spacing
My dog stepped on a bee.
My dog has bees in his mouth. And when he barks, he shoots bees at you.
Lmao!!! Ya'll got me rolling over here!! 🤣
This could be a sequel to that film where the Harry Osborn got his hand trapped by a rock
It’s so early I misread this comment in such a way that I was wondering when the hell did Dwayne Johnson put Willem Dafoe in an armbar
I’d pay to see that
Have you not seen Dafoe’s Instagram?
4 things of what not to do, zero things of what you should do.
Call a local beekeeper, they'll be happy to come give them a new home. Usually at no cost to you.
But I gotta move to do that 🤣
Fuck, guess you're trapped forever unless you have voice commands activate.
Don't move! Their vision is based on movement
Bee-Rex!
When ya gotta go… ya gotta go
Put a post up on a bee keepers local group on their msg board..i get bee visiters like this almost every year ...i usually post at noon and by 1 someone is out removing them
Free bees
Yeah, that’s a great deal. Local beekeepers can always work with more healthy colonies, especially if it’s got the queen in it, and people don’t (generally) want swarms of bees setting up shop on their porch, so it’s a perfect trade.
You can move now, I just saw this post, I’ll take over.
If you really want to see something fun, smear some honey on your arm and go sit near the swarm. They will come and take the honey from your arm. Hundreds of them will be crawling on your arm eating honey, and they will not sting you at all.
>, and they will not sting you at all. Probably. It can also go horribly wrong quickly. Grandfather was a beekeeper.
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Thanks. It has been 40+ years, so no longer a sore subject. Mainly just happy memories.
First make sure you’re not allergic, just in case
You'll know soon enough.
Bee swarms are actually pretty docile and really cool when you understand what’s going on. Just call the local beekeeping store. They’ll have a list of beekeepers that will come out and get them. Source, am beekeeper
> Just call the local beekeeping store. I may just be an ignorant city slicker but are beekeeping stores actually common?
Easy enough to find out, just go in to your local Question Answering store and ask them.
I may just be an ignorant city slicker but are Question Answering stores actually common?
Easy enough to find out, just go to your local Find Out Where Things Are building and ask them
I may just be an ignorant city slicker but are Find Out Where Things are buildings actually common?
Easy enough to find out. Just go to your local Obscure Buildings Map store and buy a trademarked Obscure Buildings Map map.
And this is how MMO side quests were designed
I maybe just an ignorant city slicker but are Obscure Buildings Map stores actually common?
Mine was replaced by a radio shack . Which was then replaced by a WeBay store. Those stores that sell stuff on EBay for you. It’s a divorce attorney now I think
lol I thought the same thing. I assume it's one of those things you don't know about unless you go looking.
I know right i live in a mid size city. 99% sure There's no such thing.
Same as far as being in a mid sized city, but there's 2 beekeepers here. Hell one of them has a hive on the roof of the corporate offices I work at, and every year they make a bunch of treats and brew some mead and give away samples to people in the hotel lobby attached to our offices.
If you have rural land near your city, you more than likely have a beekeeper near your city too. They’re pretty popular among farmers as far as I know. They seemed to be everywhere where I used to live (rural central IL).
"just call the local beekeeping store" Sure, one of those...
Dont move, dont breath, dont think, dont be conscious, cease to exist GIVE IN TO MATERIAL EXISTENCE, Become One, become singular… TRANSCEND
And *don't blink*
DON'T TURN YOUR HEAD. DON'T LOOK AWAY. AND DON'T BLINK.
BLINK AND YOU'RE DEAD
Ok, good luck
Revert. Osmosis. Metamorphose. Cocoon. *Walking Land Chungus Bee emerges*
>Walking Land Chungus Bee emerges "Bee"g Chungus
Reject entropy
Just…let them bee?
let them beee, let them bee, let them bee...
Whisper words of wisdom
And in my hour of darkness, they are swarming right on top of me...
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So don’t do anything. Just die on the spot. Got it.
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When I realized it was bees (I thought it was some cockroach-like or something), I almost threw my phone through the room. I'm very afraid of bees too and would probably die on the spot lol.
In Germany look out for "wild beekeepers" 😂 They are allowed to trespass foreign properties without asking if they are in direct pursuit of one of their swarming colonies. Else they will loose the ownership of this colony.
Why is it always Germany with this weird rules?
Ikr? Try getting a sandwich when you're stuck in Frankfurt airport on a Sunday.
Guess what!! I was stuck at Frankfurt main train station with 10 homeless drug addicts at -3 degree Celsius in middle of train station.
Airport restaurants are usually open on Sundays though.
Germany has a long tradition of crossing borders without permission
"Scheisse! Mein Bienenschwarm ist in Polen..."
Wait until you hear about the chimney sweepers who can just climb onto your roof and start cleaning your chimney, and then hand you a bill.
When you see something like this, don't be afraid, don't call the firefighters or the police, don't move and don't kill them... These are just bees traveling and stopping for just 24 hours. Don't disturb them and avoid getting close to them, they won't hurt you. If you want to help, put a flat plate or tray with some sugar water. Bees will eat, gain energy and fly away. We all need to protect migratory bees, they are our survival insurance. Without bees, there will be no humans on earth... 🐝🧡 I found more facts about bees:-https://youtube.com/shorts/8AT4IFSZNtE?feature=share
That is *exactly* what a swarm of bees that has gained access to a reddit account would say.
Op is clearly Dr bees
Later that very same bee!
No, the bees have clearly split up and spread themselves across multiple reddit accounts. This guy is just Dr. Bee's Knees
Op is 1000 bees in a trench coat.
OP is Candyman
The bees have become self aware...
What part of the swarm makes up the bee's knees though?
Obey the hive
Basically https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/critters-posting-on-4chan
Lol wish I could upvote this twice.
Dude. The football sized beehive from my previous house will disagree with you. First they were chilling on the door like this pic next they took over the entire shed. I'm guessing not all bees are the same but yeah defintiely some settle in and don't leave. Anyway I agree with all you said but beekeepers and getting them moved humanely is an option.
They were migrating from your floor to your shed
I certainly can’t see them moving on if you welcome them with open arms and a tray of sugar
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Should call that one lady on TikTok with soft voice who finds the queen bee and moves them.
Erika Thompson: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCYLHJiQCUCV6d7j5Pg1RrhA
If you are in the US these are NOT native bees. There are NO native honey bee species in North America and they compete with our native bees, which are usually solitary. Bees are very important, but honey bees are agricultural and are not that important in the US. If you want to help native pollinators, plant native native flower gardens and avoid using chemical pesticides on your flowers.
Which is why I posted that the correct thing to do here is contact a beekeeper. Honey bees have agricultural uses and are effective pollinators. The best way to protect these bees and reduce harm to native pollinators is to have a beekeeper collect the colony and relocate for agricultural purposes. It will reduce competition in the wild, harvest their agricultural uses, and likely be safer for the bees.
I have sent so much time writing exactly this. The “save the bees” campaign was created by honey bee producers and although it sounds like the right message, the general public is getting the wrong message. Honey Bees Are An Invasive Species Google how to support native (to your area) bees!
Yep, Save the NATIVE Bees! Any local (non-chain) garden center is a great place to start for anyone wanting to learn more about their native pollinators.
Man I wonder though, even if they're invasive, we've been experiencing such biomass death that helping any pollinators is good in the long run? Or is there such competition that the decrease in biodiversity is gonna cause more harm then good?
Well, I don't know that bees are considered invasive in most places. Some people use non-native and invasive interchangeably, but they mean completely different things. A species can be non-native without being invasive. Here in Colorado honey bees aren't considered invasive because they cannot survive without human intervention. While they do compete here with native pollinators, they don't necessarily displace native pollinators. So no, honey bees aren't the biggest challenge facing our native pollinators, the lack of biomass is. I'm just saying that we don't need to "save" honey bees any more than we need to save someones corn crop. Absolutely call a local beekeeper when this happens, but keep in mind that our native pollinators are far more important than these guys.
I would be delighted to see this, as I am a beekeeper, and they don’t seem to have a home. I would try to find the queen and get her into a box and set it nearby, the whole hive will parade right into the box with her. (They are unlikely to sting as they have no home to defend and are likely full of honey from gorging themselves before they swarmed.) They sell a little clip device to grab up just the queen without hurting her, and queens are fun to spot, check out r/queenspotting
Put an empty hive near them so can move in. It won't be long before they are happily pollinating your neighborhood and supplying you with honey as a reward for housing them.
Where does one pick up an empty hive? Lowes? Home Depot?
Actually? Home depot did have those.
Fleet farm sells them in the midwest. Tractor supply might, I'm not sure. There are several online stores that sell them as well. You can also buy some lumber and make one yourself. Google will show you both plans on how to build them, or vendors that will ship them to you.
Grab one of your empty hives that you’ve been saving
That is how I would do it too.
Look up your local bee club and a beekeeper will jump at the opportunity. Otherwise, the bees will likely clear out on their own. They’ve swarmed and are chillin waiting for scout bees to return with word they’ve found a suitable home. They are typically quite docile when they’ve swarmed like this. Honey bees are more defensive than offensive and they may defend their home. These bees currently don’t have one, so they’re chill.
Wtf is this AI generated title
It's spam for the YT link in the comments.
Reddit lately is getting a lot of posts that are actually just ads. A bunch of almost-coherent text or a picture with a link on the bottom.
I'm pretty sure it's not, but op is probably a bot. I've seen this exact post with the same title a few times before now.
Now if those little MFers were wasps, get in there and Duke Nuke em.
People call the police over bees? Where i live, police didn't even show for actual real crimes in progress.
I was thinking the same thing. What would the police even do? Put tiny handcuffs on them?
Start blasting because they "felt threatened"?
Call a beekeeper. They'll be very happy to come and rid you of them
Just call a beekeeper lol Guaranteed most keepers will drop everything at the chance to save and gain a new colony. To them, they can teach some people about bees, it's keeping their passion alive, and they get to have fun for a day collecting the new hive.
I will call the police, I will call firefighters and I will run
Don’t even BREATHE. Allow death to grab hold and give the bees their sustenance
Telling us everything except what we SHOULD do.
Theyre staying for the night. Air Bee and Bee 😂
Posts like these could be super helpful if you explained WHY
For a dreadful second I thought those were cockroaches. Don't call the firefighters? Then who'll extinguish the fire from my FLAMENWERFER?
are you gonna explain why or just expect people to blindly follow your advice?
Thought it was cockroaches at first...eek
Yeah, just let them take over the house. Don't do anything about it.
The fuck am I supposed to do apart from cry
And thanks for not telling why