Posted: 7/5/2007 10:48:18 AM EDT
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I searched for "bees" , so blow me if its a dupe www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1845064 ETA: Dammit I forgot to search for the past three months, dupe. oh well |
I laughed at that the first time it was posted but since reading about them from tbk1's posts and recently finding out I have an uncle in PA who is also a bee keeper...  On a side note, tbk1, I was able to impress my uncle with knowledge from the thread in Team that you answered questions, that I had read not a week before talking to him about it. Thanks 
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It's considered to be an obligation of beekeepers to share their knowledge--same as gun nuts.  Glad to help! 
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I had a swarm attach itself to a prt of my harley once as it sat parked for work. I feel sorta stupid for paying some dude 100 bucks to come out and peacefully remove them. He laid next to the bike took a feather put a box under them and gently scraped all eleventy billion of them in there. Ps please do not state the obvious I know I got ripped off for emergency bee removal. |
He didn't do you any favors--but there's NO money in beekeeping, so this kind of thing is charged at whatever the market will bear. I've removed many dozens of swarms and only charged twice-- The first time was at a local car dealer's "tent sale"--all the local dealers set up tents by the mall and have a week-long sale. As luck would have it a swarm settled under one of the tents. This was not appreciated. I got the call and he offered "Anything you want--just get those damned things out of here!" I charged $60. The second time was a swarm settled on the window dormer (second story) of a house. It was VERY dangerous, as I had to build a platform, hive the swarm, then carry the hive down with BOTH hands--about 40# of hive going down an extension ladder, at night, without holding on. I charged $50. |