Bee Season

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Started up a new hive.
My little budies are up early and hard at it.
They put in an amazing effort every day!!
 

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Joe Rogan has a great podcast with Erica Thompson this is part of it, very complex ecosystem.

 

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My wife is petrified of bugs...like a huge phobia, but I want to start a hive.

Is this your first one?
 

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Yes it my first hive but I have helped with hives in the past.
Lots to know, take a bee keeping class if you don't have a mentor to work with.
End goal is for hives at farm and in back yard in Edmonton.
 

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Bees are awesome, the trees on my property are full of them right now.




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Stung by 50+ bees one time, while inspecting hives. They were mad. Not enough smoke, kinda of wet out. I have enough Bee venom in my body to fight all diseases/old age for next 100 years. Wifey loves me…,,,,,, . 🤠
 

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Had enough of the little bastards growing up, we usually had 30-50 hives. I remember one year fondly where sugar went up in price and it was too expensive to over winter the hives. Not sure how you make bees mad bud sucking up a hive with a shop vac. is a good start....
 

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I found this on a tree in my yard. Must be from last year. Its was bigger than a basket ball. It was wasps though
 

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I found this on a tree in my yard. Must be from last year. Its was bigger than a basket ball. It was wasps though
Dad had 1 of these only about 40ft up on the sunny side of the tree and there were 100's of those bastages, needed a flame thrower almost good thing it was farther from the house and rec area.
 

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Dad had 1 of these only about 40ft up on the sunny side of the tree and there were 100's of those bastages, needed a flame thrower almost good thing it was farther from the house and rec area.
About 5 rounds out of a 12 guage fixes that problem. Don't mind bees but wasps are just fawking angry creatures
 

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Last summer I had one of those in a branch pile, i pulled a branch to put it in the chipper and tore it in half (i didnt see it). About a 100 of them flew out and i think 10 got me in the face before i could get out of there. It was nasty. I was swollen for days and thought my lip was going to explode because it was so large.

I had to put all my snowmobile gear on to go back in to shut my tractor off and find my glasses/hat.

After a few days of healing i went back in with a few cans of spray and killed what was left. Started looking around and found 5 of those nests throughout my acreage.

It was the worst stinging incident i have ever had.
 

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I found this on a tree in my yard. Must be from last year. Its was bigger than a basket ball. It was wasps though
Found one like that hunting last year, kept it and put it in the hobby room. One of the biggest I've come across
 

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About 5 rounds out of a 12 guage fixes that problem. Don't mind bees but wasps are just fawking angry creatures

Brother in law shot a big Yellowjacket nest with the shotgun. He was about 30-40yards away he said they came out and straight for him it’s like they followed the heat from the gun. Had to make a run back to the house. They chased him right into the house lol.
 

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We get wasps every year, Brakleen is awesome for hand to wasp combat and for hives I use a pressure washer with soap gun foamer saturate hive let sit for a bit and blow it up with a jet nozzle from 50 ft away. Works frickin great
Ya a little soap/water in a squirt bottle works good too, i keep 1 around the sitting area for these bastages, hit them from approx 8-10 ft with sprayer and down they go or leave. I have used brakleen in the garage instant knock down, never though of my pressure washer though great idea as i have a soap foamer as well and a jet nozzle.:)
 
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