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You have suicidal bees?!
Thank this urge for self destruction could be passed on to wasps, by any chance? I’d be willing to pay passage for some of those bees.
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Somehow I don’t think I could mourn wasp suicides.
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I’d be very happy to have suicidal wasps. One of those dive-bombing terrorists stung me right on the top of the head. I won’t be mourning them.
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I’d be freaking out if I saw that in our house. I can only assume a swarm flew by and they got lost? Ugh…
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According to neighbors there is a local swarm that occasionally makes it over to our side of the island. Local beekeepers have been trying to capture and relocate the queen and her bees, but so far haven’t had much luck.
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Don’t know why I clicked like – I don’t like at all. Poor bees.
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I completely agree with you. Such a waste. Apparently, according to some neighbors, there are wild bees that occasionally swarm. Local beekeepers have tried to capture the queen in hopes of relocating them to a safer place, but so far have not had success.
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I should send over our local honey man. He captured his first swarm of bees when he was a young boy (he’s now in his 80s). They all died because he didn’t know what he was doing. However, the next time he was successful and and manged to keep the swarm alive. He used to go to school with his bag full of jars of honey to sell. He has been producing honey ever since – Urr Valley Honey. Next time you are down my way I’ll introduce you to it – and him, if you want. Not sure if the still does but at one time he supplied the Royal household.
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Inside the house? I would freak out. I wonder if they were infected with the bee virus?
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Okay, first I had to look up the bee virus, as I had no idea it was even a thing. And wow—it’s pretty scary. There have been outbreaks in the north of Scotland over past few years, but nothing spotted (at least yet) here on Arran. I know there is an active beekeeper association here on the island, so I’m guessing they are watching carefully for any signs of that. But bees are so important! I’ve seen estimates that over half the food we eat depends on pollination at some point in its food chain.
There is a (probably apocryphal) statement attributed to Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”
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Such a shame.
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That is sad. I have a bee-friendly garden to support the little things. It would be heartbreaking to see so many like that.
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