[Ag-eq] Bees

[Laurie Porter]

. It's not the honey bees that bother me it's those darn German Hornets, or 
commonly known as yellow jackets. I'm kind of allergic to those buggers, and 
they swarm wherever food is around.  the are aggressive too. naturally, 
there is tons of them at the farmers markets, and i usually get bit and then 
I swell up like crazy and it takes over a week for the swelling to subside. 
We have a couple of friends that bring hives out here to polinate. . I don't 
know if I'd want to do honey, but I like having those honey bees around. If 
you don't bother them they generally won't bother you.

David is quite the bee charmer as he can go over to the hives and not get 
stung. I like to where the gear though if I have to deal with them. We have 
a large paper wasp nest way up in one of our appletrees and I do have 
respect for those awful things as they can sting multiple times. David 
disturbed the nest with a tree pruner  the other day, and he knocked out the 
nest and then ran like hell. He had a bunch chasing hihm. so, my dog was 
lazily dozing off on the porch, he snapped to attention when they came, but 
he just opens his mouth and eats them. I've not seen him ever stung. he is 
the best bee catcher.
Last night we had asoft frost which doesn't help the asparagus. We scrambled 
to get all the outside potted plants in and we covered up some of the 
berries.

there is some kind of disease around here that threatens the honey crop and 
a few of our honey vendors have lost thousands of hives.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:24 PM
Subject: [Ag-eq] Bees


> Hi susan,
>
> Well that explains it. My husband was stung on the ear when he was a kid 
> and
> he has freaked out over bees ever since.
>
> Years ago our neighbor and her husband had bees on their lot out in the
> country.  She had been stung regularly for years.  One day she was working
> there with her husband and she was stung again but this time she went in 
> to
> shock.  It was one of the few times she was not alone, thank heavens 
> because
> she passed out and had to be taken to the E R.  I guess you built up a
> tolerance and then it catches up with you.  She carried meds with her 
> after
> that but she still tneded her bees.
>
> JODY
>
>
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