OK, you have decided to go with an aluminum screen cone. Good call. Aluminum screen is hardy, weather resistant, and a little bit pokey – so you can keep the bees from reentering. So now you are off to the local hardware store to buy an $8 roll – the smallest available – of aluminumContinueContinue reading “Aluminum Screen”
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Keep Working – Night-Time Edition
You really aren’t too bright, are you?Bees stung you through the suit, you flailed in response, dropping the vacuum and falling off the ladder. As you fell, you dislodged the bucket with the bees, which fell on top of you.Your screams could be heard for miles.Lee Robinson, who advised you not to continue, tried toContinueContinue reading “Keep Working – Night-Time Edition”
Back to the Drawing Board
Sometimes, it is best to just take a beat, and read, and think, and plan a little more. Sure, there is a time for action, but sometimes, you gain insight by putting the chutzpah on hold and plotting things through a little better.The books talk a lot about trap-outs, and how they work. Essentially, youContinueContinue reading “Back to the Drawing Board”
Be Still
This week I am taking a class for work at the University of Montana in Missoula. It is a gorgeous campus, with walking trails and bountiful nature all around. Adjacent to the building where the ecosystem restoration class being held is a raised bed garden with glorious wildflowers.Being who I am, I immediately began scoutingContinueContinue reading “Be Still”
Sweet, Sweet Success
Honeycomb, ready for crush and strainLast week, I posted the results of the honeybee removal from the previous Saturday, and was pretty proud of how it had gone (you should read it, if you have not already). In what was an extremely long day of work on a 24-foot ladder, Shannen and I:Opened the wallContinueContinue reading “Sweet, Sweet Success”
First Stings
This week I did a hive inspection. For the past few weeks, I haven’t been able to locate my gloves, so I get stung a lot. I wear latex gloves, though, and they help. I can still feel the work I am doing, which helps my dexterity, and if I get stung. I can justContinueContinue reading “First Stings”
Don’t Look – Long Way Down
I extended my 20′ ladder to its full length, and placed it against the front wall of Mr. Stephen Edmonson’s house. I clambered up, I stood on the top available rung, and still fell about four feet short of being able to peer into the hive.This beehive removal was going to be tricky.Stephen has aContinueContinue reading “Don’t Look – Long Way Down”
The Miraculous Fount of Sister So-and-So
The bees covered the floor of the classroom, all dead. Layered on the floor in front of the 12′ window, their carcasses were dried and dusty. Every horizontal surface within twenty feet was covered with the bodies. One sad, exhausted – but still alive – bee beat her wings against the window, trying in aContinueContinue reading “The Miraculous Fount of Sister So-and-So”
Removals (x2)
“I am reading through this contract, and the way I read it, you will not replace the work that you tear out. Am I reading that right?”It is a fair question. A fair thing to ask. Mr. Victor Robinson has a tenant who was looking to have bees removed from his back porch, and IContinueContinue reading “Removals (x2)”
Bees Inside
Bee-tween the window and the drapes.I love bees. Bees are a delightful part of nature.But. Nature, I am told, is intended to remain outside the walls of our homes. To establish our safe haven within a location of our choosing, we beat back the weeds and the animals and the insects, and we sanitize and createContinueContinue reading “Bees Inside”
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