Catch-up of Doom 5: Real Life 2: The bees

[oloriel]

On a happier note, even though it was a long winter, bad spring and weird summer, my bees appear to be thriving. I have two colonies again, one fully-fledged one (grown from the swarm I got last year) and one fledgling one

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[enismirdal]

Hahaha, are you sure we don't have the same bees

[oloriel]

See, my bees only filled up half their super! ;_

[chili_das_schaf]

So fascinating :D this is a hobby I will for sure never take up but it's so interesting to read about. I also like how you talk to the bees. Makes me feel saner about talking to two rodents that would be flattened with a shovel if a Chilean farmer would see them. ("Na Jungs, gut geschlafen? Warum habt ihr wieder ins Sandbad gekackt?").

I hope, not only for the bees, that the seasons next year are not so whacky.

[oloriel]

I used to talk that way to my guinea-pigs, too, whereas the cats get proper baby talk. (That's what they get for meowing on the same frequency as "hungry human baby", I guess!)

Yeah, me too! Cold winter is fine with me, but it should end with a proper spring, not some sort of dragged-out February that lasts until June!

[lindahoyland]

This is fascinating.I'm glad you didn't get stung. There is a bee camera in Bavaria on the Explore.org site

[oloriel]

I would've survived a sting, no doubt. But of course it's better for my only-just-returning confidence that it didn't happen! ^^

Wow, that is fascinating! The honeycomb cave-in was terrifying. O.ó

[sermanya]

honey :)
bees are nice folks, but i am allergic (in a foot swells and doubles its size in no time kind of way - but not life-threatening serious) and i think would go completely crazy if too many of them were humming around me...........

[oloriel]

I can understand that all too well! I'm not even allergic (yet :P), but there were times when a bee that innocently landed on my hand, or too many bees buzzing in a potentially threatening way, would make me toss away my tools or the entire frame. (Which is a stupid thing to do, of course, because that'll give them a reason to be pissed off... but alas, panic and reason rarely go together!) Bad in a beekeeper! I'm very relieved that I'm now feeling a bit more comfortable around them, even if I don't yet dare to go back to my i-need-no-veil-or-gloves beginnings. >_>

[sermanya]

My grandpa used to go in the bees without anything and I truely admired that. (standing nearby - keeping just enough distance to be able to see EVERYTHING ;) )

I didn't know that there are different sorts of bees though. Learned something new - thank you :)