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Originally Posted by AngelBunny  My DH and I have an apiary. We'd LOVE to have one of our neighbors call us about a swarm of bees that's close enough to the ground for us to reach, take home, and put into one of our hives that we keep empty, in the happy event we'd get contacted about a swarm.
Honeybees are crucial to American agriculture and the foods we like to eat. pollinating about 100 flowering food crops--including apples, nuts, broccoli, avocados, asparagus, celergy, squah, citrus fruit, peachers, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, animal feed crops (such as clover). $15 billion worth of food--30% of food crops depend on pollination by bees.
Essentially all flowering plants need bees to survive.
If you see a swarm of bees, call a beekeeper. |
My mom just had a bee hive exterminated.... after two months of attempting to get someone (beekeepers) to remove the nest. They decided to roll out the doormat on the side of her house and build their hive around her natural gas line meter.
Two different bee guys came out, and never came back, and others simply never showed up. Finally she had to resort to the exterminator which was very puzzling, since the general bee population is very sick and is dying off, it seems to me they would have wanted some nice healthy 'wild stock' to add to their populations.
Mom was very upset about destroying them, but she is extremely allergic (would die if stung allergic) to them. We were confused as to why no one would touch them.