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Posted by ursus21 (Member # 3556) on October 01, 2013, 07:29 AM:
We had a heckuva wind storm here last night. It blew over a number of trees, knocked out the power, and some phone lines for a while. One of the trees that blew over was in the city park next to my house. It is a very large cottonwood tree. The interesting thing is that it turned out to be mostly hollow. Inside the base of the trunk was a large bee hive. I've never seen anything like this before.
Behive up close.
Bee's clustered together. The wind was blowing so hard not a single bee was in the air. I think they were just holding on for dear life.
Another close up of the bees in the part of the tree that was still standing.
The part of the tree that remained standing.
Here is a photo of me next to the fallen tree just to give a size perspective to how really big this tree/hive was. I always find nature interesting but between the forces of nature (wind) and the beehive it was a most interesting evening around here yesterday. Never seen anything like this behive before.
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on October 01, 2013, 08:16 AM:
Wow! Thats a beehive! Stupid question but anyone call a beekeeper to collect those things? Pretty hot commodity out this way.
Mark
[ October 01, 2013, 08:16 AM: Message edited by: Lone Howl ]
Posted by ursus21 (Member # 3556) on October 01, 2013, 08:37 AM:
I doubt anyone called, and with the wind howling 70mph or more I doubt anyone was interested.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on October 01, 2013, 08:45 AM:
Yeah, but he has a point. There is much concern about honey bees. They get some kind of virus and there is a big die off. Not enough to go around and pollinate crops. Now we know, ursus is hording.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by ursus21 (Member # 3556) on October 01, 2013, 09:03 AM:
I would imagine with the temps in the 30's at night that most of these bees will be dead by the weekend. I actually feel kind'a bad for the little buggers. They've obviously been living in that tree for years and years. Now all of the sudden they are homeless and it's getting cold. Bad time to be a bee around here.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on October 01, 2013, 10:30 AM:
Be glad that they're not the `Africanized Bees` that we enjoy down this way. Truly evil little animals. Better living thru science........yeah, right.
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