re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

People think bees are pests.

Someone found a hive at work and called an exterminator.

The guy showed up and said "oh they're wasps" and stuck some kind of smoke bomb up the tree and tried to eradicate them. He knew they were bees but he didn't want to deal with them.

They ended up building back up and surviving, but I bet that's pretty typical -

People find hives, they don't know any bee removal people and/or want them gone soon, so they try and kill them.

Add that to the fact that we are not building houses around trees anymore (rather bulldozing and building houses with no nature in between), it doesn't look good for the bees!

I'm going to try and start a hive in a few years after I get a handle on some other yard projects.

They need to be close to water so they're already a little picky - we have some room and water so I'll try and help them out.