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.

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Posted by cgrand

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Posted on 5/8/24 at 7:33 pm to Sir Drinksalot

I have a hive on my property. I started with two but one of the storms took one of them. I’m not in any way a beekeeper though, they are on their own as far as maintenance goes…I’ve never opened the hive and I’ve not even checked on them in years.

but, they seem to be doing their thing. My garden and all my flowers are covered in bees. My point of this is simple. If you have a secluded spot, and there’s water within a mile or so (creek, pond, swimming pool) then you can install a hive easily with no further requirements from you. Treat the hive as just another feature of your property.

the benefits are worth the minor expense

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