I worked at a nursery (the kind with plants) for a couple of summers in college that also had an apiary - it was pretty fascinating when a new queen was born - I watched the owner with no gear on just rap on the branch the swarm was on (it was a mid sized fruit tree - far smaller in diameter than the branch in the above video), they all dropped into the new bee box.
Very cool - and from what I saw, pretty safe. I mean, *I* didn't want to do it...but still they are all so fixated on the queen, they don't sting.
I have three too! Unfortunately, the way I understand it, they are sort of like conjoined twins (in my case, at least) you really can't break up the pair.
Very cool - and from what I saw, pretty safe. I mean, *I* didn't want to do it...but still they are all so fixated on the queen, they don't sting.
I'm with aware though - mesh shirts are never a good fashion statement.
Mesh mock turtlenecks, however?
Actually - still a horrible, horrible idea.