Our backyard became the party of the year for a homeless colony of bees tonight.
This particular leg of our trampoline was the place to be.
I have a co worker whose husband is a beekeeper, so I gave her a quick call and he was at our house within 15 minutes, and without bee suit walked up to the swarm, called them "babies", and got to work. This was his third call of the day, and while he was working he got another call!
As he worked he gave us some very interesting bee facts, and as far as I know he didn't get stung once. Which is one of the interesting facts, when they are "house searching" they are not aggressive, it's only when they have a home that they get territorial.
He said there were probably about 8000 bees, and they had made their way up under the under lip of the trampoline liner. He thought that this was probably where the Queen was, because they seemed confused about where they needed to be. As long as she was still on the trampoline, they wouldn't move to the bee hive box. So he needed to put his bee suit on and get pushy by scooping them into the box.
After he was sure that the Queen had relocated to the New House he left the bee box and said he would come back after dark to take it away.
I asked him if I owed him anything, and he said no because this was a really easy move, as they weren't in an attic or a steep roof. He is actually going to give me a jar of honey! Score! Thank you bees for invading my backyard!
Home Sweet Home.
