How Much Is A Bee Hive Worth?

The responses here had me in stitches.
You guys kill me.

I personally like the ebay idea.

Whoda thunk.

True story; my buddy bought an old colonial home with 3' diameter columns.
Bees built a monster hive in one. You could hear them inside the home.
Beekeepers split the column and took the proceeds. Don't know if he was changed or gratis.

 

Similar thing happen to my parents neighbor. We had noticed an increase in bee activity by the front of their garage. Probably a little over 20'.

He contacted a bee keeper to get rid of them. Once he started tearing away the siding the entire front of the garage was a honeycomb. The bee keeper said it was the most impressive and intact colonies he had ever seen inside a home.

 

I recall being told a similar thing.

They gassed the hive and started tearing the wall and thousands of bees started flying around my kitchen. I left for the day and when i got back there were dead bees an inch thick covering my kitchen floor.

I should have taken a pic but there were several 5 gal buckets filled with dead bees and even more filled with honey. It took another 2 weeks to clean all the hive out...it was a mess.

 

Wrap it in papier mache and sell it as a pinata. Cinco de Mayo is coming up after all.












I'm probably going to hell for that one.

 

LOL - on the contrary, he and I get along very well and I welcome him in my house for 3 - 4 months at a time. He just felt comfortable trying an experiment with the bee box which, to his amazement and my dismay, took off better than ever imagined.

ChuckEBaby - thanks for the links! I may try to contact some of those bee keepers to see if they would be willing to come down and take the hive back if I paid them...

 

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING IDEA. Stuff some EpiPens in there too I'll join you in hell also.

 

When I first saw the title of this thread I thought it was about another exciting episode of the Simpson's, like maybe Homer was considering a divorce or something.

Glad to hear that you made it out alright. Unfortunately, this guy didn't.

"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A man in Okeechobee County died after being stung more than 100 times by bees that officials think were Africanized honey bees, state agriculture officials said.

The man had a fatal reaction to the bee stings, which aren't always fatal, medical officials said.

If the tests are confirmed, it would be the first death in Florida caused by the aggressive bees, according to the Florida Department of Agricultre, although there have been at least 17 deaths caused by the bees across the United States since 1990."

http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/041108/D8VVTNN00.shtml

 

similiar incident involving a friends son. he was running a small dozer and hit a nest. they swarmed him and he fell under the dozer which ran him over. he was badly injured. nearly died. thankfully he has recovered. he carries he copies of his xrays in his wallet to impress his friends.

 

'bout all one gets when ridding the bees via beekeeper, but, worth it are a few jars of honey from the source, comb [honeycomb, that is] included.

Since you offered help as I assume he knows, don't be surprised if he gifts you with a big jar. Nothing like it.

If a pharoah's tomb were excavated tomorrow or a thousand years from now, if the jar were sealed well, technically, the honey would still be viable. Thickest, most concentrated honey on the planet, but still...

 

Holy crap. That is a lot of bees. I would have been relieved they were dead, but annoyed by the clean up.

 

Funniest thread I have ever seen on F Chat. You guys have me rolling.

 

That's too bad. Some people are much more reactive. Fortunately my friend I was with and I aren't. I kept my mouth shut better than him tough, he pulled 7 stingers out of his tongue when it was all over!