does anyone keep aggressive bees

[pargyle]

Mines where like this, I got confident to go over without suit then BANG! Right behind the top of my ear one got me. The sting was in for few mins and my ear swole up like a bap lol.

OK .... Hold that thought and then multiply it by a hundred or so when an aggressive hive comes out in force and sets about some poor innocent who happens to be walking by ... without a bee suit on ... perhaps a child ?

And then think again ...

 

[Ely]

Mines where like this, I got confident to go over without suit then BANG! Right behind the top of my ear one got me. The sting was in for few mins and my ear swole up like a bap lol.

How many people did you ask for advice to take the itching away?

 

[irishguy]

OK .... Hold that thought and then multiply it by a hundred or so when an aggressive hive comes out in force and sets about some poor innocent who happens to be walking by ... without a bee suit on ... perhaps a child ?

And then think again ...

P, I can guarantee no one will be anywhere near he aggressive hive I'm wanting. Its a very isolated spot where I'm wanting to keep it.

 

[irishguy]

How many people did you ask for advice to take the itching away?

Why you ask this?

 

[Ely]

I would concentrate on becoming a competent beekeeper with gentle bees. That will take more than a couple of seasons. And there are many aspects of beekeeping that are much more sensible to experiment with than wanting to keep aggressive bees. My bees are aggressive because I haven't got around to requeening because I travel between north and south over the year. They are no fun. To say gentle bees don't produce as much honey as aggressive bees suggests that there is such a thing as a 'lazy' strain of bees. I find this hard to imagine. Your quantity of honey is based on your beekeeping skills mainly, the weather and how prolific an egg layer the queen is, also playing a large part.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Well said Ely! Only a fool goes looking for trouble

 

[Nige.Coll]

why ask this ?
Angry bees are as much fun as a bowel exam.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Angry bees are as much fun as a bowel exam.

I'll take your word for it

 

[pargyle]

why ask this ?
Angry bees are as much fun as a bowel exam.

This week's prize for the best description ....

 

[Newtobees]

Irishguy this is what can happen when you have an aggressive hive there is no fun in keeping them and you dread having to inspect them I was fully suited and booted and lucky for me I do not tend to get any reaction from stings and they soon go down and disappear within hour or two hour but there were plenty more over my body.

 

[enrico]

When my hives fell over when I was inspecting them a few months back....if you remember!... I had two full hives of very very angry bees. I thought I was bomb proof but I wasn't. They got inside my veil and suit, they went down my wellies, they mobbed me, they stung my face and kneck. I have been keeping bees for years, I felt sick at the thought of having to go back into this raging mob and put the hives back together. I taped my suit up with duck tape, I stuffed paper into my wellies to stop them getting in and I still lost to the bees. If you really want to see what angry bees are like, knock one of your hives over and see what happens!
Seriously, it really is no fun.
I am over the incident now but I will never ..... Ever.....forget it!
E

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

they stung my face and kneck.

Hope the last was a typo and not you slipping into badly spelt Welsh - otherwise that could be a very nasty place to get a sting!

 

[Amari]

I don't want to deter your quest Irish Guy but my two most frightening experiences with aggressive colonies:
-A bee went head first up my left nostril
-A tickling feeling on my lower leg, a few moments later around the knee, then half way up my thigh...........I won't go on for fear of upsetting the moderator or any gently-nutured young ladies following this thread

 

[kazmcc]

gently-nutured young ladies following this thread

You mean me, don't you? lol

 

[kazmcc]

P, I can guarantee no one will be anywhere near he aggressive hive I'm wanting. Its a very isolated spot where I'm wanting to keep it.

Yes but what about the drones from this aggressive colony? How can you be sure they won't mate with other beeks queens? You have to be really careful on this one, maybe listen to the experienced keepers here. Don't you think this has crossed their minds? But their experience tells them it's tosh. Please don't do it.

 

[TOBY-3652]

You mean me, don't you? lol

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

P, I can guarantee no one will be anywhere near he aggressive hive I'm wanting. Its a very isolated spot where I'm wanting to keep it.

Does anyone else keep thinking we have here a future winner of the Darwin Awards?


http://www.darwinawards.com


Dusty

 

[VEG]

Well to the original poster after all the advice you have received on here and totally disregarded, I hope you get what you hope for! I just hope it doesn't affect anyone else.

 

[Finno]

Irishguy.....don't be stupid!

 

[Cazza]

Does anyone else keep thinking we have here a future winner of the Darwin Awards?


http://www.darwinawards.com


Dusty

I'm giving one to Mr Cazza who broke some ribs on Monday after falling from an unsafe pile of items he had been told not to climb onto. Sympathy levels are very low in the Cazza household........

Nurse Ratchet

P.s Finno is dead right but I don't think IG is listening to us all.