Bee update

[helen99]

Rialian called animal control this morning, who have started the chain of communication to field staff who will be calling back today. Rialian's dad called a guy from Department of Natural Resources who places barrel traps for bears and transports them to less populated areas. Two of the hives swarmed, which is actually a good thing - this caused them to regroup around the queen rather than any particular hive. The bad news was, Rialian had to catch the swarms, which he did, and put them back into hives (not necessarily the same hive they were in before, so they'd be able to identify with new surroundings and start over. From scratch. Two weeks worth of brood wiped out... At least two of the queens are there - if she wasn't, they wouldn't have swarmed. We think the third one is there too, since the hive seems vigorous, but the third one didn't attempt to swarm.

Comments

[guardianjain]

Yikes. And here's hoping that DNR manages to catch the sucker (and that it doesn't find its way back!)!

Thank goodness at least some of the queens survived.

*crosses fingers that the weather your way makes it less of a loss to the hives than it could be*

[helen99]

We may not get a second chance to rescue these hives if he comes back. We have to get that e-fence up... today.

[jolantru]

Hopefully, the bear gets caught and released in another place, away from man.

[helen99]

There aren't too many such places left :(
Too many people. Including me. That's the whole problem.