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Last year I was cutting grass on my riding mower and I was about 50 feet away from one of the hives and believe it or not I saw it coming straight at me like a bullet. She caught me right above the left eye and it almost knocked me off the mower. She hit me and buried the stinger in the same...

All these things may work but I know this one does and works quickly to remove the burn: Toothpaste. An old beekeeper told me to always keep a tube of plain old white mint toothpaste in my bee toolbox and to rub just a dab on once you get the stinger out. Works every time and within just a...

Call your local Ag extension office. I would imagine almost every county in the US has an office. Someone there will know who the beekeepers are and how to get in touch with the local association. Find out and go online to their site or call the president or secretary of the association...

I've been painting the garage for the past week and I had to replace two of the facia trim boards on each side of the building. The carpenter bees had a mess of the boards and I had to replace them. Both boards were riddled with their warrens which extended for up to eight inches from the...

If I'm not mistaken when grasshoppers get like that they become known as locusts. We had a locust swarm in Berthoud, CO back in '84 or '85 that devoured everything in sight. They even stripped and ate the paint off of houses. Those aren't grasshoppers - they're locusts, I guarantee you.

It's called Global Warming and the next sorry $*^&#& that tries to explain it to me I'm going to light him on fire and warm my cold fingers over his sizzling remains...

I know this sounds kinda crazy but we were having a problem a few years ago with deer coming up and munching in the garden. I'd find deer prints every morning. One day I go out to pick my bush beans because I saw that the night before they were perfectly ready. But when I go to picking...

If these are large black bees that look like bumblebees they're a wood borer bee or also they're known as carpenter bees. They're destructive because they bore into your wood trim and make nests inside the wood. This weakens the wood and eventually it will rot through. The best thing is to...

What'd I do today? Watered everything this morning before going to work. But last night before it got too dark I planted a whole flat of 54 sweet potato slips in one of my 4' x 10' x 12" boxes. They were the Beauregard variety which means if they are like last year's they'll be really bright...

CatJack, I'm sorry I really didn't answer your question about adding wild bees to a domestic hive. No, you probably couldn't do that. If you dropped a bunch of bees you captured into a hive already occupied you'd probably have a miniture WWIII on you hands inside the hive. You'd probably come...

Well now, keep in mind that men are just like dogs except we can only see the primary and secondary colors. Well, there's a few others like brown, black, pink, and chartreuse. We can't tell taupe from rope or periwinkle from Bullwinkle. I was probably fifty years old before I found out that...

Beautiful boxes, Major! What kind of wood are you using there? It's doesn't look like standard pine. Sorry, double posted that one.

Beautiful boxes, Major! What kind of wood are you using there? It's doesn't look like standard pine.

They could be but I suspect this swarm probably came from one of our own hives. My guess is if we were to go in and pull the frames one at a time from the hive body we'd probably find Swarm Cells on the bottoms of the frames. The hive body is the largest box at the bottom of the stack of a...

I did a Wiki lookup on pink mantises and it appears this particular species is found wherever orchids thrive. I think that means it would probably be found mostly in rain forests and jungles. There are many, many varieties of them but this one is probably the prettiest one I've ever seen...

What StonyGarden said! After the neighbor's dog ended up in my chicken run I went back and replaced the chicken wire with 2x4 welded wire fabric. But I think the neighbors still miss poor old Abby. But she's doing great now pushing up compost in the bin... :P

Now, normally they would be aggressive but an experienced beekeeper would get out their smoker and smoke 'em down good. Then they're too busy gorging themselves with honey because they think a forest fire is coming and they have to load up in a hurry because they may be moving out really quick...

Well, out where I live I could probably get away with it since I can't even see my neighbor's house down the lane and they're gone all the time anyways. But I don't think I could be so cruel to the local wildlife population. The poor deer would go into convulsions. The coyotes would stop...

VFem, you take care. Sorry to hear you're sick. Don't go too long without going to the doctor's though. Over in the Burlington area there's been an outbreak of Whooping Cough, of all things. I thought that was a dead disease of the past. There was one or two students at our granddaughter...

Hey, it wasn't me. The credit goes to Miss Teresa who is the family beekeeper. Me, I just lop off the branch, drop the loppers, and run for my life!!! Keep in mind when I was a kid we went everywhere in the summer barefooted. That meant a lot of times we'd go barefooted down the road with...