Yesterday I brought home a bunch of scrap lumber from a job site that donates their scraps. I brought home enough wood for several projects and spent the day building a Bee bench for out by the hives. It's always nice to have clean flat surfaces to place your hive tools, smoker and whatever while you work on the bees.
This morning I drove out early to drop the bench off. As soon as I got out of the truck I saw several bees attacking my truck in a frenzy. As I'm watching, the thought goes through my head that when they get tired of trying to sting the truck I'm going to get some attention. And then I hear it .... faintly at first ... then louder and louder until I heard (or at least imagined) A high pitched "GET HIM" !!!!! and then the fun began.
They just wouldn't leave me alone. And it was fairly aggressive behavior that basically chased me from the yard. Aggressive enough to promote thoughts of re queening the hives. Re queening will replace your bloodlines with gentler bees even though that takes a few months before you're back to a calmer group.
Viva la revolution ... death to the queens !!!!
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