There Was A Noise Coming From The BBQ!

[rtde3]

A friend emailed me this! It is NOT mine!

I'm using my BBQ this weekend so I thought I'd clean it up.
I have known there were bee's coming from under the cover so I thought I'd kill them.
Here's the BBQ in question.


Now I know these bombs aren't for bee's but I thought I'll suffocate/smoke them out!
So here is the weapon of choice and the delivery system.



I thought I was pretty smart! It's designed to be easily maneuvered under the cover of darkness.
I released the weapon of Buzz destruction!
Then I ran like a track star!
The sound from under the cover was incredible!!! You could hear it 30' away easy!
Then I came back a few Min's later to see the death toll...




I continued to remove the cover and to light the BBQ to give it a cleaning when I noticed some fatty looking
substance on the top of the side shelf.
Bit weird, I cleaned it before I put it away for winter and no way was that fat there so... I begun to wonder......
NO..... it can' t be could it?
I slowly removed the rest of the cover only to find the HQ!!

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[ramjet2187]

What a shame. A beekeeper could have safely removed the bees, without resulting in their deaths. Yes, I kill insects, but killing an entire hive of bees is genocide.....

I realize this isn't your BBQ, so I'm not attacking you, RT. Just voicing my opinion.

Roger

[rtde3]

What a shame. A beekeeper could have safely removed the bees, without resulting in their deaths. Yes, I kill insects, but killing an entire hive of bees is genocide.....

I realize this isn't your BBQ, so I'm not attacking you, RT. Just voicing my opinion.

Roger

I would have liked to have the honey! But after all that spray... :P

I'm sure who ever did this did not know there was a hive under there.

[hollowpointred]

i wouldnt want to use the grill anymore either after all of that pesticide!

[ashleen]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[G.I.B.]

Heck yeah... call the local news station, get a bee-keeper to come get them, and have a famous BBQ grille along with some free honey!

Too bad the total annihilation option was exercised, but some very interesting pictures nonetheless.

I guess that is where the expression 'busy as a bee' comes from.

[Montana Jim]

Yea... what a shame...

But AWESOME pics!

[bomber]

jeeeez,i guess they never use their grill,how long does it take for bees to make that?

[Mainedigger]

Yeah a beekeeper would have been thrilled to help out and take the bees and honey and would have gave the guy plenty of honey if not all of it jsut to get the hive. Although I am not sure if the guy realized they were honey bees, may have just thought they were hornets and wasn;t chancing it. That said...he's pretty brave using cockroach and flea spray on bees...I;d be petrified that all that would do is piss the bees off and not kill em... But from the pics I guess it worked good enough, me... I'm sticking to the hornet spray that knocks em dead right out of the air....

[Collymore]

a Beekeeper might even have paid you.

Sad to read about the bees untimely death.

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

"Yes, I kill insects, but killing an entire hive of bees is genocide....."



Yes the bees are dead.

It is a shame they were killed.


"GENOCIDE"


I think not.


Humans kill what they want to kill.
Each his own.

Pesticide companies are selling, and farmers are using
bags of crap that say in the warnings it may be hamful
for the bees. Govt allows it; wonder why?

all have a good un........
SHERMANVILLE

[GPURS]

If it had been any other type of bee, other than the honeybee, I would be happy to see the picture. But,, the honey bees are having a difficult enough time surviving the "colony collapse disorder" or whatever it is called. I'm sure most of you are aware that honey bees are disappearing at an alarming rate, and thus the pollination of many of our nations crops is in peril.. I guess it would just be nice if people were a little more aware of the world around them .. Down in the south where I live, if anyone sees a snake in/on or around the water, it is automatically a water mocasin. People will flat out try to fight you if you dare try to tell them that most snakes found around water are usually just some form of harmless .....Water snake. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for killing stuff , but let's have an idea of what we are killing.... Gpurs..

[slow sweeper]

I have two hives right now. Usually run four but two hives died last winter. I keep them to ensure good pollination of the crops on our small farm.
That's a fairly small hive. Ten thousand bees could get that much comb built in less than a month. A strong hive will have around 40,000 bees. Just how fast comb is built depends on the amount of flowering trees, shrubs and other plants that are within a two mile radius of the hive. New comb is very light in color. It darkens with age. Your friends hive is pretty new.
Doesn't look like there was much honey to harvest. Wouldn't have taken long though. One picture shows capped honey in the center of an outside comb. The center combs would have had brood in the center, then honey around the brood, and some pollen scattered around.
When a hive gets overcrowded they "swarm." The bees feed a few larvae a special substance called "Royal Jelly." These larvae develop into queens. The first new queen to emerge from her cell roams the hive searching for other queens or queen cells. When she comes across a queen cell she destroys it. Killing the as yet "un"emerged queen. If two queens that have emerged find each other they fight to the death. In a few days she will take a brief flight and be mated by drones. She only mates once and will lay hundreds of thousands of eggs in her lifetime. Three to four years.
The old queen leaves with about 60% of the hive to find a new place to live. After they leave the hive the swarm will hang out in a tree or bush or side of a building while scout bees find the new home. Scout bees decided your friends covered BBQ was the perfect spot. If you see a swarm in the air, a pretty spectacular sight, or bunched on a tree or fence post don't worry. These bees have no brood or honey stores to protect so will be fairly docile. I would not want to agitate them too much though.
Honey bees are dying at a horrendous rate all over the world. Without honey bees pollinating fruit trees and vegetable crops the diversity of our diet would be a lot less. They should be protected at all costs.
A hive as easily reached as the one in your friends BBQ should have been removed by a bee keeper. It's a very simple procedure.
Sorry Shermanville, you don't know what you're talking about. Bee's and farming go hand in hand. Most farmers rely on bees. And many spend money every year to have a bee keeper place their hives on his property to ensure good pollination of his crops.
Those that spray their crops do so at times when the crop is not flowering to ensure that bees are not harmed. A farmer who does not follow this basic tenant is not in business very long.