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worker honeybees are females, typically there's tens of thousands of them in a hive with a few thousand drones (males) :sci101:

the drones basically exist to go fly around and meet up with a queen, usually from another hive, and mate with her. they don't collect nectar or pollen and can't feed themselves. queens usually go on one mating flight in their lives and collect a giant reservoir of sperm

i've been a bee landlord but chicago is a tough place to keep bees because they have a tendency to die in the winter if there's any kind of cold snap, and it's sad




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alnilam posted:

one time a bee swarm visited my backyard for a few days it was surprisingly chill even though i was kinda ascared

honeybees will really only attack if they feel like the hive is threatened, and when they're swarming they don't have a hive, so they're literally just trying to find a place to live. if you find a swarm the best thing to do is try to contact some local beekeepers to come collect it and rehive it




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alnilam posted:

yeah it turned out i had a friend of a friend come and take the swarm, for beekeepers finding a swarm is a lucky strike! he told me otherwise you can pay like several hundo for a fresh swarm.

he showed up and literally scooped them into a trash can with a lid, with his bare hands, in a t-shirt. that shoewd me how docile they truly are in the swarming phase. it was crazy.

lol that's great. i know some serious beekeepers have like vaccuums that gently remove them

but yeah a package of bees (typically about 10000 bees and a queen) costs about $100, and a swarm is usually way more bees than that




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i own my house and my landlord never fixes loving anything




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SweetWillyRollbar posted:

Sounds like the house is owning you

fffff....fukc




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