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In reply to the discussion: BEES!!! If you love them and want to give them a home, please check in. [View all]southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)7. My mother-in-law had bees on her property. It was a great business. People would beg her
for honey and it paid well. She was really good at it. I am scared to death of bees. But I will tell you where she lived all the bees died out. We think its the spraying from the nursaries around here. They spray all the time. She didn't say anything because she didn't want to fight with the neighbors. The bees never came back.
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BEES!!! If you love them and want to give them a home, please check in. [View all]
bvar22
May 2012
OP
Thank you for recognizing the importance of bees to our survival on this planet!
left on green only
May 2012
#4
My mother-in-law had bees on her property. It was a great business. People would beg her
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#7
Our bees came this weekend. So far so good. It is kind of cold but if they are going to live they
jwirr
May 2012
#26
Thank you. We are seeking the advice of keepers up here who do it every year. At the moment I
jwirr
May 2012
#47
Cloquet area. Our fence is eletrified also. Fortunately we have no had the drought problems yet.
jwirr
May 2012
#55
We are very lucky in the natural resources we have up here. One of the problems used to be that
jwirr
May 2012
#62
I'm not really in a position to have beehives right now, but did you see my bee story
Arkansas Granny
May 2012
#50