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A couple heard buzzing in their bedroom; the culprits turned out to be 80,000 bees
CNN ^ | May 20, 2019 | Jack Guy

Posted on 05/20/2019 3:00:40 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: Brilliant

ha!
yup, a useless agency if there ever was one, ha!


21 posted on 05/20/2019 3:25:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: DannyTN

yes, its too intellectually difficult for Congress-critters


22 posted on 05/20/2019 3:25:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: glorgau

wow!
that’s pretty amazing!


23 posted on 05/20/2019 3:26:20 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Tennessee Nana
You weigh the vaccumm bag after you have sucked them out.

X amount of honey bees per pound/ounce.

24 posted on 05/20/2019 3:37:30 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Since the story mentioned Sergio the beekeeper, I assumed it was his estimate.

You are right, there should have been an attribution there. Good catch.

But as I stated in my post, my five questions were just off the top of my head. If I had been editing for real, there would have been more, no doubt about it.

But hey, I’m just a broken-down, old-school newspaperman.


25 posted on 05/20/2019 3:41:33 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Nothingburger

Were they playing any Bee Gees songs?

I have 3 hives and would welcome them if they were not Africanized bees. My Italians are calmer.


26 posted on 05/20/2019 3:57:51 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: Tennessee Nana

Roughly 4000 honey bees per pound, 250 per oz.


27 posted on 05/20/2019 4:04:00 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: EdnaMode

I’m surprised they didn’t blame it on Trump.
Headline —— Bee Depopulation Riddle Solved! Trump Hiding Place of World’s Bees Found!
Mr. and Mrs. Semaj Yemoc, of Granada, Spain, admitted today, that Orange Man Bad had threatened to eat all three of their children, if they refused to hide the bees. “It was terrible! His eyes glow in the dark, and we were terrified for our ninós! He has orange teeth, and a long green tail he hides under his comb-over! Surely NOW, Congress will impeach him!” The family is currently in hiding in upstate New York, with family frien...


28 posted on 05/20/2019 4:06:31 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: glorgau

Took about two weeks before all the workers were gone and the hive starved.


I’m calling PETA, and reporting you for apiary cruelty!


29 posted on 05/20/2019 4:09:08 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Tennessee Nana
Or one could count the legs and divide by 6.

:)

30 posted on 05/20/2019 4:13:34 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: DannyTN

Or former detective Adrian Monk.


31 posted on 05/20/2019 4:15:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

William Smith: Laredo.


32 posted on 05/20/2019 4:23:03 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: DannyTN

Brilliant, Truely


33 posted on 05/20/2019 4:29:21 PM PDT by advertising guy (When Pelosi said " Embrace the suck" Kamala did ...... Willie Brown)
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To: Nothingburger

and we both left out Why...

:)


34 posted on 05/20/2019 4:37:17 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Nothingburger

and when


35 posted on 05/20/2019 4:41:13 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Nothingburger

I agree. Judging from the size and length of the honeycomb shown in the picture there must have been a sizable cut made in the wall with more cutting to come in order to remove all of the hive.


36 posted on 05/20/2019 4:45:42 PM PDT by miele man
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To: Nothingburger

The professionals who remove the bees are allowed to keep them and the honey as a part of their compensation — anyway that was my experience. I don’t recall how much it cost as it was about 20 years ago.


37 posted on 05/20/2019 4:53:39 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: EdnaMode

Are they sure it wasn’t Spanish flies?


38 posted on 05/20/2019 5:14:44 PM PDT by moovova
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To: sparklite2; EdnaMode

I lived for a year in a house built in the mid 1700s. They had no bees, but next door there was a house built in the 1950s or so, and the elderly woman who lived there became a lone invalid, living entirely on the first floor. For many years, nobody went to the second floor except occasionally, and nobody seemed to have gone into the attic in forever.

One day the woman’s caregiver went upstairs to get something and happened to notice something viscous dripping from the bottom of the door to the attic stairs, onto the floor. It turned out that the entire attic had become one enormous beehive.

They hired someone experienced with bees to come and clear it out; though I’m not sure how that was done...


39 posted on 05/20/2019 5:34:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

Did they sell the honeycombs?


40 posted on 05/20/2019 5:38:35 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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