Posted on 05/20/2019 3:00:40 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Bee populations are under threat around the world, but one house in Spain apparently provided the perfect conditions for a huge hive.
A couple in the historic southern city of Granada, in Andalusia, had been troubled by a strange buzzing noise in their house for some time -- and when things got so bad they couldn't sleep at night, they decided to take action.
Beekeeper Sergio Guerrero told CNN the couple had first noticed bees at their property around a year ago, but no one from the police, firefighters or the local council had been able to help.
When temperatures started to rise, the noise got worse -- and beehive relocation expert Guerrero, from local apitherapy company La Colmena Sanadora, was called in.
"From about three months ago there was an unbearable noise and they didn't know what to do," said Guerrero. "Just imagine!"
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ha!
yup, a useless agency if there ever was one, ha!
yes, its too intellectually difficult for Congress-critters
wow!
that’s pretty amazing!
X amount of honey bees per pound/ounce.
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.
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.
Roughly 4000 honey bees per pound, 250 per oz.
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...
Took about two weeks before all the workers were gone and the hive starved.
:)
Or former detective Adrian Monk.
William Smith: Laredo.
Brilliant, Truely
and we both left out Why...
:)
and when
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.
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.
Are they sure it wasn’t Spanish flies?
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...
Did they sell the honeycombs?
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