Posted on 05/20/2019 3:00:40 PM PDT by EdnaMode
LOL! I doubt it - this was a wealthy neighborhood, and the homeowner just wanted the bees gone. I guess the man who took the job enjoyed a bonanza :-)
Honey in the morning,
honey in the evening,
honey at supper time.
Ate so damn much honey,
my blood sugar is a crime.
Honey is actually very healthy - in moderation :-)
(I’ve read that chewing on the combs of local honey can help one with allergies...)
I always wondered why the house I lived in - which was a Great House in it’s day, and now has historical designation - didn’t have bees. It was an entirely wooden house with a nice attic, too.
But all the interior framing and the walls of the basement and attic were of cedar. I’ve wondered if that discouraged the bees...
I’ve heard of bees making nests in cedar trees, so I don’t know...
Physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin surprises Captain Jack Aubrey with his latest project: beekeeping on a British warship.
“There! A glass hive. Is it not ingenious, charming? I have always wanted to keep bees.”“But how in God’s name do you expect to keep bees on a man-of-war?” cried Jack. “Where in God’s name do you expect them to find flowers, at sea? How will they eat?”
“You can see their every motion,” said Stephen, close against the glass, entranced. “Oh, as for their feeding, never fret your anxious mind; they will feed with us upon a saucer of sugar, at stated intervals. If the ingenious Monsieur Huber can keep bees, and he blind, the poor man, surely we can manage in a great spacious xebec?”
"This is a frigate."
"Let us never split hairs, for all love. There is the queen! Come, look at the queen!"
"How many of those reptiles might there be?" asked Jack, pretty much aloof.
"Oh, sixty thousand or so, I dare say," said Stephen carelessly.
Maybe that’s because the inner wood and its aromatics aren’t exposed to them.
I don’t know; but I believe that people still build cedar wood closets in homes to discourage bugs - mainly moths. There are companies that will install them.
(It smells wonderful to enter a house with cedar components - in that house, the fragrance hadn’t disappeared in over 200 years.)
When I was looking to buy my house, I saw one with the same floor plan, but the owner had put in a huge cedar closet. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s been on the market a long time.
Some years ago, during the summer, I was finding that when I closed the sliding door in my bedroom, there was a strange noise coming thru the wall. Hubby realized it was bees, and we also called a bee keeper. There was a hive in our attic, he removed the bees.
I love bees. But when I woke mine up mid-winter, they were pissed!
Some people are allergic to cedar.
I’m allergic to lots of things, but not cedar. I love the smell - and usefulness - of it.
He’s buzzin off.
Wow! Sounds like you really were off the grid.
It had one bedroom, and that room had stacked bales of hay in it, which was like a hotel for field mice. It was a memorable time. We slept in the ‘living room.’ But it was free! LOL
Sounds rather romantic, Spark :-)
Had yellow jackets in the wall two years back.
What a noise they made.
They didn’t get through into the house.
Thankfully they don’t return to the same place every year.
Honey bees on the other hand can cause problems if the honey spoils.
(Unless you can harvest the honey.)
It had its moments. We only lived there for a few months.
Bad news bees buzzing off? That story is over 40 years old.
Hornets use cedar to make their nests. They attacked my fence when it was new. I can’t imagine that it repels bees.
They may hang their combs on a cedar tree, or swarm it, but they would not be exposed to the resin in the wood since there would be a good covering of bark if the combs were attached to the exterior. It would be highly unlikely a bunch of bees could ever find a hollow cedar tree to build a hive in since the red heartwood is very resistant to rot.
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