Posted on 05/31/2022 3:41:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 05/31/2022 6:14:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
An NYPD detective captured and removed 8,000 honeybees from the side of 3 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan late Saturday night, police said.
The swarm of bees was relocated to an apple orchard. It’s not the first or biggest swarm of the year in New York City.
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Good question... And who’s responsible for counting them? Sounds like a difficult job... Counting individual bees.
Five years ago, there were no bees anywhere. Now they’re everywhere. I have to hose down the hives around my house about once per month.
They were misbehiving.
That idiot mayor will probably hold a press conference to take credit for a successful sting operation
I’m baffled at the fact the Police are involved with bee removal.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s Babylon Bee worthy!!
For those who need help with bee identification, my favorite chart....
Hope it helps!
Having bees near a garden is good buzz. They’re a honey of a pollinator. Some folks may not like them. ‘Specially when it swarm outside. But it’s none of their beeswax, anyway.
Not like them?
Is it a bro?
More here...
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1954x0/bros/
Warning: NSFW language.
Officer Darren Mays of the NYPD’s bee keeper unit
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Gives new meaning to the term SWAT.
And who counted the bees?
“I ain’t been inside for a week, and I know my wife is sleeping with the bees!”
LOL - The Killer Bees!
That number seemed low to me so I looked it up.
The average number of bees in a bee hive is 30,000.
——The swarm of bees-——
Honey bees reproduce by swarming. When the colony reaches a certain size, a decision is made and a new queen is prepared in a special cell.
The old queen departs taking with her the swarm. The swarm has put out finders that locate a new place suitable for establishing the colony. A decision is made between perhaps several suck locations and the swarm moves in.
The swarm is not the large size of the 30,000 + of the original colony
My dad was an apiarist. 8,000 bees is not a lot of bees. We used to get called out to get swarms that would fill up a boxed hive. I would stand on the ground and hold up the hive. He would go up in the tree and knock them down on top of me.
I would stand there like a fool, covered with bees. I would think at that point…”I HAVE to go to college….”
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