Posted on 04/14/2025 8:14:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
So there was a delay in the Rice v. South Florida baseball game yesterday due to this beehive in the visitor dugout.
But never fear, this random hillbilly came in to save the day, and he did it with his bare hands.
VIDEO:
This guy just bare handed a beehive to end the bee delay in the South Florida-Rice game pic.twitter.com/pisDOiWUkA— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) April 13, 2025
No protective gear, no gloves, no nothing - and not even a flinch from that man!
Grabbed the hive, tossed it in a container, and he's gone.
Bro's just adding to that 2025 honey harvest! I've seen some "barehand" baseball highlights in my day, but this is a first for me, and it moves immediately to the top of the list.
One of the most "Murica" videos out there right now!
Question for you. I read earlier on this thread that a hive will split in two when it’s too crowded and half the bee leave in the swarm.
How does a queenless swarm get a new queen?
Sad to here this.
I have a dedicated bee garden - and butterfly garden too for the monarch butterflies which have been decimated in their native habitats in California. My neighbors and I have planted milkweed in our gardens and now our yards are fully of monarchs! Until we planted the milkweed, I hadn’t seen monarchs since I was a young child. The plants are full of monarch caterpillars right now.
I’ve got salvia, sage, California poppies for the bee garden - along with grapefruit, orange, and tangerine trees. The yard is chock-full of busy bees right now b/c everything is in bloom. The most bees I’ve ever seen are when my eucalyptus trees bloom in the fall, the bees positively love them - also angel’s trumpets, which are beautiful but poisonous. I’ve been told the type of bees that like angel’s trumpets don’t make honey. Hope not.
Glad to help out where I can. My family is from California’s Central Valley and I know how critical bees are to the agricultural economy.
Yes, that is how bee colonies naturally spread and grow.
Queenless swarms will return to the hive. Bees that get crowded will start the swarming process by raising a new queen that leaves the hive with the swarm. In some cases, the existing queen leaves the hive and leave several queen cells to hatch and fight it out. The last survivor gets the hive.
Yes, but how does a queenless swarm get a new queen is she stayed behind in the other half of the hive?
Sorry, I re-asked the question as you were responding.
You should consider getting a hive! You can get a beginners set on amazon for $200 - $300 . It’s a fascinating, hobby, and you will have all the honey you need!
As one poster mentioned, maybe to protect the hive.
I’ve done field work in waist high bushes with little flowers on them that were covered in bees. The whole field. Stomping through the fields all day and those bees never bothered me at all. Even though I was disturbing their gathering abilities to a certain degree. (Well, no more than a deer would).
I have picked up bee swarms bare handed, placed them in cardboard boxes and taken them home in the trunk of my car. Bee swarms are incredibly gentle.
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