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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Removal To Be Illegal In Texas.
Bee Culture ^ | 04/04/2019 | Zachary Bauer

Posted on 04/05/2019 5:50:20 AM PDT by sevinufnine

Bee removal is a common practice for many bee owners. Well, it’s about to become illegal in Texas if an Irving lawmaker has her way. When a local bee keeper gets a call concerning a swarm or hive in a nearby residence or tree, they load up and ride to the rescue. They arrive and set up their equipment and carefully bring the bees home to a new location where they can grow and thrive.

However, new legislation being filed in Texas would prevent most bee keepers from performing this valuable service unless they first jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops and red tape. What was once a sometimes cheap or free service from local bee keepers looking to expand their hives or preserve local bee populations for the benefit of a community, will turn into an expensive fee for whomever calls needing a bee removal.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: agriculture; chat; honeybee; meza; swarms
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To: sevinufnine

Yeah...she looks about like I’d imagined she would.


41 posted on 04/05/2019 6:18:52 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: sevinufnine

I have a severe allergy to bee stings. The last time I was stung I went in to full blown anaphylactic shock. During “bee season” I carry at least two EpiPens with me pretty much at all times.

3 or 4 years ago some it looked like some bees had taken up residence inside the siding of my house just above my front door. There were thousands of them flying around. So I did some research and called a local bee removal outfit. They determined they weren’t honey bees but yellow jackets. Nasty mean aggressive little bastards.

One sting is potentially lethal to me. Several would most likely be lights out for Lurker.

The bee guy wouldn’t touch them and referred me to a “specialist” to have the colony destroyed. That cost me $300 for a 20 year old kid to come by and spend an hour on my balcony blasting the hateful little monsters with poison. The cloud of them was so thick it blocked the view of the street.

He looked like some kind of Jedi of Yellow Jacket Death waving two wands of whatever it was that killed them. He was out there for over an hour.

When the last of them finally died Mrs. L had to sweep them up with a broom.

I have a live and let live attitude towards honey bees. But Yellow Jackets I hate with the white hot intensity of 10,000 burning suns.

I still shudder when I remember the huge cloud of the little monsters flying around this kid.

L


42 posted on 04/05/2019 6:19:25 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Red Badger

The do make traps for carpenter bees. My husband would just smoosh them with a stick when they went into their holes, or use caulk to trap them in there and, in doing so, seal the hole.


43 posted on 04/05/2019 6:20:40 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: cuban leaf
Same in the county in WA where my folks live; you can't capture rain water off the roof to use in the summer when it doesn't rain because of the precious aquifer woun't be replenished. That aquifer is several hundred feed down and it'd take millions of years for one seasonal rain to leak that far down. Meanwhile there are two rivers of fresh water either side of them that dumps pure glacial water into Hood Canal which is saline.

Idiots.

44 posted on 04/05/2019 6:21:18 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: sevinufnine

That works, but the damage has been done at that point.....................


45 posted on 04/05/2019 6:22:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Lurker

I hate yellow jackets too. A little diesel fuel and a match at night down their holes in the ground does wonders. I’ve never had them in my house, so glad you had the ninja kid to handle that. I wouldn’t recommend the diesel/match method for your porch. LOL!


46 posted on 04/05/2019 6:23:22 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: sevinufnine

Alright, Mrs. Meza. We’ll just start solving the problem with fire.


47 posted on 04/05/2019 6:24:31 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, but he was a contractor and used the “right” caulk to seal those holes which helped with the damage. I have to be dilligent all spring and summer since I have log siding. They LOOOOVE it.


48 posted on 04/05/2019 6:25:01 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: sevinufnine

https://www.fabhow.com/how-to-get-rid-of-carpenter-bees-naturally.html

Try Method #2....................


49 posted on 04/05/2019 6:25:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: sevinufnine

In the two years that I was employed by the state of Iowa as a honeybee inspector, I had about 10 calls to remove bees. I was always dismayed at the homeowner. I would ask...how long have these bees been here? None of them were a pristine swarm hanging in a tree, ready to be hived. They were usually entrenched in the side of a barn or house and had 40 to 50 pounds of honey in the walls. The homeowner was oblivious. They had obviously been there for at least a year and probably longer.

I became hypersensitive and the boss asked me to give it up. Which I gladly did when I realized he was right. I’m probably qualified to remove them with a BS in Entomology from UCD in 1968. Sorry, not the least bit interested.


50 posted on 04/05/2019 6:25:47 AM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent, for the Lord is coming.)
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To: sevinufnine
I wouldn't ever remove this Bee


51 posted on 04/05/2019 6:27:26 AM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: sevinufnine

Soon she will move to protect the bees, killing them will be illegal. The only way to deal with them will be licensed bee control companies.


52 posted on 04/05/2019 6:28:00 AM PDT by kalee
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To: SkyDancer

Yep. It’s all about the aquafir. They believe they own it.

I lived in the Seattle area for 46 years and just learned of that rule a couple of years before I left. And you’re right. It’s statewide. Even in the small towns in the eastern Washington desert.

And in King county, if you have more than 5 acres you have to get a permit to clear your blackberries.

I have a friend on Mercer Island that wanted to get rid of some trees on his property. But the city won’t allow it. So he spiked them (poisoned them) When they died he took a chain saw to them and one of his neighbors came out and threatened to call the police if he cut them down. He explained to her that they were dead, and then he cut them down.

It’s all fascism. Again, it is one of the reasons I moved to Rural KY. It’s like going back in time 50 years in a LOT of good ways. Just the other day I saw a pickup go by with a bunch of folks riding in the back, and NOBODY CARED. :)


53 posted on 04/05/2019 6:30:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: sevinufnine

Of COURSE it is a Dem/Leftist/Communist. They are simply not happy unless they control every aspect of our lives.

I’m not a farmer or bee expert of any kind, but it seems to me that having bees removed by a pro, and relocated to a better place to do their thing, has been and is a good result. Why fix it if it ain’t broke? Unless of course you’re a busybody Communist control freak, drunk on your own power.


54 posted on 04/05/2019 6:31:55 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: dp0622
Oh! No! This is pure brilliance compared to some of the crap that comes out of Austin.
A new law says it's illegal to catch sharks with a "J" hook. Think about that one for a minute.
55 posted on 04/05/2019 6:32:54 AM PDT by SanchoP (Why does DC hate Americans so much ?)
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To: moovova

Ahhh....carpenter bees. They used to drill through the railings on my front porch. You can try what I did....it may or may not work, but its so cheap, its worth a try. If you have an overhang or roof on a porch...get a brown paper bag. Lunch size bag or a little bigger. Fill it will something light. I stuffed plastic grocery bags in the brown bags. Once full, tie a string around the top and sort of shape the brown bag to look like a wasp nest....then hang it up. I have several of these hanging on my porch....and no more carpenter bees!


56 posted on 04/05/2019 6:34:48 AM PDT by bohica1
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To: dp0622

“I read more kooky things coming out of Texas the past 12 months than i have in the past 5 years.

Someone check the water.”


It isn’t the water...it is the Californians coming in and continuing to vote for the same party and policies that forced them out of what they created - a Leftist shithole that used to be the most prosperous American state. Them, and the hordes of Turd Worlders coming here and NOT Americanizing, but wanting the recreate the same shitholes that they ran from. Notice the pattern?

The water here is just fine. A bit hard, but fine. Its about the Leftists.


57 posted on 04/05/2019 6:35:07 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: sevinufnine

I live in NY. Our ridiculous assembly feels they have to come up with new regulations and spend money - to give the appearance of real work.


58 posted on 04/05/2019 6:35:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: VRWCarea51
""Some person and or business filled her pockets with cash so they can monopolize the service.""

the person removing the bees has undergone 160 hours of both class room and field training in beekeeping and removals. That amounts to over 3 college semester classes worth of training! A normal college class of 3 semester credit hours is around 45-48 contact hours.

There is one angle.

Additionally, the “licensed” bee remover must obtain $600,000 in liability insurance. If that wasn’t enough, the bee remover must also have $300,000 in workman’s comp before being able to legally remove bees. Oh and you have to pay a yearly licensing fee and whatever fees are associated with your 160 hours of classroom and field training.

There is another.

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59 posted on 04/05/2019 6:36:05 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: sevinufnine

What crawled (or flew) into her brain and died?


60 posted on 04/05/2019 6:36:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is the best project/program/portfolio manager in the world!!!!)
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