Feral Bees....Picture.

[Rolfe 2]

The tree surgeons are on site at the Golf Course.........and had just felled (in sections) an old dead ash tree to the side of the lakes dam. Unbeknown to them, a feral honey bee colony had taken up residence in the decaying trunk, but they pretty soon realised when the bees started swarming about There were some quite large slabs of honeycomb that fell from the rotten trunk.......but most was covered in decaying timber and sawdust........so wasn't a lot of use to anyone. I did manage to grab a little taster.......and it was delicious.....yum yum.......honey at it's best and freshest. Shame a colony had to be uprooted.........but hopefully the queen would have survived with enough workers to start another colony somewhere else.

[Yokel Matt 918]

Good Pic Its a shame about the bees but there still a lot of time for them to build a new colony and build reserves. Some bees swarm in May anyway. Whoever was chainsawing was lucky, an old keeper mate of mine was chainsawing with a harness and crampons and went through a hive in a tree, poor budder was stuck there getting the crap stung out of him and bounced the chainsaw off his knee - not cool.

[Sterry 0]

I've trod on a bumble bees nest when felling trees, im so glad i wasnt all harnesed up there, being on the ground you can ditch the chainsaw and run like heck.

and thats bumble bees not as many of them in nest as honey bees

[Guest traceyg]

You never put that in your gob you dirty bugger Nice pic mate

[Rolfe 2]

You never put that in your gob you dirty bugger Nice pic mate

 

Yeah i did..........if you look real close you can see the teeth marks