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Midway City, California

Just had the poop scared out of me, I started to clean my yard to day and just put down some pvc pipe when my eyes caught movement over my head. I looked up and there was a swarm of bee's (200 plus flying over me. They did not attack me but kept on flying. I got down low and headed to the house. Fifteen minutes later they were all gone and everything was quiet. I have been working for about three hours before it started and did not disturb anything as i moved things.

3/16/2005 1:13:10 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

Do bees migrate like birds?
Interesting, and scary, I'm sure.

3/16/2005 1:55:31 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

In the spring new queens are often born. Only one queen per hive. The workers and drones will follow a queen doesn't matter which one. They are often seen in a mass as they sre looking for a new place to reside.

3/16/2005 2:10:38 PM

Garden

Have the Africanized bees made it your way yet? I have been tracking them since the 80's and a hive was finally discovered in my area last year. Careful

3/16/2005 3:21:59 PM

Midway City, California

First thing I throught of was the African Bee's but none came down toward me. No Africa bee's in my area yet. Heard of them near san diego and riverside through. I live about 7 miles from the Pacific Ocean and 100 miles north of Mexico. Careful I am Now

3/16/2005 4:52:52 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

Bees will swarm when it's time to find a new nest....sometines its a newly pollinized queen or their old digs just won't work anymore for the Hives residents.

3/16/2005 5:08:50 PM

Garden

Ahh I didnt know where Midway City was. You are south of me, so yes they have already migrated past your area some time ago. I am about 150 miles from the border.

3/16/2005 5:36:10 PM

Montoursville, PA

Bees in the act of swarming will not attack. In fact they are loaded up with supplies, for the new hive. Gentle as they can ever be when, in this mode. They have but one mission and that is to build the new hive, make new egg cells for and protect their queen.

Most honey bees are gentle and easy, to handle. If one is forced, to bite, it dies as a result, of that stinging.

3/16/2005 6:46:07 PM

Montoursville, PA

Bees do not migrate like birds. They move about in the swarming action looking for a place, to build a new hive. This may ultimately be another hive made ready by a beekeeper or the swarm could end up in a hollow tree or the walls of a building.

A first swarm from a hive may include up to several hundred thousand bees.

New swarms often produce more honey, in the remainder, of the summer than the bees that elected, to stay, in the old hive.

The bee views the pupil, of your eye, as a hole. It does not sting because it made a mistake. It stings because we swat at it and touch it. Ankles on which black stockings are worn are points, of contact. To clear bees from your body gently use a brushing motion and try not, to touch them.

Most people are not alergic to the bee sting. Those who are going to have a problem have a bit of time. The symptoms of trouble are specific feelings, in the groin and at the arm pits. These lympth nodes act up first. If this happens most people are in difficulty and should call for immediate emmergency bee sting treatment. Have someone else drive you, to the hospital. If all four mentioned lympth nodes are signaling trouble you may have but a few minutes until you pass out. Yes this is serious but unless you have a weak sick body for other reasons you will most likely survive the event.

If you are alergic to bee stings you should have medical advise and proper medicine to perform immediate treatment.

3/16/2005 7:04:47 PM

Kiowa,Co.

We started 2 hives last may;We ordered,and got 30,000 bees per hive.The post office called us about 3 weeks later,(on a monday),to say that the bees had arrived late Sat.(too late to have us pick them up,so they stayed there untill Mon. morning).The lady on the phone,at the post office,sounded in a panic,and asked if we could "come and pick up our bees as soon as possible",because "they were loose",and were "all over the mail room".(lol)
When we got there,some brave sole had put the 2 wooden boxes of bees outside.
When we got about 1/2 a block from the post office,we could see people trying to get in,and out of the place,all the while,swatting at the air,like crazy people,so we figured it was bad.
Long story short..we got them home safe,and we were lucky that we had a truck,to put those bees in the back,as they were "very mad bees"

3/18/2005 3:00:23 AM

Montoursville, PA

Badfish.............I have had like experiences. It has been my observation that no bees escaped the shipping boxes. The bees seen loose were hitch hikers attracted by the natural swarming nature, of the package sent to me.

The bees in the package were placed in a swarming mood by the shipper. They would not leave the presence of their queen unless they ran out of food....or the screened box was ripped open and grossly disturbed by the post office people. All of the bees will stay with and follow the queen. There are no warriors sent with the workers. The worker can and will sting if contacted or pinched. As you know one has to encourage or almost always cause one to bite or sting if they are busy working or in swarm.

3/18/2005 10:07:13 AM

Garden

They like to get in under my helmet on the freeway. *smack* and they always seem to have just enough energy left to push that stinger in. $%#$@!!

3/18/2005 12:48:02 PM