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2006-11-23 16:11:45 · 20 answers · asked by turtle girl 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
OMG! This makes me remember one of the scariest days of my life!
My Dad decided we were going to go into bee keeping as a hobby. Free Honey!!! Oh boy! I wish we'd tried fire dancing instead.
He had this rickety old white van at the time and some kind of smoker can device that was supposed to relax and put them to sleep while we transported them for the seller to our back yard about 15 miles away. We put on long sleeve shirts. That's it. No hats with nets. No gloves, just long sleeve flannel shirts.
That rickety old van was so rough riding that it woke up the bees halfway through the trip. At the time I was quite the teen-age dude with real thick blond hair, heavily sprayed. The bees all of the sudden started swarming out of those hives, inside the van. We pulled over and were running around like ninnies. The bees got into the holes at the cuffs of our shirts and couldn't get out. Sting-a-thon!! Then they were oddly attracted to all the hairspray I was duded up with. They got into my thick hair and couldn't get out. They stung the bee-jeezus out of my head.
We didn't even come all the way home. Dad smoked them again and we took them back. No refund. We didn't care. I must have been stung maybe 30 or 40 times. Obviously, I am not one of those highly allergic people. Whew!
That is the extent of my brief career in beekeeping.
2006-11-24 07:24:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have heard vegans say that commercial honey hurts the bees not because honey is hurting bees but because the way commercial bee hives are built it injures their wings. I do not know if that is true or not. The eggs aren't baby chicks, but the way that animals are kept in captivity to lay eggs bothers some people, they de-beak some of the hens, but not all farms do that. Some people avoid animal products completely so that no animals are domesticated soley to be or produce food for the person.
2016-05-22 21:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by Elaine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but we were in on the discovery of a great hornet nest found by friends in Southwest Florida in 1977 or '78. When we saw it, the hornets were still dropping from it, as it hung in a mechanic's garage in Fort Myers. It is now in the Nature Center museum out there.
2006-11-24 16:30:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but on a number of occasions I've driven alongside trucks that had dozens of hives loaded on them. They have netting that's supposed to keep the bees confined, but it doesn't work too well. Good situation to keep your windows rolled up, no matter HOW hot it is.
2006-11-24 15:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not that I recall, would rather not even want to think about the logistical nightmare involved and to hear my insurance company when I called to ask for coverage.
2006-11-23 16:40:18 · answer #5 · answered by jdhayman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once i tried to hug a swarm of bees...long story short, i have some serious medical issues now
2006-11-23 16:24:01 · answer #6 · answered by Circlometry™³ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it was really weird. this one time me and my friend when we were like 8 tried to get a net and move one, but a small bee got out and stung her. (thank god it wasn't me that it stung)
2006-11-23 16:16:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I get my honey out of a jar!
2006-11-23 16:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by Chocoholic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, why, heavens no! Tockers sounds like an expert in this arena though...LOL
2006-11-24 09:53:02 · answer #9 · answered by NA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but I would expect the danger pay to be good.
2006-11-23 16:13:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋