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Great day with the bees

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  • #16
    Originally posted by mossrose View Post
    GJ, that sounds like a great day!

    I have a question for you about a bee.

    I was going down the stairs to my basement the other day and saw what I thought was a huge beetle crawling across the floor. Which is icky, since we don't have huge beetles here.....as far as I know.....

    When I got closer, I saw that it was a huge bee crawling across the floor. Probably 2 inches long, fat body, seemed very sluggish. My son trapped it in a box and we released it outside where it crawled away.

    We hope that it came in on somebody's clothes, but I was wondering if you knew what kind of bee it might have been. I would call it a bumblebee, but it seemed to have a longer body that what I would normally think of as a bumblebee having.

    I expect it was a queen bumble bee. Some of them are that large, even though the ultimate offspring will be just normal bumble bee size. If it was crawling it was probably starving. Not many nectar producing flowers indoors. I am afraid it will have crawled away and died. One less bumble bee nest in your neighborhood.
    Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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    • #17
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
      Do you get Carpenter Bees in the wilds of Canuckistan?
      I don't believe that there are carpenter bees 2 inches long. At least none I have heard of. I am not a carpenter bee expert however - nor a bumble bee expert for that matter.
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      • #18
        Originally posted by DesertBerean View Post
        Dear Mr. Beeman,

        i have seen bees being vacuumed up. Doesn't this hurt the bees?
        Beekeepers who often take swarms will build a vacuum attachment that allows them to safely harvest a swarm without killing the bees. A non corrugated hose would be a part of the thing if I were to build it. There is also allowance for reducing the strength of the vacuum, also to protect bees from harm.
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        • #19
          Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
          I expect it was a queen bumble bee. Some of them are that large, even though the ultimate offspring will be just normal bumble bee size. If it was crawling it was probably starving. Not many nectar producing flowers indoors. I am afraid it will have crawled away and died. One less bumble bee nest in your neighborhood.
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          • #20
            Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
            I expect it was a queen bumble bee. Some of them are that large, even though the ultimate offspring will be just normal bumble bee size. If it was crawling it was probably starving. Not many nectar producing flowers indoors. I am afraid it will have crawled away and died. One less bumble bee nest in your neighborhood.


            I think she only came in that day on Mr. mossy's clothes when he was out in the garden.

            There are lots if trees in bloom. I hope she was able to fly to one nearby and feed.


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            • #21
              Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
              I don't believe that there are carpenter bees 2 inches long. At least none I have heard of. I am not a carpenter bee expert however - nor a bumble bee expert for that matter.
              The longest can reach over 1⅓" in length but they are tropical varities and not likely found in Canuckistan. To be honest I sorta was figuring on how wimmenfolk tend to double the size of insects and rodents they encounter when describing them, but don't tell mossy that.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                The longest can reach over 1⅓" in length but they are tropical varities and not likely found in Canuckistan. To be honest I sorta was figuring on how wimmenfolk tend to double the size of insects and rodents they encounter when describing them, but don't tell mossy that.


                I could see the thing crawling from the top of my basement stairs. It was big.


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                • #23
                  Originally posted by mossrose View Post


                  I could see the thing crawling from the top of my basement stairs. It was big.
                  Uh-oh, mossy saw my post. Certainly I'm once again always still in trouble

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                  I'm always still in trouble again

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                    Uh-oh, mossy saw my post. Certainly I'm once again always still in trouble

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                    True.



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                    • #25
                      it's baaack

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                      • #26
                        Offer it a cup of coffee. Rum is not good for bees.
                        Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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