Picture of the Day: Beehives in a Tree
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Speaking of beehives in a tree, this is also not the same kind of tree the beehive-in-a-tree described earlier was in, but it IS a beehive in a tree.
Uploaded a few pictures yesterday from the roadtrip across Tanzania, which I also unfortunately wrote a hurried entry about while still out in the field.
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Date: 2015-01-17 02:09 am (UTC)I think part of it is that beekeeping is often a solitary profession for people that would rather play with bees than work closely with another human, so you get some abrasive personalities involved. Also some wingnuts. I can tell you that the split between the OCBA and the BAOC was because some members wanted to heavily focus on profiting from swarm catching, and when we wouldnt' let them use the club to insure their swarm catching ventures and voted them out of office they stomped off to create the BAOC. d:
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Date: 2015-01-17 12:54 am (UTC)No they pretty much wait until they're pretty sure it's most likely full (by time of year, amount of bee activity), and then go in at night, drive all the bees out with fire and smoke, and harvest the comb. Modern methods can significantly improve on this. Though it might actually be more cost effective on the small scale this way considering the costs of this are very minimal ... but for more than casual beekeeping there are better ways.
They apparently climb up (or rather, hire some young boy to climb up, cause some of those limbs don't look like they'd support a grown man!), attach a rope, and lower it down. That's what we did the one time I did it (and it's done at night remember). I was kind surprised they don't have a permanent rope going over a branch and coming down, but maybe that would make it to easy for just anyone to get to their hives? /:
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Date: 2015-01-17 12:53 am (UTC)They apparently climb up (or rather, hire some young boy to climb up, cause some of those limbs don't look like they'd support a grown man!), attach a rope, and lower it down. That's what we did the one time I did it (and it's done at night remember). I was kind surprised they don't have a permanent rope going over a branch and coming down, but maybe that would make it to easy for just anyone to get to their hives? /:
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Date: 2015-01-21 07:05 am (UTC)Here's the only picture I have of such a school:
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Date: 2015-01-21 06:05 pm (UTC)Waldorf schools are a certain type of schools as the teachers educate slightly differently. So not every school is a Waldorf school. This one (though not in the bush) for example is: http://www.villagewaldorfschool.org.za/
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