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3 million bees found hiding in Miami Gardens home
The details in the article are tantalizingly scanty. Aside from the fact that they took the opportunity to relieve the little guys of almost 20 pounds of honey.

As it's a field far removed from my experiences, anyone know, how do you remove 3 million bees?

And where do you take 3 million removed bees?

Wear protective clothing.

Send in Winnie the Pooh?

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That article doesn't have much to say about it. Lots of honey. I would assume the bees are not buzzing anymore.

I guess Mark Twain was right about us being lower animals than the insects: When 3 million of us can live in a house together without killing eachother or acting like a bad reality-TV show, and do something cool like produce honey, we'll have arrived.

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And, when bees don't kill each other then they will have arrived?

Some bee facts:

Wikipedia: Supersedure:

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Three million bees and one queen? What fun is that?

I prefer my relationships in the single digits, thank you.

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Thinking about it (probably too much!), the article says the hive was 7ft high by 2ft wide. No width specified but its in the wall so lets say 1 ft deep, that's 14 cubic feet. 14 cubic ft is 24192 cubic inches which means that with 3 million bees there would have to be about 124 bees per cubic inch...
Wow! they must be really tiny bees & get on with one another (excepting rival queens of course) really well

Also, that must of been one hell of a sound proofed wall?

How do you count 3 million bees anyway? (very slowly). I suppose they weighed them after smoking/killing them ... Ok I REALLY have to stop thinking about this now!

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Qu: How to you get 3 million bees to co-operate?

Ans: You tell them to beehive

SORRY! runs away...

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LOL!! Binary Man, you are too predictable. I knew someone would call me on that (I would have been a bit disappointed if not, really). I just wanted to sneak in a misanthropic anecdote, lol.

Your quotes are hiliarious--good stuff! I watched fireants one day kill a beetle that writhed in pain--he was being eaten and carried alive...very gross and anthropomorphically cruel. Insects can be nasty.

Though we still can't produce honey.

That made my day.....lol.

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Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
mit seinen Schatten, die voll Kühlung sind.

I saved a bumblebee's life once. And a firefly's. Using a soft matchstick I wiped away some web-goo and off they flew. I never worry about bees, yellow-jackets, wasps...but fireants I'm constantly stepping in unaware, here and in Florida.

I miss fireflies...a lot.

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Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
mit seinen Schatten, die voll Kühlung sind.

I love honeybees, I like petting them while they take nectar from flowers. (They're so focused on the nectar that they don't care that you touch them.)

As for that "killing a queen by overhearing" technique, I saw a documentary on Japanese Giant Hornets and if one approached a beehive the bees would kill it using the same technique. Unfortunately only native Japanese bees have developed the technique - European bees have no defenses against the hornet so a handful of hornets can kill an entire European hive.

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my uncle had a hive of bees or yellow jackets (i think the latter, but it's been a while) in his house once. they found a hole in one of the front porch posts and managed to squeeze in a hive between the post, porch and nearby foundation, which ended up giving them access to the basement.

anyway, he had a tough time getting rid of them. first, he had to soothe them with a smoke bath. apparently that calmed them down enough that they would not attack while he was secretly slipping them their death in the form of a pesticide. once the bulk were dead, as i recall, he had to dig in from the basement to gut the hive and make sure the queen was dead so they wouldn't come back.

nasty business it was. i was probably 10 at the time. the details are fuzzy.

taks

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