My husband is a beekeeper. We used to get 700 to 1000 lbs a year from his hives. Now with the mites and other diseases it is a full time job to even keep the colonies alive by medicating them. Last year we got 115 lbs. Be ware of grocery store honey. A lot of it comes from China where they leave the medication in when the bees are making honey, and all that pesticides (and they aren't fussy what they use) goes right into the honey sold in the store, and your tummy. SueBee is one great offender; and Sara Lee uses SueBee. Buy local honey from local hives when you can. It is safer. Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:11 AM Subject: Re: [ML] yesterday morning...bees. Why don't you try to find out where the bees are coming from and hive them up ? If you don't want to fool with it the local Beekeepers might. Theres probably a hollow tree full of bees somewhere on your ranch. Bees of any sort are becoming rare... Honey is so expensive in stores! I paid about $4.50 per quart , as I found a country source and bought several dozen jars a year or so ago. In the store it's closer to $20.00 a quart...It's wildflower, cotton and soybean type. If only I could find some Sourwood honey at that price... It will keep practically forever, and stories of bees dying scares me. We use it every day in my hot Oolong tea and hubby uses it in his coffee...Mighty good on buttered toast....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Thu, 10 Feb . > My hummingbird feeder was covered with honey bees this afternoon. The birds won't come around when there are a lot of bees. I am guessing about 50-60 bees. I went out twice and turned the hose on > them but they just kept coming back when I left. So...I finally left them alone. What I need at a time like that is a bee eater. Let nature take it's course. > > Robert E Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I've always been interested in bees and be hives... maybe by the end of the month when Sherry retires and we get moved to the ranch, I'll try my hand at it... we've had one hive (in a tree) that we've had for years... it's close to the cattle water trough and the bees love that... lol :-)* On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Neysa <gramneysa@ct.metrocast.net> wrote: > My husband is a beekeeper. We used to get 700 to 1000 lbs a year from his > hives. Now with the mites and other diseases it is a full time job to even > keep the colonies alive by medicating them. Last year we got 115 lbs. Be > ware of grocery store honey. A lot of it comes from China where they leave > the medication in when the bees are making honey, and all that pesticides > (and they aren't fussy what they use) goes right into the honey sold in the > store, and your tummy. SueBee is one great offender; and Sara Lee uses > SueBee. Buy local honey from local hives when you can. It is safer. > > Neysa > ----- Original Message ----- > From: askgranny@juno.com > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:11 AM > Subject: Re: [ML] yesterday morning...bees. > > > Why don't you try to find out where the bees are coming from and hive > them up ? If you don't want to fool with it the local Beekeepers might. > Theres probably a hollow tree full of bees somewhere on your ranch. Bees > of any sort are becoming rare... > > Honey is so expensive in stores! I paid about $4.50 per quart , as I > found a country source and bought several dozen jars a year or so ago. In > the store it's closer to $20.00 a quart...It's wildflower, cotton and > soybean type. If only I could find some Sourwood honey at that price... > It will keep practically forever, and stories of bees dying scares me. We > use it every day in my hot Oolong tea and hubby uses it in his > coffee...Mighty good on buttered toast....Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Thu, 10 Feb . > > My hummingbird feeder was covered with honey bees this afternoon. The > birds won't come around when there are a lot of bees. I am guessing > about 50-60 bees. I went out twice and turned the hose on > > them but they just kept coming back when I left. So...I finally left > them alone. What I need at a time like that is a bee eater. Let nature > take it's course. > > > > Robert E Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! > http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >