Posted by David Carpenter on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 @ 03:25 PM
Hive Was Home To Honey Bees, Not Africanized Bees
source: www.10news.com
SAN DIEGO -- San Diego Parks and Recreation officials removed a massive beehive from a tree in Balboa Park Wednesday evening.
The hive, which was home to an estimated 2,000 honey bees, hung directly over a pathway used by hundreds of walkers, joggers and bikers every day, according to Park and Recreation officials.
A representative with Agricultural Pest Control told 10News the bees are likely honey bees, not Africanized honey bees. Africanized honey bees attacked a Lemon Grove couple Tuesday and killed an Encinitas man in June.
The representative said the city asked them to remove the Balboa Park hive. Pedestrians have reported the hive to the Parks and Recreation department before but the hive was never removed. A small barrier guarded the area underneath the hive until someone knocked it down. 10News spoke with a Balboa Park Ranger Wednesday and a short time later a bigger barricade was placed around the entire tree. Signs were also posted warning pedestrians about the beehive.
Agricultural
Pest Control said removed the hive later Wednesday evening when it was cooler, as bees fly slower when the temperature cools down.
Experts said bees also get very agitated and swarm around anyone nearby when the hive is removed, which is another reason why they removed the hive at night.
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Posted by Fred Speer on Thu, May 20, 2010 @ 11:12 AM
In crisis mode, Big Island Beekeepers packed the Komohana Research and Extension Center in Hilo this week to discuss the invasive pests threatening their industry.
President Antonie Botes led the discussion on the newly discovered "small hive beetle" which is cause for new alarm in Hawaii hives.
Beekeepers passed around samples of the pests, which have already been found from Panaewa to Hawaiian Acres.
Once inside hives, the SHB, as they are called, tunnels through the honeycomb in search of honey, wax or bee larvae, destroying the hive and contaminating the honey as it does so. Bee colonies are known to abandon the hive when infestations grow heavy.
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Posted by Fred Speer on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 @ 05:08 PM
Source: KPHO.com Channel 5
Pest Company Finds Hives In Bedroom Wall, Tenant Says
MESA -- A bee invasion at one Valley apartment complex got so bad, it forced a Mesa tenant to move out.
Yvonne Gaines said her bee problem started on the outside but then those pesky pests made their way in.
"There was like five or six at a time, every time," Gaines said. "They were coming through the vent and coming through the ceiling fan."
Gaines said the noise was unbearable.
"They were fighting to get in from out of the wall," Gaines said.
Gaines said she started complaining almost daily to management. She said when those complaints failed to get results, she took matters into her own hands.
"We bought a fly swatter," she said. "And we started swatting."
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Posted by Fred Speer on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 @ 11:28 AM
Rebecca Tolin
The Voice of San Diego
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:03 EST
Witness the yellow- and black-striped swarm buzzing around Daren Eiri as he works, and you wouldn't think honeybees are in short supply. Dozens of fuzzy, winged insects blanket a grapefruit-sized glass dish in Eiri's hand one warm afternoon at UCSD's Biology Field Station.
"I used to hate doing this," said Eiri, a University of California, San Diego graduate student, who at the moment is a perch for honeybees occasionally landing to lick sugar from his skin. "When they're feeding I'm pretty sure they're only concerned with food." Eiri puts a squat cup of sweet liquid on top of the plate and sets the feeder inside a wooden tunnel.
But this bee-rich environment is deceptive: Eiri and the James Nieh Bee Lab at UCSD are researching a serious but poorly understood phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Despite the bees flying like popcorn up and down Eiri's carefully constructed passageway, these pollinators are perishing at an unprecedented rate in the United States and the world.
"[Bees] have a finely tuned and actually amazing navigation system," said Nieh, an associate biology professor at UCSD. "When you think about the size of a bee compared to a size of a human, it would be like you were to walk or run somewhere for hundreds of miles and yet be able to go back precisely to your house without any trouble at all."
However, this navigation system appears to have gone haywire in an alarming number of European honeybees. They simply aren't returning to their nests, often leaving the queen, a few infants and a seemingly normal comb of honey. Since 2006, nearly a third of all hives worldwide have come up empty.
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Posted by Fred Speer on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 @ 11:37 AM
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Posted by Fred Speer on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 @ 12:06 PM
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Man attacked and stung 200 times after he fell into their nest. The man is expected to recover. Visit the
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