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Bees on Honeycomb (Arapiles) 13-May-2011 At 9:32:51 PM bl@ke

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On 13/05/2011 Kieranl wrote:
>On 11/05/2011 bl@ke wrote:
>>Well I disagree about they fire! It was raging!
>>There is a trick to making a beesmoker work well and it happens to involve
>>pine needles so the pines is where to get those.
>>Native bees dont sting (most people wouldnt know a native bee if it landed
>>on there nose) so they are definatley feral but that dosnt mean you should
>>nuke them. Without bee's we are screwed so by destroying that nest you
>>very well could wipe out life on earth as we know it! The hive should
>settle
>>down as it get colder anyway.
>The feral bees should be nuked as they are aggressive and displace native
>bees.

They are not always agressive. It can depend on the species of bee, their diet, time of year and temperature. And if someone comes and starts screwing with them.

> As far as I understand the ecology, wiping out a few nests of them
>is actually a good thing and won't destroy western civilization as we know
>it. Anyone got a bee-suit they can lend me?

Yeah not just western civilisation but all of it. Theres a doco somewhere about what might happen if bees were to become extinct.
If there was a rare killer monkey living on this route im sure no one would want to go out and destroy it its only because its a hive of bees that are many in number and easily killed that people want to kill them.