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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
1862 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 06:39:50 AM
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All summer long we have been plagued by attacks of our birdfeeders by a mama bear and her cubs. Our neighbors have sighted them a few times in their yard, but we have never actually seen them on our farm...just their destruction. Saturday night the bear attacked 2 of our beehives and destroyed many of the frames.....what a heartbreak. We have had such a wonderful honey harvest twice this summer and our bees are so very special to us! So sad....but such is life on the edge of the wood. I posted pics about this on my farm blog.
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 06:48:48 AM
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Oh, Bev!!! I am so sorry. Bees really are such special and amazing creatures, aren't they? Again, I'm so sorry to hear about this...
XOXO, Libbie
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 06:57:06 AM
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I'm so sorry, Bev--
It's been a bad enough year for the bees, without desecration from the bears! Mother Nature can sometimes be very cruel.
"She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian. |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
1262 Posts
Rhonda
USA
1262 Posts |
Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 08:28:21 AM
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Oh Bev! How terrible to lose your hives. Will the bees return? I know NOTHING about bees... (off to your blog to LEARN)OR bears! Here an hour or so from Chicago the only Bears we ever see are the football team. I CANNOT imagine co-existing with REAL bears! I hope you can recover what you lost with your hives/bees. I'm sure this is not something that happens overnight.
Rhonda
I'm a one girl revolution. |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 08:58:40 AM
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Those bears really can do a lot of damage. This time of the year they are all trying to fatten up for winter. (not me lol). Will the bees return? We had a bear siting in our woods this summer, but it is a huge area of woods and probably was just passing through. the picture of the smashed hive is so sad. MB
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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
1862 Posts |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 10:20:05 AM
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That's really sad. I'm sorry for the bees. It seems that it is being a hard year for a lot of wildlife to find enough food. But yes, you live on the edge of wilderness you are going to get "visited" by the critters. We have big problems with raccoons and coyotes out here. And though they aren't dangerous, we are over run with Chinese ring neck pheasants. They eat or stomp on everything I try to plant. If I could hit the broad side or the barn with a bulldozer, I'd have a lot of pheasant in the freezer.
I hope that the bees return. I am trying to learn enough about bees to start a couple of my own hives. Poor bees!
Wishing you joy in small things and peace in your heart
Annika
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 10:57:00 AM
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Bev .. what a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet honey hive of blogs you have .. and your 'honey hunk' is adorable! doesn't a 'good man' jus' 'complete' us! (NOT that EVERY woman needs one to be complete!)
True Friends * Frannie
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MaryJane & Family
Green County, KENTUCKY
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 11:43:48 AM
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Beverly,
So sorry to hear about the beehives! So very frustrating dealing with Mother Nature!
Will the bee colony be traumatized by this or do they quickly recover and get busy making new honeycombs?
Jo
"Wish I had time to work with herbs all day!" |
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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 9:47:34 PM
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Wow, that was not fun!!!!!! At least Pooh would have been gentlier!!!!!!
Praying the queen is okay so the hives can build back....
Carol Sue
listening to the quiet moments |
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
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Posted - Oct 23 2007 : 01:44:41 AM
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Well Bev, my neighbor had planted 700 bulbs and a brown bear ate ALL of them, and neatly filled the dirt back in, buggers...... jo
p.s. looked at your lovely site tonight, brightened my spirits up, your bees were/are quite lovely. Sweet little goats.
"life is drab without a lab"
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mrs. graham
True Blue Farmgirl
50 Posts
Marqueta
Shelley
ID
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MullersLaneFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
596 Posts
Rock Falls
IL
596 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2007 : 09:28:24 AM
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Oh Beverly - what a tragedy to have the hives destroyed by bears.
Did you move the hives to a new location?
Cyndi
Muller's Lane Farm http://www.mullerslanefarm.com
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4739 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4739 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2007 : 7:15:55 PM
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I'm so sorry you lost your hives. My parents have a cabin Hayward, WI (northwest part of the state). They have learned the hard way to empty or remove all of their bird feeders. The bears like to tear them to pieces in the fall when they are getting ready to hibernate. The same goes for in the spring when the bears tear into them after hibernating. Thank goodness no one was hurt.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4196 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4196 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2007 : 04:44:09 AM
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There is some people by us that keep their bee hives in a cage. It looks like something you would trap a bear in, really heavy built. Don't know how if it works or not, but just a thought.
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mrsmorgen
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
morgen
coudersport
pa
USA
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Posted - Nov 01 2007 : 06:05:43 AM
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the apiary up here wires electric fence around their hives and then ties bacon to it. our neighbor put something really yucky, ammonia or the like, though i don't know how safe that is in a balloon and ties it to the hives and when the bear broke the balloon bugging the hive it ran off and hasn't come back. We have to stop feeding the birds too adn i hate that!!! we are int he process of making our upstairs back porch into a bird sanctuary
morgen
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all..
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janetinva123
True Blue Farmgirl
363 Posts
Janet
newport news
va
USA
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