re: Bees ... bees ... bees ...

Years ago, before the big honey bee die off, I kept half a dozen honey bee hives. Honey bees are very interesting and can be a lot of WORK. This time of year I would enjoy trying to attract swarms to bait hives that I set out in my back yard (I live in the woods and nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away). Swarming honey bees usually won't sting. Cover your hair because they particularly don't like hairy animals. I could tell I was about to catch a wild swarm when scout bees would gather at the entrance of my bait hive and fan their pheromones into the air signaling the swam of the new home to be. I would stand off to the side of the entrance and watch the swarm enter the bait hive and try to see the queen arrive. All this dressed in shorts, bare foot, no shirt, but wearing my bee veil. Never got stung.