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Mr. Dis did a good job on my yard and other outside work I needed done. He didn't mind working around the honeybee hives on my property either, and thats something that might freak a few other folks out.

Not really. You cannot tell the difference visually between a normal honey bee and an africanized one (one with african honey bee genetics in it) save for measuring its wings or checking its genetics. Unless you step on one, or try to swat/squish it, a honey bee isn't going to come after you outside of its hive - which are built in an enclosed space like an old tree, inside a wall, abandoned objects, etc. And unlike wasps, yellow jackets, etc - honey bees (save for the queen) can only sting once. They die once they have stung you, as part of their innards pulls out with the sting. And those st

I haven't taken the plunge into growing my own veggies yet, but I did sign up the past two years with a CSA (community supported agriculture). Its like buying a share of a farm, and every week I get a good size bag of fresh veggies from their 9 acre farm. My wife goes to the local farmers market and picks up other things, jelly, soap, other veggies. I did start keeping honeybees last year, and Saturday pulled 35lbs of honey from one of my hives, which is roughly about 3.5 gallons of honey, and about 5-6lbs of beeswax. Folks keeping a few hens in the backyard is taking off as well, which used t

My wife and I really enjoy the series. I've been watching Game of Thrones in the mean time, which is really good, and follows the books pretty closely. Now if the next book in the series will hurry up and come out, since I've been waiting 6 years for it.

It takes some time to build up, but I started last year (course the honey is from my own hives) and have had no allergy trouble this year at all. I just take two spoonfuls a day of it. Just make sure it is local and not pasteurized/finely strained so to speak. The commercial stuff is so finely filtered and pasteurized it can barely be called honey anymore. It needs to have all the good stuff in there, including the pollen particles the bees pick up from the plants around your area.

They already have one that going on Saturday morning in the old courthouse parking lot.

Swarms like that are how honeybees reproduce in nature. They will raise up a new queen, and the old queen will stop laying and lose weight in order to get ready to fly. Once the new queen is ready to hatch and mate, the old queen and a chunk of the bees will eat a bunch of the honey for energy, then all at once will fly out and leave the hive, leaving behind the new queen and a small workforce of worker bees. They will usually go light in a tree, on a mailbox, side of a house, just wherever they decide to. They will send out scouts to look for a new home, and usually in a few days they will ha

Looks like a swarm took up there, they will probably move on in a few days once they find a new home to go to. Besides the information Mark gave you, there are numbers in the Market Bulletin of beekeepers that will come get them. They do look pretty high up in a tree.

Epipen's really should only be used if you hare having trouble breathing. In general all bee stings are going to swell, and to some extent depends on where you get hit. I get stung on my hands from my honeybees (which are not nearly as nasty as a wasp sting) and normally it swells up a spot about the size of a nickely to quarter. When I got stung on the head it was as big around as a coffee cup, and one in the inside crook of my elbow it was a little bigger than that. Benedryl is going to be your best bet and careful monitoring of how he does. I've used bleach on a wet paper towel to somehow d

PM sent, my dad runs a welding business.

I've got three hives myself, about to split one to form another one. Closest bee groups are either in Atlanta or the one up in Bartow. Beesoure.com (http://www.beesource.com) is a good site to go to, just be aware for every 100 beekeepers there's 101 opinions on how to do something. Brushy Mountain Bee Farm has online presentations/classes you can watch for free. PM me if you need some help with anything.

Was really sad to hear about this. I dated his daughter Amanda (Mandy) back in High School.

Any local computer place should have one, just pull the one you have out and take it with you. It should be a normal ATX style power supply, but if you had a really old one it might need one of the old AT ones. If you want to go to a retail outlet, Microcenter in Marietta would have one. There's probably a local source here in Paulding, but I don't know of any. Best Buy might even have one, but you will probably get gouged on the price. Check too if there is a standard power flip switch on the back, you might have flipped it off by accident. Some power supplies have them on here.

When my wife and I bought our house couple of years before the recession hit, they wanted to put us in a 250-300K house. We both thought they were crazy, and bought ours for around 150k. Kinda glad we did get what we have, though more land would be nice. I am glad we did not get a huge house, as at the time we were trying to plan for a family, but come to find out BOTH of us have fertility issues, so unless we adopted it wasn't going to happen. I'd really hate to have some monster of a house and just us two living in it.

My wife and I watched Food Inc and some other shows last year, and it did make us change the way we eat. For eggs, I raise my own. I've got four hens that provide fresh eggs, so I know pretty much what goes into that chicken and the egg. I raise honeybees as well, which provides fresh local honey and pollinates everything within 4-5 miles of my home. For meat, we buy part of a cow every year from a local fellow (wife's co-worker) that raises them, bought pork from a local farmer in Carrollton, and organic if we can't find it any other way (mostly chicken). For produce, we go with a CSA or buy

There's actually an online farmer's market that has been running for a bit. Visit the website at http://tdfm.org/ or http://www.localharvest.org/the-dallas-farmers-market-M42783 for more info. Usually you place an online order on Monday/Tuesday (they e-mail you a list) then go out next to the old courthouse on Saturday and pick it up. There's usually a few vendors there as well. Gardenfork.tv is a web video/podcast with some shows about cheesemaking and cooking, very down to earth fellow. His episodes really vary in their content, so one week they might cook, next week you might see him re

PM Sent, but really there isn't too much work involved with just a few hives. The suggestion is to run two, so if you have a problem with one, you can pull from another one (queen loss, need extra frames of brood/honey, etc). They even make some smaller size hives like 8 frames that are easier to lift, and you can extract honey (if you want) with just common household tools. I believe there are some smaller "garden hives" that would work as well, you can even paint them up to be decorative.

If you need to spray your bushes for something, then please do it after sunset. At least then the honeybees won't be on them. Even something as simple as putting seven dust on bushes can end up being carried by the honeybees back to their nest and wipe out the entire colony. Happened to a fellow I know's beehives - 70,000+ honeybees wiped out overnight. The benefits of having the honeybees pollinate those flowers vastly outweighed the minor damage done by a few harmful bugs. Thats the reason alot of helpful or harmless insects aren't seen very much anymore.

I'm with you there, I really hate red wasps. The foam spray that will reach out and cover the nest and expand works really well killing them. I keep honeybees and I've had these suckers on occasion try to enter my hives. The honeybees will just mob them, but they end up having a small chunk die fighting them off.

Ants don't like cinnamon either. I use it around my beehives to keep the ants away since any type of pesticide is a no-no. Just sprinkle/rub it generously where you don't want them to go, least till it gets washed away by rain.

That what I thought the subject was about, Capt. Crunch the phone phreaker.

Places like Tractor Supply you never know what you get. The hatcheries (my pet chicken, McMurry Hatchery, etc) do a better job and you can order just pullets. I have no complaints on McMurry's birds, though I got them from a farm/garden center up in Gainesville. They ordered about 1000 birds of several varieties, and all mine grew up to be hens.

One thing you can try is local raw honey (and not from the supermarket). Make sure its not filtered (much) or pasteurized, just ask your local beekeeper you are buying it from. It will have local pollen in your area and can, in some cases (least mine), help build up immunity to the pollen in your area. At least the pollen the honeybees like. I know my beehives are really busy bringing in pollen as they get ready for spring build up. I've only got a 1.5 quarts of my own honey left, just has to last me till harvest time.