Comments on: Breaking News: Gang of Bees Attacks the Mission!

By: RuthDickenson

RuthDickenson — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:30:41 +0000

human nature has many needs and these needs vary from person to person. and earrings? moms who wear any sort of dangling earring while breastfeeding are very brave souls! you have to choose a training program that is convenient for you.

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:44:42 +0000

2 sets of bees?

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:44:10 +0000

what happened? I’m dying to know

By: Home Sweet Home « vianaturae

Home Sweet Home « vianaturae — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:06:13 +0000

[...] August 7, 2008 in nature | Tags: bees, mission district, san francisco, sf, swarm | Swarming bees and mostly sunny weather: two things I love about the Mission. [...]

By: Breaking News: Bees Swarming Again! « Mission Mission

Breaking News: Bees Swarming Again! « Mission Mission — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:27:09 +0000

[...] News: Bees Swarming Again! In the comments section of the original post, Carowner says the bees are back in action (and details a dramatic plan to bounce them once and for all)! Explore posts in the same [...]

By: Carowner

Carowner — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:02:27 +0000

The bees are back… I thought I ditched them a couple days ago when I parked my car in a diferent spot, but they’re swarming my damn car again. I’m going to drive to San Diego tonight, I doubt they’ll be able to live it out during the highway drive. I’ll have more for you later.

By: Nature Explained! Emergency Beekeeper Demystifies Saturday’s Bee Swarm « Mission Mission

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:14:40 +0000

[...] Real-life hero and Emergency Beekeeper Karen just wrote in to further explain the mystery of Saturday’s bee swarm: [...]

By: Allan Hough

Allan Hough — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:27:19 +0000

thanks for the update, karen. fascinating, these bees!

By: Karen Peteros

Karen Peteros — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:06:07 +0000

This is the beekeeper, Karen, here. Wendy and Carowner were real troopers. As I explained many times to everyone who was crowded around and watched, when honey bees “swarm” it is a good thing for two reasons:

1. It means the colony from which it emerged is doing well and out grew its space. The queen leaves with approx 50% of the bees in the colony, and they find a place to land before figuring out where they will go to start a new nest. Why this group decided to land on the car is unknown. Meantime, back at the hive, a new queen (daughter of the queen who left) has emerged from her queen cell. She will head-up the other 50% of the colony and perpetuate it.

2. When honeybees swarm, they are very gentle and non-defensive. They have no honey stores or brood (baby bees before hatching) to protect, and they have gorged on honey before they left their hive, filling their special “honey stomachs” because they don’t know exactly when they will begin to set up housekeeping at their new location. They are like us after we’ve eaten a big meal (like T-day), full and kinda relaxed.

I took the bees back to my house and installed them into a hive. I will check on them in a few days to see if we got the queen or not. If we did not, she is likely still in the air vent of the car and will either leave or die.

I will post again once I know.

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:03:58 +0000

haha, comb ethanol? why not!?

By: wendy

wendy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:49:56 +0000

carowner! what a trooper you were. i had a blast with you.

another cool thing, readers, is that karen, the nongovernmental emergency beekeeper, let us don the beekeeping suit and help her get the fuzzy little buzzers out. but yes, we couldn’t get them all…

who knows, carowner, maybe you’ll discover an alternative fuel with them in there.

honeylene?

and congrats on the half marathon. mighty.

By: Carowner

Carowner — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:42:48 +0000

Wow… truly amazing. Totally reminded me of Ghostbusters when Karen came out of her car, the whole block started clapping, and she put her beekeeper gear on and broke out a specially crafted beevacuum to suck away the bees! Also, cheers to Wendy and her boyfriend for calling the beekeeper and saving the bees, you two are truly the heros of this amazing story. If it weren’t for you two, my car would smell of permanent RAID. Wendy specifically was very helpful – Karen and I wouldn’t have been able to collect the majority of the bees without her help.

FYI – there are still bees lurking in the air ventilation systems, so beware if you’re passing by.

By: sean griffin

sean griffin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:58:11 +0000

those are probably mexican bees, stealing the jobs of hard working american bees.

By: mmmmeghan

mmmmeghan — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:23:04 +0000

I wish my job title was “emergency beekeper.”

By: wendy

wendy — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:49:11 +0000

haven’t tried it yet. actually, i’m not a fan of honey. gave it to my roomie. karen said it’s a crystalized honey because it’s made from eucalyptus.

if this ever happens again, go to http://www.sfbee.org and they’ll take care of it. save the bees! we have a shortage of them you know…