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jazz lady

jazz lady

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appyday said:
:rolleyes: You KNOW he is 99.9 lbs we were going to eat him at 100 we have not eatten him yet so he MUST be under 100 lbs
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Of COURSE he is. Or at least one of his ham hocks is. :lmao:
 
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bresamil

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jazz lady said:
*cough,cough* Yeah, WEE is under 500 pounds. :killingme :twitch:

:lmao: You vindictive witch you. :huggy:

I found out my nearest neighbor is raising BEES. :yikes: Maybe the smell of llama poop would make him stop. :lol:
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Bees in a neighborhood? That sounds dangerous. I was reading an article that bee allergies are steadily increasing. Those bees could cause your neighbor a great deal of trouble.
 
jazz lady

jazz lady

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bresamil said:
Bees in a neighborhood? That sounds dangerous. I was reading an article that bee allergies are steadily increasing. Those bees could cause your neighbor a great deal of trouble.
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It's pretty rural, but it does concern me. It's great for my plants for pollination, but my mom is deathly allergic to them so when comes to visit, it will limit her activities.

I had bees swarming on my hummingbird feeders last year and had no clue as to WHY I had so many. Now I know. :ohwell: I've replaced the feeders with ones that are supposed to be insect-proof, so we shall see if they work.

I need to see if there are any regulations in the county pertaining to bee-keeping.
 
jazz lady

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appyday said:
Look at the bright side..if you get arthritis you can roll around in the flower beds and save yourself a trip to the dr.
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Hubby's dad used to do that. He would get bees and get them to sting his joints to help ease the pain. :twitch:

Bad deal for your mom though..mabie an insect repellent??
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She always wears insect repellent when outside and carries the epi-pen with her just in case. :yay:
 
Bogart

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Under attack from a Southeast Asian parasite, vast numbers of the creatures are dying off, worried industry experts say. More than 50 percent of the bees in California, critical to the success of the Golden State's almond crop, have died during the past six months. Frantic growers there have sent out the call around the world, including Florida, for hives.Not only California is suffering the ravages of the determined pest. As many as 40 percent to 60 percent of the bees nationwide have perished during the same six-month period, experts say.

"It's the biggest crisis that has ever faced the U.S. beekeeping industry," said Laurence Cutts of Chipley, president of the Florida State Beekeepers Association and a retired apiary inspector with the state Department of Agriculture.

Cutts lost two-thirds of his beehives to the predator, an eight-legged animal no bigger than a grain of salt that attaches itself to a bee and slowly sucks out its internal fluids.

The pest is the varroa mite, which has been in the United States since 1986, when it first showed up in Florida. But the pace of devastation has increased only during the past year. An entire hive can be wiped out within less than a year as the parasites, colloquially known as "vampire mites," lodge in a hive and begin to reproduce.

"The varroa mites have become resistant to the chemicals we use to kill them," said Loxahatchee beekeeper Mark McCoy.

McCoy is one of hundreds of beekeepers from around the country and as far away as Australia who responded to California's need for an additional 400,000 hives. He packed up more than 1,500 hives, housing 30 million-plus bees, last month and shipped them west on two flatbed semis.

"The bees are the only tool we have to pollinate the trees," said Colleen Aguiar, a spokeswoman for the California Almond Board, based in Modesto.

The state grows about 80 percent of the global almond crop, which is some 1 billion pounds of nuts a year. It takes 1.2 million hives to pollinate those groves, Aguiar said.

And almonds are only the beginning of the crisis. Apple growers in Virginia normally call on their own state's beekeepers for pollination help, but not this year, said Troy Fore, executive director of the 1,200-member American Beekeeping Federation Inc., based in Jesup, Ga.

"Now those apple growers have also turned to Florida beekeepers to provide pollination because they have lost bees in Virginia to the mite," Fore said.

But Florida itself needs its bees, and some industry observers suggest it might already have given away too many.
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:ohwell:
 
Tomcat

Tomcat

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jazz lady said:
I had bees swarming on my hummingbird feeders last year and had no clue as to WHY I had so many. Now I know. :ohwell: I've replaced the feeders with ones that are supposed to be insect-proof, so we shall see if they work.
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Jazz, is it too early to put out the hummingbird feeders?
 
jazz lady

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Tomcat said:
Jazz, is it too early to put out the hummingbird feeders?
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I've put one up with a little bit of nectar in it, but I haven't seen any yet. They are coming through on their way to their northernmost habitats.

The map below shows the current sightings so far this year:

<img src="http://www.hummingbirds.net/images/map-rubythroat-us.gif">
 
jazz lady

jazz lady

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Tomcat said:
thanks, we started with 1 feeder on the back porch a couple of years ago, now there's 1/2 dozen
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I got up to 4 feeders at my old house. At the new one, they're slowing finding us. :lol:

I had two feeders up last year and had about 7 or 8 hummers. :yay:
 
cattitude

cattitude

My Sweetest Boy
jazz lady said:
I got up to 4 feeders at my old house. At the new one, they're slowing finding us. :lol:

I had two feeders up last year and had about 7 or 8 hummers. :yay:
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