I captured another swarm of honey bees Saturday. The parent hive is in a large cotton wood tree about 30+ feet off the ground. Home owner wants me to remove the tree with the parent hive in it also. This will be a challenge to salvage the hive out of the tree. If I can cut apart the tree carefully and take the whole chunk with the hive and lower it on to a trailer I will strap it down and drive it home to the bee yard.
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Opened All the Hives and counted the carnage.
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Anyone can create a welcoming garden for pollinators. Turning your own yard or other property such as a schoolyard, work landscape, or roadside green space into a pollinator habitat is fun, easy and can make a difference for birds also. Planting a few flowers for your honey bees is like adding a few gallons of water to the ocean. Honeybees need on average about a square mile of good cover to forage on. However, adding a diverse mix of flowering plants to your garden will also attract butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, along with native bee species and the occasional wasps. These insects are essential to our survival and need to be welcomed into at the least a corner of our backyards. Besides providing a food source for pollinators flowers provide cover for other wildlife such as birds and also reduce neighborhood mowing area.