04/10/2018
A repost from 2013!!! and I am still getting these calls. I know it is early April by the number of these calls we get each morning.
JUST SAYIN'!
I SHOULDN'T say this on My Business site, because surely someone will be offended, and I treasure every customer. BUT, PEOPLE!! GET REAL, PLEASE!
Can there be a person left in the world who does not know that honey bees are in grave danger of becoming extinct, and along with them, our FOOD!!-- Our very dear and wonderful Food that we really love and depend on will become a scarce commodity, very quickly. Then, in just a few years, WE will become a very scarce and very hungry commodity. HOW can an average adult not know that the natural home for honey bees is a tree?
WHY do normal people go all Alfred Hitchcock on us the minute they see a bee colony in a tree? Do they freak when they see a birds nest? (There might be a dangerous Hawk in that nest ready to sn**ch your dog for heavens sake.) They all of sudden fear for their children's lives, want us to come and remove the dangerous monsters from their tree, or they run in the house and get the wasp and Roach killer and proceed to kill that lovely nest in the tree. Do people really think bees only live in man-made hives?
The only safe bees around right now are the ones that live up in the tree tops where the pesticides don't get to them too badly. And whether we have known it or not, we have lived our entire lives with Honey Bees over our heads in the trees.
PEOPLE!! if you have a bee colony in your tree, praise the lord. It is a true blessing from God and mother nature, and you should say thanks for being so honored. Bees are not aggressive, they are defensive. I.e. if you step on one barefoot in the clover, it stings you. (who ever grew up here hasn't had that happen?) Extreme Bee allergies are about as rare as peanut allergies, and a lot easier to avoid. THE ONLY REASON TO REMOVE a colony from a tree is if there is a child in the home who goes into anaphylactic shock if stung. PLEASE DO NOT SPRAY pesticides in your yard, or on your Bees, or ask us to remove a healthy colony from a tree in your yard. If a swarm arrives in your yard and gets on a limb, it is going to be there overnight, and will not harm you. You have been blessed if it decides to make that tree its home.
