Same here.
thats too bad they had a virus. Seems like it’s a problem everywhere. I bought a bee “house” to encourage them into their new home but the birds seemed most interested. Which actually was just as well since I’m highly allergic the bee stings or any lil’ bugger that can sting. I end up in the ER on IV meds to “control” the cellulitis that occurs.
But I love them and they’re so important to our ecosystem. Only time I’ll kill one is if it’s in the house ready to ambush me only after attempting to remove it safely.
They are very careful about how we can move bees, I belong to the Mandal river region, but where these most likely came from belong to another river watercourse.
It is quite normal for a new queen to take parts of a flock with her and flee, sometimes the queen dies during the flight and the flock returns, sometimes the queen succeeds and she will send scouts to find a suitable place for them to settle down, in this case they found an opening under a water board in my house.
I was hoping when it happened that I could get a friend of mine who is a beekeeper to trick the queen with her workers so he could make a bee hive out of the disaster.
He is very skilled and belongs to the bee ring here, it was he who said they had to be eliminated as they had unknown origins, and from his knowledge they hardly came from the Mandals river region.
Even though I was wearing full protective gear I was quite nervous when I tipped up the plank they came out of, in the tractor tray high off the ground and a poison spray in one hand....
