I met a neighbor of Dieter and Helga Class at Helga's birthday party, Rainer. We got to taking, and he told me that one of his hobbies was bee keeping. So, I asked him if he would take me to see his bees. We left the party for about an hour to go see the bees. VERY INTERESTING!
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| I ain't afraid of no bees! |
Rainer shared a lot of information with me about bees. Apparently wearing black or brown clothes would not be good...bees tend to think that you are a bear wanting their honey if you do not wear light-colored clothes. And, using smoke makes the bees much more docile. They think there may be a fire, so the grab a bunch of honey in case they have to leave their home...this additional honey makes them move much slower.
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| Rainer is preparing smoke to use before opening the bee hive. |
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| In the two hive that I saw, there were probably 6,000-8,000 bees in each hive. |
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