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Ok, so why do you kill bumble bees? I do not know much about bees but I have always protected and treasured the bumbles around my place. I did not even know they could sting. I have played with bumble bees, held them, let them climb on me and never been stung.
Actually I am a bit partial to the bumble bee, weird as that sounds for the very reason is they are a scientific miracle. Do you know that physicalogically speaking bumble bees should not be able to fly, due to the mass to wing size. Can bumble bees be relocated? If so I would be glad to relocate them out at my place. We need more bees for pollenation out here and fat bumbles are really cute.
A nest of bumble bees is very protective and when there are children and dogs that want to go close to the area of the nest, it is not a good combination. I don't know how you would relocate bumble bees, since they don't adhere to the same social rules of behavour as a honey bee, the nests of them are much smaller than that of honey bees (about 100 -200 bumble bees compared to thousands in a honey bee hive) and they don't "cling" to anything in the hive that is removable in an intact mass. I agree that bumble bees are cute and I like them also - a few at a time. They work my vitex bushes much more so than the honey bees, for whom I acquired the vitex. Unfortunately, I didn't get the variety of Vitex preferred by honey bees. It is only when bumble bees have a nest in an inconvenient place that I would consider irradicating them. I have no idea where all the bumble bees that work my Vitex, sleep at night - so they obviously have located themselves somewhere that doesn't place me at risk for massive stinging if I go near their nest.
Ok, so why do you kill bumble bees? I do not know much about bees but I have always protected and treasured the bumbles around my place. I did not even know they could sting. I have played with bumble bees, held them, let them climb on me and never been stung.
Actually I am a bit partial to the bumble bee, weird as that sounds for the very reason is they are a scientific miracle. Do you know that physicalogically speaking bumble bees should not be able to fly, due to the mass to wing size. Can bumble bees be relocated? If so I would be glad to relocate them out at my place. We need more bees for pollenation out here and fat bumbles are really cute.
A nest of bumble bees is very protective and when there are children and dogs that want to go close to the area of the nest, it is not a good combination. I don't know how you would relocate bumble bees, since they don't adhere to the same social rules of behavour as a honey bee, the nests of them are much smaller than that of honey bees (about 100 -200 bumble bees compared to thousands in a honey bee hive) and they don't "cling" to anything in the hive that is removable in an intact mass. I agree that bumble bees are cute and I like them also - a few at a time. They work my vitex bushes much more so than the honey bees, for whom I acquired the vitex. Unfortunately, I didn't get the variety of Vitex preferred by honey bees. It is only when bumble bees have a nest in an inconvenient place that I would consider irradicating them. I have no idea where all the bumble bees that work my Vitex, sleep at night - so they obviously have located themselves somewhere that doesn't place me at risk for massive stinging if I go near their nest.
