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Originally Posted by HopCar
Kenomac, one of my hives has become Africanized. Did you re-queen yours or did your queen just quit laying mean eggs eventually?
Sorry for the thread drift. Just call a bee keeper, he'd love to come catch those bees.
That's about a hundred dollars worth of bees there. There is probably a bee keeping club in your area. A google search will find them. Do it quick. They might decide to move into the boom. That is much more of a problem.
Please don't kill them.
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It was eleven years ago. At the time we had twelve hives in our yard and ten elsewhere, all the hives in the yard had become Africanized probably because I requeened them from the same apiary, it was early on when it was first becoming a problem. We got over seven hundred pounds of honey from those hives that year, probably because the bees were raiding every hive in the area; but because they were Africanized and we live in
New England, they all died midway through the
winter. Disease or just because they were Africanized, don't know why.
Sorry I can't bee of more help.