I assume this was a joke, so I upvoted.

However, being that this was San Francisco, I may have to rethink my upvote.

>> ^BillOreilly

I can pretty well assure you this is on the level, looks like a standard SF situation, and this guy basically tells it how it is as far as bees in SF are concerned. A guy I used to work for in SF, where we did bee removal, calls people like this bee-havers, not beekeepers. Folks who don't manage their hives well are the cause of most of the swarms that end up living in walls and attics, and resulted in us getting work removing hives from houses.

That's fascinating. What should he have been doing for his bees?

Um... this isn't parody? Wow. Had me fooled.

>> ^oxdottir:
That's fascinating. What should he have been doing for his bees?

It looks like this guy pulls his supers(the boxes the hive is made of) off haphazardly and cuts chunks of comb off the frames at random. This, and his statements about not really taking care of them, suggest to me that he does not have a regular harvest schedule, which is what causes hives to swarm.

Bee hives make one of two things honey(with wax) or bees, if the hive "decides" it has enough food in storage the queen and a whole bunch of workers will go set up a new hive, likely in someones attic, leaving the old hive to grow a new queen.

His hive might also carry disease, which may then infect other hives. Professional beekeepers in California are subject to inspection, because parasites did a lot of damage to the bee population about a decade ago, which as has been discussed recently, is a big problem for agriculture.

For all I know I got paid to remove a hive that swarmed out of this guys back yard.

Honey is the epidemy of awsomesauce, but that guy is the epidemy of looser.

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