@MrPitbull07 This story is totally implausible clickbait. Hives moved 11 miles would reorient, not fly back. Young bees and queens would not leave their hives when moved.
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Duck River Honey
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Duck River Honey
@BeekeeperDRH
Christian, Husband, Father, American, Beekeeper.
Tennessee, USA Katılım Mayıs 2024
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Every single one. Forty-three hives vanished overnight from Paul Kerrigan's property outside Greenville. Sheriff's office told him to file insurance. Paul just opened his empty bee yard and waited. Within seventy-two hours, scout bees started returning. Then foragers.
Then entire swarms, trailing back along their original flight paths from eleven miles east, settling on the bare concrete pads where their hives once stood.
Deputies followed the bee line to a rented storage unit on Hamby Road.
Found all forty-three hives stacked floor to ceiling, bees mostly gone. The thief's fingerprints were everywhere. So were about nine thousand stings.
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Listen most of y’all have never changed a spark plug in a diesel before and it shows
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@bluewmist Put want in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first.
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@Jason2bartlett Get a bee suit. Join your local bee club.
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@juliet_turner6 As a beekeeper I’d say “Promoting habitat favors all pollinators”, and maybe tone down the honeybee invasive species angst? It’s not like honeybees are going away…that ship sailed 400+ years ago.
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Maybe the US president can also protect habitat for the wild solitary bees that are native to America and crucial for ecosystem services including pollination, instead of just focusing on domestic, non-native honeybees 😊
The White House@WhiteHouse
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@roving_brah Shoot him in the face, every time. Shells are cheap, lots of stores sell them. Coyotes during turkey season are not cheap, or frequent.
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@MoundLore There are no Emerald Ash Trees, just Ash trees such as Green or White Ash species.
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Emerald ash trees once lined American streets and forests by the tens of millions.
Strong. Tall. Resilient.
Now they’re vanishing—fast.
All because of a shimmering green insect that hitched a ride across the ocean and unleashed a silent disaster.
Let’s talk about the Emerald Ash Borer:
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@OldHollowTree Varroa mites and food are probably more important than insulation, but if you’re good on those insulation won’t hurt.
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Well, we’ve got about a month until we double the bee yard. Everyone in the family has been hard at work in preparation. It was a rough winter on the bees, but one way or another we will have twice as many hives as we did last year. Need to focus on keeping them warmer this year.
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@OldHollowTree Illegal in my state. We’re required to use hives with movable frames, which makes inspection and control of disease easier. I’d check your laws before putting it before the world.
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I inherited a tradition beehive/skep from my grandfather. Depending on what happens this year, I may put a colony of bees in just to see how they do. Would be fun to watch.
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@ambrosian_co I built a steel basket for mine the sinks the boxes. It has an overhead winch that lifts them up to drain before I cycle the next load. Something to think about.
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@BeekeeperDRH The weight of the box submerges it about halfway. We cook it for about three minutes on one side and then flip it over and do the same and then pull it out.
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Moving forward, our hives are going to take on a more natural look.
Wax dipping boxes in 300F wax for 3 minutes makes a beehive rot proof for 40 years.
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My appearance from earlier today on @wkrn to discuss the Scenic River Bill that is expected to be voted on tomorrow in Nashville, with an explanation of the benefits for the Duck River + Maury County —
wkrn.com/news/local-new…
wkrn.com/news/local-new… youtu.be/ok-bZa2KC48
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Started major hive work today, and I’m about 15 stings in on this hand. Immunity has waned over the winter, but in a couple weeks I won’t swell anymore.
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@Thinkwert @EsotericCD Call a woodchuck a beaver and you offend both. Prepare for holes in your yard and trees nibbled down.
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@100AcresRanch I feel like we need a series on this murderous cat.
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This cat is straight wild. Hunts day n night. Doesn’t care what it is he’ll fight it. So far I’ve been gifted prairie dogs and my all time favorite a fox I couldn’t get. He only seems to gift me the stuff that’s the same size as him. Truly a beast.
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The Duck River Pipeline || Columbia, TN
How have we forgotten that less than two (2) years ago a leading conservation group listed the Duck as the third-most endangered River in the nation — and guess what they cited as the biggest threat then?
Increased Withdrawals by Local Water Utilities.
Since that article was written, Columbia Power & Water Systems (CPWS) has received TDEC approval to withdraw another 12 million gallons per day, which brings their total to 32 million gallons per day (or 23 Ultium plants alotted at 1.4 million gallons per day).
The next public utility I run will be my first, but did we not see a problem there, in providing 7% of our entire permitted water supply to a single industrial user?
#TheGreatWaterHeist
DefendTheDuck.Org
wpln.org/post/the-duck-…
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Duck River, Tennessee —
This is the future intake location for the Duck River Pipeline set to draw 32 million gallons per day out of the fragile Duck River, heralded as North America’s most biodiverse river.
Residents in the Duck River Basin are pushing back on the land and water grab by the City of Columbia, TN that is part of a $520 Million project to be financed by the ratepayers with rate increases for drinking water set to go into effect today, March 1, 2026.
#TheGreatWaterHeist
DefendTheDuck.Org 🇺🇸
🎼 : the marshall tucker band
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I’ve worked several hives knocked over in storms, so I can attest that this would work. 😆
Dr. M.F. Khan@Dr_TheHistories
Around the year 907, a Viking force of Danes and Norwegians descended on the walled city of Chester in what is now northwest England. The city's Roman-built walls had stood for eight centuries, and the Vikings quickly realised that a frontal assault wasn't going to work. So they adapted. They drove wooden hurdles into the ground at the base of the walls, creating covered corridors that shielded their men from above, and began tunnelling underneath the foundations. The defenders hurled boulders down onto the hurdles. The Vikings propped them up with timber columns. The Saxons, advised by the lord Æthelred and his formidable wife Lady Æthelflaed, boiled every barrel of ale and water they could find in the city and poured it through the gaps, scalding the men below until their skin came away. The Vikings responded by laying animal hides across the top of the hurdles to seal them. Every move had a counter-move, and the tunnels kept advancing. What happened next was recorded in the 11th-century Fragmentary Annals of Ireland, one of the most vivid accounts of early medieval siege warfare that survives. The Saxons had run out of obvious options. Boiling liquid had failed. Rocks had failed. So the defenders of Chester gathered every beehive in the city, carried them to the walls, and scattered them directly onto the besiegers below. The effect was immediate. According to the Annals, the bees prevented the Viking soldiers from moving their feet or their hands because of the sheer number of stings. Warriors who had withstood scalding beer, crushing boulders, and months of siege warfare were brought to a complete standstill by a swarm of insects. The Vikings abandoned the tunnels and withdrew from Chester. The city held. What makes this more than just a strange footnote is that it wasn't a desperate improvisation that vanished from history. It was the beginning of a documented military tradition. Medieval castle builders across England, Scotland, and Wales began constructing specific recesses into their interior walls called bee boles, designed to permanently house beehive colonies. In peacetime the bees produced honey and wax. In wartime they were a standing weapon. By the 14th century, military engineers had developed a windmill-like device capable of launching straw hives from rapidly rotating arms in rapid succession, the closest thing the medieval world had to an automatic weapon. The Romans had already been so enthusiastic about bee bombs that historians have noted a documented decline in hive numbers across the late Roman Empire from battlefield demand alone. Lady Æthelflaed, who advised the defence of Chester alongside her dying husband, went on to become one of the most effective military commanders in early medieval England, personally directing the construction of fortified towns across Mercia and leading campaigns against the Vikings for years after Æthelred's death. She is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the Lady of the Mercians. The siege of Chester is one of dozens of engagements she helped win. History tends to remember the warriors who carried swords into battle. It is considerably less interested in the woman who figured out that, when every other option fails, you send in the bees. #drthehistories
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