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Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - 1voyager1 - 08-12-2018
That changed when suddenly bees began showing up around our fruit trees.
Their showing up was coincidental, and maybe not, to our fruit trees beginning to actually bear fruit.
A neighbor had apparently began keeping some before I could get it together for myself.
The impetus for me to acquire a couple of colonies waned.
Since the eruption all signs of honey bees are now gone.
Not a one to be seen anywhere on our property anymore.
I'm not sure if the person that had them moved them out, or if they were killed off by the SOx gasses.
I may need to begin planning to acquire bees again.
Another possible project once we're back home, if the county doesn't come up with more excuses to keep us out.
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - Carey - 08-12-2018
If you find out there was a neighbor that was keeping bees & lost the bees, the USDA is looking to assist, as they have the ELAP program, that can assist to re-establish bees after disaster (not only any hive material that may have gotten damaged, but also the bees themselves!)
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/disaster-assistance-program/emergency-assist-for-livestock-honey-bees-fish/index
If you do get back to your house & are interested in beekeeping, BIBA can help you
https://www.bigislandbeekeepers.com
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - KeaauRich - 08-12-2018
Pre-eruption we never had any bee issues at our home in OLE. Now hardly a day goes by when I'm not scooping a bee or two out of our pool (I estimate a 50% survival rate..). I think they may have relocated away from the lava areas and taken up residence up here where the air is somewhat less gassy. Once I figure out where their home base is I'll call a beekeeper friend to come relocate them.
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - 1voyager1 - 08-12-2018
Not sure who's bees they were.
They always left our place in a NW direction.
Whether that was a "bee line" home, or was to circumvent a heavily wooded lot, I'm not sure.
I never followed it up.
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - terracore - 08-12-2018
There are a number of people who keep bees in OLE. We are fortunate that somebody 1 block up from us has a couple of hives and we are close enough to get free pollination out of it.
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - ElysianWort - 08-12-2018
All the bees might be at my place. I have a monstrous 60 foot starfruit tree and a patch of tapioca cassava that are both in full bloom. The bees are abuzz in those spots and I can hear the hum from 40 feet away.
They are living in a couple of old ROD ohias in the back40.
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - KiminPL - 08-13-2018
The bees regularly swarm all over my palm inflorescences, even during June and July, roughly 3/4 of a mile NW of F8. They were unfazed. The bee activity is what alerts me to the flowers, which otherwise are tiny and unremarkable. Not sure where the bees go at night.
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 08-13-2018
(Bees) are living in a couple of old ROD ohias in the back40.
Bees, ROD vectors disguised as necessary pollinators?
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RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - ElysianWort - 08-14-2018
Yeah HOTPE kinda been a dilemma I had gone through.
To let them just stay and do their thing or...
Thinking about the money and time it would cost to have bee person come in and try to scale 15 feet up an ohia way in the back40 and also set up a hive so that I don't lose the bee's and keep them pollinating the orchard and maybe cutting down the ROD infected tree and all those dangers involved in this scenario etc etc...
RE: Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees. - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 08-14-2018
Thinking about the money and time it would cost
Even if you did all you listed, your actions might have very little impact. Can you imagine how many dead ohia trees are presently on the island? How many wild bees? How many wild bees living in the dead trunks of ohia trees? I think at this point in time we best put our hope and efforts into ROD resistant ohia trees.
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