honey at the whitehouse

[jojoroxx]

first year keeping bees and they are on their 3rd extraction>>?>??> over 100 lbs off one very TALL hive in Wash DC. ...at least someone is getting some honey!! as a side note, i am very saddened to hear of so many empty and failed hives. that bites. :'(


honey at the whitehousehttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/04/us/politics/20091104_BEES_SS1/index.html

[Chrisd4421]

Thanks for sharing this...it was pretty cool to watch.

Chris

[homer]

I still don't understand why they need their hive so high off the ground.

[G3farms]

It was to keep the rug rats and the mutt out of the flight path of the bees

G3

[Chrisd4421]

First thing I thought was to have it resemble the height of the washington monument....

Chris

[G3farms]

That was a good haul from a SWARM of bees caught this spring, 110 pounds of honey.

Anybody else doing that good from a swarm??

G3

[beemused]

Geez,  It's the whitehouse! Anything emanating from there is either a total fabrication or spun to make the current residents seem like they are special! I wonder if the hive in question was brought in from a competent  beek's yard under the cover of their favorite time (lack of illumination) to replace a failed swarm. I would have called it (darkness) but I am sure someone would have pointed out that it could be construed in a politically incorrect tone and insensitive.

Bruce

[asprince]

The video showed him bottling some very light honey. I wonder where the dark jar in the last picture came from; surely not from the same hive. It was some very pretty honey.

What do you think they could get per pound ounce with a letter of authenticity? He could used the proceeds to reduce the deficit. With great ideas like that, I should be a Senator!  :lau:   


Steve

[David LaFerney]

I'm pretty sure that sawhorses are not OSHA approved scaffolding.   ;)

[Bee Happy]

I'm pretty sure that sawhorses are not OSHA approved scaffolding.   ;)

Maybe there wasn't enough in the budget after Michelle hired her army of assistants to buy the 1st beekeeper a ladder.

[slaphead]

It's good to have an advocate at the White House. 

Reckon those bees could teach Wall Street a thing or two.

SH

[danno]

He wanted to cut funding for CCD research.   someone set him strait on the importance so to save voters he got a hive.  I dont believe the harvest quanity.  why should I he's a politician.  The hive is also going untreated (organic)  and has a daily mite drop of 115 - 135.  these bee's are in trouble and will die this winter.  see if they tell us that in spring. 

[G3farms]

If the mites don't get them this winter then they will surely starve to death in the spring from over robbing of honey stores.

They will never die out, they will get replaced in a covert way, and just wait til next years honey harvest from a now established colony!!!! ;) I mean look what a new spring swarm did that had to pull comb and build up.

G3

[Kathyp]

i don't have a problem with the amount of honey they got.  there are a tremendous number of blooming things around the WH and DC area.  if that swarm was reasonably established by the time it was installed, they had 1st class choices for nectar.

it will be interesting to see if they make it.

[Keith13]

I wonder how much those etched white house glass jars cost me?

Keith

[Shawn]

NICE. I have bees for three years and only got honey this year, 13 quarts. I did like the looks of their honey. Thanks for the video.

[Scadsobees]

I wonder how much those etched white house glass jars cost me?

Keith

Don't worry Keith, those jars are reletively cheap! :evil:  They don't even bother to record a pittance like that.

[danno]

I'm sure Obama has never been around the bee's.  They dont make a hood or veil wide enough to protect them ears