{"id":6916,"date":"2016-04-01T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T03:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/01\/bees-in-the-trees\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T20:32:28","slug":"bees-in-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/01\/bees-in-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees in the Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bee-swarm.jpg' title='Bee Swarm'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bee-swarm.jpg' alt='Bee Swarm' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beekeeper1.jpg' title='Bee Keeper Gary'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beekeeper1.jpg' alt='Bee Keeper Gary' width='200' class='left' \/><\/a>While we were walking the dogs this afternoon, Damsel called me over by the mesquite tree across the road to show me a swarm of bees that were hanging from a branch. I already had my camera and long lens since I was going to take a photo of a project with the travel trailer. I took the photo of the bees in the top image.<\/p>\n<p>I called one of our neighbors to see if he knew if there was a bee keeping service in town. He just happened to have a friend that kept bees and would be interested in harvesting this swarm. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after dusk, they showed up with all the equipment, bee suits and whatever and proceeded to knock the swarm, queen bee and all out of the tree and into a bucket with a lid (of course). The whole process took about half an hour, but the bees are gone, to our neighbors&#8217; and our mutual relief. They have kids and we have dogs, neither that mix well with a beehive in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Click on either image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were walking the dogs this afternoon, Damsel called me over by the mesquite tree across the road to show me a swarm of bees&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8498,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}