Young family member was sitting on a hill aways away in the yard during a BBQ. Wasp flies over. Two carpenter bees very obviously lock on to this and make a bee-line to the wasp and drive it off. Now this is a couple acres away but they still flew the whole distance just to drive the wasp away.
Anyway a couple minutes later another wasp tries to land on him, and again the carpenter bees zoom over there and aggressively drive away the wasp, before flying back to their nest near the porch.
Only reason we haven't cleared em is because the porch is getting replaced anyway.
I'll install treated wood during the renovation, maybe set up an untreated post near by for the wood bees.
Little fuckers will stop and stare at me when I'm working the yard and garden, just hover there minding their business, all curious like.
The males are stingless, but territorial, and don't mess with people from what I gather. Like wasps they also readily recognize faces. Maybe they figured out don't fuck with the humans and aren't happy that the wasps behavior could lead to another house-wide nest removal, who knows.
Some bumble bees will make honey. My dad said when he was growing up he found a huge bumble bee hive. I think they were in a hollow tree that my dad had to cut down, for some reason. Anyway, he said there was about a quart of honey in the hive. They don't produce as much as honey bees do so they wouldn't be worth it to try to "keep" them in a hive. He did say that it was the best honey he had ever eaten. I've always wanted to find a hive with honey in it to see how good that honey is.
Peleg 0 points 3 weeks ago
Some bumble bees will make honey. My dad said when he was growing up he found a huge bumble bee hive. I think they were in a hollow tree that my dad had to cut down, for some reason. Anyway, he said there was about a quart of honey in the hive. They don't produce as much as honey bees do so they wouldn't be worth it to try to "keep" them in a hive. He did say that it was the best honey he had ever eaten. I've always wanted to find a hive with honey in it to see how good that honey is.