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... Honey bees in my house wall cavity and bats in my loft.

I'm like a cross between Beorn and Batman.

BATBEORN!

Fear my twice baked honey cakes all you evil-doers of Gotham!







That is all.

As long as you have no rats in the walls just in the cellar you'll be OK

I'd come take your bees and put them in a hive, if I wasn't 4200 miles away.

When we had the same thing (the bees) happen to us a few years back, a very nice gent came and sucked them all out to go live on a farm. Fun stuff.

When I was young, I've seen a hive migration. It's very impressive and very noisy...

Been reading up on Honey Bees, you know, considering they are now lodgers. Amazing little creatures. I think their industry and hard working behaviour is what attracts people to them. It's really strange; I had one crawling on me last night, don't know how long for, put after the initial 'WTF' moment I was quite calm and moved it outside so it could fly off. Anything like a spider or wasp doing the same would have been met with blind panic on my side and death on theirs.

I've been talking to a beekeeper about them and he was telling me how they hydrate their honeycombs by spraying water all over with their wings if the nest is getting too hot - which is what I can hear sometimes when it's a particularly warm day if I put an ear up to the inside wall where they are living.

I'm seriously thinking about keeping a hive at the end of our garden once we've got all the building work out of the way. Love these little guys. Well, should really say girls as they mostly are (only the drones are male and they only account for around 100 of the bees in a hive of 10,000 for instance). Yes, after talking to the apiarist, watching a couple of videos and reading stuff on the internet, I now consider myself an expert on the subject, naturally!

Now go for your own honey-cakes, Rich!
Also let your hair and beard grow long, and show a face of disgust and a growl everytime someone says "wolves".

Falenthal wrote:Now go for your own honey-cakes, Rich!

It's more than crossed my mind. I have a great recipe for a wet orange cake and I think just substituting it with honey would lead to great results!

Falenthal wrote:Also let your hair and beard grow long, and show a face of disgust and a growl everytime someone says "wolves".

Rich H wrote: It's more than crossed my mind. I have a great recipe for a wet orange cake and I think just substituting it with honey would lead to great results!

You could make them for our TOR holiday at the Shire House... if we ever get around to making that happen.

I have 3 hives. It is a fun hobby.