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Do not attempt to savage me with your bill
as I put you in your crate at night,
you obnoxious little bird.
If you did not pick fights with the other ducks,
you would still be staying with them.
as I put you in your crate at night,
you obnoxious little bird.
If you did not pick fights with the other ducks,
you would still be staying with them.
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Date: 2015-05-04 07:19 am (UTC)You will sting my gloves
as I block up your hive,
you mean little bees.
If you did not sting my neighbors
you would be staying in my backyard.
- from 3 hours ago. It's weird: the hive next to it is mellow, and is staying (for now). This one's just gotten meaner and meaner.
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Date: 2015-05-08 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-08 07:12 am (UTC)Hives get "protective" when they don't have a queen, or when they're not taking in nectar (because that's the time for other hives to try to rob them). I think that when I split the hive, the queen was transferred to the new hive, and the original hive tried to make a new queen (which is normal) but something went wrong so it was queenless for a month. Finally I bought a new queen and installed her a week ago... it should have made them nice again... if anything they got worse.
Sunday they chased us out of our backyard, and I called Mike to take the hive away ASAP, and went to warn our neighbors to stay out of their yard that night... and learned one of them had already been stung two days ago. They were really nice about it, and I gave them a jar of honey, but... yeah, I should have been even more proactive. I'll be keeping a closer eye on my remaining hive. If I can't walk near it unprotected, out it goes.
Chris