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<p style="font-size:16px">For my avid readers you may recall a couple of years ago when I was keeping bees and they became very stroppy. They would buzz me in the garden and without giving me a chance to retreat, sting me. This image shows how my reaction wasn't good.</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px">I convinced myself that I needed to give it another try (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/6862" target="_blank">see last year's post</a>). After nearly a year of looking after this colony they have become aggressive and once more I'm concerned about going into the vegetable patch.</p>
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<p>I've been stung twice whilst weeding the vegetables and when weeding near the hive, with a bee suit on they were on me within minutes and stung me twice through my gloves. My hand became swollen. I decided I was not made to keep bees - when the fun stops, stop.</p>
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<p>Thankfully I found a local beekeeper willing to take the hive off my hands and he took them away this morning. He walked up to the sealed box, without a bee suit on, and despite some escapee bees flying around him, he didn't get stung. Within 5 minutes they were in the back of his pickup truck and gone. It must be me they don't like, I don't smell right.</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px">I managed to take off the honey boxes (Supers) and will extract the honey in due course. There are still a few hundred bees left inside however I will get the leaf blower out to clear the last of the bees off.</p>
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<p>This will be the last time I get my own honey. It will have rarity value if nothing else. Now I can focus on the vegetable patch without ducking every time I hear a buzz.</p>
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