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Speaker 2: So we are taking the morning, this lovely spring morning
Speaker 2: here in southern California, and we are talking about life,
Speaker 2: bringing life into your backyard, life onto your property and
Speaker 2: where you just finished up talking to Richard Armerding, my
Speaker 2: good friend from wild Birds Unlimited, and now I want
Speaker 2: to switch the conversation from the birds to the bees.
Speaker 2: And to do that I've got now in studio my
Speaker 2: dear friend Nicole Palladino from bee catchers, Nicole, Good morning
Speaker 2: and welcome home.
Speaker 3: Good morning. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm great, I'm so glad that you're here.
Speaker 4: Me too.
Speaker 2: I love our conversations, always, always, always, So you know,
Speaker 2: we've got a list of things that we've got to
Speaker 2: accomplish for everybody today because and gonna I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna hold us to it. I'm gonna hold our feet
Speaker 2: to the fire. Here. There are four things I want
Speaker 2: to talk about with you today, okay, and if we've
Speaker 2: got time to talk about other things, that's great too.
Speaker 2: Number one, first rule about bees. Bees are not pests. Okay. Second,
Speaker 2: I want to ask you whether b mcgeddon is really over,
Speaker 2: whether colony collapse disorder is done and finished, because nobody's
Speaker 2: talking about it anymore. And if that's the case, what
Speaker 2: is the state of bees right now? Especially in southern California.
Speaker 2: I want our listeners to understand what the spring swarms down.
Speaker 2: The weather's been funky, so we haven't had a lot.
Speaker 2: I haven't noticed any big swarms yet happening in our neighborhood.
Speaker 2: But it's coming. It's going to come, as it always does.
Speaker 2: And as always, people completely must understand what a spring
Speaker 2: swarm is they think they're a hive has taken up,
Speaker 2: you know, a residence in their front of their home,
Speaker 2: in their front yard, in the tree or on the wall,
Speaker 2: or on the fence or wherever. So I want everybody
Speaker 2: to understand what spring swarms are so that they don't
Speaker 2: do the wrong thing with those bees. And then finally,
Speaker 2: I want to make sure you know, bookending this idea
Speaker 2: that bees aren't pests, and they're not. But sometimes bees
Speaker 2: make their home in the wrong place, wrong for them,
Speaker 2: wrong for us. And when that happens, you guys, you
Speaker 2: specifically are uniquely qualified to tell us what should we
Speaker 2: do when it comes to that. So that's where I
Speaker 2: want to go. Okay, all right, So first of all,
Speaker 2: back to it with the couple of minutes we have
Speaker 2: left before we go to break here. Bees aren't pests,
Speaker 2: this is correct. Tell me this.
Speaker 3: They are not.
Speaker 4: They are a very critical part to our ecology, to
Speaker 4: our agriculture, and they are responsible for more than eighty
Speaker 4: percent of our food supply.
Speaker 2: When we say more than eighty percent of our food supply,
Speaker 2: we're talking about the fact that they pollinate these critical
Speaker 2: crops that end up making it into the market with us.
Speaker 2: Is is it just that or is it more?
Speaker 3: It's more.
Speaker 4: It goes into grass fed meats and all the afalfa
Speaker 4: that you're eating with your meat supply. It has to
Speaker 4: do with the health of the soil, the health of
Speaker 4: the air, much more than just all the fruits and
Speaker 4: vegetables that they're pollinating and allowing us to you know, enjoy,
Speaker 4: because without them, we would have things like roots, root
Speaker 4: potatoes and rice and things that you would not be
Speaker 4: able to you know, sustain a population, to feed people with. Right,
Speaker 4: So it's much more. There's an entire circle that they
Speaker 4: fall into as far as making this work. And without
Speaker 4: them we could have a huge.
Speaker 2: Glass okay and now and and regionally, yeah, absolutely, regionally.
Speaker 2: This is not one of those things that we can
Speaker 2: think about in terms of Okay, well, yeah, out there
Speaker 2: in the agricultural we're out there in nature out there
Speaker 2: where it's It's something that I'm hoping that that I
Speaker 2: can really communicate to all of our listening to every homeowner. Yes,
Speaker 2: is that nature is not something that's out there right.
Speaker 2: Nature is something that we are all in right now. Now.
Speaker 2: It may we may have paved streets and concrete curbs
Speaker 2: and driveways. But that's kind of it's really an illusion,
Speaker 2: the sense that somehow we have pushed nature elsewhere from
Speaker 2: where we are. And when it comes to bees and
Speaker 2: bee populations, now that cities are sprawling the way they are,
Speaker 2: the presence of bees in the urban environment is critical
Speaker 2: to bees everywhere period.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 4: Just like you have all of your birds that you
Speaker 4: love and have, the bees are the ones that are
Speaker 4: responsible to pollinate these wild plants that feed the birds exactly.
Speaker 2: They're just part of that chain.
Speaker 4: Small mammals, other insects. Of course, it's all kind of
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 2: So when we come back, we're going to talk about
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you about b mageddon and colony
Speaker 2: collapse and all of that stuff, and we're going to
Speaker 2: figure out where we're at, what's the state of bees
Speaker 2: this year, because it's a little weird right now because
Speaker 2: we're having some unusual weather, and we'll figure it all out,
Speaker 2: all right. I am sitting here with my special guest,
Speaker 2: Nicole Palladino from Bee Catchers. We'll talk about that more
Speaker 2: as well more on bees in your yard when we
Speaker 2: return your home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
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Speaker 2: We're talking all things spring and life in your garden. Yes,
Speaker 2: like I thought this was a show about how to
Speaker 2: fix my garage door. Well we have those moments too,
Speaker 2: we do. No. Our show is called Home, and the
Speaker 2: reason it is is because it follows my approach to
Speaker 2: home design and home construction, architecture and all of those things,
Speaker 2: which is, I would like to think, a very holistic
Speaker 2: approach and a very biophilic approach. You've never heard that
Speaker 2: word before. It simply means a love of all things nature,
Speaker 2: and it is the direction of architecture and home design.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to say moving forward, we are every cutting
Speaker 2: edge architect I know is more and more concerned about
Speaker 2: bringing the outside in, bringing the inside out, and improving
Speaker 2: the way that we recover from the displacement of our homes.
Speaker 2: And when I say displacement, I simply mean this. This
Speaker 2: is a reality. Every creature in nature, when it builds
Speaker 2: its home, displaces some other form of nature. When a
Speaker 2: gopher digs a tunnel under a yard and comes up
Speaker 2: and there's a little burrow, even if it's not somebody's yard,
Speaker 2: if it's out in the middle of a prairie. Soil
Speaker 2: is displaced, roots are displaced, plants are displaced. It is
Speaker 2: the nature of all living things to displace other living things.
Speaker 2: And human beings don't need to feel overwhelmingly guilty about
Speaker 2: the fact that we build shelters for ourselves and when
Speaker 2: we do that, we displace nature. But unlike the other
Speaker 2: creatures on this planet, we are exceptionally good at displacing things,
Speaker 2: and we have an exceptional level of hubris when it
Speaker 2: comes to the fact that we just feel like, well,
Speaker 2: we're here and nature can just go over there, and
Speaker 2: that's simply not the case. And so what I want
Speaker 2: from every home design that we work on, every project
Speaker 2: that we're a part of, I encourage homeowners, all, right,
Speaker 2: now that we have displaced some nature with your home,
Speaker 2: how do we bring it back into the yard, the
Speaker 2: surrounding property. How can we reintegrate all those elements? And
Speaker 2: our home stands as an example, our tiny little cottage
Speaker 2: out here in Thousand Oaks stands as an example of
Speaker 2: just that. If you were to walk down our street,
Speaker 2: and I am not exaggerating when I tell you this,
Speaker 2: You're to walk down our street on any given day
Speaker 2: you will hear, you know, some bird song, a little
Speaker 2: bit of this, a little bit of that, and when
Speaker 2: you get in front of our home, you will hear
Speaker 2: considerably more of it. And as you enter our backyard,
Speaker 2: you'll hear even more than that. And that is because
Speaker 2: we haven't just done a backyard, we haven't just planted
Speaker 2: a garden, but we have intentionally created a habitat that
Speaker 2: is both beautiful and functional, habitat for birds, for bees,
Speaker 2: for all kinds of creatures back here. And as a result,
Speaker 2: they literally flock to our home and we gain all
Speaker 2: the benefits of that as well. So that's the kind
Speaker 2: of stuff I'm talking about. And right now we need
Speaker 2: to talk about bees and displacement of bees and the
Speaker 2: state of bees. And sitting across the table from me
Speaker 2: is my dear friend Nicole Palladino, the owner and operator
Speaker 2: of Bee Catchers, a live bee removal service that covers
Speaker 2: all of southern California that all of you need to
Speaker 2: know about. And we'll get to that in just a bit.
Speaker 2: But Nicole, give us the state of bees right now.
Speaker 2: This year. You know what's going on with them? We
Speaker 2: got weird weather and how are we doing?
Speaker 4: So? I didn't think we would be coming back to
Speaker 4: talk about any collapse or issues with a decline in
Speaker 4: bees because we haven't really spoken about it in.
Speaker 3: The last few years.
Speaker 2: Nobody's talking about it right now.
Speaker 4: It seems to be like things have recovered and we're
Speaker 4: doing better. But for twenty twenty five, there are some
Speaker 4: record breaking numbers of colony loss up to about sixty
Speaker 4: to seventy percent that beekeepers are reporting. That is more
Speaker 4: than the forty to fifty percent that is usually reported
Speaker 4: from issues of overwintering, you know, the stress on bees
Speaker 4: and populations dying. We never really see the numbers of
Speaker 4: what happened last year until the year you know that's
Speaker 4: coming in the future.
Speaker 3: And now we're knowing that.
Speaker 4: We are seeing some considerable losses and there are there
Speaker 4: are some reasons for it. You have asicidence, which are
Speaker 4: the neon nicod denies. You have bra mites and diseases,
Speaker 4: habitat loss, yes, change of weather and weather extremes, and
Speaker 4: some you know, industrial agricultural practices that could be much better.
Speaker 4: And so we have a variety of mixture of things
Speaker 4: that are causing this right.
Speaker 2: And a lot of it honestly, honestly is you know,
Speaker 2: this is not to lay this burden on everybody's shoulders.
Speaker 2: A lot of this is just outside of the control
Speaker 2: of like the typical homeowner, right, and so this is
Speaker 2: not like we're not trying to guilt anybody or lay
Speaker 2: So here's my here's my goal. Yeah, is to let
Speaker 2: everybody know how critical the bee is to our lives.
Speaker 2: Number one. Number two, to understand that there are still
Speaker 2: a lot of forces working against bees in urban areas
Speaker 2: all across the United States, including here in southern California.
Speaker 2: So if you understand those two things, then we've come
Speaker 2: a long way. And Third, now, based on that, based
Speaker 2: on this understanding, not that everybody has to go out
Speaker 2: and start picketing or this or that, but based on
Speaker 2: that understanding, individual homeowners to understand when they encounter bees
Speaker 2: on their property that they have the right responds and
Speaker 2: an informed response. So can we do this, Nicole when
Speaker 2: we come back, I want to talk about the spring swarm. Okay,
Speaker 2: B colonies rece themselves every spring, there's a surgeon B
Speaker 2: populations and colonies split and they divide and other certain
Speaker 2: groups of bees from the original colony go looking for
Speaker 2: a new home. Yes, and when that happens. Most people
Speaker 2: I've ever met completely misunderstand that cloud of bees that
Speaker 2: is flying overhead. They completely misunderstand that beard of bees,
Speaker 2: that clump of bees that suddenly just out of nowhere
Speaker 2: showed up in the elm tree out in their front
Speaker 2: yard or on the side of the palm tree, or
Speaker 2: hanging off the fence or wherever that was. Completely must
Speaker 2: understand it, and as a result, at this critical moment,
Speaker 2: they end up calling an extermination company and those bees
Speaker 2: are destroyed. Right at the moment when a bees are
Speaker 2: trying to grow and.
Speaker 4: Reproduce one hundred percent, and they are the most vulnerable
Speaker 4: at that time because people don't understand that they have
Speaker 4: eaten their last meal, they have branched off, they have
Speaker 4: a queen with them with maybe five to ten thousand workers,
Speaker 4: They have no shelter. They are extremely vulnerable, and this
Speaker 4: is the time that we should protect them the most.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, we can find and they are not dangerous
Speaker 2: at that moment.
Speaker 4: They are not dangerous, and generally bees aren't really dangerous
Speaker 4: in general, but this is the time that we could
Speaker 4: really protect them and make a difference in the numbers
Speaker 4: going forward.
Speaker 2: All right, if you have never fully understood what one
Speaker 2: of those clumps of bees or clouds of bees flying overhead,
Speaker 2: what that really means. Go nowhere, because when we come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to explain it to you and give you,
Speaker 2: hopefully open your eyes to what's happening around you at
Speaker 2: that very critical juncture. All Right, you guys, hang with
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Speaker 2: We're talking all things home like we do every weekend,
Speaker 2: every Sunday morning from nine to noon. And yes, I
Speaker 2: spend most of my time talking to you about construction issues,
Speaker 2: design issues, architectural issues. But every spring I set time
Speaker 2: aside so that we can talk about even more important
Speaker 2: things that are happening around us. Because our homes exist
Speaker 2: here on this planet, and they exist in the middle
Speaker 2: of nature. It may not be your definition of nature,
Speaker 2: but it is nature nonetheless, and around us things are happening.
Speaker 2: Important things are happening every year this time of year, springtime. Now, normally,
Speaker 2: by the time I take this show and we're talking
Speaker 2: about bees, swarms are already occurring, and things are already happening.
Speaker 2: But this time around, because the weather's been cold, a
Speaker 2: little damp, a little rainy, a little this, a little
Speaker 2: that the swarms have not stopped. It started popping out
Speaker 2: at the with the same frequency. I'm not saying there
Speaker 2: aren't any out there, but there aren't as many right now.
Speaker 2: It is going to happen. And if you don't understand
Speaker 2: the difference between a swarm of bees and a hot
Speaker 2: then I need you to listen up very carefully to us.
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm sitting here in studio with my dear
Speaker 2: friend Nicole Palladino from the owner and operator of Bee Catchers,
Speaker 2: a live bee removal service. I know no one who
Speaker 2: knows more about bees than Nicole and Nicole our goal
Speaker 2: right now for the next six minutes is to explain
Speaker 2: to people what is happening when they're standing outside and
Speaker 2: they see a cloud of bees move overhead. Are they
Speaker 2: being attacked? Are they is there life at risk? Or
Speaker 2: let's say suddenly they look out the kitchen window and
Speaker 2: see there's a there's a gigantic clump of bees the
Speaker 2: size of a basketball hanging off the oak tree or
Speaker 2: the tree in the front yard or the fence, and
Speaker 2: they're freaking out and they're like, who do I call? Oh,
Speaker 2: my gosh, a hive of bees has made its home
Speaker 2: in my yard. Not true, Not true at all. Explain
Speaker 2: what is going on?
Speaker 4: So we're having every spring, you're going to see where
Speaker 4: bees split. Another queen and a portion of the workers
Speaker 4: will migrate to propagate their numbers and start colonies in
Speaker 4: other places.
Speaker 2: So a colony of bees, a colony, that's the proper
Speaker 2: term for them, a colony of bees. They multiply, and
Speaker 2: so they appoint another queen, and so now there are
Speaker 2: two queens, and one queen takes a portion of that
Speaker 2: high and they head off to form another independent colony.
Speaker 4: Correct, And they need to do that by what we
Speaker 4: call a swarm. So they will leave the colony and
Speaker 4: generally go about three to five hundred feet from where
Speaker 4: they are branching off from. And at this critical time,
Speaker 4: and the queen has not flown in quite some time,
Speaker 4: so she's not as strong or doesn't have as much
Speaker 4: energy as she would because she hasn't taken a flight
Speaker 4: path in a while.
Speaker 2: She's typically the old queen.
Speaker 4: She's typically the older queen that will leave and her
Speaker 4: successor once she's been in the.
Speaker 2: Hive for maybe years, laying the eggs, not flying.
Speaker 4: And now she needs to slow down on her She's
Speaker 4: taken time to slow down and reduce the size of
Speaker 4: her ovaries so that she's not laying eggs right now
Speaker 4: and she's not as heavy in her ovaries aren't as big.
Speaker 4: So she needs to take this flight again. And she's
Speaker 4: protected by her family of daughters, her workers. And so
Speaker 4: what they will do is they will swarm out and
Speaker 4: find a place and it can be really anything.
Speaker 3: They don't discriminate.
Speaker 4: It could be your bicycle, your car, It could be
Speaker 4: you know, your umbrella, trees, bushes, all kinds of things.
Speaker 4: They are coming out just to take a resting spot
Speaker 4: while scalpies go out and look for areas with more shelter.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we call this thing a beard because it's
Speaker 2: a clump of bees. It is not a hive. A
Speaker 2: hive actually has a physical structure to it. There's honeycomb
Speaker 2: they have found, and a hive never, no hive ever
Speaker 2: is built out in the open.
Speaker 3: No, that's not true.
Speaker 4: Okay, because you will have established colonies that maybe are
Speaker 4: high up in a tree somewhere that people don't notice,
Speaker 4: and they can be hanging from a branch. That's probably
Speaker 4: maybe five percent of all colonies.
Speaker 2: Okay, but most hives are because they're trying to protect
Speaker 2: their home. Correct.
Speaker 3: You would see that everywhere if that was true.
Speaker 2: Right, they would just be you know, honeycomb just hanging
Speaker 2: off of trees everywhere. But they're trying to protect their home,
Speaker 2: not just from people, from birds and everything else that
Speaker 2: wants that honey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the temperature because they need to regulate the
Speaker 4: tempt they have to regulate, so they.
Speaker 2: Need to get inside somewhere in some shelters. So that
Speaker 2: clump of bees is not a high It is a
Speaker 2: colony in a very very vulnerable state. And in the
Speaker 2: middle of that pile of bees is the queen. She's
Speaker 2: in there being protected. Yes, and that. And they've taken
Speaker 2: a break and you said earlier, before the break, you
Speaker 2: said they've eaten their last meal. Yes, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: That sounds like a death SiGe.
Speaker 4: I know they have actually filled their bellies with honey,
Speaker 4: and they have and left home, and they left with
Speaker 4: no shelter.
Speaker 2: They don't get to go back.
Speaker 4: Now they're on a house hunt, right, so now they
Speaker 4: have no they don't know where they're going to go yet,
Speaker 4: but the queen isn't going to be the one to
Speaker 4: go and do that because they need to preserve and
Speaker 4: conserve her energy. So scalpes go out and look for
Speaker 4: these areas.
Speaker 2: So scalpees are heading out from there and they're looking
Speaker 2: for ideal, optimal conditions and if they find something they
Speaker 2: think is possible, they'll come back. They'll report back. Yep,
Speaker 2: they talk about it. They can, they really do. There's
Speaker 2: a full on dance and communication process. They are handing
Speaker 2: out samples and pheromoe.
Speaker 4: All directions on where food and water is, how far
Speaker 4: it will be from where they decide to colonize, and
Speaker 4: so that's that you see that cloud in the sky.
Speaker 4: All the years I've been doing this, I've never seen
Speaker 4: a swarm attack anybody. And I've been caught in them
Speaker 4: in the middle of crossing a crosswalk. I've seen people
Speaker 4: I'm driving by and a swarm will come by, and
Speaker 4: somebody's in the street and a swarm will come through.
Speaker 4: And it's scary looking at the moment, yes, but it's
Speaker 4: their way of communicating. If people can understand, it looks
Speaker 4: scary because it's meant to because they're trying to protect
Speaker 4: their queen because if she doesn't survive, they don't either.
Speaker 4: So they're communicating in this flight path. It can be
Speaker 4: very loud looking and you can hear the sound, and
Speaker 4: it's sporadic, but they are in a very controlled environment.
Speaker 4: They're protecting her like a little cyclone, keep her safe.
Speaker 4: So where they do land, they will all kind of
Speaker 4: gather over her and protect her. So now they can
Speaker 4: just relax for a moment and get their bearings and
Speaker 4: start looking where they're going to go.
Speaker 2: So now I've been stung by bees. I keep bees, yes,
Speaker 2: and I'm mildly allergic to beastings, so it's you know,
Speaker 2: the EpiPen, and my mother is is incredibly allergic. I
Speaker 2: mean it's like dangerously allergic. So I want everybody to
Speaker 2: know that. When they to understand that, and I keep bees,
Speaker 2: you know, we've got we have a new colony coming.
Speaker 2: We'll have thirty forty thousand little ladies just a few
Speaker 2: feet away from everything. It doesn't change the number of
Speaker 2: bees in my yard, by the way, because they're forging.
Speaker 2: Radius is huge. But the point is, again, I just
Speaker 2: want to underscore this, that cloud of bees, that swarm
Speaker 2: of bees, the last thing on their mind is attacking anybody.
Speaker 2: They are searching for a new home. And that is
Speaker 2: very different. And people are like, well, but listen, I've
Speaker 2: been attacked by a swarm of bees. Like you haven't
Speaker 2: been attacked by a swarm. If you've disrupted an actual hive,
Speaker 2: you've If you've gotten too close and disturbed or threatened
Speaker 2: an actual hive, then a colony of bees will send
Speaker 2: out a stinging party to like protect themselves. It's a
Speaker 2: like a like an air force base. You're launching a
Speaker 2: squadron of fighters in order to protect the base. Right.
Speaker 2: That is different than you know, fifteen thousand bees flying
Speaker 2: through the air all at one time. That is a swarm.
Speaker 2: They are going to gather somewhere. And here's the critical thing.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what, Okay, we're up against the break
Speaker 2: so cliffhanger literally a cliffhanger hanging on the tree. Yes,
Speaker 2: you see them there they are. Don't answer right now?
Speaker 2: How long are they going to be there? And do
Speaker 2: I need to do anything about it? Well, we're going
Speaker 2: to answer that after.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2: We're talking all things life and living in our yard today.
Speaker 2: That's our special spring program. We've talked about the birds.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here talking with my good friend Nicole old Palladino,
Speaker 2: who is the owner and operator of Bee Catchers. We
Speaker 2: have just a few minutes left. I left you hanging
Speaker 2: because we're talking about spring swarms and they are not hives.
Speaker 2: They are not invading your home. They are not there
Speaker 2: to hurt you in any way, shape or form. Now
Speaker 2: there's this clump of bees hanging off our tree or
Speaker 2: our fence or our umbrella in the backyard. The question, Nicole,
Speaker 2: And it's not that if you do the wrong thing,
Speaker 2: you go out there and hit them with a broom
Speaker 2: or spray them with the hose, you're gonna get them upset.
Speaker 2: But that is not where their heads are at at all.
Speaker 2: They are looking for a new home and that is
Speaker 2: all that is on their mind. There's a queen, an
Speaker 2: aged queen, in the center of that clump. There is
Speaker 2: no structure. That's not a hive. They're not building honeycomb.
Speaker 2: It's it's not where there. There are scouts going out
Speaker 2: back and forth, desperately trying to make the decision about
Speaker 2: where they're going. To go to next, and so here
Speaker 2: we're telling everybody, chill out, chill out now. Critical question,
Speaker 2: how long is that clump of bees going to be
Speaker 2: hanging from my patio or umbrella.
Speaker 3: So it depends.
Speaker 4: They could literally be there an hour, and if they're
Speaker 4: lucky enough to find something that they all agree upon
Speaker 4: and the scouts were really on it and they were
Speaker 4: out working quickly, they could be gone very very soon,
Speaker 4: or it can take them a day or two or three.
Speaker 3: It depends.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you have some super warm weather and the weather
Speaker 4: can change become much more cold in a couple of days,
Speaker 4: and that might hinder their process of finding another place,
Speaker 4: you know, by a day or so. But generally swarms
Speaker 4: will land and rest maybe one to three days before
Speaker 4: they're completely gone. It's like an instantaneous they were there.
Speaker 4: I get calls all the time, this this is here,
Speaker 4: it's fully established.
Speaker 3: How long has it been there? Well, it wasn't there yesterday.
Speaker 4: They can as fast as they show up, are as
Speaker 4: fast as they take off, exactly just like that.
Speaker 2: And I get the same calls because our friends know
Speaker 2: that we keep bees, and they're like, okay, Dan Dane, Dane, Dane, Dane,
Speaker 2: I know there's a hive in my front yard. I'm like,
Speaker 2: really on your tree? Yeah, in the in the tree. No,
Speaker 2: on the tree. I'm like, okay, in the tree. I
Speaker 2: could believe yes, you just noticed it. Okay, there's a
Speaker 2: hollowed out section of a tree. That's like that's kind
Speaker 2: of ideal, right, but no, no, no, there's I can
Speaker 2: see them all they're hanging. I'm like, okay, don't do anything.
Speaker 2: Call me at this time tomorrow if they're still there.
Speaker 2: And now, personally I think I can. Maybe twice i've
Speaker 2: seen a swarm hang out for more than forty eight hours. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that's in my experience, that's been super rare. And
Speaker 2: sometimes I'll get a text or a voicemail because I'm
Speaker 2: in a meeting and it'll be like dan bees bees
Speaker 2: in my yard, And then by the time I actually
Speaker 2: get back to them, they're like, okay, never mind, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gone. So they really are not there to They're
Speaker 2: not going to be there long.
Speaker 4: No, and they're not going to hurt you. They're not
Speaker 4: going to hurt your pets. Think just think for a
Speaker 4: moment when you're nervous about that. But you know in
Speaker 4: your lifetime there are hives all around us everywhere that
Speaker 4: are established. They don't bother us. They're just pollinating, they're forging.
Speaker 4: They're not here to attack your animals. If you get stung,
Speaker 4: it's mostly because people might walk in the flight path
Speaker 4: of a bee or step on a bee. Because bees
Speaker 4: can still sting you even after they die for a
Speaker 4: certain amount of time. It's accidental, you know. But if
Speaker 4: you do something to provoke, of course, you know. But
Speaker 4: this is a critical time. So please leave them in
Speaker 4: their environment, feral, give them the opportunity, enjoy them while
Speaker 4: they're there, Take a few photos, videos, share them with
Speaker 4: your family and friends, you know, post on social media that, look,
Speaker 4: i was just a.
Speaker 3: Lucky recipient of a beautiful swarm that.
Speaker 4: Landed in my backyard, and I've learned that they're not harmful.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give them a little bit of time
Speaker 4: to rest and figure out where they need to go.
Speaker 4: And you can spread information this way and help people understand.
Speaker 4: Don't be nervous and always call and ask these questions
Speaker 4: and I will be more than happy to walk you
Speaker 4: through it. But by the time there's no reason to
Speaker 4: chase swarms, because by the time we get there, they're gone.
Speaker 4: That's how quickly. And I'm honest with people, and I
Speaker 4: could come out and charge you to relocate them.
Speaker 2: But why they're about to relocate them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to go by themselves. They're already out
Speaker 3: the door.
Speaker 2: So I'm just going to couch it. In these terms,
Speaker 2: if you see a swarm of bees hanging somewhere on
Speaker 2: your property, call everybody you know, take video and take photos,
Speaker 2: and stay back away from it and let it be there,
Speaker 2: because you're watching a birth take place. You are literally
Speaker 2: watching an amazing birth take place. A new colony of
Speaker 2: bees has temporarily stopped at your house to say, hey,
Speaker 2: guess what, We're about to go do amazing things for
Speaker 2: this town as soon as we find our new place.
Speaker 4: And they felt they felt good enough to stop close
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 2: Okay, so now we've got we've got just a few
Speaker 2: minutes left. I want to spend the rest of this
Speaker 2: time now talking about what you do, because you're not
Speaker 2: a sponsor of the show, but I talk about you
Speaker 2: every single chance I get, every ever call I ever
Speaker 2: get about bees. If there are situations where bees take
Speaker 2: up residents on our property in places like eves or
Speaker 2: in an attic space, or in a chimney or you
Speaker 2: know you places where they shouldn't be and places where
Speaker 2: we don't want them to be. These are hives where
Speaker 2: structures are being built and a colony is going to
Speaker 2: live when that happens. If we see walk outside and
Speaker 2: we notice, oh my gosh, there are bees flying in
Speaker 2: and out of that little hole in the screen in
Speaker 2: my attic, now what do we do?
Speaker 4: Okay, So if you see the bees are flying and
Speaker 4: out of your fence, eve of a roof, a hole
Speaker 4: in your wall, it could be the area smaller than
Speaker 4: the size of a dime that an entire colony can
Speaker 4: come into and establish in the soffitt of your roof
Speaker 4: wall voids. If that happens, then all a live be
Speaker 4: removal company. This is where we come out and do
Speaker 4: free inspections. Use some thermal imaging, see where the bees are.
Speaker 4: And that's where the bees that you see flying on
Speaker 4: the outside are just forging bees. It's less than one
Speaker 4: percent of the colony because all the other bees stay
Speaker 4: inside and they all have jobs based on their age.
Speaker 4: So inside the queen is laying eggs, They are tending
Speaker 4: to the to the babies, They are turning pollen and
Speaker 4: nectar into honey. They got a whole thing going on
Speaker 4: in there. But you if you leave them, they will
Speaker 4: continue to grow and grow and grow in there. So
Speaker 4: you don't want to leave them in structures like that
Speaker 4: one because it can attract other things that are attracted
Speaker 4: to that honey as a food source. You sometimes honey
Speaker 4: can attract moisture, so it can ferment at times and
Speaker 4: cause mold issues, especially when people are killing the bees
Speaker 4: and leaving an entire colony to rot. Those are the
Speaker 4: times where you can have a lot of issues with
Speaker 4: honey and mold issues.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's critical. Let me just underscore that real quick.
Speaker 2: Be removed. When you guys come out, you do live
Speaker 2: be removal. You don't kill the bees, you rehome them. Yes,
Speaker 2: an the entire car, and you remove all of the structure,
Speaker 2: all the honey, all of the comb everything. Because if
Speaker 2: you just kill bees, if you call a pest control
Speaker 2: company and they come out and they're like, all right,
Speaker 2: we're going to kill the bees, you just killed the bees.
Speaker 2: Number one, we've destroyed a colony unnecessarily. Number two, it's
Speaker 2: not going to cost you less than you guys coming
Speaker 2: out and now We've got all this stuff that's unregulated
Speaker 2: now by bee activity, unmaintained honey moisture, wax, all of
Speaker 2: this stuff melting inside, all of that's there's no bees
Speaker 2: to feed the baby, there's no there's no bees to
Speaker 2: take care of it all. There's no bees to maintain it,
Speaker 2: and now it causes a structural issue with the house.
Speaker 2: So you want everything removed correct, Everything is removed, properly cleaned. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's treated. We use eco friendly treatments that are chrysanthemum
Speaker 2: based to neutralize the smell of pheromone which is very strong.
Speaker 2: Because we don't want to try bees back to that location.
Speaker 2: We don't want another colony saying hey, hi, hey, this
Speaker 2: place smells great.
Speaker 3: Yeah you're listing.
Speaker 2: We found.
Speaker 3: Exactly the bls.
Speaker 4: So yes, we want to get it all cleaned out
Speaker 4: and we take care of everything from start to finish
Speaker 4: for you, one stop shop. The bees are saved, relocated.
Speaker 4: We uh take great pride in what we do. This is,
Speaker 4: you know, our life's work. And then we get everything
Speaker 4: repaired for you too, so you don't have to call
Speaker 4: somebody else to come in to repair your roof, your wall.
Speaker 4: You're stucco you're sighting, you're fencing. All work is guaranteed,
Speaker 4: so we try to make it as easy as possible
Speaker 4: and affordable. You know, help the bees, and also when
Speaker 4: you kill them, you're spreading super toxic pesticide that is airborne,
Speaker 4: you know, to you and your family. So it's another
Speaker 4: thing that.
Speaker 2: That's a whole other thing. I wish we had time
Speaker 2: to talk about the big I know, all right, you
Speaker 2: serve us all of southern California except San Diego, Okay,
Speaker 2: So how do people get.
Speaker 4: A hold of You can visit us on our web
Speaker 4: site at bcatcherssocol dot com. So you can also call
Speaker 4: toll free eight sixty six five four four zero zero
Speaker 4: seven four and locally. I can always be sent a text,
Speaker 4: a video. It's super easy, always reachable at eight one
Speaker 4: eight four four eight two one four nine. You call,
Speaker 4: ask questions, you just need some advice, whatever it is.
Speaker 4: I'm always here to help. We're available twenty four hours
Speaker 4: a day. And yeah about it. Social media, Facebook, B Catcher, Zing, TikTok, Instagram.
Speaker 2: You're all over the place. Yeah, be Catchers socol dot com,
Speaker 2: Becatchers soo cal dot com. Nicole, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for being here.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate it. Always such a pleasure to see
Speaker 4: you and them you again.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, y'all, when we return, we're gonna go.
Speaker 2: We talked to birds bees. Now we're kind of talk
Speaker 2: trees with a certified arborist, Bob Loft. We will do
Speaker 2: that right after we get some news. You are listening
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