{"id":1174,"date":"2016-03-06T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2016-03-06T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:29:07","slug":"water-valve-box-honeybee-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Water Valve Box &#8211; Honeybee removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the homeowner, honeybees have occupied this water valve box for the last 2-3 years.\u00a0 The comb was dark, and a bit tough to cut &#8211; so that supports the time-frame that she estimated.<\/p>\n<p>The valve box was about 18&#8243; deep into the ground, so the comb was DEEP.\u00a0 The queen looks to be well-mated as she has a solid laying pattern of eggs and brood.\u00a0 Drone comb was also found in this hive.\u00a0 The hive was very populated, and I suspect was about to swarm, since there were multiple swarm cells that were found along the bottom edges of the comb &#8211; however, as yet &#8211; none of those cells had eggs or larvae in them.<\/p>\n<p>No tags were taken today from these great bees!\u00a0 I look forward to having them in the apiary!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0m9BpK9puA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the homeowner, honeybees have occupied this water valve box for the last 2-3 years. The comb was dark, and a bit tough to cut &#8211; so that supports the time-frame that she estimated.<\/p>\n<p>The valve box was about 18&#8243; deep into the ground, so the comb was DEEP. The queen looks to be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,15,104,105,107],"tags":[70,528,529],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping","category-harmony-hollow-apiaries","category-rescue","category-swarms","category-texas-master-beekeeper","tag-honeybees-2","tag-valve-box-bees","tag-water-meter-bees","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Img_1899zoom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-iW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}