{"id":1513,"date":"2016-07-01T23:56:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T04:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2016-07-01T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T04:56:41","slug":"rockwall-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"Rockwall Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

This colony looks to have been here for several months – from the comb – I’d say they probably were an EARLY spring swarm that moved in.<\/p>\n

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The bees had entry to a joist space over this porch area.\u00a0 They have grown substantially in numbers since the homeowner noticed them.<\/p>\n

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Once the lower trim and first board were removed (whole boards across for this removal – no cutting of the boards – by request of the homeowner) the joist where the bees were was located.\u00a0 The boards are tongue and groove cedar planks – and great care and attention was required to not break the fitting to each other – so that it would look right when re-installed.<\/p>\n

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They wound up having comb that reached up to 4-board heights.\u00a0 (sorry – no pics of the whole comb).\u00a0 These bees were of VERY good demeanor, and should be a great bee-yard addition.<\/p>\n

After the bee removal – the void space was filled on ALL the joist spaces to about 3′ tall – across the whole porch.<\/p>\n

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And finally – the boards were put back into place, and the trim board replaced – but nailed down tightly to prevent future intrusion by bees.<\/p>\n

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This colony looks to have been here for several months – from the comb – I’d say they probably were an EARLY spring swarm that moved in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The bees had entry to a joist space over this porch area. They have grown substantially in numbers since the homeowner noticed them.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Once the lower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1512,"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":[98,15,104,107],"tags":[590,589,500,591],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping","category-harmony-hollow-apiaries","category-rescue","category-texas-master-beekeeper","tag-cedar-planks","tag-porch-bees","tag-rockwall","tag-tongue-and-groove","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Img_2076_sm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}