That little red box on the dash? That’s a young, mated queen bee, and her pheromones are so strong, this poor Texas beekeeper’s vehicle is filled with wild neighboring bees that can’t resister her. How will he empty his car? Glad it’s not me! 🌱 🐝
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They have a queen and hive likely, but the scent of pheromone in young queens is stronger… you could certainly scoop them up but then you’d have to merge them or or sugar water spray them (which only works if nectar flows are really prolific).
They can grab the box. They can sweep the bees off bare handed (o work bare handed, in shorts) g as the DNA isn’t defensive. Smoke is a toxin to you & bees, it puts bees into fight-flight so they suck up honey & get distracted… no honey here… I would try to drive with all windows down.
I was thinking I’d sweep them off, leave mom outside the car in the shade, then drive fast with the windows down. And yeah, they have some pretty defensive DNA for real, no racist bees tho surprisingly for that state. No facist queen bees either. Better than we can all say.
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Free bees.
At least that's where my head goes, why move the bees when they will eventually move themselves (Though admittedly i have no clue)