I mean, I had been a beekeeper for so many years. There was just something that I could not believe. However, in this case, there was not one attacker to be found. It was hard for me to believe that someone like that could happen without the bees being able to mount any sort of a defense because if they’re attacked by another predator, most of the time - or I think that most of time - all the time they’re able to mount a defense and kill a certain amount of the attackers. There were just bees chopped up left and right. I open up the beehive, and I looked inside, and it was just more carnage inside the beehive. mike bakerĮach of their heads has been removed from their bodies. And as I looked at the ground where all the dead bees were, I noticed that they were all decapitated. There were thousands of bee bodies strewn all over the ground in front of the beehive. ted mcfallĪnd as I drove closer, I noticed that those were bee bodies. And I thought, oh, I wonder what that is? mike bakerĪnd before he even gets out of the truck he can see that something’s wrong. And as I drove into the bee yard, I could see from afar kind of a dark shadow in front of one of my beehives. And then I put everything in my pickup truck, and I went to the bee yard. So I went and I got my smoker and my bee equipment, my bee suit. I got all my stuff together, and I was just planning to go do a typical hiving inspection. So one morning in November of last year in northern Washington state Ted McFall gets out of bed, and he’s going to go check on his hives. And I know that maybe that’s a little bit of a some kind of romanticized idea of beekeeping, but I feel like maybe they do kind of recognize me and know, OK, this guy again. So sometimes I do feel like I have thousands of eyes staring at me at once whenever I’m going through their home. Yeah, and it is kind of funny whenever I’m going through the hive because a lot of times I do see all their little eyes all lined up along the top bars staring at me. I know that they don’t understand what I’m saying, so I guess really it’s more of talking to myself. Or I’m like, is a predator messing with you guys?īasically I talk to them. I say, hey, what’s going on? Why are you so upset? I say hey, you know, is your queen doing OK? Is your queen here? Because the queen gets sick or something happens to the queen, and that makes them cranky. Whenever they’re cranky, sometimes I talk to them, and they’re trying to sting me, and I do. I’ll puff them with some smoke, which calms them down, and then I just go through the hives and see what each individual colony needs.
So what I’ll do is I’ll just open up the hive.
So on a typical day of beekeeping, I’ll usually wait until around midday. And so I’m very familiar with all things related to bees. I live in the Pacific Northwest, northern Washington, and I am a hobby beekeeper. But maybe we can stop the giant hornets ted mcfall Transcript Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Arrival of the ‘Murder Hornet’ Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Jessica Cheung and Annie Brown with help from Daniel Guillemette and edited by Lisa Tobin We didn’t stop the coronavirus.
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