Other Beekeepers putting Bees near your yards

[Bradley_Bee]

Wow, you guys are good. Well, guess I have a phone call to make soon.

[David LaFerney]

Sorry - I guess I just skimmed right over that part.

[dmpower]

yup - even the age of his wife 40-45 years old. Nothing is a secret with the internet!!

[soupcan]

Rather Odd that the ID is with a piece of paper???
And only stapled on the hives to boot!!!!!

[Bradley_Bee]

I thought the same thing. and it was on about every ten other hives. not on everyone. very strange.

Rather Odd that the ID is with a piece of paper???
And only stapled on the hives to boot!!!!!

[sqkcrk]

You owe it to us to let us know how things turned out.

[Roland]

Did you look to see if someone else's name was under the paper? Just a "crazy" thought.

Crazy Roland

[Riverratbees]

Have the landowner bring trespassing charges at your local sheriffs office. They will deliver a warrant to his door and have his day in court. If nothing else a small fine and a incovenience to boot. The land owner can make some easy money.

[sqkcrk]

Did you look to see if someone else's name was under the paper? Just a "crazy" thought.

Crazy Roland

Not that crazy.

I think you should work them like your own. Inspect them for disease, treat them for mites, if that's what you normally do, put supers on them. Consider them a gift. They aren't just near your yard, from what I have seen, they are in your yard. Shoot, as far as that goes, staple another sign over the first one w/ your name and address on it. Possesion is 9/10s of the Law, from what I have heard.

[Lburou]

The land owner has standing in court, he should make the contact. That way, you are not in the middle and the hive owner will know where he stands. The fact you have hives close by is irrelevant to the owner's legal rights.

[Nantom670]

The white pages show the same thing as JRG13 and says his age is about 54. I would not think that someone with this many hives would just place them somewhere without approval. I am waiting to hear the final outcome. Someone may stolen his hives or something else, let's not jump to a conclusion just yet. After all, one phone call may solve the mystery. And its doesn't seem likely that he would have his name and address if he was trying to be deceptive.

[rtoney]

After 4 days I'm wondering what the phone call turned up.

[scdw43]

The landowner should make the call or the sheriff of the county.

[Skinner Apiaries]

good thing gas prices are low.

[JohnK and Sheri]

Those of you finding it hard to believe a beekeeper would drop a load of bees with no permission are either inexperienced or lucky. Not too far in the distant past it was not uncommon for loads to appear uninvited out of the blue, maybe staying just until the next pollination job, or maybe until a particular bloom in the area was over.. Sometimes they leave no identification on the hives at all.
MBeck, your post made me laugh, I can tell you know of what you speak, that is exactly what you hear, and by the time the thing is sorted out, it's time to move on to the next pollination job, or another bloom or whatever.
It is no accident they make it difficult to contact them. After a week tracking down a phone number, whoever finally answers the phone has to talk to the crew chief who has to talk to the driver who is out in the Dakotas and wont be back til next week yadda yadda. They don't call you back so you call again and have to explain the same thing to someone else who has to contact someone else and not call you back again.

We had a problem with a big migrator 10 or so years back; multiple semi drops all over our and surrounding beeks' area, some directly across the road from established yards. We had one driver that went to the next door neighbor of our landowner and asked if they could put "a couple beehives" in their back pasture, then brought in a semi that night, when the landowner was expecting two hives. It cost him 3 weeks of time tracking them down and a dead cow to get those bees gone,
by calling the state inspector who ran them out. It did take a couple/few weeks, which was probably what the migrator planned to begin with.
Sheri

[Mbeck]

It was just a lucky guess, I'm far from commercial.
I'm sure many landowners involved in agriculture would be sympathic to a sad story about dumb help and equipment breaking down. Mistakes happen I had a landowner give me the wrong adress.
I don't think they play that in tupelo area, only rumors but I've heard stepping on toes there doesn't fly.

[sqkcrk]

Sheri,
Did you notice that the hive in the picture wasn't palletized. Someone set off a whole load of hives by hand? People still do that?

[JohnK and Sheri]

Mbeck, you must just be a keen observer of human behavior, in general.

Mark,Yeah, I did see that. While I can't think of anyone I know who isn't palletized either 4 or 6 way, there are some who use boom lifters (or whatever they call those things) and yes, some still do it by hand. I was talking to someone just the other day who had fairly big numbers he moved by hand, but can't remember who it was.
Sheri

[Mtn. Bee]

I just saw a commercial beek unloading about 60-80 hives by hand, with a helper that is but the colonies were what looked like singles with a deep empty super on top. (at least that is what I figured since they weren't using a loader)
They were on 4-way pallets but maybe another truck was coming with the loader and hadn't arrived yet??

The com. types do that around here a lot, bring in loads from another state and drop them till they are needed again and then they don't have to feed if it would be needed where they are located.

[EastSideBuzz]

Well, apparently someone caught wind and now a guy from 300 miles away has placed a few hundred hives about 100 feet away from my yard.

There is a Georgian (Russian) guy doing that here in WA. He has been putting down blocks of 100 hives near others and clobbering their honey take to hold them until almonds.