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Old 04/21/10, 07:16 AM
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Glendale/E'Town Ky- Free Bees

Anyone keep bees and live near Glendale or Elizabethtown Ky? My husband is working up there again and someone left a hive, along with it's residents, on their lot up there. Neither of us knows bees, but he says there must be hundreds there. He doesn't want to exterminate them, so he asked if i'd see if any of y'all wanted them.
If you do, stop by the Petro in Glendale and ask for Greg. And please post if you pick them up, so noone else makes the trek.

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Old 04/21/10, 10:27 AM
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Bees have been picked up- thanks!
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Old 04/21/10, 10:35 AM
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WOW, that was quick!! Glad to hear that the bees and hive were wanted!! I would have taken them if you were closer!
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Old 04/21/10, 11:35 AM
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He's in Glendale (and thinks it's beautiful- he'd like me to visit there, if I could) and i'm at the farm here in Tennessee. :0)

Neither of us can figure WHY someone dumped the hive at a truck stop, though!
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Old 04/21/10, 11:37 AM
 
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Makes me wonder if someone put them there to collect pollen from somewhwere nearby. Lots of people take there bees to better locations. Not really a good idea to do that uninvitied.
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Old 04/21/10, 11:40 AM
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And out in public, too. I know of a guy in NM near where we lived that moved his colonies around to different areas so the honey would take on the flavor of what grew there. Not feasible without a long drive around here, I guess- but doable in the desert where things change vastly in just a few miles.
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