Beehive

We had some guests in our balcony for a week before the pest control smothered it with pesticides killing them and wasting all the honey in the hive. It just appeared one evening between the time we went out and came back. We thought the wooden wind chime on the balcony kept these bees away all these days, but that was not to be. Our neighbors had multiple beehives in their balcony before and we were wondering what kept them off ours.



By next morning it had become bigger with bees jostling around for space. It looked really majestic. I tried in vain to see if any beekeepers would be available to suck the honey. Beekeeping is considered to be a village or forest profession, not for the urban folks. But it looks like everyone uses pesticides to clean it up. But the bees and monkeys keep coming at regular intervals. It talks a lot about the encroachment that humans have been indulging in - this place is just 10KM away from the Bannerghatta Forests and that would explain the bees and the monkeys.



So after a week the pest control landed up and finished them off and it did have some solid honey and all the lovely honey bees were smothered to ground. The beehive looks pretty neat with very symmetrical hexagonal boxes. I think we are loosing a lot of honey and unnecessarily killing the bees instead of doing a bit of beekeeping. I need some help to see if this is something doable in the urban localities.