20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown

Re:20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office du... by exabrial on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:00PM (#26004275)

The ones in the "off seasons" are usually very aggressive from what I've heard. They typically ran away from home to break away from some environmental stress I've been told? I'm not a beekeeper :) Just repeating what I've heard

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Re:20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office du... by lostlogin on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:14PM (#26004459)

This must be somewhere warms and with very mild winters?

NZ is lucky to have fairly easy going bees - this doesn’t mean that they are all friendly, just that Africanised bees are so much worse. There are accounts of them flying into smokers and putting them out. It’s all rather intense.

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Re:20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office du... by exabrial on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:09PM (#26008917)

Kansas in the midwest. Depends on what you mean by "Mild" haha. We had snow in October, followed weeks later by 90degf temps. Very wide swings.

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