What a BUZZ!!!

[Big Sky]

We had a heckuva wind storm here last night. It blew over a number of trees, knocked out the power, and some phone lines for a while. One of the trees that blew over was in the city park next to my house. It is a very large cottonwood tree. The interesting thing is that it turned out to be mostly hollow. Inside the base of the trunk was a large bee hive. I've never seen anything like this before.

Behive up close.

Bee's clustered together. The wind was blowing so hard not a single bee was in the air. I think they were just holding on for dear life.

Another close up of the bees in the part of the tree that was still standing.

The part of the tree that remained standing.

Here is a photo of me next to the fallen tree just to give a size perspective to how really big this tree/hive was. I always find nature interesting but between the forces of nature (wind) and the beehive it was a most interesting evening around here yesterday. Never seen anything like this behive before.

 

[Muskeez]

Very cool, they have obviously been working on that for a number of years.

 

[What Map]

Very interesting. Eat any of the honey?

 

[Big Sky]

Yeah actually I did try it. Tasted like old cottonwood tree.

 

[Bambistew]

Pretty neat.

Are there any bee keepers in the area? If so they may be interested in "relocating" the hive to one of their boxes. Odds are not good that the hive will make it through the winter.

A friend of mine is a keeper, he can talk for days on them. I didn't know much about them, but find them fascinating.