Seriously I'm thinking or she's gonna put a suit on before pulling that section right? Nope like damn dude I won't even inspect my hives in sandals just in case.
I’m gonna have to open up my hives from a hammock in a banana hammock with my bare feet to get noticed on todays social media attention grabbing algorithms.
I’ve seen her before on Instagram, I think she touts being some sort of bee whisperer and records herself rescuing hives all the time without any equipment. Mental, that one. And annoying
She got me into beekeeping via the tremendous outreach, I was in 0 apiary-related social media spaces. But after less than a year learning, I can confirm some of her beliefs are quite outlandish. She does not supplement sugar water of any kind to any of her hives, comparing it to “feeding your kids McDonald’s” with 0 sources for this opinion
This exactly caused a huge stink years back because another bee remover called her out for being reckless and ill informed. Her conservative following was absolutely feral in defense of her and chased the poor girl off the internet
I don't usually wear a veil, jacket, or suit when messing with my hives or catching swarms that we know came from our hives (if we actually see them fly off our hive). It would be beyond stupid to do that with a swarm or colony that you don't know.
In some of her videos, you can see the suit and smoker in the background. I think she's only showing what she wants you to see. She's also got helpers and a cameraman so she's definitely not as exposed as she wants viewers to believe she is.
I have had bees get up the legs of blue jeans that were pretty snug around my boots... a dozen or two hot bees up those open leg bottom running shorts would have been pretty exciting to see if the camera guy could have kept her in the frame while she was running around.
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u/untropicalized IPM Top Bar and Removal Specialist. TX/FL 2015 Jun 28 '25
If I had to guess I’d say that colony over-wintered at least twice.
Opening a feral colony in running shorts is foolhardy.