From jflofland at ucdavis.edu Wed Jul 4 21:00:55 2007 From: jflofland at ucdavis.edu (John Lofland) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:00:55 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] [OldNorthBoard] Bees, not yellow jackets on seventh = good news on the urban nature front In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: "Professor" Dennis, Anonymous reports through you are not credible. Could we get a more authoritative assessment? Thanks. Citizen John Lofland >John (and OND all), > The good news is that the swarming hive are honey bees and >not yellow jackets (in the opinion of an experienced bee watcher who >looked at the hive with me a few minutes ago). Because honey bees >are in substantial trouble all around California these past few >years I'm hoping this lively group of bees is undergoing the benign >steps needed to send out a colony hive to thrive in an additional >site. I'm hoping we and the city allow them (encourage them!) to be >successful in doing their bee reproduction thing. > >Dennis > > >At 5:52 PM -0700 7/4/07, John Lofland wrote: >>FYI, attached. I am not sure what, if anything, should be done >>about the situation described. >> >>Having had a nest of yellow jackets in my yard and having read up >>on them as a consequence, I do know that, unlike other nesting >>insects, yellow jackets are reported to be very dangerous at times. >> >>Apparently, they attack in a mass if they are provoked. But, >>perhaps, no one will bother them. >> >>John Lofland >> >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Yllwjkts=Svnth.png (PNGf/ogle) (00128186) >>_______________________________________________ >>ondboard mailing list >>ondboard at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us >>http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/ondboard