Born to be wild Honey

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A.C

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hello
I was wondering if anyone has tried to harvest honey in the wild and how they went about doing so. A while back i tried to smoke the bees out and thus got a good spanking, well lets just say a mighty good one. Fortunately the hive was in an termite mound and i was able to access the honey within. The most delicious wild honey ive tasted in ages. Also has anyone sampled those Sweet ants or honey ants that store honey or nector within thier bellies? On a solo trip out into the sequais i found what looked like a half eaten wolfs front paw. it wasnt eaten per se, rather ripped off. i examined the portion quit thouroughly and saw no signs of knife marks, nor did i see any signs of obsidian related work done on it. that got me quit spooked and i got out with my gritz behind my back. maybe it was bigfoot hehe.
I was looking into using hollow tree trunks as shelter. is that a good idea?
thankz.
 
Back home in the hills, we used to cut an occasional bee tree. We would wait until cold weather when the bees would be too sluggish to sting.
 
Instructions for harvesting wild honey are given in one of Euell Gibbons' books. As I recall it was in "Stalking the Wild Asparagus." He also gives a method of locating the nest.
 
I tried to capture a hive in 20 F weather. Let me just say from personal experience that bees can still fly several feet in sub-freezing weather
before they get too cold to fly, and then they can still crawl and sting even when they can't fly. :) I think that they manage to stay several degrees above ambient in the hive if it gets cold.
Recommend going prepared with netting, gloves, smoke, etc. even in cold weather.
I never tried to just rob a wild hive as you usually would have to cut the tree down to get to it.
 
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