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Müllerin schrieb:

Oh, bee venom is good for rheumatism...

He said that too. 🙂

So the father of my girlfriend hasn’t been stung enough. He has rheumatism and used to be a beekeeper.

How did you get the beekeeper?

My neighbor is a forester and gave me the contact.
If I hadn’t been able to reach them, I would have called the fire department, as they can also help mediate in situations like this.

Ah, okay, I wouldn't have known either.

The beekeeper benefits from it as well (a new colony).

During the construction phase, we had wild bees nesting on a soil edge of the excavation pit. A future neighbor "kindly" called the local authority to report this. An appointed beekeeper came without our knowledge and collected the bees at our expense, then released them in a forest nature reserve.

Well... it cost us 350 EUR. The bees are a specially protected species. If we had removed them ourselves (and got caught), the maximum fine could have been 50,000 EUR 🙄 Some kind of sand bee. The beekeeper included the species identification with the invoice. I told him that if I have to pay for this nonsense, I at least want to know who was occupying my excavation pit :p
A beekeeper friend confirmed this to us back then and said he could have captured and relocated the bees for us without any cost.

Once I found out what rare creatures the beekeeper had collected, I was quite pleased!
But the nice neighbor could at least have informed us beforehand. After I told him how much this little adventure cost us, his face just dropped. I think he thought he was going to get a medal from the local authority for reporting such rare animals 😀