Pest Control Company Takes Responsibility for Declining Bee Population

This week Bill Romine, owner of Paradise Fibers and Yarn in Spokane, helped save a swarm of wild bees from extermination after a call from a local exterminator. But why would anyone risk life and limb to save bees?

Spokane, Washington (PRWEB) October 31, 2012

Bill Romine is a local business owner in Spokane, he raises sheep and among other things, fruit trees. To have great fruit trees you need bees and noticed there really werent exactly an abundance of bees around. Honey bees in general havent been doing well recently with all the pesticides and other hurdles for them in todays modern world.

Bill contacted the local pest control and fire departments to be alerted of any calls of problem honey bees in the area. He soon started getting calls from all over the city, everything from a swarm in a tree to bees living in the wall of a residential home. It's no wonder there are a shortage of bees..

Bees are amazing but sometimes make some strange choices. Bees typically will build a hive inside a tree or other sheltered location and survive, hidden through the winter eating the honey theyve stored up. Bill received a strange call about a swarm that decided to build their hive around a bush and better yet, next to a busy strip mall. This unique "bush hive" they built over the summer unfortunately would not protect them from the winter cold even if the mall hadnt called the exterminators.

He headed out to the busy strip mall with his bee suit and smoker and carefully clipped the hive out of the bushes. This is essentially the beekeepers equivalent of separating Siamese twins with maniacal Alfred Hitchcock seagulls dive bombing you. He then carefully transported the large hunk of hive dripping with honey to his custom natural hive he had prepared out at his farm. Although there wasn't enough honey for Bill to harvest any, he takes pride in knowing the bees are still alive and still contributing to the ecosystem...the honey will come next year.

Bill is known around Paradise Fibers as Ulee from the movie involving bee keeping, Ulees Gold starring Peter Fonda. If Spokane bees get into trouble they can count on Bill to come to the rescue. Bill is officially becoming a bee hoarder out at the farm but A&E TV has yet to create the reality show.

Paradise Fibers has been in business selling knitting yarn and spinning fiber since 1995. Paradise Fibers has a full featured wool shop with everything from spinning wheels to weaving looms and beyond. The company is family owned and operated and consists of a sprinkling of Romine family members, some amazingly dedicated fiber junkies and 1 boy aspiring to be a stunt man.

By: Travis Romine Fiber Wrangler

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Pest Control Company Takes Responsibility for Declining Bee Population