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<\/a>\r\nBee hive in bee tree stob<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nI guess they will relocate,\r\nbut at least they did not get suddenly evicted.\r\n
\r\nThe bee tree was far from the largest of the fourteen big trees down we’ve counted so far.\r\nTwo more were less than a hundred feet away towards the cypress swamp.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\n \r\n \r\nApparently that big oak hit the longleaf pine tree and knocked it down.\r\nBoth were broken off about waist high from the ground.\r\n \r\n \r\nWe have at least fourteen big trees down in just the hundred acres\r\nnear the house, in the big blow Monday, July 12, 2021.\r\nI’m only counting trees more than a foot in diameter,\r\nsome pines two feet diameter breast height (DBH)\r\nwhich are likely at least 50 years old, some maybe pushing 100.\r\nGuess I need to get a pine tree corer and find out.\r\nOr just saw through and count.\r\n \r\nTropical Storm Elsa the week before did not do nearly as much damage.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nThat big oak did not damage the two kayaks by the cypres swamp.\r\nOnly some small branches were on top of the boats.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fortunately, when the bee tree snapped off, it broke above the bee hive. So our pollinating native bees are still humming in and out of there. Their exit used to be on the other side of the tree, but they’re using this new entrance now. Bee hive in bee tree stob I guess they will […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2497,2735,70,6,144],"tags":[210,3196,522,3,23,5,3247,2787,2,427,2760,2803,1045],"class_list":["post-8815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees-2","category-cypress-swamp","category-longleaf","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-weather","tag-bees","tag-boats","tag-cypress-swamp","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-kayaks","tag-longleaf","tag-lowndes-county","tag-oak","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-weather","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"[Bee](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/small\/20210714_122845.jpg\")
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Bee tree stob<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[Bee](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/small\/20210714_122836.jpg\")
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Bee tree<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\nSwamp trees<\/a><\/H4>\r\n
![\"[Pine](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/20210714_122406.jpg\")
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Pine and oak down<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[Oak](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/small\/20210714_122239.jpg\")
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Oak and pine down<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[Oak](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/small\/20210714_122557.jpg\")
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Oak limb snapped<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[Oak](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/small\/20210714_122600.jpg\")
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Oak top shambles<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\nBoats<\/a><\/H4>\r\n
![\"[Climb](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/20210714_122627.jpg\")
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Climb over to kayak<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[Kayak](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/small\/20210714_122629.jpg\")
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Kayak and swamp over limbs<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[Almost](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees\/small\/20210714_122631.jpg\")
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Almost to kayak<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n