yes, it is very possible. In fact alot of people do just that. Your bees may die out but in a good swarm year a swarm will move back in and replenish the hive. The problem that you will have in your area is africanized bees, which wave invaded Florida. You will need to become some what of a beekeeper to handle them and make sure that you don't create a safe haven for dangerous bees.

I can't help you with the bees, but I can help you post a pic!!! Go to photobucket.com and register. You have to register, but it is free. Then you upload your photos. Copy the HTML code (3rd one down) and paste it in your 'message.' It'll look like code, until you click 'preview message.' Good luck with the bees and look forward to your pics :) Christy

Well, yuck, that's one of my least favorite things to find dead in the garden. My latest sighting was the first leaf-footed bug of the season. It wasn't in my garden. It was on the native plum fruit. I reached out with a pair of scissors to cut it in half, but it saw them coming and quickly fell into the tall grass in the pasture next door, as our plum trees grow right along the fence line. Maybe I'll get that leaf-footed bug another day, hopefully before it moves to the tomato plants. We haven't had all that many garden pests yet, and a lot of the ones that prey specifically on cool-season crops never showed up. Caterpillars are really starting to show up now, and the number of baby grasshoppers is scary. The big thing I'm seeing tons of is spider mites, both in the fields and in the garden. I gues one reason there's so many in the garden is because the fields are full of them. I saw some vetch plants underneath the native plums that are totally bleached out in color already due to the spider mites. I guess we can blame all the early heat for the really robust herd of spider mites everywhere. I had noticed spider mites on the bush bean plants, but the bush beans have been producing forever and are slowing down now so I'm thinking of yanking them out before the spider mites can spread and find the pole beans and southern peas.

We had a nest of the little suckers in the kitchen wall earlier this summer. I couldn't figure out why I kept finding wasps in the kitchen but chalked it up to them coming in through open doors. One morning I was outside watering plants and saw one crawl into the pipe that functions as a drain for the water heater that is under one of the kitchen cabinets. My husband blocked the opening with some wire mesh and they managed to chew through it so he then capped the pipe. They finally stopped getting into the kitchen, so I guess the nest eventually died. The area where the water heater is blocked by an access wall, but they must have been small enough to squeeze through the area where the wall met the inside of the cabinet. Once we found the nest, we had an explanation of why there were so many wasps hanging around the deck and why they seemed more aggressive than usual. It also explained the sting hubby received between his toes when all he was doing was standing out on the deck minding his own business. Hope the horse is feeling better, Bob. A few years ago, one of our dogs got into a nest and was stung several times. They would not let go and I was trying to brush them off of her when she got away from me. She ran all the way to the neighbor's house, which is over half a mile away, before she stopped running.