By now, most beekeepers have heard that Morgan Freeman is a beekeeper. Morgan Freeman is incredible. Whether you enjoyed him driving over Miss Daisy or just gaining redemption after Shawshank, you likely admired the way the man can perform.
I’ve long appreciated Freeman as an actor, but really began to appreciate him when I started watching his series of science documentaries on Discovery, the astrophysics lectures called Through the Wormhole. Respect for the actor is deep – he was born in Tennessee, grew up in rural Mississippi, yet became comfortable in Hollywood. To top it off, at age 65 he earned his pilot’s license and he flies a Cessna 414. He’s now 79. He decided to become a beekeeper a couple years ago, at age 76. And it’s not just a one-hive gimmick – he’s got about 40 hives on his Mississippi farm.
Here are a couple of clips of Freeman the beeman on TV:
More bee talk, a couple nights ago:
Bad Beekeeping Blog 
Yay 🙂 Impressed that he doesn’t wear a suit.
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He’s brave, but I’m hoping he’s started using a smoker.
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Can I come over there to see your bees I like keeping bees my self I am in star la.
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You bet, but it’s -29 here in Calgary tonight and the bees aren’t flying. July might be warmer with more to see in the hives.
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i have an idea for keeping honey bees safe from the murder hornets that i have not seen being used, built a chicken wire enclosure around the hives that allow the size of honey bees but not the size of the much larger hornets
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Hi Edward,
Since this wasp is new to North America, you might be the first to think of this here. In Japan, some do use wire netting. I hear it’s a hassle to keep it from stretching out of perfect shape and keeping it tight to the ground with no gaps, but it sounds like it would work.
If the hive has no cracks or holes in it, something designed to simply cover entrances should keep the wasps out of the hive, too.
Neither method would stop these big wasps from picking off the bees that are in flight.
But your solution might help a lot. Thanks.
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