It didn't take long for the bee experiment to take a turn for the worse. The sweet delicious smell of hunny has attracted a bear. We haven't actually seen the bear but something big enough to cary off a 60 pound box of brood and tough enough to sit there and eat it among a swarm of bees has destroyed one of our hives.
We reported it to the government but they didn't deem very interested so now we're electric fence shopping. I assume that in the old pioneer days I would have just got a rifle and killed the bear carving out another little piece of wilderness for humanity but today we must learn to live with our predators. The joys of the 21st century.
Now I'm not for the wholesale slaughter of animals or pro-extinction but from all accounts Ontario is maggoty with black bears. I guess it's like the seal problem and we need to find a commercial use for their carcasses to appease the people living downtown who will never see a sign of either one outside of a trip to the zoo?
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