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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: D Semple on May 05, 2011, 12:02:40 pm

Title: Lesson Learned
Post by: D Semple on May 05, 2011, 12:02:40 pm

Don't work a cold dry swarm thats been stuck out overnight without gloves.

Had two yesterday, after taking about 10 hits to my bare hands on the 1st one I broke down and put gloves on for the 2nd.

(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj72/DSemple/Bees%202011/Christine%20C%20-%20Swarm%20removal/b76dfab0.jpg)

Learned me they did. 

Don

Title: Re: Lesson Learned
Post by: Kathyp on May 05, 2011, 12:17:03 pm

i did one last year and posted the pictures of my gloves.  looked like a prickly bush.   :-D  wouldn't have done it in bad weather but it was on some farm equipment that needed to be used.  probably the nastiest swarm i have ever collected!