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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: BeeMaster2 on May 20, 2018, 12:56:19 am
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While I was doing a cutout this afternoon I received a call from the same junkyard that I removed a small bunch of bees from last year. The swarm had actually left. Not this time. Yea.
Look under the right side of the hood of the red truck. It is a large swarm. I will be putting it in a 2 medium hive with one of the boxes full of drawn frames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKRrfV3fUvk
Almost all of the bees went into the box. I closed it up right away and then put it into the truck. I will be going back tomorrow to vacuum up the rest of the bees.
Jim
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Perfect setup. Slam the hood and hit the road!
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:cheesy:
A couple of bees must have been hurt because 2 of them stung me on my right hand. I walked away from them for a couple of minutes and then they were calm as can 🐝.
Jim
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:cheesy:
A couple of bees must have been hurt because 2 of them stung me on my right hand.
After you got stung did you put a glove on that hand? That is when I wear gloves to cover up the pheromone from the sting. I also think it is interesting that you are not protected but they choose to sting your hand.
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Ace, I have only used gloves, other than my first year, once and that was for removing honey from a very mean hive. I only had to do that once. Once I started using the 10 minute/30 second smoke rule even they calmed down.
In this case I just rubbed the smell off and kept on working. They were very calm.
I just came back from the salvage yard. I vacuumed the rest of the bees up. I will weigh them shortly but I think I got another 2 pounds of bees. They were also very calm even though they were queen less all night
I put the main swarm in a their hive box this morning. They had built a 6? by 3? piece of comb and the queen lauded some eggs in it already.
Jim
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Awesome!