Have You Done A Honey Bee Removal?

[Ben Framed]

Have any of you members ever removed, participated in, or witnessed a Honey Bee Colony Removal?  This is not a survey but may be interesting to some of you....
I am placing this short video here which covers a lot of ground without going into detail. It's less than a minute clip. 

Phillip

https://youtube.com/shorts/96pdu2hB-bo?feature=share

[G3farms]

I might do upwards of 20 removals a year, this does not include swarms.

First thing I noticed was that the floor had already been pulled up before the camera was turned on.
I would say this is mostly staged for the camera.

I work most removals with out any protection also, I always let the bees tell me what is needed. Keeping the little black German bees as a kid with your veil covered up and having to light the smoker inside of the car........well a couple of stings is really nothing anymore, just part of the territory. People always ask if I get stung, I ask back if they have ever been swimming, the reply is always "yes", then I ask if they got wet doing it. They seem to understand after that.

[Ben Framed]

>I might do upwards of 20 removals a year, this does not include swarms.

That is awesome!

I have not watched her videos. Short videos are often taken from a longer video and posted for subject interest. It may have very well been staged? Either way, I am hoping it will spark a renewed interest in this section Bee Removal.

Removing bees is how I actually acquired my first hive. Such videos as this sparked my interest.

Personally, I would like to see this section rekindled with more sharing of removals. I would bet there are others such as yourself G3., that remove bees as well.

PS I had an experience with the Black German bee when I was a kid with my Uncle! Man ooh man!

Thanks for your post G3!

Phillip

[iddee]

Not only have I done hundreds of removals, but I developed the most successful trapout method that is used anywhere today.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=20301.0

[Ben Framed]

That is awesome! I have personally never done a trapout. Thanks for posting this. We never know when we might need or want to give it a go...
With hundreds of cutouts, you are most likely 'among' the 'most' experienced of cut-out folks here! I bet you have some 'good' cutout stories to tell! (hint lol)
Most likely, (since you are a long time member), you have told some good ones here already?

Even those of you which have little experience, I would love to hear of your cut-out 'adventures'. Notice I used the word "Adventures". 
 

Phillip

[G3farms]

If I could figure out how to post pics I would, need to figure out how to resize......HELP! LOL

[Ben Framed]

G3 if you could post those pictures that would be great and appreciated!
I resize and post my pictures from my Mac PC thanks to The15thMember for helping me. What type computer do you use? If yours is Mac I will try and show you one step at a time.

Phillip

[G3farms]

it is a Lenovo yoga730 laptop running windows 10 on firefox

whew that just about strained my brain

[Ben Framed]

In that case I would be lost. lol.
Maybe The15thMember can help you as well. She is pretty sharp with these computers.

Phillip

[Ben Framed]

Taken from the topic:
"How to resize a photo to be able to post it on BeeMaster. "

I had posted the following on the topic >Mixing sugar syrup by the drum<
A couple members were discussing problems posting pictures. In case the other methods described here fail. I am adding the following option thanks to The15thMember. I hope this helps.

Quote
"I use Microsoft Paint on Windows 8, so you will need a PC for this to work, and it may be slightly different if you have another version of Windows.  Open your file explorer, go to your pictures, and right click on the picture you want to resize.  Roll over "Open with" and choose Microsoft Paint.  In Paint you'll see a button that says "Resize" and if you click that it opens a window where you can reduce the picture by a percentage.  For most of my pictures, I make them about 20% of their original size, but it will depend on your camera how much you need to reduce them.  When you are happy with the size of the image, click save and at the bottom it will tell you the new file size.  Just be sure the individual pictures are less that 200 kb and you'll be good to go."

[G3farms]

[G3farms]

bees in a block wall at a giant food distributor, at the truck shop, high above the fuel pump
........and almost every driver was highly allergic to bee stings 

[G3farms]

cut out at doctors house, on the balcony at the master bedroom

[G3farms]

In the floor joist of a house, brick exterior so we went through the floor

[G3farms]

trap out on brick wall, look hard and you will see the cone is over the water hose spigot.

[G3farms]

Bees in a fiberglass porch column, all the junk need to do a cut out with ease, my wife doing clean up of the bees

[Ben Framed]

Good interesting pictures G3. Beautiful comb!  I like the way you had everything needed laid out.. Looks like you had some good help as well! Always a big plus.... Thanks for posting!

Phillip

[G3farms]

putting up a bracket for the bait hive




minutes after putting the tap out cone on the wall

block wall of a dumpy apartment building

[The15thMember]

bees in a block wall at a giant food distributor, at the truck shop, high above the fuel pump
........and almost every driver was highly allergic to bee stings 

Isn't it amazing how colonies seem to always seek out the location most densely populated with allergic people! 

[G3farms]

In the floor joist of an apartment building

[G3farms]

inside bedroom, 2nd floor behind chimney

[G3farms]

Another big hive in the floor trusses at a condo in Pigoen Forge.
Very hard to reach, too about 10 hours to get......at least in the AC, had it turned as low as it would go and a fan to boot.

[G3farms]

Same condo in Pigeon Forge, inside of a little outside closet, 10 hour job, could just barely touch the comb with my finger tips.




Bonus points if you know what this is????

[The15thMember]

Bonus points if you know what this is????

Bumble bee nest!

[G3farms]

Excellent !!

You  get an A+

[G3farms]

in the overhang of a house that was eaten up by squirrels. This one was a tuff sell, the wife wanted it done but the law professor wanted to just leave them be, three months later he finally called and gave the go ahead.

[Ben Framed]

Good Pictures G3

[Michael Bush]

>Have any of you members ever removed, participated in, or witnessed a Honey Bee Colony Removal?

More than I can remember.

The video you linked to created a lot of controversy for some reason.  People were angry that she was doing this with no protection.  I even got interviewed by one of those online news places about what I thought of it.  People have been doing beekeeping with no protective equipment for as long as there have been humans.  Sometimes they are showing off.  But generally they are trying to make the case that the bees are not out to get you.

[BeeMaster2]

I have also done more removals than I can count. 90 percent of the time I don?t use protection. Not because I?m showing off, it is just too darn hot here to wear a suit. When I start getting too many stings, I will put one on. I always test the bees before I start, if I can pet the guard bees I don?t bother with the suit. The worst way to remove bees is over your head, especially if you cannot open more area than the comb area covers. This is because you are trying to cut the comb through the narrow area between the comb and bees are getting injured. The last time I did this I took over 25 stings to the head and arms before I put on a suit.
Jim Altmiller

[JurassicApiary]

I'm a little late to the event here, but yes, my primary business is now live hive removal and relocation.  I produce greater revenue from removals than I do in honey sales by far.  Cutouts and trap-outs are my focus as many others are happy to do swarms (I am too, don't get me wrong, but I play well with others and am happy to share and let hobby beekeepers in my area especially get the swarms.). I generally suit up as I'm simply tired of being stung from walkers getting behind my knees or under my shirt.

I take on the dirty, difficult removals that most others decline such as:

3rd story roofline trap-out, yup.
Inside the steel chassis of an excavator, yup
Inside the support structure for a microwave antenna on a military base, yup
Inside the floors of shipping containers, yup
Inside the walls of asphalt heating/transport containers, yup
In the walls of registered historic homes...yup.

It's all challenging and fun to me.  I love that every removal is unique--that's part of. what attracts me aside from the bees.

Upcoming:
Cliffside removal at a rock quarry using a massive boom-lift. (I had to locate the hive first using bee-lining...I actually discovered two hives onsite doing this.

One of these days I'll post pictures, lol....when I have time!