My hives were all strapped, the only thing that saved my hives. The hives were to heavy for me to lift so I called friends for help. These bees were mad, I have never seen such mad bees. Even with heavy smoke and my jacket with veil I was chased into the woods. My legs were stung up bad as I just wear jeans. I removed stingers from my jeans for 1/2 hour. The hives in the back of my apiary are TF hives which are kind of defensive, but my gosh, after the bear damage these bees wanted to kill someone.
One hive, the nuc in the pic, is only forty feet from my back door. My concern is the bear will be back, tonight. Oh no, not a good day.
The nuc in the upper photo has the bottom board screwed to the hive body, in this case, a good thing.