@Paus - Guess what? You are right, right, right. These bad girls kicked me to the curb. When I tried to put a sub-cone in the other cone, they came at me full force. We don't have any Africanized bees in our area, per our district apiary inspector. And I could walk off the cloud by 200 ft away. But they stung me heavily even thru two layers of garden gloves and jeans. Was able to crush the one who got into my zippered, velcro-sealed bonnet. By contrast, I hardly need nitrile gloves for my other bees.
I think the bee-tree colony is so big and strong that they were angered, not intimidated by the vac. I have a Ryobi (battery) dustbuster with low suction, a hose with smooth interior, and a microfiber cloth for them to land on. But I had to give up after only a few hundred bees. (I'd tried to get some house bees to put with a frame of brood from my docile queen.)
After I hived them, there was fighting, they tore out pupae, and I had to put the robbing screen on my second hive (which is quite strong) because these bad girls were trying to fight. I guess that's why they're survivors. In a week I'll see if they made queen cells from that frame of eggs & brood. If not, I'm afraid it's soapy water for them, because I sure don't want crabby laying workers from this lot.
I'm going to give up on this trapout, unless I get motivated to do a "Hogan" queen catchbox. If their queen is with them, perhaps they'll be more cooperative. I'm recuperating first.