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Meadlover:
I HIGHLY recommend researching into the native stingless bees before you do this!!!! I think if you vac them up and put them into a top bar hive they will all die.

Try to identify the species first. It is most likely Trigona Carbonaria but might also be Austroplebeia Australis.
As far as all of the literature I have read they WILL NOT build a hive using the top bar method, as their hive is built in a spiral from the bottom up. They also will not build onto normal foundation. 

There are 2 get the hive or split it:
1. Cut the hive out of the tree, then leave it in the log, or remove it to a hive box (special box, very small & very well insulated).
2. Use the propagation/soft split method (which I am trying on a hive out the back of my work in the city). This method  does not harm or stress the hive, but will take a lot longer to get a hive in there, but this way is extremely hard to accidently do any damage to the hive within the tree.

Checkout these sites for a little bit more info:
http://www.sugarbag.net/
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzrzabel/soft-split.html
http://www.australiannativebees.com/N_Pictures.php

ML

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