I got a call about a felled tree that had bees in it (and let the tree folks know about it as soon as it hit the ground). We went out to remove the bees so they could finish up removing the tree. I'm afraid we weren't able to save much comb...it was badly damaged...but we were able to vacuum up a good 10lbs of bees. I don't know if we sucked up the queen or not yet, I'm giving them a few days to settle before looking.
Deland bee tree 4-14-11_0001.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tG65oLQKs8#)
Scott
Great job, thanks for sharing.
....Don
Nice Job Scott and Peg. To bad that more of the brood could not be saved but at least you saved about 40,000 bees to forage another day.
Nice watching on a cold windy day. Thanks for posting dl
Great video there guys. Big old hive in there. Thanks.
That looked like fun. Nice job. Maybe Peg can teach you how after all. :lol:
I went to check on the queen status today and found an almost empty box. The good part is that they joined the pop up bees (that seriously needed a population boost after they swarmed). I'm thinking we didn't get queenie although we took every bee we saw...she was probably in with the smashed up mess. All worked out great though and we'll be cutting out the camper bees soon.
Wally, Peg tries her hardest, but I'm a stubborn ol' coot :-D
Scott
This was similar to what I helped to do last Spring. A very old oak tree fell down in a storm and when the man who was cutting the tree started to cut on limbs, out came bees.
We did the very same thing you did, found the beginning and end of the hive by chainsawing slowly until we saw the hive. Opened up the limb and cut out the smashed up comb. We scooped up with our hands as many bees as possible and believing we had the queen, we set up a super next to the limb and went back at night. Yes, we got the queen when we scooped them up and every bee was in the super and I got to keep this oak tree hive. They are very strong and somewhat feisty. My first truly feral hive.
You have some fancy equipment there to work with. Helps to make the job go better.
Thanks for sharing this
Annette
Great Job. What a tree, too. Make sure you post any more cutouts you do. That was fun to watch.
Nice work guys. That was a cool video and the whole job was very well done.
Great video guys!
...JP
Thanks Scott and Peggy.
Now I know what I did wrong on a tree last year. :)
As with JP's, these are so much appreciated on yet another snowy morning.
Jay
Glad all turned out well in the end. What a mess that was!
I really enjoyed this video Scott and Peggy. Great Job!
James
good video!! now that i have met you two, your videos are even more fun to watch.
Thanks everyone! We have a lot of fun with the videos (even if they are a pain to edit :-D).
Scott
I got to say the education from these videos
is better than Books
Thanks for taking the time to do them
Tommyt
Great job!!!