Needed the monkey man on this one as the upper porch of the little building we removed the bees from was missing its center! To get from one side to the other, you had to shimmy across the opening on about an eight inch wide strip of narrow porch deck.
Emil glided across it, I was much less graceful! :-D
Bees were a little pissy and unpredictable. I'm glad to give them to Emil. :-D
BTW, I videoed this in high definition on my same camera but not certain the quality is any much better. Let me know what y'all think, OK?
...JP
State Street Bees Removed- New Orleans, Louisiana - Mobile.m4v (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gsleYsBFfI#ws)
Make him work them mean bees. Great video. One question, when you set up the camera out in front of the house, you ever worry about it just walking off? Hate for you to loose the camera.
Ain't gonna happen cause I'm paranoid about things walking off, always have one eye on my stuff.
...JP
I do NOT know how you knew you hadn't vacuumed the queen. I would have simply assumed I had her in one of those vacuum boxes. How on earth did you know she was hiding out?
-Liz
JP has a nose for locating the queen. He could smell her I tell you.
great video, thanks again..dl
Quote from: TwoHoneys on May 14, 2011, 11:47:52 AM
I do NOT know how you knew you hadn't vacuumed the queen. I would have simply assumed I had her in one of those vacuum boxes. How on earth did you know she was hiding out?
-Liz
Liz, I wasn't 100% certain we hadn't vacuumed the queen, but as the evening progressed it was evident something was going on in the void space around the last piece of comb, particularly between those three 2 x 4's and the roof sheathing.
From observing bees on my cut outs I've learned to pay close attention to what they're trying to tell me and it became apparent that she was likely still in there somewhere.
It was by observing their actions that I grew confident she was still holed up in there. FYI, when the remaining bees are acting very runny and are spread out all over the place without focus, that is generally a sign that she's not there.
When they move together in a specific direction as an entity, that is usually a sign she is in there, somewhere.
I feel confident she would have come out of hiding and all bees would have been on the last comb section come nightfall but we decided to take a more aggressive approach by smoking them some to see if we could run her out and that was the charm on this one.
...JP
Great catch on that queen!
Scott
To give y'all a better idea as to the set up, here's a pic:(http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9784/img0701q.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/809/img0701q.jpg/)
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...JP
Well it is nice to see that even JP has to wear a veil some times :-D!! Great Job Guys!!
yep cajun stuff sure will walk; some one left their rod here during bud3, but sure got a nice one to replace it with. i sure would love to trade back.
Gonna have to check into that one Bud.
...JP