Rescued an External Colony 3/13

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montauk170

March 14, 2011, 04:24:03 AM
Rescued an external colony today.



More details and pictures on my blog, too late to type anymore tonight.
http://losaltoshoneybees.wordpress.com/

BTW, second external colony I removed. It seems like both that I removed does not have any or much honey at all.
Maybe they are consuming a lot more to keep warm. What are your experiences with external colonies and if they have much honey stored?

AllenF

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March 14, 2011, 02:41:40 PM
Sweet pics of that comb.   All very rough looking.   Looks like they lost more than half over time and rebuilt over and over.    Very cool.   Love the ladder, but why ruin the shot with all the orange straps holding it down.   :-D

hardwood

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March 14, 2011, 02:50:56 PM
That one looks like it was a lot of fun! :-D

Good job montauk!

Scott
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montauk170

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March 14, 2011, 04:41:03 PM
Unlike JP's Emil, I'm afraid of heights!  :-D

It was fun and rewarding especially we caught the queen almost right off the bat.

Tommyt

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March 15, 2011, 08:45:17 AM
Nice Job now you got me thinking of the Bucket on a Pole
I have 2 trees hives I've been postponing because of the problem of getting scaffold
under them Now I may pole them down.
Thanks
Tommyt
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Abraham Lincoln

JP

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March 15, 2011, 10:18:59 AM
Nice job! Yeah, where's an Emil when you need one!  :-D


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D Semple

#6
March 15, 2011, 01:10:42 PM
Very cool, especially like the way you secured your ladder.

I'm a roofing contractor and ladders are far and away the #1 cause of accidents for my company!

Don







montauk170

#7
March 15, 2011, 01:38:34 PM
Using the bucket method, I looked at a 5 gal bucket you can get everywhere but most are too small for established external colonies. My "bucket" was a fruit tree pot which is larger and deeper. You have to make sure it's big enough. And when cutting the branch, make sure the branch they are on will be supported on the rim of the bucket or you are going to smash the combs.

Regarding securing ladder, yeah, there's no way I'm going up that high without securing a ladder. I was short of reaching it though I could have gone without the ladder using plan B, bucket/pot method.

schawee

#8
March 17, 2011, 11:24:55 PM
good job ,that queen looks good.    ...schawee
BEEKEEPER OF THE SWAMP

montauk170

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March 25, 2011, 04:21:07 AM
Just received an email from a family that stopped by during our bee rescue and thought it was a great idea for their son to do his science fair project on honey bees.
Here's Ethan and his brother and his honey bee project.


bud1

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March 25, 2011, 06:35:43 AM
rescued       kinda looks like when i capture
to bee or not to bee
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