bees in a tree

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bcooper

February 25, 2012, 08:26:20 PM
My neighbor has bees in a tree that the power company is coming to cut down. What slick trick can I use to save their lives?

hardwood

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February 25, 2012, 08:35:57 PM
Chain yourself to the tree?
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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hardwood

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February 25, 2012, 08:37:08 PM
Seriously, call the power co and ask if they'll hold off long enough for you to do a removal.

Scott
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

CapnChkn

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February 25, 2012, 09:31:20 PM
Well...

In general the way you get bees out of a tree is by cutting it down.  Now in reality you can ask beekeepers how to get them out of the tree, and you'll get information that might make no sense.

My next door neighbor is a tree surgeon, I asked him to tell me when he came across a bee tree, and he told me all kinds of stuff concerning insurance, and what he did to get rid of the last one.

He called my other neighbor, who keeps bees, and Ray brought his tractor out to the residential area.  He backed it in between the houses, chained the trunk with a crane or A-frame, wrapped the entire section with mesh, and then cut it off so the tree was still hanging in the same general position.  He then hauled it home and put a piece of plywood on the top, put a hive body on it.  Can you do something like that?

You probably wont be able to do some of the "high-end" techniques for removing bees from trees or structures.  It would take weeks or months.  If you can get the section with the bees in it someplace where you can manage them, you'll have the rest of the season to get them in a workable hive body.
"Thinking is like sin, them that doesn't is scairt of it, and them that does gets to liking it so much they can't quit!"  -Josh Billings.

iddee

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February 25, 2012, 09:54:52 PM
First, ask the tree cutter to let you cover the entrance.



Second, get them to cut above it and down to the wood is pithy.

Then have them cut somewhere below the entrance, and if possible, lower it to the ground, or the bed of your truck. ""Have a couple 2 in. or larger nylon straps for them to use"". Keep it in it's original orientation as much as possible.



Once home, when the weather permits, do a removal.

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yockey5

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February 26, 2012, 03:05:56 PM
Pretty cool pics!

JP

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February 26, 2012, 03:33:42 PM
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yockey5

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February 26, 2012, 09:02:04 PM
Nice save on that bee tree JP!
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