Package Bee Transport

[randydrivesabus]

A week from today I'm supposed to pick up 3 packages from Brushy Mountain. It was originally supposed to be today but they delayed it by a week.
So I guess the trunk of the car is not the best place to transport them. Its about an hour and a quarter. What do you folks suggest? On the floor in the front? If my wife wants to go along for the ride that isnt going to work out because she's afraid of them even if they are packaged.

[ZuniBee]

I placed a towel on the floor of my trunk and put the four packages on the towel. I sprayed the bees generously with a mixture of sugar water and honey b healthy. Closed the trunk and made the three hour drive home. I stopped twice along the way to spray the packages. I think the bees liked the dark trunk and without sun and with the spraying they stayed cool.

By the way, I started with them in the back seat and made it only a few miles and my wife was freaking out! I have to admit, the buzzing was nerve racking!

[asprince]

Leave the wife home and let the girls ride in the front seat or maybe put the wife in the trunk?

Seriously, we have a trailblazer and it took some time for Mr. Rossman to convience my wife that they would not get out of the cage on the way home. She now tells her friends that she rode in the car with 20,000 bees inside. Steve

[AllanJ]

We put ours in the back of our minivan.. Was told that the trunk of the car was a fine place to put them though.. 

Just make sure there are no bees hanging on the outside. When we picked ours up, there were hundreds of bees flying around and some attached to the screen of our package. The guy came out with us to the van and brushed them off just before we put them in.  I sprayed them with a little syrup and then covered them a little.

[Michael Bush]

The back seat floor is nice.  :)  There are always a few that are on the outside of the package, but they aren't interested in you.

[randydrivesabus]

but they aren't interested in you.

try telling that to my wife

[thegolfpsycho]

Ventilation is good.  I have a hard toneau cover on my truck, so I hauled them on the bench seat with the windows open.  I didn't feel like hooking up the trailer for ten packages which easily fit in the back seat.  Heat with no ventilation (like a trunk) can kill them, and if you elect to haul them that way, as mentioned earlier, stopping frequently and misting them with some water is a good idea.

I saw a tractor trlr load hauled through salt lake last year.  It was 99 degrees and the load was stuck in traffic. There were more bees stuck on the netting than I have ever seen before in bees being transported.  I'm sure that he lost a lot of colonys before he got those hives cooled down, if he ever did.  If he were hauling my bees, I would have been very angry.

[BeeHopper]

 I kept my 6 packages behind me in my extracab pickup for the 4 hour drive home, no problems with them except you get tired of hearing " Are we there yet, are we there yet ? ".  ;)

[likes2grill]

I kept my 6 packages behind me in my extracab pickup for the 4 hour drive home, no problems with them except you get tired of hearing " Are we there yet, are we there yet ? ".  ;)

BeeHopper.... thats to funny.... lmao  :lol:

[Sean Kelly]

Put em in the back seat and turn the radio up loud.  I thought the buzzing was pretty cool.  Kinda soothing.  :-)

Sean Kelly

[LET-CA]

If the wife is nervous, give the bees a good spray and put them in the trunk.  You want her to be happy to have them.  Traumatizing your wife at the outset isn't a good plan...

It took my wife a few years, and then this year she said she wanted them in our yard instead of the remote locations I've been using.  Go figure - I love that woman!

[Understudy]

I had my wife hold them in her lap.

Sincerely,
Brendhan

[soilserf40]

Are you still married?

[Understudy]

Yup still married.
:-D

Sincerely,
Brendhan