Hi folks, I was hoping to get your advice/thoughts in regard a proposed trap out. I've got a perfect candidate for a trap out! It's a long established hive in the brick wall of a house - perfect entrance etc - the only problem is that it's a taller than average double storey house and I can't get a ladder tall enough to work on it (plus I'm not overly comfortable working up that high). So what I was thinking is relocating the entrance to a more 'ladder friendly' height. I was thinking of using sections of pipe i.e. 90mm stormwater pipe or similar - i'd jig up some way of mounting an adapter to the existing entrance and then, over time, add 1m lengths or so of pipe down the wall until it was at a safe height. Does that sound feasible? Would the bees re-orient to the new entrance if I did it, say, 1m at a time? also, would they be able to fly up the pipe to get to the existing entrance in the brick work? Does anybody have any experience doing something like this? I can access the existing hive entrance through a window in their bathroom (albeit the window isn't large enough for me to be able to mount a hive to the wall for the trap out sadly) so that's where I'd be completing my initial works from until the 'new' entrance gets down to ground level (or thereabouts).
More than happy to listen to your thoughts...