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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: jaseemtp on October 06, 2012, 01:09:20 am

Title: bee removal of all bee removal
Post by: jaseemtp on October 06, 2012, 01:09:20 am: I will let the pictures speak for themselfs...

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/jaseemtp/bees/IMG_0822.jpg)
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Post by: jaseemtp on October 06, 2012, 01:09:55 am: (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/jaseemtp/bees/IMG_0824.jpg)
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Post by: jaseemtp on October 06, 2012, 01:10:23 am: (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/jaseemtp/bees/IMG_0825.jpg)
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Post by: jaseemtp on October 06, 2012, 01:11:04 am: Yep this is the queen. She was 3 times larger than the others and had "lost" her wings
(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/jaseemtp/bees/IMG_0830.jpg)
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Post by: triple7sss on October 06, 2012, 03:00:11 am: Those are some mean and ugly lookin' "bees." :)
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Post by: G3farms on October 06, 2012, 09:36:42 am: UUUUUUUHHHHHHHH Jase, I sure hate to tell ya but those aren't honey bees!! :lau: :lau:
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Post by: JPBEEGETTER on October 06, 2012, 10:12:47 am: Thats the kind i pour gas on yellow jackets....
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Post by: jaseemtp on October 06, 2012, 10:35:28 am: G3farms
That could be why I did not find any honey?
:-D
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Post by: duck on October 07, 2012, 01:07:29 am: what did you set them up in a deep or a couple mediums?
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Post by: jaseemtp on October 07, 2012, 04:29:11 pm: Duck, it suprised me that they all fit into a 5 gallon bucket that wa powered by the home depot bucket shop vacs. LOL
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Post by: wildforager on October 09, 2012, 02:41:38 pm: I heard rumor of a beek in CT who does a lot of yellow jacket removals. He uses a bee vac and then freezes them. Then sells them to a lab for their venom. Anyone else heard of such a thing?
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Post by: hardwood on October 09, 2012, 04:39:25 pm: I've got a good Bud here that sells them for venom...makes a good living from it.

Scott
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Post by: jaseemtp on October 09, 2012, 09:04:51 pm: Well I'm gonna tell y'all that the stings I received from being a nice guy and helping an old man out we're painful. I guess I'm a wuss cause they hurt for a few hours. Completely not something I'm wanting to do again
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Post by: AllenF on October 09, 2012, 10:32:50 pm: Selling them for cash would be the only reason I would not gas them. I did not know you could sell them jokers. I gassed a few this summer.