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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: iddee on April 22, 2009, 09:30:07 pm

Title: JP, This one's for you. Wish you were here.
Post by: iddee on April 22, 2009, 09:30:07 pm

http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/Iddee/Stump%20Removal/

Title: Re: JP, This one's for you. Wish you were here.
Post by: JP on April 23, 2009, 12:55:41 am

Very nice Iddee! Thanks for sharing.


...JP

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Post by: annette on April 23, 2009, 09:47:03 pm

That is very interesting. Was that only one hive?? 

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Post by: 1reb on April 23, 2009, 10:07:27 pm

How long did it take you get get all the bee in your hive?

Johnny

Title: Re: JP, This one's for you. Wish you were here.
Post by: iddee on April 23, 2009, 10:22:07 pm

That was a tree I cut and brought in late last fall. It was too late in the year to do a cutout then, so I left it until spring. I decided to use it for a workshop for newbies. The five guys there have at most, two years experience at beekeeping. We started at noon and were cleaned up and watching the bees orient at 2:30.
They had come through the winter quite well and were very strong. Not many stores, but we filled 8 frames with brood and still didn't get it all in the hive. We had about 8 gallons of honey, brood, drone, and empty comb. We left it for the bees to clean up. It was done in my beeyard, so there was no hurry to move them. The guy I gave them too left with them about 5:00. Yes, it was only one colony, and we did get the queen.

Title: Re: JP, This one's for you. Wish you were here.
Post by: annette on April 23, 2009, 10:29:55 pm

Did the bees actually clean up  all that you left them??? That sounds like a simple way to do it. Just leave the mess for them.

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Post by: iddee on April 23, 2009, 11:00:10 pm

He left with them, but I have 8 hives in the same yard, so they are still cleaning the honey up.

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Post by: Scott Derrick on April 24, 2009, 12:26:24 am

Iddee,

Great photos and good work. We really have to meet sometime. I'm in Blythewood SC but I'm in Charlotte NC often. I assume you are in The Raleigh / Durham area?

Title: Re: JP, This one's for you. Wish you were here.
Post by: iddee on April 24, 2009, 09:21:25 am

The door's open, Scott, at any time. Always glad to have company. I'm in Randleman, just south of Greensboro.