Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: montauk170 on July 23, 2010, 04:51:00 am
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Did another cutout with my dad which we started on Wed late afternoon and completed today. a colony has been living in the Yucca tree for some time now. Thought they lived in the trunk but some of the bigger older roots were rotten away and the bees lived in there. Where they lived went down about 3.5 feet!!! We had to reach deep to remove all the combs. Didn't have any dirty to fill the hole today though I found out later that the owners did have a pile of dirt on the other end of the lot. Oh well...
Details and pics here: http://losaltoshoneybees.wordpress.com/ (http://losaltoshoneybees.wordpress.com/)
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That one looked like a pain to get to.
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It involved a lot of cutting with a chainsaw! Then it was just collect the bees with very little hope in finding the queen or saving brood.
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that one looked like an adventure! i'm impressed.
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Wow, rough one huh? Good job on it!
Scott
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That's looked like a fun cut out. :-D At least you gave them a new home.
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I feel like a novice after looking at some of those. Thanks for sharing!
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Not sure why I like to do cutouts, it's hard work. Maybe it's all those videos and posts by JP, Hardwood, and Iddee. I can't believe they go suitless (or clothless in iddee's case)!