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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: hardwood on April 18, 2012, 11:49:52 pm

Title: More water meter bees
Post by: hardwood on April 18, 2012, 11:49:52 pm

We actually get quite a few of these as we do the removals for several utility companies around here. Peggy got a little ticked at me for letting the queen walk into the nuc on her own accord but we decided to put them in a wooden nuc after all to help them keep cool (the plastic nucs can overheat easily down here) so we caged her at that point.

http://youtu.be/hihaVTZ-biM (http://youtu.be/hihaVTZ-biM)

Scott

Title: Re: More water meter bees
Post by: G3farms on April 19, 2012, 09:18:52 am

AAHHH dude you had your finger on her!!  :lau: :lau:

I love it!, you two work so good together!

I just can't believe those AHB water meter bees were soooo gentle! :-D

Thanks for the video.

Title: Re: More water meter bees
Post by: AllenF on April 19, 2012, 05:21:20 pm

Good video. Did you use blue tape to close up the hole in the meter lid or what this time?

Title: Re: More water meter bees
Post by: hardwood on April 19, 2012, 06:53:56 pm

Allen, I just stuffed paper towels with bee repellant on them into the entrances. The crew still needed to read the meter.

G3, The State (I assume Mr Hayes initiated it) is now saying that exterial colonies hanging on tree branches are probably AHB as well.

Sheesh!

Scott

Title: Re: More water meter bees
Post by: annette on April 20, 2012, 12:40:34 am

That was way cool Scott. I really enjoy watching you guys work together. I can see that Peggy is the brains of the operation :-D

I also really enjoyed the Mary Ellen Bee video the one where you smoked that new swarm out of the wall. I didn't realize you could do that. Learned something new.

Thanks for sharing
annette