woo hoo! starting to feel like a real beekeeper... I left my number with the local fire station, they got a call from a nearby high school, and they called me...
On a situation like that, I think a bee-vac would have worked perfectly. Be well, Mike -- Zone 8, Texas http://www.taroandti.com/ Exotic Plants and More... ...
Here are some things that I have used in the past with modest success: - Lay out an old white bedsheet over the area. It is easier for the bees that land on...
... outside? thanks for your help, megan I get rice in 50 lb bags that seem as if they would fit in a bucket and over the lip, to later be gathered up and...
Bees will beard on the outside to scent (stick their hineys up and fan vigorously) and help their returning foragers find them. So you want that. To get the...
I'm starting to feel like a beekeeper... ok, well it wasn't that much of a cutout, more like a lift-up. I'll post a couple of photos tonight. the homeowner...
In my experience, I usually have some straglers on the outside. I got a swarm a couple of weeks ago and put them in a brood box with a dozen or so bees on the...
I wonder if you can put a bee-excluder used to clear honey supers on the entrance cover of a swarm-trap but reversed - so that bees on the outside that seek to...
I have a one-way door that fits in the hole in the center of an inner cover. I use this instead of Bee-Go. You can block the entrance, remove the telescoping...
My preference is to vacuum the bees into a five gallon bucket, as opposed to leaving a brood box until dark with some frames of drawn comb and a swarm lure. ...
Hey Joe I'm not understanding what the slip joint nut does or how it's used. Lew Best near Waco, TX ... I use a swarm bucket, fitted with a queen excluder...
hi Joe, took a look through your pictures, there are some very cool photos there! the bucket with all the bees around it on the grass... did they actually get...
I'm going to make a couple of those Monday. Ingenious. Be well, Mike -- Zone 8, Texas http://www.taroandti.com/ Exotic Plants and More... http://www.mjv.com/...
Supposedly, there is someone posing as a beekeeper in my area that is charging big bucks doing bee removals, but instead of saving be bees, they are killing...
No need to be deceitful and no need to explain yourself. Just call or approach one of the customers and ask for the name of the feller that cut their bees out....
... I'm going to make a couple of those Monday. Ingenious. Be well, Mike ============> Mike, Use a light colored bucket and lid, and paint the lid white to...
... approach one of the customers and ask for the name of the feller that cut their bees out. You'll either get the name or not….. ===== I would have done...
Then it was the antagonistic beekeeper who's the idiot here. You don't get information by telling people how bad they are. A simple friendly question is all...
Thanks. We sell those white buckets and plumbing over where I work so it would be trivial to get a couple put together. I'll get one of those bucket-wrenches...
Wow. . .that stinks! That said, is it possible that the bees in question were either extremely aggressive (behaving like Africanized bees)? I do quite a few...
Hello Jeff, Beekeepers kill lines of bees all the time when they requeen due to some undesired trait. So I am not against the killing of colonies due to...
However Joe I see nothing wrong with asking the people who paid to have their bees killed where they heard about the person who did their killing as long as...
But don't forget to leave an offer to do it for free for anybody! Jim P ... From: "Michael Vanecek" <mike@...> To: <FeralBeeProject@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
so.... I got a call for a cutout in a house yesterday... I went by the house with the bees in the wall today... looks kinda complicated, and I think it may be...
