Extracted some bees from a chimney tower today... No images...

[Damocles]

I need a GoPro...

Anyway, I got a hive, maybe 30K bees (late in the season) from a chimney tower earlier this morning. I don't know if they'll survive the winter, but they certainly weren't going to survive there as the homeowner couldn't get insured with the bees in the siding of the chimney tower. So they were either exterminated or extracted... The owner chose extraction. Thankfully.

I'm reasonably sure we got the queen, we left behind maybe 50 bees who were flying around and wouldn't land but that will not likely be the queen.

I"ll report back if the hive stays where they belong and, later, if they lived this winter through....

 

[zappasguitar]

I need a GoPro...

Anyway, I got a hive, maybe 30K bees (late in the season) from a chimney tower earlier this morning. I don't know if they'll survive the winter, but they certainly weren't going to survive there as the homeowner couldn't get insured with the bees in the siding of the chimney tower. So they were either exterminated or extracted... The owner chose extraction. Thankfully.

I'm reasonably sure we got the queen, we left behind maybe 50 bees who were flying around and wouldn't land but that will not likely be the queen.

I"ll report back if the hive stays where they belong and, later, if they lived this winter through....

Keep up the good work Damo.

For all we know, you might be the last, best hope for the survival of the bees!

 

[evince]

if you are after getting the honey don't go killing all the bees

 

[Minister of Truth]

Did you sustain any damage during the extraction, Damo?

 

[Jarod]

I think the Republican party might have a job for you next month.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

I think the Republican party might have a job for you next month.

Do you have first hand knowledge that Obama and his family are going to resist being extracted from the White House??

 

[USFREEDOM911]

I need a GoPro...

Anyway, I got a hive, maybe 30K bees (late in the season) from a chimney tower earlier this morning. I don't know if they'll survive the winter, but they certainly weren't going to survive there as the homeowner couldn't get insured with the bees in the siding of the chimney tower. So they were either exterminated or extracted... The owner chose extraction. Thankfully.

I'm reasonably sure we got the queen, we left behind maybe 50 bees who were flying around and wouldn't land but that will not likely be the queen.

I"ll report back if the hive stays where they belong and, later, if they lived this winter through....

What's your take on these?

 

[MAGA MAN]

Do you have first hand knowledge that Obama and his family are going to resist being extracted from the White House??

Maybe they will break off all the Ts from the keyboards.

 

[Damocles]

I think the Republican party might have a job for you next month.

Extracting the Democrat from their house?

 

[Damocles]

What's your take on these?

Not my kind of hive, but I'd love to try it.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Not my kind of hive, but I'd love to try it.

I was asking because I figured you had more sources to judge from.
One "report" on them, said the plastic interfered with the bees ability to keep the hive cool and that it eliminates the inspection of the health of the bees.

Here's what it looks like closed:

And here it is, open:

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

if you are after getting the honey don't go killing all the bees

you do realize you are implicitly admitting that you now believe I (grind) have moved to colorado and have taken up beekeeping, right desh?

 

[USFREEDOM911]

you do realize you are implicitly admitting that you now believe I (grind) have moved to colorado and have taken up beekeeping, right desh?

I thought you had moved to California and was going to surprise Desh.