Moving Day For Bees

The bucket with extra comb containing capped pollen was place in front of the entrance of the hive.

The vacuum line was attached to the ladder to capture those flying in while the clean up process began in the house.

The emptying of the 2 area sent the bees to the windows where they were vacuumed into a special catch box, and reunited with the rest of the colony later in the afternoon at our bee yard.

Both areas were emptied of bees.

A second cut was made to the left of the comb area as it was serving as the entrance foyer for the colony. You are looking at a 10 foot ceiling. A rolling scaffold was used.

A small cut in the ceiling exposes the colony. The comb extended a foot further inward than the top edge of the stained crown molding.

On Saturday March 20th just outside Brookneal, VA in the small community of Sugar Hill the task was to remove bees from this unoccupied house. The bees were entering the structure just under the vertical boards above the rock wall.