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| The colony of bees is just above the broken limb that is laying parallel to the trunk. |
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| Old lightning strike from the crown to the base. |
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| Big CAT skidder |
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| Cuts on each side of the log allowed the skidder to break out the section with the bees. |
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| Headed to the trailer with the pay load. |
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| Loaded and ready to go in less than 1 hour. |
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| Locust Tree near East White House |
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| Getting collection box ready for vacuum process |
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| Attaching collection hose to collection box |
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| Checking out as to where to drill small access hole |
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| Inserting camera into 3/8" drilled hole to verify that we are above the colony in the hollow. |
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| Operating vacuum collection hose. |
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| Larger hole drilled with pipe fitting inserted to allow special herb mix to be placed over nest.. All holes will be pegged. |
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| Using camera to see how far up comb is in the hollow. |
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| Using hair dryer / blower to force smell throughout nest. |
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| The nozzle is off and suction increased to pull in exiting bees |
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| A monster of a ball of honey bees |
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| We think that this colony came from a storm downed tree |
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| Too large for the funnel. I used the vacuum system |
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| I had to use 3 - deep supers to house this colony. Once settled I will split and add to developing nucs. |
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| This section broke away from the top of the Oak tree that was 25 feet from the ground |
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| Fist cut was 6" too short. Long cuts have been made into log. There is one splitting wedge in place. |
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| Hollow was 20 feet from base of this Hickory tree. 27" at fist cut, 7' long with 20" at 2nd cut. |
