only problem you may have is with the cold front we have coming in. gonna need a big enough cluster to come out to stay warm. I would suggest waiting for warmer weather.
Joe I enjoy your videos and your work. Just wanted to make a public service announcement...don’t touch expanding foam insulation with bare hands..wear gloves!! It does not come off.
@@LittleBitsHoneyBeesjoemay so if I wanted to keep the bees, I'd need some frames with the potential to make a new queen? My DIL probably has some. my son died last april (lost a 5year battle with cancer) , and he left behind a wife, 3 kids and 2 very active hives. 2 hours from me. She is struggling to figure out how to take care of them and not getting much help from the local bee club he belonged. to. we had beens here, but ours swarmed. if he were still here, he'd figure it out. he loved his bees and often caught swarms. the bees have a special place in my heart.
guessing starving the bees by not allowing them out will force the queen to move but then he have to pay close attension to when the queen goes into the box and trap her there.. or maybe he has a queen extruder on the box and the box is somehow better than the tree..
Dear sir,The process is glacially slow. Only foragers and drones are caught by the one-way trap. The nurse bees won’t be caught until they become foragers. The brood won’t be caught until it hatches and goes through all the stages that precede foraging. Many home and business owners with a bee nest don’t want to wait this long to get rid of it. The queen usually dies within the structure along with any unattended brood. Rotting brood may smell bad. Honey stores, if any, are left inside. These have been known to leak and drip down inside walls.
You can vacuume bees and if you get enough the queen will follow when she is all alone. I like this setup and will use it on a sycamore tree. Then I will eventually drill holes and try to blow them out. Then there is be be gone. I would finally screen the opening so it won't incubate hive beetles. Let ants get the honey
looks good. I do forced absconds. I could have the bees out of the tree, in the box, capture the queen in 4 hours. SO SO hard to get the queen to come over in a trap out. --good luck
@@LittleBitsHoneyBeesjoemayYou caught my comment before I edited it. :-) I've heard clove oil works pretty good. There's need for balance. You can run the bees out quick, but they lose a lot of brood and stores. You also don't want to leave a lot honey etc in the tree to attract another swarm or breed hive beetles etc. I would think putting on a queen excluder could allow them to rob out the tree before it gets closed up permamently.
Trapping out bees dose not work well, you might get the queen 10% of the time. About the best you can do is get a large worker force. I did not want to do this trap out but it was my sugar supplier so I felt I had to.
I've used 2 inch thick foam to sandwich between the tree and screen to keep the bees from going around the trap out. This worked very well..
only problem you may have is with the cold front we have coming in. gonna need a big enough cluster to come out to stay warm. I would suggest waiting for warmer weather.
I see that hope it goes well
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I guess he doesn’t know the can need to be upside down.
Joe I enjoy your videos and your work. Just wanted to make a public service announcement...don’t touch expanding foam insulation with bare hands..wear gloves!! It does not come off.
that is very true.
Chaulking works best to seal cracks around the screen. Buy the clear kind and you get a cleaner appearance for your setup.
Good video Joe can't wait to see how this works keep the videos coming...
does the queen ultimately leave or does she die because there is no one left to take care of her? no one seems to answer that question. thanks.
Most of the time she will just die
@@LittleBitsHoneyBeesjoemay so if I wanted to keep the bees, I'd need some frames with the potential to make a new queen? My DIL probably has some. my son died last april (lost a 5year battle with cancer) , and he left behind a wife, 3 kids and 2 very active hives. 2 hours from me. She is struggling to figure out how to take care of them and not getting much help from the local bee club he belonged. to. we had beens here, but ours swarmed. if he were still here, he'd figure it out. he loved his bees and often caught swarms. the bees have a special place in my heart.
May God bless you and your family
Even if they leave they don't have to stay in your box unless they want to hope you put enough stuff to make them want to. Mine left
and what about the queen?
guessing starving the bees by not allowing them out will force the queen to move but then he have to pay close attension to when the queen goes into the box and trap her there.. or maybe he has a queen extruder on the box and the box is somehow better than the tree..
Bees will make a new queen
@@billcoley8520 unless the bees had brood they will not raise purpose of traping is whole colony sir.
Anand Huggi interesting
Can not wait to see how that goes. Why does the queen come out?
Joe, it's not clear if you allow the foraging bees to get out of the box or not.
Do you work at the shopping plaza?
that looks like Michael Joseph in the background
Very nice sir but how many days come out the queen ? please sir give me answer.
some times never some times a month or any time in between. Trap outs are 50/50.
Dear sir,The process is glacially slow. Only foragers and drones are caught by the one-way trap. The nurse bees won’t be caught until they become foragers. The brood won’t be caught until it hatches and goes through all the stages that precede foraging. Many home and business owners with a bee nest don’t want to wait this long to get rid of it.
The queen usually dies within the structure along with any unattended brood. Rotting brood may smell bad.
Honey stores, if any, are left inside. These have been known to leak and drip down inside walls.
all true
You can vacuume bees and if you get enough the queen will follow when she is all alone. I like this setup and will use it on a sycamore tree. Then I will eventually drill holes and try to blow them out. Then there is be be gone. I would finally screen the opening so it won't incubate hive beetles. Let ants get the honey
Little Bits what size wire screen? I have swarm with small open in tree, I like to get them tomorrow, I Like to do this setup.
1/8 inch hardware cloth.
Pond no tree
You’re the man
Is the same trick to take bees from electric post hole
Suggest please
it should work as long as you get all the holes sealed up.
What did you make the trap out of? Is that screen?
you could use metal window screen. I use 1/8 hardware cloth
Is that a white oak? Looking forward to the rest of the videos! Thank you!
If the breaks in the bark were smaller I might ask if it was a cottonwood! If it is a dogwood then you have a gem!!!
looks good. I do forced absconds. I could have the bees out of the tree, in the box, capture the queen in 4 hours. SO SO hard to get the queen to come over in a trap out. --good luck
Could You Please Explain How you do That. Thanks
Homer Batchelor this how we do it - 100% successful vimeo.com/178393692
@@natserog thankyou very much!! all the information i have been looking for !
What should we do to trap out the queen
How
I came here looking for instruction on how to make a good cone. Yours looks great, but you didn't show how you fastened the seam ...
I just used fine wire and used it like a bread tie.
It would probable work but I didn't have any B-gone
@@LittleBitsHoneyBeesjoemayYou caught my comment before I edited it. :-) I've heard clove oil works pretty good. There's need for balance. You can run the bees out quick, but they lose a lot of brood and stores. You also don't want to leave a lot honey etc in the tree to attract another swarm or breed hive beetles etc. I would think putting on a queen excluder could allow them to rob out the tree before it gets closed up permamently.
Trapping out bees dose not work well, you might get the queen 10% of the time. About the best you can do is get a large worker force. I did not want to do this trap out but it was my sugar supplier so I felt I had to.
do you bee
Can you tell me how to put it together.