Are you able to sell the bees and/or the combs. The reason I ask is that I do remodeling and encountered a hive that was about 4' by 5' and about half of it was 2 layers thick. I have no clue of the number of bees. I'm in Nebraska and don't know of any bee keepers in our area. You'll probably freak when you here this but I disposed of them with a big sprayer of gas. We were able to eat most of the honey. Probably around 40 lbs. including the comb. Any suggestions for next time. Thanks, Bryce
It's absolutely wonderful to see the care and respect you show these tiny creatures. It's obvious you have a lot of love for bees at least, and I would wager most other living creatures, too. Thank-you for such a lovely video, you've really taught me quite a lot. :)
I would rather call in a bee keeper and remove them rather than call in an exterminator and kill them. Bees are so beneficial to the environment that its scary to imagine what would happen what would happen if they disappeared.
When pollenating a crop the bees move in when the blossoms are about 25% and they stay until the blossoms start to drop. Back to bee removal like the video. Normally the work it takes to get bees out of a tree or the side of a house alive far exceeds the value of the bees. This is why there is usually a charge for extraction like this. But for swarm pick up it is usually a free service. It's a lot easier to shake a swarm into a bucket then it is to take the siding off a house. :-)
A package of bees costs about $90. That is 3 pounds of bees and a mated queen. As for what a hive of bees is worth it really depends on the size of the hive and if there is wooden wear involved. Also the condition of the wooden wear makes a huge deference too. The health of the bees is another factor. I know some people that will not buy other peoples hives. To much danger of bringing infection to your own hives. I pollinate crops all over the valley. I also take bees to CA to pollenate almonds.
I did find her. She was alive and well the next day. She continued to lay for that colony for another year. As for the cells. They would have needed to each go into their own small nuc where they could emerge and then fly out and mate. Then they could return to that nuc and start laying. You can bank mated queens pretty successfully but banking queen cells can be a hit or miss acceptance rate when introducing a virgin queen to a hive. In this case it wasn't worth messing with the 3 or 4 cells.
Well in this case the tree was being cut down. So there would be nothing for them to return to. In other structure removal situations we make sure to seal the opening after removing the colony. Which will prevent future colonies from using the cavity. The bees we remove are moved far enough away that they will not return.
Unless you know the bees have been sprayed by an exterminator. The comb is fine to eat. The color of the comb plays no roll in the quality of the honey. The dark comb is old brood comb. It will have lost of fibers in it from the cocoons that are left behind after the bee is born. So eating that comb can be hard. However you can crush and strain that honey and it is just fine.
Great video! I'm curious about the queen. Did you find her? Would it make sense to put the queen cells into cell protectors and keep them just in case the queen didn't survive the transfer? Could those three or four queens have been banked in a nuc as emergency queens for another hive?
The bees make wax comb to store everything in. Honey, Pollen and good all goes into wax comb. Most of what I pulled out of this tree was brood comb. There was a little honey comb and it all went into the pink bucket and was fed back to the bees once I had them home.
I took them home that day and put them in the bee yard. I left them alone the rest of that day and all of the next. Then on the following day I opend the hive. I was able to find the queen at that time. She had continued to lay eggs even as she was moved. This is one of my best hives.
Killing one honeybee is not an issue. It is entire colonies that we need to be watchful of. In any given hive there are probably a thousand bees that die each day of old age.
Thanks for sharing! What a great look at a tree cut-out. I love the bee vac you're using, do you have plans on how to make that? New-Bee just getting started :)
They are reacting. Just not in the way most people expect. They were drinking up as much honey as they could hold and covering the brood to keep it warm.
Very nice video. I saw a nice exhibit on beekeeping at the state fair this year and it made me curious. You remove the hive for the homeowner and rescue it and keep it. Glad you got the queen too. What is a good hive worth, if you don't mind my asking? I see you also offer pollination service too. What is your service area and how long would a hive stay on site? Thanks for the video. Sorry it generated so many questions.Hope your business is going well; it sounds fascinating.
The relationship between humana and honey bees is ancient...in your vid, it seems as if they know you aren't there to harm them. Good luck with your bees...we depend upon them for so much more than honey and wax.
this remined me of a tree outside my dad's house but one day I was playing with my friends and ants were evrywhere on the tree so we called the tree the ant tree LOL
Which of the maple trees was being removed? The intact one or the one with the bees in it? What was thety going to do with the wood from the felled tree? Make furniture?
I have seen a big swarm of bees one time in a tree never have seen it again bees are precious and we all need to take care of what the good lord gave us great video thanks
Wichtig für Stadt-Imker, derartige Behausungen sind in der Stadt knapp. Fällung wegen Umsturtzgefahr. Sollten Bienen nun aber unkontrolliert abschwärmen, und das passiert naturgemäß, so finden sie keine neuen Plätze.
I think he is calling the queen cells a "swarm cell". I hadn't heard of that term "swarm cell" either. When the bees uncap the queen cells, they will later swarm. The mature cells, the extra ones (there's usually several of them) are used to create new hives or they are given to someone who needs a good queen.
You sound like Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters!
Are you able to sell the bees and/or the combs. The reason I ask is that I do remodeling and encountered a hive that was about 4' by 5' and about half of it was 2 layers thick. I have no clue of the number of bees.
I'm in Nebraska and don't know of any bee keepers in our area. You'll probably freak when you here this but I disposed of them with a big sprayer of gas. We were able to eat most of the honey. Probably around 40 lbs. including the comb.
Any suggestions for next time.
Thanks,
Bryce
It would seem like the vac would harm the queen bee larva. Have you had that problem?
do the bees survive being vacuumed??
The whole reason for removing the bees was so they could cut the tree down. Otherwise they would have been fine where they were.
سبحان الله العظيم
النحل أيه من أيات الله
اشهد ان لا اله الا الله
و
اشهد ان محمد رسول الله
That's not a Maple tree. It's a Red Oak.
It's absolutely wonderful to see the care and respect you show these tiny creatures. It's obvious you have a lot of love for bees at least, and I would wager most other living creatures, too. Thank-you for such a lovely video, you've really taught me quite a lot. :)
Why Thank you. I do love my bees... :-)
Good job. Good bees.
were you able to find the queen in that job?
و اتخذي من الشجر بيوتا
I would rather call in a bee keeper and remove them rather than call in an exterminator and kill them. Bees are so beneficial to the environment that its scary to imagine what would happen what would happen if they disappeared.
A funny thing to think about is all honey bees are invasive species in North America
And they are doing much better job then humans.
AHAHA true!
Brave, i think the bees can feel you calmness. :)
Outside at Starbuck's , A honey bee just landed on m shirt and then the computer . Is this not a sign ?????
When pollenating a crop the bees move in when the blossoms are about 25% and they stay until the blossoms start to drop.
Back to bee removal like the video. Normally the work it takes to get bees out of a tree or the side of a house alive far exceeds the value of the bees. This is why there is usually a charge for extraction like this. But for swarm pick up it is usually a free service. It's a lot easier to shake a swarm into a bucket then it is to take the siding off a house. :-)
A package of bees costs about $90. That is 3 pounds of bees and a mated queen. As for what a hive of bees is worth it really depends on the size of the hive and if there is wooden wear involved. Also the condition of the wooden wear makes a huge deference too. The health of the bees is another factor. I know some people that will not buy other peoples hives. To much danger of bringing infection to your own hives. I pollinate crops all over the valley. I also take bees to CA to pollenate almonds.
I did find her. She was alive and well the next day. She continued to lay for that colony for another year. As for the cells. They would have needed to each go into their own small nuc where they could emerge and then fly out and mate. Then they could return to that nuc and start laying. You can bank mated queens pretty successfully but banking queen cells can be a hit or miss acceptance rate when introducing a virgin queen to a hive. In this case it wasn't worth messing with the 3 or 4 cells.
This was so cool. We learned about bees in school this year and I never realized how they could live in a tree like that.,
Well in this case the tree was being cut down. So there would be nothing for them to return to. In other structure removal situations we make sure to seal the opening after removing the colony. Which will prevent future colonies from using the cavity. The bees we remove are moved far enough away that they will not return.
Unless you know the bees have been sprayed by an exterminator. The comb is fine to eat. The color of the comb plays no roll in the quality of the honey. The dark comb is old brood comb. It will have lost of fibers in it from the cocoons that are left behind after the bee is born. So eating that comb can be hard. However you can crush and strain that honey and it is just fine.
if its a honeybee hive call a bee man itf its paper wasp hornet yellow jack ect call the exterminator :P
Great video! I'm curious about the queen. Did you find her? Would it make sense to put the queen cells into cell protectors and keep them just in case the queen didn't survive the transfer? Could those three or four queens have been banked in a nuc as emergency queens for another hive?
The bees make wax comb to store everything in.
Honey, Pollen and good all goes into wax comb. Most of what I pulled out of this tree was brood comb. There was a little honey comb and it all went into the pink bucket and was fed back to the bees once I had them home.
I took them home that day and put them in the bee yard. I left them alone the rest of that day and all of the next. Then on the following day I opend the hive. I was able to find the queen at that time. She had continued to lay eggs even as she was moved. This is one of my best hives.
Killing one honeybee is not an issue. It is entire colonies that we need to be watchful of. In any given hive there are probably a thousand bees that die each day of old age.
For one Queen Bee to raise thousands upon thousands of bees as a unified colony for multiple years, I'd say she truly raised her family well.
Thanks for sharing! What a great look at a tree cut-out. I love the bee vac you're using, do you have plans on how to make that? New-Bee just getting started :)
They are reacting. Just not in the way most people expect. They were drinking up as much honey as they could hold and covering the brood to keep it warm.
I'm self employed. I have a company called Roth Apiaries and Homestead Honey Company. You can see my website at homesteadhoneyco com
com Thanks...Mike
There is a new queen inside each one of the cells. The first one to emerge will kill her sister queens in their cells and inherit the hive.
Very nice video. I saw a nice exhibit on beekeeping at the state fair this year and it made me curious. You remove the hive for the homeowner and rescue it and keep it. Glad you got the queen too. What is a good hive worth, if you don't mind my asking? I see you also offer pollination service too. What is your service area and how long would a hive stay on site? Thanks for the video. Sorry it generated so many questions.Hope your business is going well; it sounds fascinating.
The Vac works awesome. I built it from plans online. Look up robo bee vac and you should see a link to brushkill farms.
The relationship between humana and honey bees is ancient...in your vid, it seems as if they know you aren't there to harm them. Good luck with your bees...we depend upon them for so much more than honey and wax.
this remined me of a tree outside my dad's house but one day I was playing with my friends and ants were evrywhere on the tree so we called the tree the ant tree LOL
Which of the maple trees was being removed? The intact one or the one with the bees in it? What was thety going to do with the wood from the felled tree? Make furniture?
thanks for showing me this...I learned a lot of new things...
Hard to say for sure. But judging by the color of the comb. I would guess 8 or 10 years pretty easy.
The tree was being cut down and the tree service wouldn't do it while the bees were in the tree.
how do know if you can eat the honey comb (does it have any?)
and what role does the colour of the comb play in the quality of honey?
The one with the bees in it was the one being removed. I think they made fire wood out of it.
Ya seems funny. But as you can see with the smoke the chainsaw doesn't really bother them.
I have seen a big swarm of bees one time in a tree never have seen it again bees are precious and we all need to take care of what the good lord gave us great video thanks
NOPE
question did you get all the bees out and if you did how many boxes of bees did you get
wait, so is all of that honey or is the bottom thing he was talking about something else the bees make?
If you noticed with the smoke the bees don't really mind the chainsaw.
hony beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i would at least wear gloves. i mean, wouldn't it hurt to get stung on the hand
amazing clip, many thanks for posting it,
a wonderful video and work.I really enjoyed it.
Wow, nicely done!
How long before you figured out that you got the Queen?
Thanks for such a great video.
I have a slight Bee phobia.. this was a bad idea. 0_0
Why didn't you do a split and let the queen hatch out
Twice. Once in the finger and once in the ankle.
would the bees that are left start a new colony or just die?
Wichtig für Stadt-Imker, derartige Behausungen sind in der Stadt knapp. Fällung wegen Umsturtzgefahr. Sollten Bienen nun aber unkontrolliert abschwärmen, und das passiert naturgemäß, so finden sie keine neuen Plätze.
Ya
ah thankyou, are you self employed or work for a company?
The home owner was having the tree removed.
RIght after I watched this I flet like bee's were on me
Wow only in the finger and on the leg after all the m
I know. It was still a funny little mix.
That was interesting. How old would that nest be?
What program did you use to edit the video with?
you use your bare hands to hold onto the comb?!
mike you the man sir I would run like hell
that is nice, because some ppl just kill them.
Your really brave I could never do that lol :)
@K2b
The few bees left will die eventually...
Cool! Glad to see that you found the queen.
im MIA the bee and i approve this video
good thing no bees were harmed
whts inside the swarm cells
what was wrong with where they where?
Maple flavored Honey. :-)
I suddenly want honeycomb cereal.
you sound abit like Joe swanson
>:(
That was a lot of Bees! :p
Think of getting stungt by them
ai q agonia .
why not use the swarm cells
Sorry wasn't finish typing
keep the bees... they make honey and you earn money...;-)
You lucky man
I use iMovie.
5:59 its toasty in there
ill have a look at it :)
wow very nice of you~!
shivers* ugh!!!
you get the queen?
I LOVE BEES
wow!!!!!.
omg
OMG
Omg
wow
Warm, eh?
what is a swarm call
Jackson Elliott it is a queen cell when the colony is ready to start swarming.
What is a "swarm cell"?
I think he is calling the queen cells a "swarm cell". I hadn't heard of that term "swarm cell" either. When the bees uncap the queen cells, they will later swarm. The mature cells, the extra ones (there's usually several of them) are used to create new hives or they are given to someone who needs a good queen.
Bertha Yellowfinch there are different types of queen cells. Emergency, swarm, and cells for superseded queens.
MPPaladin
Thanks, I appreciate that info. We've been studying the German method of beekeeping and it's really interesting.
Again, thank you.
BeezZ NuTZ
+Gomma Ray no just no