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Thread: Bee hive in a tree - best time to drop the tree?

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    Thanks for the update. Always nice to see how a sticky situation turned out!
    NOW you tell me...

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    Trap them out. Cover opening with a funnel made from screen wire, so bees can come out, but not return. Set a hive body with a couple frames of brood,including eggs and a queen very near opening. As bees leave, they can't go back in, but because they have a load of nectar, they are welcomed into hive body. Takes a couple months to trap them out, as new workers are still being raised. For the first couple days, it won't be a pleasant situation. Then open up hive in tree, and let colony rob it out. This means building some kind of scaffold to support hive body, and then lowering down a full hive. Been there, done it, and don't want to do it again.

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    Thanks for the update, Todd, and it looks like bees, raccoons and humans were all well served all around!
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