Thread: Beekeeping

In this link they say that the fences do no good because the bees "jump" the fence and return right to ground level.

https://honeybeesuite.com/alkali-bee...th-by-highway/

If I had bees in my backyard I would have to build a 6 foot privacy fence between myself and the neighbors to get the bees to fly higher through their yard.

Originally Posted by 32t

In this link they say that the fences do no good because the bees "jump" the fence and return right to ground level.

https://honeybeesuite.com/alkali-bee...th-by-highway/

If I had bees in my backyard I would have to build a 6 foot privacy fence between myself and the neighbors to get the bees to fly higher through their yard.

Believe it or not I understand that one of the options for the new road is to dig down instead of having it at ground level.

On the back roads around the area there are speed limits of 10 miles per hour to help keep the death rate down.

One thread I read states that the farmers/beekeepers maintain these alkali fields and it takes a few years and development and then work to maintain them.

With that thought in mind it might be more economical for the state to subsidize new alkali fields on the other side of the highway rather than the fence idea.

Since my wife is doing more and more cut-outs (safe removal of unwanted honey bees), I decided to make her a Bee Vacuum. She is the President of the local bee keepers club and very good friends with our state inspector. And since most pest control companies refer Bee 'Problems" to local bee keepers, she get calls often. To make her life easier (aka happy wife = happy life), I decided to make her this.

The day after I built it, she done a cut-out in a historic mansion in Altamont, Illinois, which had 4 separate hives and yielded six 1/2 full 5 gallon buckets worth of bees!!! She said it worked like a charm (I'll take her word for it! I like the honey...NOT the stingy little bastards!)

https://youtu.be/AHdc9Ghq6a0

Originally Posted by AcesandEights

Since my wife is doing more and more cut-outs (safe removal of unwanted honey bees), I decided to make her a Bee Vacuum. She is the President of the local bee keepers club and very good friends with our state inspector. And since most pest control companies refer Bee 'Problems" to local bee keepers, she get calls often. To make her life easier (aka happy wife = happy life), I decided to make her this.

The day after I built it, she done a cut-out in a historic mansion in Altamont, Illinois, which had 4 separate hives and yielded six 1/2 full 5 gallon buckets worth of bees!!! She said it worked like a charm (I'll take her word for it! I like the honey...NOT the stingy little bastards!)

https://youtu.be/AHdc9Ghq6a0

I just watched and I gave it a 'Like'. Very well thought out.

There are bees living in a hole in a neighbor's tree. I've never seen so many in my yard before. This weekend they are all over the honeysuckle.

Worked with my bees this weekend. I had my little helper to keep it shaving related....

I lit my smoker with coals from the campfire and then needed other things in my truck to bring to the bees.
I didn't want to carry it lit in the cab and it would have tipped over in the box. Here was my solution.
The hook is made for hanging it on the side of a hive. Works for windows also!



a Random pic of my bee yard.



This hive is a new box and a little slower so we left the small hole yet to let them defend the hive better.



This hive is doing well so the whole bottom is open.



These are the box's that the queen bees came in.



There are plenty of bees in this hive. It is the front after I opened the hive to check them. The inside is just as thick with bees. This is one of the overwintered hives that I think that I will have to split or they will split themselves.

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Did not see that coming.