Cut Out - What do I need

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Perhaps just warm your leg at intervals?

Hmm - fourteen hour operation in drysuit and bullet proof kit comes to mind - people wondering why my team were in the showers wearing inside out drysuits the day after!!

 

[dano41]

Somerford,why do you recommend not using cone?

 

[Somerford]

Because as a one way bee escape they aren't infallible. Only last week I saw bees using a cone that was fitted to a wbc roof as a 2 way entrance...!
They work as a 1 way for a while but bees being bees they soon learn they can reenter !

KR
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[dano41]

Which escape do you use?Have only used the cone once and it seemed to work ok.

 

[Greggorio]

ok I've done it https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.955899204518198&type=1 (sorry if you haven't facebook. If I have time I'll work out how to add photos to the forum but right now I'm zipping around getting ready for work)

They're now in my apiary and they are taking down some 1:1 and zipping about. I got probably the equivalent of two full frames of brood into my Dadant (though they're sitting on the bottom of 5 frames)

It was fun overall other than the ten stings and how ridiculously hot I got.

I went back to foam up the hole the following day and thought "wow that's a lot of bees I missed"... after investigation there is a separate colony about 6ft from the one I got and with an entrance separate but 6 inches from the other bees entrance. so I'm going back in tomorrow night to get them

 

[GoEnviro]

Looks like you were quite lucky there - not to big a colony. Had visions of you picking up timbrt after timber
Where did you get stung? - on the forearms?
Seems like the whole of the building could do with some mortar in the joints - would have been a tricky trapout