Getting bee's into my hive

[Defender-kris]

Hello all I have know of bee's living in a road traffic cone on my mates farm they have been in the cone for over a year.
How could I move them into my new hive ???

Kris

 

[Roola]

Are they in the main hollow inner part?

 

[Defender-kris]

Yes they live I the center

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Hello all I have know of bee's living in a road traffic cone on my mates farm they have been in the cone for over a year.
How could I move them into my new hive ???

Kris

A bit more information please.
Is the cone upright
Is it intact
Where do the bees enter and exit
How accessible is the cone to work round it
How full of comb is it already
What have you bought/built for your new hive that you wish to move the bees into
Are you able to make up adapters in wood etc
How patient are you

 

[wessexmario]

How far away is the cone from the place you want to put the new hive?

 

[Madge]

Are you sure they're honey bees? A traffic cone seems a bit small - but perhaps not.

If they are honey bees then, in the evening after flying time, just slide a board underneath and close any entrance holes. At your apiary have prepared a brood box with preferably drawn combs and a crown board in which you've cut a hole slightly smaller than the cone's base; put the cone over the hole on the crown board and remove the plank from underneath the cone. Now wait a couple of weeks and return to see if they've started to move down into the brood box. If you can find the queen, then trap her in the brood box with a queen excluder (but use your ingenuity to make sure any emerging drones from the cone has an exit). That's what I'll do.

PS: and make sure the cone is stable and tied down securely.

 

[Madge]

How far away is the cone from the place you want to put the new hive?

Yes - three-mile rule, of course.

 

[wessexmario]

I'd suggest it may be much easier to do a quick cut-out into a fresh box rather than spend months trying to manage adapters and migrate them slowly across into a connected hive.

One way to do it would be to use a bee-vac for the bees, then cut the comb out and tie into empty frames, filling the remainder of the space in the new box with foundation.
To get the comb out of the cone a breadknife would be a useful tool to separate the comb away from the cone walls.
As cut-outs go, a traffic cone should be a relatively easy one.

like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJX2ki81wnw
(protective clothing optional)

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I'd suggest it may be much easier to do a quick cut-out into a fresh box rather than spend months trying to manage adapters and migrate them slowly across into a connected hive.

One way to do it would be to use a bee-vac for the bees, then cut the comb out and tie into empty frames, filling the remainder of the space in the new box with foundation.
To get the comb out of the cone a breadknife would be a useful tool to separate the comb away from the cone walls.
As cut-outs go, a traffic cone should be a relatively easy one.

like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJX2ki81wnw
(protective clothing optional)

Some traffic cones stand three feet high. If its a big solid mass of comb it's going to be a struggle to do a cut out softly softly catchee monkey.

 

[Defender-kris]

Thanks for all you advice every one I will get some photos tomorrow I thinks it's one of the big one

 

[wessexmario]

Some traffic cones stand three feet high. If its a big solid mass of comb it's going to be a struggle to do a cut out softly softly catchee monkey.

Maybe; If it's the bigger motorway cone it might make it easy giving large slabs of comb and access through the bottom - that's if the base isn't welded on with propolis.
Photos will help, but there's never a "right way" or "best way" of doing a cut-out, only what the beek doing the cut-out is comfortable with.