This colony had been here for 5 years and was a well established, strong colony. Total time elapsed was about 2.5 hours. We pulled about 50 pounds of comb from the hive.
Thank you for posting this! I thought you did a fantastic DIY job. We are getting ready to get a colony out of a barn tomorrow, not near as big. After watching this and other videos, I think we will use sugar water in addition to smoke!
Thanks to your videos and others like yours we successfully did our first cutout (back in October)with no help after only starting beekeeping 5 weeks before. Luck might have had a part in it too. We aren't equipped to do anything that is hard to get at but we put our number "out there". We were called about bees in a log last week. Got it that same night. 4 men lifted the log into the back of our truck and we cut it out at home the next day. That night they moved back into the log so we knocked them back into the box. The next day they absconded right in front of my husband. (I did take video ) They bundled up on a tree on our property but my husband once again got them back in the box. We trapped them inside for 24 hours and opened them up the following day, but the day after that they absconded again. There wasn't very many, maybe 500? We likely killed the queen :/ I wish we would have just set them aside on our property and let them be. I feel bad for upsetting them and probably killing their queen. And they were nice bees. They didn't even bump us , even while using a saw to open the log! I hope they just joined up with our other 2 hives. We are looking forward to get called on swarms this spring. People in our area think there are going to be a lot of swarms this year because we had a mild winter.. Even milder than a normal Arizona winter!
Just as a FYI on your next cutout try stacking a couple of hive bodies without frames under the box of brood and frame with the queen. Then you don't have to dump them you can just open the top and stack the full box on top. Either that or vacuum some smoke to them first. That way you don't get swarmed
Questions. Are those bees still in the box you dumped them in? Did they abscond? Did they die over the winter? I am curious as I have experienced all three of these scenarios and I am wondering how your bees made out. Thanks
@@carlywang3136 Thinking of each bee as a separate entity doesn't quite work for social insects. It's more like the entire colony is a single living being, and each bee is a body part that is capable of growing or dying off on its own. Nothing in a colony is irreplaceable as long as enough raw material exists. Even losing a queen isn't the end of the world. As long as there are eggs or larvae
You should have framed the brood, saved them a little honey. After you need to scrape as much wax as possible out THEN spray Bee-Quick in the cavity to drive all the bees out. I agree with many comments here. This was honestly a lazy cutout and you could have easily done better.
Isnt this vacuum a little strong/harsh for the bees? i figured they were a lot more sensitive than that. I thought maybe the bee's wings were fragile and their bodies were sensitive.
+OleaiD unfortunately this vacuum did hurt the bees a little bit. We later learned that it is necessary to have a smooth hose instead of one with indented edges like we had. But the bees did make it and worked out to be a great colony.
sweetie, did you not see all those bees coming out of there to handle business??? I'M not sure what to think about people's views of nature and much more resilient it is versus how you believe it to be. no matter what you saw on A Bug"s Life, insects are NOT HUMAN.
+hadezmage We wanted to find her so we could guarantee that there was a queen with the hive when we captured them. Otherwise we would have to buy a new queen. Also so we could be less careful after catching her.
BTS Trash tell me when was it said in my comment I was angry or mad I only said (I seen it too and that he made the queen proud stinging those bastards) so tell me what made you think I was angry and needed to calm down?
The same people crying about a bee getting squished are the same people eating McDonalds and KFC. This comment section is pathetic, what do you think happens when you buy honey from the store??
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Oh no! 3/4 way through the video, something (primarily thinking a Cow) goes 'Moo!'. And that could set the Bees off. Therefore, the animal could be injured or killed. And that would be really tragic. Seriously!
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There can't be more than 1 queen bee. When a hive needs a queen, they will choose a group of larve and feed them a special kind of food. When the child queens hatch, the first one to hatch becomes the queen. If multiple hatch at the same time, the queens will fight to the death, and the last queen remaining will be the reigning queen. In short, there can only be 1 queen bee because the queen would kill any others.
I bet that the Bee's nest being removed is partly to fully Africanized. Especially having heard some strong buzzing from the Bees and one of the hive removal personnel reacting to being strongly stung. The nesting site/location is more typical of the aggressive species than the normal (usually docile) European Honeybees I find.
Slow down the coverage of the vacuum, you look frantic,lol. I assume you used the comb on the lower right for your frames, and marked the queen while you had her.Maybe next time use a large bbq spatula, instead of that Wal-Mart Gerber Survival knife......I own one too,lol. HHHHHAHAAHAHAHAAH........next time open the bucket near the box,on a tarp on the ground. They will smell the queen and walk in. Nice Video, Good Job. and way to much smoke :).Now I need to clean up the coffee I spilled laughing. Enjoy Beekeeping It needs People that are willing to do what they can to help the bees, be cool, and remember to scrape the stinger out, and not pinch or pull it. :)
Thank you for posting this! I thought you did a fantastic DIY job. We are getting ready to get a colony out of a barn tomorrow, not near as big. After watching this and other videos, I think we will use sugar water in addition to smoke!
really? Just relocate the hive and that way the bees won't be harmed in anyway plus they help us.
With the weather we've had, we decided against sugar water. Relocated about 50 miles away.
wow what a gorgeous wild colony. hope you guys gave these bees a new home.
"That's the first time we've actually caught a queen ever"
We can tell...
8:42: FINISH HER!!!
8:47: WHAM!! FATALITY!!!
XD
IamPrototype nooooo lmao
Thanks to your videos and others like yours we successfully did our first cutout (back in October)with no help after only starting beekeeping 5 weeks before. Luck might have had a part in it too. We aren't equipped to do anything that is hard to get at but we put our number "out there". We were called about bees in a log last week. Got it that same night. 4 men lifted the log into the back of our truck and we cut it out at home the next day. That night they moved back into the log so we knocked them back into the box. The next day they absconded right in front of my husband. (I did take video ) They bundled up on a tree on our property but my husband once again got them back in the box. We trapped them inside for 24 hours and opened them up the following day, but the day after that they absconded again. There wasn't very many, maybe 500? We likely killed the queen :/ I wish we would have just set them aside on our property and let them be. I feel bad for upsetting them and probably killing their queen. And they were nice bees. They didn't even bump us , even while using a saw to open the log! I hope they just joined up with our other 2 hives.
We are looking forward to get called on swarms this spring. People in our area think there are going to be a lot of swarms this year because we had a mild winter.. Even milder than a normal Arizona winter!
Just as a FYI on your next cutout try stacking a couple of hive bodies without frames under the box of brood and frame with the queen. Then you don't have to dump them you can just open the top and stack the full box on top. Either that or vacuum some smoke to them first. That way you don't get swarmed
Questions. Are those bees still in the box you dumped them in? Did they abscond? Did they die over the winter? I am curious as I have experienced all three of these scenarios and I am wondering how your bees made out. Thanks
Jeff Horchoff I thought I'd see you here! What a huge hive!
These guys seem like amateurs...
They are silly and ridiculous..
I don't know why but it's very entertaining watching bees getting sucked up by the vacuum cleaner!
vacuum for bees dude, remove the cleaner
Lol the cow in the background is like " pay attention to meee!!!! "
8:06 (queen : "ok kids, be ready to take revenge")
The lady filming...
Is this her first time filming ?
She's ridiculous with her shock and awe..
Poor little guy at the end.. wanted to get out and got crushed.
I SAW THAT I WAS SO SAD :( 'we got the queen now we can be not as gentle' EVERY LIFE MATTERS DAMMITT! they're bees :( we need them :'(
Wolfcchi calm down it was only a couple of bees and people doing there jobs
Wolfcchi
Elevate Music ya that was sad
@@carlywang3136 Thinking of each bee as a separate entity doesn't quite work for social insects. It's more like the entire colony is a single living being, and each bee is a body part that is capable of growing or dying off on its own. Nothing in a colony is irreplaceable as long as enough raw material exists.
Even losing a queen isn't the end of the world. As long as there are eggs or larvae
I saw few hard working bees were squished while the lid being closed. Thanks for making honey from hard working bees.
Oh wow! that looked fun, in a weird painful way.
Just wondered, did you frame up the brood and put that into the new hive with the queen?
you didn't keep any of her brood? that's lazy and unkind! they are in a new place with nothing
I get the chills just while looking at the bee hives
The holes....my gosh 😦
Koshka Is cool Trypophobia is what that phobia is called, my ex had it.
MsCherade9 OH MY GOD!! I wonder how much she had on her, that must've sucked (I wonder if you knew she had that type of phobia)
The zoom on that camera is mental!
I know!!! wonder what camera they use
You should have framed the brood, saved them a little honey. After you need to scrape as much wax as possible out THEN spray Bee-Quick in the cavity to drive all the bees out. I agree with many comments here. This was honestly a lazy cutout and you could have easily done better.
those bees were like fuck off m9
I LOL'd at the end. Fun stuff!
Mo, Larry, and Curly doing honey bees!
People all worry about the crushed bee, but forget the hundreds that get smashed together and thrown against the inside of the vacuum
I'm curious. What happened after you let the bees back out of that vacuum?
...........never mind.
The bees sounds weird and satisfying
Isnt this vacuum a little strong/harsh for the bees? i figured they were a lot more sensitive than that. I thought maybe the bee's wings were fragile and their bodies were sensitive.
did any one else see that bee drone that got squished when they were putting the 1st lid on?
all those little bumps are eggs
and can you imagine getting sucked up by a vacuum
"What is this place?" "It's a Kindergarten. A really, *really* big one..."
You catched buzzy bizzing squad xd
Thats how a honey farm is built.
I think your queen is camera shy.
Jeez this is the craziezt bee army
Nice. I know a guy in California that has around 3000 bee hives
Are the bees hurt by the vacuum? Or is it just a case of acceptable losses for efficiency?
+OleaiD unfortunately this vacuum did hurt the bees a little bit. We later learned that it is necessary to have a smooth hose instead of one with indented edges like we had. But the bees did make it and worked out to be a great colony.
Very good.
THE WAY THEY FRICKING SUCKED EM UP LMAOOO
Does the vacuum kill them? I can imagine they can't breath under that suction....I'm not sure how I feel about this method
its actually prett safe the beevac's power is much less but strong enough to pick up bees. and no it doesn't kill them.
sweetie, did you not see all those bees coming out of there to handle business??? I'M not sure what to think about people's views of nature and much more resilient it is versus how you believe it to be. no matter what you saw on A Bug"s Life, insects are NOT HUMAN.
Enoch Bryant WTF, do you know they feel just like us, I am sorry for you, but your coment is sooo stupid
Melani Sanchez BUGS CANT FEEL PAIN.
Lemonskilledmyson Si just because of That they are less than us. I don't think so
Wait were you guys wearing those suits when you were dumping those bees into the hive?
yes we were
TroyBurtchett dam they must have been really really mad then
+steve mann they might be a little Africanized
Jacky Chan im sorry what does that mean?
+steve mann that means they have a little genes from the Africanized bees that came from Africa and those bees are very aggressive
So many nasty comments!! You guys did a good job.
is honey can increase blood sugar level to our body?
I don't like collecting honey.but I like honey
you guys crushed some bees
Jeffrey Deng يا
That's a nice bit of comb
Why was the queen necessary to be captured? To be less careful after you caught her?
+hadezmage We wanted to find her so we could guarantee that there was a queen with the hive when we captured them. Otherwise we would have to buy a new queen. Also so we could be less careful after catching her.
TroyBurtchett how much does a queen bee cost? and if your Beyonce you no longer need a queen bee
Tommy Honeycutt The price may vary, but I would say about $25 for a queen
was that your fist ever cut out
They got honey for days.
Is that a special vac for bees ?
This honey is not more to eat?
8:44 bee got smashed by the board lol
I seen 😢 rip little one
No I seen it too 😢 rip bee you made the queen proud stinging those bastards
+Raiden Jack calm down it was one bee they can't make all of them survive it's next to impossible to make sure no bees die
BTS Trash tell me when was it said in my comment I was angry or mad I only said (I seen it too and that he made the queen proud stinging those bastards) so tell me what made you think I was angry and needed to calm down?
+Raiden Jack you called them bastards and that seems pretty angry
I got so sad when they squashed so many of them putting the frames and the lid on :(((
6:57 "I'm gonna get a knife and start cutting out."
He says, then starts using a machete instead of a knife.
The same people crying about a bee getting squished are the same people eating McDonalds and KFC. This comment section is pathetic, what do you think happens when you buy honey from the store??
poor small bee at the end that got trapped LOL.
how can they identify whether it is a queen
8:10 best part of the video!!!!
Bees1: All right guys attack!😈
Bees2: yeah Sting them to death!😈
What would you do with the honey?
Indonesia country 🙋
Does vacuuming like that hurt the bees?
normally it would, but this is a vacuum made especially for this purpose and does not hurt them.
+TroyBurtchett ahh ok thanks for response😊
But boy were they pissed off lol XD
you should put a larger head, and increase the fan speed to keep an adequate inlet air velocity.
This made my head itch
why you wanted the queen captured couldnt you just ignore her and get straight to honey?
They were trying to save the hive, without queen and without brood (which they didn't save), the hive is finished.
good vidio,reality beekeeping for beginners,lol im just starting to.
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Does vacumming the bees kill them??
Wat about the larvaes being untreated for hours
them bees was fucking her up
what machine use for collect bee?
Wait, does vacuuming the bees not kill them ?? I’m so confuzzled
Is the vacuum attached to a box that they can be safe in, like I’m very confused as to why you are vacuuming bees
I'm with stupidd succ
I NEED KOLONES NOW
Oh no! 3/4 way through the video, something (primarily thinking a Cow) goes 'Moo!'. And that could set the Bees off. Therefore, the animal could be injured or killed. And that would be really tragic. Seriously!
Would it be possible to be more than one queen?
No, when a queen is born, she stings and kills the other possible queens. :) It's mean, but there can only ever be one queen in a hive.
When they vacuum up the bees 🐝 do they die ??
Edit: I commented before the end of the video and now know they didn’t die 👌🏻
Bee lives matter RIP bee who got squished
Do you think that there could have been two queens
Not with an actively laying queen.
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oh lordy that's a huge hive 🐝🐝
I love how everyone is saying "YOU CRUSHED SOME BeES" and I don't care o3o
Watching this makes my allergies come back😭
Lesha ThaGoddess dont watch it dumbass
Lesha ThaGoddess de i
let the bees live
the machine is taking the honey bees or honey
You should leave some honey for them to eat instead of artificial sugar water. Also, their brood has been left behind 😔 that's sad and selfish
what do u mean their blood left behind?
@@JillianD0715 Brood, not blood, the eggs, larvae and pupae.
There was a cow getting murdered by angry bees inside the barn.
Am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious how they just SUCKED alll the bees XD
y do u need the queen?
How do you start beekeeping?
What's the gas u used
i wonder if there was more than just 1queen bee
There can't be more than 1 queen bee. When a hive needs a queen, they will choose a group of larve and feed them a special kind of food. When the child queens hatch, the first one to hatch becomes the queen. If multiple hatch at the same time, the queens will fight to the death, and the last queen remaining will be the reigning queen.
In short, there can only be 1 queen bee because the queen would kill any others.
I bet that the Bee's nest being removed is partly to fully Africanized. Especially having heard some strong buzzing from the Bees and one of the hive removal personnel reacting to being strongly stung. The nesting site/location is more typical of the aggressive species than the normal (usually docile) European Honeybees I find.
we're you guys scared of removing the hive?
Slow down the coverage of the vacuum, you look frantic,lol. I assume you used the comb on the lower right for your frames, and marked the queen while you had her.Maybe next time use a large bbq spatula, instead of that Wal-Mart Gerber Survival knife......I own one too,lol. HHHHHAHAAHAHAHAAH........next time open the bucket near the box,on a tarp on the ground. They will smell the queen and walk in. Nice Video, Good Job. and way to much smoke :).Now I need to clean up the coffee I spilled laughing. Enjoy Beekeeping It needs People that are willing to do what they can to help the bees, be cool, and remember to scrape the stinger out, and not pinch or pull it. :)
i wish cockroach can produce honey too. Its gonna be a better world.
Wait did he let the 🐝s go from the vacuum 😭😭😭😭😭
Bro u hit the mother loads of honey
Wow luar biasa
wtff
how many bees you killed guys!!
+mohammad Syrian They didn't kill the bees :) they use them to harvest honey.
About as many lambs as you ate.
Why did they take the queen? I know nothing about bees…
Succubitch I think is because the rest of the colony will always follow the queen.
Eifersucht Kim Oh, that would make sense.
Succubitch without a queen a hive can't survive
The Queen is vital, she’s worth more than all the others put together. Fascinating.
i now have tripophobia
I thought you couldn't get stung in bee suits(don't make jokes about a suit that looks like a bee)
That's a whole lotta wonky comb 🤓
so cool! the world thanks you for not killing them:)
Lol they went to happy
Weren't* Too*