Ok, that looks similar to what I use. It might be the same exact kind, I can't tell from the picture. The "weird sticky feeling" is wax. After you get the bees in the hive, if they don't draw comb correctly on it, melt more beeswax and paint it on there with a foam paint brush. I really like plastic foundation but it doesn't work well at all unless the wax coating is pretty thick.

If the hive has some decent sized comb built, and I imagine that they do, try to save the comb with brood in it and also what has nectar and honey in it. Take the foundation out of some of your frames, and put the comb from the hive in it and use rubber bands to hold it in place. The bees will reattach the comb to the frame. Put any frames with brood in the center of the box and the frames with nectar on the outside edges of the box.

You'll need another box to put on top of the box you put the bees in, soon.

And yes, take some pictures and videos!

Fur, I found a local guy, but thanks, and I'll keep the other places in mind.

Ten for fur. We going to try to get tomorrow evening.

PLEASE take pictures and video. If you can't figure out how to post them, PM me and I'll put them up.

Ok. Ive googled and you tubed enough we will see. Gonna be Afghan adventure for sure. Especially after Yall see our bee suits.

Same here. I'm probably going to start mason bees and leafcutter bees in my orchard next year...they're more efficient pollinators, but no honey. Also thought about inviting some other beekeeper to place a hive in the orchard, just have to wait and see how everything goes, I reckon.

Docile my but. I been stung 50 times. Cant find the queen though. Looking though.

Fur we never found the queen. I know she was there cause of the eggs and larva all in the comb. Looked abd looked. Not saying we didnt get her but never laid eyes on her. We left the box there to let them calm down then going to go back today or tomorrow and plUg the entrance amd bring em home. When get them home were gonna look hard again for her. If not what you recommend.

I wouldn't dig around looking for her. If you have her in the box, you'll know it and here's why. If the bees are still in the box, you got the queen. If you go back today and the bees are back in the wall, the queen is still in the wall.

Aside from the time I busted the seat out of my blue jeans I got the worst sting yesterday I have had. I went to look at removing a hive in a chimney. I contorted around and got to where I could look up in the chimney with a flashlight. As soon as I opened the damper door one flew down and tagged me on the lower eyelid just below my eyelashes. I haven't swelled any fro a bee sting in a long while but me left eye looks like I took a punch to it from 1990 Mike Tyson

Fur i have pics. There were not many bees left. We scooped them up carefully and put in box. We tore whole outside wall off. Again we have pics to show what wer
we did. They been there longer than what we thought i believe. I don't know how long out takes to make comb but there seemed to bee a bunch.

Oh and that honey is the best i ever had. Send me an email and i will send some pics fur.

Since the hive had been there for a while what yall probably saw on the wall was a swarm getting ready to leave instead of one arriving.

Or it could have been a swarm moving into where a hive had had previously been.

Fur that's exactly what i told my brother.

Email sent. Dont laugh. Me and my brother are sometimes too tight yo spend money if we can make something work.

Wow.

fur how I get the bees home in this.. plug the hole up and ratchet strap it down to bed of truck?

Always wondered the same thing about when they bring a ton of bee hives for farmers. Always pictured the hives on a truck and a bunch of bees following behind it.

the hole they using

redneck intervention yes that's a corn sack and safety shield.

cutting to them.



looking for the queen

hope she is in there


this was really fun doing.. hope it works out and we got the queen. my wife was at my mother in laws and called earlier saying they are not flying around or looking as mad as they had been the last few days. also when we pulled the out paneling off a big comb fell between the studs.. looked all down there for the queen also. to no avail from what we saw.

the next day we went back and these few were in the corner of the shed still. we scooped them out and my brother thinks he got the queen out of it since there was one three times the size but after he googled and thought about it he thinks it may of been a big drone. 90 percent of the bees were still in the box though. this is a pic of the only bees in the shed the next day

Fur the queen is in the box. We found her today. We are For sure it is her.