1 Mobile Home, 3 beehives Underneath It !
I have started doing beehives and swarm removal with a friend of mine.
This mobile home is situated on a property that is also home to an orange and grapefruit orchard and has become the home to not one, but 3 beehives ! [caption id="attachment_549" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="3 beehives under mobile home"]
[/caption] The beehives are situated under an old mobile home that is still on tires, however the skirting is coming loose and so is the press-board underneath, which has left access for bees to come in and set up housekeeping. this created the perfect situation for some rather large .
So Mary and another beekeeper Gary , and I set out to remove these beehives.
We each brought our own equipment for the job and there was power available for us to use. For my part in tackling this beehives threesome, I brought my BeeVac, extension cord , in addition to bins to place honey comb , a queen clip, hive tools, knives, hammer, and of course my beesuit! But I forgot one major thing that would have made removing my one of the three beehives much simpler... No vacuum hose! I couldnt believe I had forgotten that of all things! Without the vacuum hose the BeeVac is worthless, well so much for doing things the easy way... We each took on one of the beehives, and mine was to the rear of the mobile home. I found some old unused comb to one side of the main hive. So I removed this unused beehive comb, no sense in leaving an open invitation to bees, by leaving one or more empty beehives behind right? I then went on to tackle my beehives on the rear of the trailer. This one of the beehives extended between to I frame supports from the outer edge to approximately half way underneath the mobile home!
These beehives were huge!
Just the comb from the rear one of these beehives filled an 18 gallon rubbermaid tote and an additional 15 gallon styrene box! First I fill the styrene with comb from my beehives I am removing, then I carefully go over each one, looking for the queen while transferring the bees and comb into the rubbermaid tub. I was proud of myself I managed to find the queen bee , and was she a beauty! [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="This is how the queen bee I found from my hive of the 3 beehives looked, nice plump and golden"]
[/caption] By finding and caging the queen bee from this one of the beehives I was able to get a large portion of bees to simply go into the styrene box with the queen. I did however help things along with my bee brush gently brushing the bees off of the remaining comb from the beehives and placing them into the styrene box where the queen cage and queen were located. This one of the beehives had a lot of brood, and very little capped honey stores. The honey from the beehives at this site is amazing!
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