New Home for the Duck Box Bees

We take a feral colony out of the duck nesting box they have taken to, and move them into a new hive. JR Githens, Master Bee Wrangler, provides the guidance. Note: I apologize for referring to JR as a master 'duck' wrangler in the narration. My bad.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• duck
• box
• bees
• hiving

[hoboslife4me]

Due to the delicate nature of this work such as tying knots and handling the comb, it is better to have bare hands.. We used a common bee repellent on our hands used to help clear out supers of bees when readying to extract, and this made the work proceed pretty easily. I was only stung a few times during the hour and a half we were doing this work.

I do frequently use gloves in my routine inspections, but you will find many old timers tend to not need to due to their experience.

[kgibsonable]

Very nicely done and a great educational video....

[pim1234]

Great job !! Nice vid !

[apollosg85]

Why not wear gloves when working with bees?

[4bigbears]

hey jay good job! your voice is very good for documentaries! by the way, this is claire! rock on and keep up with the buzzzzz! (im sorry that was bad!)