Comments on Root Simple: Cutting a Beehive Out of a Wall

Thanks for giving the bees a good home sue. I hope...

2009-11-22T21:27:59.921-08:00

Thanks for giving the bees a good home sue. I hope they have their queen or figure on making a new one. They are sweet bees.

Amazing! I was looking forward to reading this pos...

2009-11-22T12:02:36.405-08:00

Amazing! I was looking forward to reading this post! Thank you!

Two days ago I saw some stray bees in Jens yard that hovered at the same spot where the hive used to be and I was wondering how the transferred bees were doing. Great to hear that all is good. Looking forward to more on this. :-)

Hive update: So far, so good, knock wood. I have t...

2009-11-20T12:32:54.190-08:00

Hive update: So far, so good, knock wood. I have the garage band of bees in a medium super (hive box)---the six full frames we extracted, plus four empty frames. This is topped by another (empty) super so that there is room under the lid for the chunks of honey comb taken from their wall hive. I am feeding this back to them so they will have sustenance while acclimating to their new surroundings. Which they seem to be doing---they are already foraging in the big world (like my other hive, they all seem to fly off in the direction of the Homegrown Evolution homestead across the canyon---so much for my idyllic garden!) They are also chewing off and dragging out the string we used to tie in the comb to the frames, which means they are repairing their desecrated hive, and they've built a little bit of comb in the empty frames---all good signs. I won't inspect them thoroughly for another week or two, as they've been through a lot; but eventually I will look to see if there is any evidence that we got the queen, or that they're making another one. The other hive is pretty self-sufficient, so I don't think they are stealing any honey from the new kids. This is so much fun!!

Awesome post!

2009-11-19T06:46:52.717-08:00

Awesome post!

Well done! We hope you keep us updated on the stat...

2009-11-19T06:14:42.843-08:00

Well done! We hope you keep us updated on the status of the hive in its new home.

This was invigorating to read. What a cool story,...

2009-11-18T22:28:27.418-08:00

This was invigorating to read. What a cool story, well told. We had a swarm of bees in our yard this summer. Thankfully they took up residence in our willow tree instead of our garage and did our plum and pear trees some good!