Faith, the young lady pictured in this photo, shares more than her first name with me. She is very inquisitive! She asked, "does the queen bee wear a tiara?"
Our response: ABSOLUTELY!
After receiving the call from the homeowner about a tree in their backyard full of bees, deWayne first uses the bee-vac in an effort to remove external bees.
Secondly, deWayne staples a screen piece around the entire tree in hopes to keep the internal bees inside while removing the tree from its premises.
deWayne begins sawing at the base of the tree and with a little persuasion is able to load the tree on to the trailer.
Loaded and strapped we're headed to the house to see what's hidden in this mysterious tree!
The first cut uncovers layers upon layers of dark honeycomb tucked tightly away in the core of the tree.
deWayne has constructed a frame for the hive box using our own frame with rubber-bands, and the bees own natural honeycomb from the tree.
He then places the frame into a hive box in hopes to create a "home-away-from-home" feel. The patchy spots are brood. (Baby Bees)
deWayne makes one last attempt to remove all bees from tree prior to relocating them.
deWayne is seen here holding a basket full of honeybees taken from the "bee tree". Our guess is that the tree held around 30,000 or more bees. Unfortunately, the day after the bees were relocated into the hive box they vanished! We may never know what happened to them...
Faith Jaudon
This is very interesting, all of your posts are. Congrats on trying out this mission, even though they disappeared, only God knows where they went. :)
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