Month: April 2021

After almost 4 weeks, we finally got the queen with all of her minions. We’ll have a few stragglers that were out foraging that we’ll pick up later.

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So the new bee vac worked really well.

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Just finished building a smaller bee vacuum for our smaller sized bee rescues. I would like to thank “Dennis the Bee Guy” for the cage idea inside a 7 gallon bucket. Home Depot had the Bucket Head” and Homer Bucket which I modified so that the Bucket Head would fit on top. Also using a control valve to reduce suction so bees aren’t plastered to the other side of the screen. We have named it “R2B2”.

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After over three weeks with this trap out, the queen is on the move and bees are heading into the box.

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When rescuing bees it’s imperative that we get the queen. We have often been asked what the queen looks like. She is larger than a normal bee and has a “fat bottom”. You can see that in the middle of the pic. And it is true: “Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round”. Come on, I know you sang it.