What’s Happening at Jillibees

This trap out is almost complete. The majority of the bees, including the queen, are in the box. There are still many foragers that are coming back to the original entrance and then head to the box with other bees reminding them where they need to go. Note the pollen baskets on the their back legs.

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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