Bee Go

[wannabeekeeper]

Do any of use Bee Go? How do you get the bees out of the super to harvest?

[Mathispollenators]

Yep I use it all you have to do is squirt some (don't be stingy) on the fume-board and there you go. This stuff stinks and seems to work better on warmer days too. We are commercial so robbing honey is a few days work here and there maybe a better way for fewer hives but that's how we roll. I'll squirt some on the boards put them on the hives and wait a few minutes then start robbing honey. I place the full supers on pallets then to the trucks and cover it with vis-queen to keep them from robbing it back. I find a 20x20 sheet of the vis queen will cover the truck fine.

[Beeslave]

I was using bee-go and thought I would try bee-quick. Bee-go gets them out at least twice as fast(70-75 deg and sunny). I use pieces of felt style blanket a little bigger than the super. I squirt the bee-go in a cirle around the inside perimeter of the super(on blanket) and one squirt through the center across the top bars(on the blanket). Total bee-go is .5 to .75 fluid ounces for each towel. That will last for 40 hives or 1 hr. When you put on fume board/towel/blanket smoke bees a little first at top of super then put it on with a couple inches of end bar area exposed. When the bees stop flying out the space, cover the whole super without fresh air getting in. Today I ran 8 blankets and as fast as I could pull the supers they were empty of bees. Some bees are a little stubborn so I slam the bottom front/back edge of super at entrance on ground to knock out the bees that are left(you will find if you slam it to hard you will break frame ends when they are full of honey).

[phil c]

I stapled an old peice of bedsheet to an old queen exculder. wors great to set on top of the hives and is a little easier (and cleaner) than just a loose blanket/cover.

My wife loves it when I come back in the house smelling of Bee-Go!!!!!

[Beeslave]

When it is windy I lay an excluder on top of the blanket to hold it down. If I had the time I would sew in a piece if 5/16 rod on each end of blanket for weights.

[waynesgarden]

As Mathispollenators said the stuff stinks. I was told to use it if I live alone and use Bee Quick if I have a family. Seemed like sound advice.

Wayne

[wannabeekeeper]

Thank you everyone.