got my first cut out yesterday in the siding of an old run down detatched garage. I think I have done everything wrong. I have got the wall cutout and the comb is removed and rubberbanded into frames put into a deep hive body. now the problem I am having is I can not get the bees into the hive. There are more bees in this hive than I have ever dealt with. There was 7 comb sections that went up the wall about 5 feet. There was also a couple of places where it was just a big mass of comb with larve after larve and capped brood and eggs. I cant imagine how one queen can do all that work it was amazing, to me anyway. I scooped about 50-60% of the bees into a 5 gallon bucket with a hole in the lid and it seem that the queen was in the bucket because the bees were moving in. in about an hour about 90+% of the bees were in the bucket. So at this point i decide to pour them into the deep hive body that is about 10-15 feet away from the wall they came out of. I shake the bees into the hive bodies and put inner cover on with telescope cover over that and the entrance is reduced to the small opening of about 1 inch. Within 10 minutes the bees were evacuating the hive and flying all over the place. I had been at this about 4 hrs today and the smoke smell and buzzing bees had wore me out, plus the fact I worked from 4:30am till 2 pm today didnt help matters. So I left and I am assuming I will find the bees back at the wall they came from just like today when I got there. Finding the queen in this amount of bees is like finding a needle in a haystack to me. Any sugestion on how I go about getting these bees into the hive body so I can get them back to my property.
All help is much appreciated. Thanks!
All help is much appreciated. Thanks!