They were behind two sheets of plywood in an old unused horse stall with a John Deere backhoe in the way.
As cutouts go, I guess this was pretty easy. I'm not sure if I would want to do a hard one. It took a little over 5 hours total.
Started late around 3pm, but it all worked out well. Only a
couple of bees flying when we left just before dark. We got most all of
them.
Found the queen behind a comb in the upper section!! I left
the upper piece of plywood on until the lower part was cleaned
up.
You notice how few bees were on me. They were very tame. I
only smoked them a little at the start & vacuumed the guard bees
first.
They are very small
bees and there are a lot of them!
We got ten frames of brood banded, but they had very little honey put up but the blackberries will be blooming very soon. I'll give them something to get by on until then.
As usual, click on one for a larger slide show
Lots of drone brood
