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Anyone here have any bee-keeping knowledge?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 423258" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I had to do a bug collection for uni. Tricky, when you live in various places and have to carefully transport your insects on their pinboards in various stags of setting the wings and legs.</p><p></p><p>We also studied insects in other ways. I learned to anaesthetise them with carbon dioxide to briefly immobilise them. Don't overdo it, though.</p><p></p><p>I hope you can get some answers, Star. In the lab where I once worked, there was a very tall chimney that serviced about three floors of a very old building. Bees built a nest in the top of the chimney and nobody could ever get to the nest. My lab was on the bottom floor and we would increasingly find bees trying to get out the windows, even though the chimney had been boarded up. So every time the boss wanted to get rid of the nest, it was gassed. But they never cleaned out the honey, so of course the empty nest with its load of honey would get re-colonised.</p><p>husband now works in the building next door, and his colleague, a qualified apiarist as well as chemist, was called in finally to remove the nest AND the honey. They got the bees out alive and gave them a new home. The hive was fully cleaned out and last I heard, no recurrence of the problem. </p><p></p><p>So if they decide to poison the nest, send someone in afterwards (when all the bees are gone) and remove any honey or other pollen store.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 423258, member: 1991"] I had to do a bug collection for uni. Tricky, when you live in various places and have to carefully transport your insects on their pinboards in various stags of setting the wings and legs. We also studied insects in other ways. I learned to anaesthetise them with carbon dioxide to briefly immobilise them. Don't overdo it, though. I hope you can get some answers, Star. In the lab where I once worked, there was a very tall chimney that serviced about three floors of a very old building. Bees built a nest in the top of the chimney and nobody could ever get to the nest. My lab was on the bottom floor and we would increasingly find bees trying to get out the windows, even though the chimney had been boarded up. So every time the boss wanted to get rid of the nest, it was gassed. But they never cleaned out the honey, so of course the empty nest with its load of honey would get re-colonised. husband now works in the building next door, and his colleague, a qualified apiarist as well as chemist, was called in finally to remove the nest AND the honey. They got the bees out alive and gave them a new home. The hive was fully cleaned out and last I heard, no recurrence of the problem. So if they decide to poison the nest, send someone in afterwards (when all the bees are gone) and remove any honey or other pollen store. Marg [/QUOTE]
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