Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I did a cutout 3 days ago that was a breeze ... lots of bees, but only two small pieces of comb. It was a new swarm that had moved into a wall and was just beginning to build.
I have a removal coming up Saturday morning that I am dreading. I know the hive is at least 7 years old and is at least 8-9 feet long and 2-4 feet wide. We won't know exactly until we start removing siding, but I'm guessing at least 1/4 million bees. Will probably make 2 or 3 hives out of that one as I have some queens we're raising in nucs right now.
Where does this all end? Seems like at some point you would have enough bees, but it doesn’t sound like you’ll ever run out of supply. Sell them? Rent them out to orchards or farms? Launch a preemptive bee strike against the Canadians?
