Are you suggesting that Willie and Jase didn't really try to get the bees off the beehive with a shop vac attached to a long PVC pipe?;-)
Seriously tho...nobody actually believes this is real.
NOBODY is as crazy as the Robertsons are. But if anyone were that crazy, they would be from the South...and probably from the swamp.
It must be done more than you realize. I saw a show the other night Alaska The Last Frontier where the families bee hives were under attack by Yellow Jackets. The guy grabbed a shop vac and problem was solved in short order. This show as such is not a comedy or staged situations as the bees were actually swarming and they actually filmed the Yellow Jackets being sucked up. Rather in the case I speak of it was showing a Homestead families way of life and their ingenuity to survive the hardships.