Yesterday it rose to ever 60 degrees so I decided to let the bee's do an evacuation flight (poop). I moved them from the basement to the back patio and opened the entrance. Out they came. (Watch video) Problem is they all flew back to the shed. When I went back there the window was full of bee's as was the landing board. What to do? I had made a bee vac so it was time to put it to the test. I vacuumed up the bees from the shed window and landing board, then the ones I could catch on the outside of the hive, then closed up the hive and moved it back to the shed and opened it back up. I then dumped out the bees from the vac onto the landing board so they could reenter the hive. That wasn't so bad as I thought. I lost a few bees in the process, but it seems they are stronger than I thought. Cold spell coming this week so today I moved them back to the basement for the duration of the winter, if we get one. The lessons we learn!!!!
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