Removing Honey Bees From A Water Meter

[@craigh3381]

Thank you for taking the time to share Joey.

[@josephrawls]

Thanks for watching.

[@lambbrookfarm4528]

Good morning Joey. I was catching up with my bees yesterday, crowded hives, swarm cells and failed splits...all better now, at least to the point where the bees will correct my meddling. Thought I was going to pull honey the day before yesterday, but the bees had other plans. We had some cool rainy weather and the supers I wanted to pull were clean of the uncapped honey and in it's place was packed with capped brood, my, my. Thanks for sharing, take care, Brice

[@josephrawls]

I have had that same thing happen this year. All that room in the box and they want to get in the top box.Thanks for watching.

[@tonyandric4380]

To get the bees out of the water meter lid with all those crevices, I put down a white sheet/cardboard and just thump it down... knocks most of the bees off and easy to vac up from there! Nice video.

[@josephrawls]

I have a sheet just for times like this but it was in the shed at home. LOL Thanks for watching.

[@meloneycrews]

Thanks for sharing Joey!! Good catch!!

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@rodneymiddleton9624]

It hurts when you mash one and they sting you. I found a smaller attachment to make it easier to get them out of those small crevices. Nice job Joey!

[@josephrawls]

Yes it does. I still haven't got that smaller attachment out of the old homemade bee vac. lol

[@thomasrape4616]

Every time I get a water meter it was opened by a city worker then dropped. Half the comb winds up laying in the bottom of the meter box. Nice little bunch

[@josephrawls]

You would think they would see the bees all over it. LOL! Thanks

[@rtxhoneybees]

Lucky to catch that queen before she ran up into the deep rim of that box! Good job!

[@josephrawls]

Yeah that would have been almost impossible. Thanks.

[@MikeBarryBees]

Textbook!!

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@gunlinebees.3831]

That looked like a fun cutout.... Quick and easy, and back to the house!

[@josephrawls]

Yes it was. The only thing that got me was thinking I had the queen in the camera shot. Thanks for watching.

[@kevinogden4363]

I've done a few of these, I work for the water department, there's a lot of places the queen can hide in those meters.

[@josephrawls]

Yes she can make it almost impossible to find in those boxes.

[@dcsblessedbees]

👋 Joey.👍Nice little bunch O bees.

[@josephrawls]

Thanks for watching.

[@JayyBee5557]

Isn’t that attachment way too narrow????

[@josephrawls]

Not really. It actually came with the Everything Bee Vac.

[@HaasBuzzHomestead9909]

👍

[@josephrawls]

Thanks.

[@PennsylvaniaBeekeeper]

Nice easy queen catch but why didn't you release her right away?

[@josephrawls]

I wanted to keep here locked up for a day to help the bees get settled in to their new home.

[@raylucas-w8h]

Honey bandit would get those bees to leave that cover. You are a brave man to do that without a suit. I'll bet you got stung 4 or 5 times.

[@josephrawls]

I would have to spray it on the bees. I only got stung once and that is when I mashed her with my hand.

[@miked2802]

Great video!

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@nolajeanspiers4668]

What a big job oh boy

[@josephrawls]

Almost too easy.

[@nolajeanspiers4668]

I thought you got queen why didn’t u put in a nuc wouldn’t they go in with the queen on top instead of vacuuming cheers

[@josephrawls]

They might have but there is no telling how long that would have taken. I just vac them up and go.

[@rodneymiddleton9624]

First!!!!

[@josephrawls]

Yep

[@rynoagenbach4728]

KAK VIDEO

[@josephrawls]

ok