Michael - thank you for making the phone call for me on those red golden pheasant chicks. It will be good to add another blood line to my pair.
Muesky - thank you for providing transportation to the Norman area for my pheasant chicks. I will get them from you tomorrow afternoon, sometime.
I had another interesting learning experience trying to get those bees out of the person's house. We knew they were going in between the stone bricks and the siding, but thought that they would be accessible from inside the house, through the sheetrock. Wrong. He ended up tearing off the siding above the stone on the outside of the house and there was old wax comb and a lot of bees, but we couldn't tell where all they are located. Just know that there is a piece of wood behind the stone and the bees are in that space. We smoked the bees, vacumed the bees and still couldn't get to all the comb that needs to come out, so we will try it again about 6 in the morning, when we can see what is where. Unfortunately, vacuming bees, even with a gentle vacume, isn't very good for them since they gorge themselves with honey when they smell the smoke and bees with tummys full of honey are more easily damaged by the vacume. Unless we find the queen however, there isn't any good way to get the bees to voluntarily leave the structure. If we can find the queen and get her into a hive box, all the rest of the bees will walk into the box with her.
Muesky - thank you for providing transportation to the Norman area for my pheasant chicks. I will get them from you tomorrow afternoon, sometime.
I had another interesting learning experience trying to get those bees out of the person's house. We knew they were going in between the stone bricks and the siding, but thought that they would be accessible from inside the house, through the sheetrock. Wrong. He ended up tearing off the siding above the stone on the outside of the house and there was old wax comb and a lot of bees, but we couldn't tell where all they are located. Just know that there is a piece of wood behind the stone and the bees are in that space. We smoked the bees, vacumed the bees and still couldn't get to all the comb that needs to come out, so we will try it again about 6 in the morning, when we can see what is where. Unfortunately, vacuming bees, even with a gentle vacume, isn't very good for them since they gorge themselves with honey when they smell the smoke and bees with tummys full of honey are more easily damaged by the vacume. Unless we find the queen however, there isn't any good way to get the bees to voluntarily leave the structure. If we can find the queen and get her into a hive box, all the rest of the bees will walk into the box with her.
