Today was a little exciting. I got a call that a tree trimmer had cut into a silver maple and had the shit kicked out of him by bees. The homeowner had gotten beat up and stung inside his nose. Tree trimmer stopped and owners needed help. It’s late in the season and a small chance of saving the bees but the guy was paying so I used some vacation time, loaded my equipment and my boy and went.
The limb was on the ground and it turned out the hive was inside. We cut it open with a chainsaw, vacuumed a lot of the bees and I removed the hive.
This is just cutting open a tree
https://rumble.com/v1dv471-cutting-open-a-bee-tree.html
This is opening the tree to access the bees
https://rumble.com/v1dv4b7-busting-open-a-bee-tree.html
I got them and put them in a hive in my bee yard and hope it replaces the one I found dead today(6 dead since June 1). Harvest will likely be next weekend.