40 Year Old Beehive In Ancient Catalpa Tree!
***Why were the bees removed? : This tree is resting almost completely paralell to the ground due to it having falllen over sometime before the bee removal was performed.
Two branches are holding it up. One such branch was resting on a fence & sticking out past the sidewalk. The entire tree likely needs to come down as it's in pretty bad shape.
The branch the bees were in had broken almost completely away from the rest of the tree & was considered a dead limb.
Approximately 3 days later The tree company was scheduled to come by & remove some limbs.
The limb the bees were in was being hauled away because it was a dead limb.
The limb had to go but the ethical thing was to perform a live bee removal before the limb was cut up & hauled away.
The homeowner "Bob" who you see in the video claims honey bees have been in this tree for at least 40 years!
Instead of the bee colony being eradicated before the tree company hauled off the limb, Bob elected to perform a live removal & I was contacted to do so.
This was no easy task, removing this old bee colony from this huge ancient catalpa tree.
I began the job at noon & didn't get out of there until around 8 PM.
I was called in to perform this task courtesy of the homeowner & Bayou Tree Company who the latter I have worked with plenty other times over the years.
I was whipped when all was said & done, believe me on this but the bees didn't give me a hard time, they found a new home in Gonzales, Louisiana & the tree company & Bob were very happy with what I was able to achieve on this day.
That's a win, win in my book.
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Yes, you guessed it, I fool with bees a lot! Like at least ten months of the year. Here in southeast, Louisiana we have very mild winters that suit honey bees just fine.
I will go just about anywhere to fool with beehives but I live just outside of New Orleans, Louisiana so that is obviously home base.
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Incidentally, this is the first video to be edited with my new iMac in final cut pro. Loving both so far! Only took me 10 years to finally get the computer I needed to create the videos I bring to you.
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...JP
26 сен 2024
