First Trapped Bees
Bees
Some time about June15, 2011 caught this swarm.  Moved them on July 1.

First Bees Top Bar Bee Hive door
We captured a swarm of bees last week and today we put them into their new home.
TB Smoker
New Top Bar Bee hive open and ready for the Sycamore Bees.  Lighting the Smoker.
tb First comb
Opening the trap I did not know what to expect.  Our first comb goes into the new Top Bar Hive.
bees Bees
The combs keep on coming, full of Honey and Bees.
Bees old cut out comb
The zip ties hold old comb to bate the trap, they cleaned it and have honey stores in it already, about 10 days.
bees bees
I could not believe it.
bee bees
All in all, we got 4lbs of bees and 7 combs.
honey finish
A small reward.  Closing up.
karen Top Bar hive
Yummy!  Set to be left alone for a while.
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3 weeks later.
Hive
A shelf added to keep them from falling into the soapy water bug traps.
drone
The girls done with this freeloading Drone have escorted it outside and removed some of it's leg parts.