swarm-list Mailing List: Extraction from Bee Tree - the tree is dead and being cut down by owner. The colony is 20 feet off the ground.

[Gerald Przybylski (gtp000000]

    Look at the pictures here: 
    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HBR8feXKI4Ki7sMghDGJbKqPOl1gpu0r?usp=drive_link
    
    925-448-4539
    3 Tanglewood
    Lafayette, ca
    
    Does he want to try a trap-out?  Trap-outs generally don't recover
    the queen. 
    
    In a more perfect world,  a tree company would use a cherry picker
    to attach to the section with the bees,
    then that section would be cut away from the tree and lowered to the
    ground.
    
    If you just "drop" the tree (in the usual lumberjack fashion) the
    comb will be broken into little bits and most of the bees killed.
    
    This is a tricky one. 
    
    I didn't mention $$
    
    Could the job be done from a scaffold?