3/23/2016– Update……An inspection of the hive revealed a busy queen and a good brood population with lots of larva.

3/11/2016– We put our bee vac to use today and removed a large hive located in an empty compost bin.  It took about 4 hours, but all together I think we vacuumed up 15-20 thousand bees.  We cut to size and positioned the brood comb into frames, filling a brood box.  Here is the hive after positioning in our apiary.  We will do a hive inspection in a week or so and see if we have a good hive.

Original location of bees in an empty compost bin on the side of a house,	Hive relocated to brood boxes in our apiary.
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