Can you use a shop vac to vacuum the bees and not kill them?
I have a colony in between floor joists and am considering using that to get the bees and then get the comb.
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The shop vac will kill them, the hose has ridges and the vacuum is too strong, they’ll be mush by the time they get into the canister.
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A shop vac will kill them. You have to have a middle container and a way to control vac pressure.
Here is an example.
Wait hold on what is this —
I made a bee vac sort of like iddee’s in the previous link. I have used it to vacuum bees out of a floor joist situation and had very few dead bees.
Just do a search and make one. A bee vac just allows the bees to come to a gentle stop in a screened box, and allows you to control the air flow velocity so that the bee roll gently down the pipe.
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