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I have just spoken to a neighbor about possibly removing bees from a tree in an apartment complex near Guilford College. I plan to have a look at the situation in the next 3 or 4 days. I am wondering if there is any interest by our new beekeepers in seeing how it is done. You can start by reading Wally's posts in this forum about how to do a trapout.

If you may be interested, post a response in this thread and we can work on coordinating schedules, etc.

Just an update to let everyone know that the bees in the tree swarmed this past weekend. The management did not know where the swarm went.

I finally got the go ahead 3-4 weeks back to start the trapout. It is about complete. I will take 1 more 15 minute look at the cone to confirm no activity from the tree, and David and I will then remove the bait hive set up and seal the tree. If I am lucky, I will have a new Wayne's Bee queen from the bait hive.

David and I closed out this trapout this morning and I brought home the nuc of bees this evening. I did not see the queen when I looked this morning, but there were eggs, larvae and capped brood. I will look again to see if I can find and mark this Wayne's Bee queen.

Maybe I'm not following this correctly but what made you suspect or how did you know this was a Wayne's Bees queen? Congrats on the trapout!

I would think if you set up the trapout before the virgin queen mated that you could have gotten her in your box.

I used eggs and larvae from a Wayne's Bee hive. I am not certain that the post swarm bees in the tree ever got queenright--virgin or otherwise. This queen does have the coloration of most of my Wayne's queens. It won't get any varroa mite treatments, so time will tell.