Thousands of bees in tree that must be cut - advice please

[LabLover]

Sneak in in the evening and cut it off the stump, and those blossoms will go away in a day or 2

This is most likely the answer so, very early this morning I severed the bulk of the tree from the trunk, cutting off the supply of nutrients through the cambium. I will give it a couple of days and hopefully the flowers will drop and the bees will move on to another food source. Thanks for your input!

 

[TheJollyLogger]

This is most likely the answer so, very early this morning I severed the bulk of the tree from the trunk, cutting off the supply of nutrients through the cambium. I will give it a couple of days and hopefully the flowers will drop and the bees will move on to another food source. Thanks for your input!

If they are hiving 1500 meters away they will find a new food source soon

 

[LabLover]

If they are hiving 1500 meters away they will find a new food source soon

Well, they have been here for at least a month since the trees flowered..... Severing from the trunk seems to be working, the flowers appear to be wilting already.

 

[Philbert]

It’s California: the bees will get a lawyer, saying that you deprive them of their food source, and that they had an easement on that property.

Philbert

 

[LabLover]

It’s California: the bees will get a lawyer, saying that you deprive them of their food source, and that they had an easement on that property.

Philbert

Must be a different California than the one I've lived in for 35 years.

 

[ironman_gq]

I wouldn't worry too much about the bees, american honey bees are not agressive. Just cut the limbs from the trunk and deal with those in a few days.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

Well, they are not wild about you accidentally cutting into their hive with a saw, that hurt, lol. But yes, 1500 meters away is a different story...

 

[Marine5068]

One of our Desert Museum (palo verde) trees has split and come down. Fortunately it is in a spot where we can still navigate the property. The tree is in bloom and starting at 0500 each morning there are at least 10,000 bees in the tree doing their job.
I have no desire to harm the bees but I do need to cut up the tree remove the debris. The flowers on the tree last a fairly long time each year. This is what the tree looks like: https://inlandvalleygardenplanner.org/plants/parkinsonia-x-desert-museum/
Any suggestions how I can deal with this without harming the bees, having to buy a bee suit or pissing off the bees and getting myself stung? Thanks.

What Phil said.
Get a qualified bee keeper that has experience moving hives.
Hope to save all the bees. They are so important to our pollination, crops and survival.
Good luck.

 

[holeycow]

The bees that are most important are the wild bees that are being decimated by chemicals.

pollinators are specialists and cannot pollinate everything. It takes a myriad of species of pollinators to do the job.

those particular domestic bees in the big scheme don't really matter. Much. There's more where they come from.

Swarm 4 captured today. Like 10 minutes ago. We are just catching the easy ones..

 

[farmer steve]

The bees that are most important are the wild bees that are being decimated by chemicals.

pollinators are specialists and cannot pollinate everything. It takes a myriad of species of pollinators to do the job.

those particular domestic bees in the big scheme don't really matter. Much. There's more where they come from.

Swarm 4 captured today. Like 10 minutes ago. We are just catching the easy ones..

Are these swarming from your hives?

 

[holeycow]

Yes. We stopped tearing out swarm cells as a means to prevent swarming. We now let them swarm, which gives us new, virgin queens in the original hive. It also takes a lot of the varroa mite problems away with the swarm and promotes vigor in the hives naturally. It's not the best method for all-out honey production, but it makes for healthier hives, in our opinion.

we only catch swarms from known, vigorous, healthy hives. We haven't chased any swarms this year that are difficult captures.

 

[holeycow]

here's thousands of bees in a tree...and then in a box.

yesterday's captured swarm. We don't think this one is ours. It just showed up in the yard...hmmm. It seems like a pretty good bunch tho, so we made them a home..

pictures loaded sideways, oops!