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From: "Allen Dick" <[log in to unmask]>

> The only way I know will work with absolute certainty --

   I have successfull drummed bees from walls, and got the queen. I tried
this on a colony in a windfall tree last year, but the wood was too rotten
to make a good drum. But I think it would work on sound wood.


Dave Green   SC  USA
(getting out the rubber mallet)
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