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Date: | Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:42:03 -0400 |
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> Closing up a colony to kill it is not foolproof
This depends, like everything, on the skill of the operator.
> Survivors will drift.
This is a problem regardless of method. Not all bees return home at night.
> A plastic bag is also not foolproof, bees quickly chew through plastic,
There are plastic bags and there are plastic bags. Some are thin; some are robust.
> CO2 is cheap, and easy to get from welding supply houses,
It is even cheaper and easier when the bees generate it.
> Sodium cyanide is very effective
Beekeepers and unskilled help in northern states and Canada used to use calcium cyanide all day long to kill colonies in the fall. I never heard of anything worse than a headache as a result and it was freely available. Handy stuff.
> Tragic work, to kill one's bees.
True, and probably is very much like spitting into the wind, but hope springs eternal and overrules logic and experience.
And sometimes that hope wins out.
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