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Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:52:30 -0500
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Re: Humane ways of killing a colony
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From: "randy oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
> I've not personally tried sulfur for killing a hive--has anyone on the 
> List
> got experience?

I've done it.  I had to kill bees in a hollow tree one time. I put some 
sulfur in a smoker and puffed it into the opening.  It worked, but I will 
never do it again!

The bees crawled around puking like with a pesticide kill. It was not an 
instantaneous death for them.  I felt really bad.

And it ruined the smoker. The sulfur smell was always in it when it was lit.

Dave

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