Thanks for your input, Tim.  These bees are pretty entrenched.  They were first noticed last year and have already swarmed this spring.  Unfortunately, some dead wood inside the hole is blocking access to the main nest or I'd remove the combs by hand and vacuum up the queen.

How do you keep the soaked paper from burning or do you not light a fire and only use the smoker to blow Honey Robber vapors into the cavity?

Waldemar
Long Island, NY


At 11:46 AM 6/20/2005, you wrote:
>>I have had some success making bees abscond from a tree by smoking them heavily with Honey Robber soaked newspaper in the top of the smoker.

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