Hello Waldemar and Friends,

For those of you interested in putting bees into a small jar for use in Bee
Sting Therapy, here is a method I have been using for years.  I use a
plastic peanut butter jar with numerous 1/8" holes drilled in the top, as my
bee container.  I have the jar open and sitting on a flat surface near the
hive I am gathering bees from.  I use a 30" square piece of 4 mil plastic
sheet spread on the ground and shake some bees from a frame onto the sheet.
The bees are disoriented and I am able to fold the sheet like a newspaper,
by grabbing two opposing edges, and shake the bees down to the center crease
and then pour them into the jar.  Sometimes I will gather too many and it is
a simple matter to shake them out of the jar until a sufficient quantity
remains and then gently screw on the lid.

When we get ready to apply the stings, I pour about a teaspoon of
concentrated sugar water through the holes in the top of the jar and roll
the bees around in it until they are all well coated.  At this point I place
the jar in a small bowl and open the lid to pick out the bees one-at-a-time
with special tweezers I have modified for the purpose.  The bees can't fly
with a coating of sugar water and will mill around the top edge of the jar,
cleaning themselves.  It makes it very easy to work with them, this way.  I
hope this helps.

Robert J. Bassett

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