Spring/Summer 2017

All in a Day’s Work: Saving a beehive in a felled tree

What do you do when a tree you’re about to take down has a large beehive in it? Here’s how arborist Dan Dalton and the Almstead crew (along with beekeeper Tony Bees) preserved a beehive in a tree that needed to be taken down in Pelham, NY, and moved it to its new home in Sandy Hook, CT.

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(1) Beekeeper Tony Bees examines the hive and covers it.

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(3) The exposed hive is covered with burlap.

(2) The trunk is carefully lowered to the ground with pulleys and then cut to the smallest size possible without disturbing the hive.

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(4) & (5) Transporting and relocating the hive to its new home.

 

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LOCATIONS:

 

Lower Westchester County, NY and New York City

58 Beechwood Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10801

914-576-0193

 

Upper Westchester (North of I-287)

15 Broadway, Hawthorne, NY 10532

914-741-1510

 

Fairfield County, Connecticut

80 Lincoln Avenue, Stamford CT 06902

203-348-4111

 

Bergen & Passaic Counties, NJ

504 High Mountain Road, North Haledon, NJ 07508

973-636-6711

 

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