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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