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May 27, 2010
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by: Gary

Thank you for your very fast and helpful reply.

The box is in fact suspended by a rope (albeit not nylon or with a pulley system) and can be lowered to the ground. So since it is unlikely these are Africanized bees, (just yesterday my gardening people were using a power trimmer around the tree without incidence) I think I will leave it alone. -- the owls can find some other home --and hope the rope is strong enough.

But if I do decide to take it down I will most certainly call you.

Thanks again.

Gary

[Great forethought on your part Gary! However, unless you're sure the rope is very strong and in good condition, you might consider upgrading the rope very soon, before the box, with hive, gets too heavy. If the colony is successful the hive could easily weigh over 60lbs.

I'm imagining you standing underneath, lowering it down, at some point after the bees have become aggressive, and just as it starts to move the rope breaks ...... you see my point. How far can you run, in a beesuit, in the time it takes for an owl box to fall 30 feet?

The Bee Guy]

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