A bee vac is a type of
vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets, hard floors, and other surfaces.
The dirt is collected into a dust bag or a plastic bin. ...
, factory-made or home-made, designed to suck up live
honeybee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus ''Apis'' of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the c ...
s without killing or damaging them. It can be used to remove bees when capturing a feral colony, or where a
swarm has settled.
It uses a solid reception bin, not a dustbag. The reception bin may be cylindrical or in the shape of one level of a
Langstroth hive, so that the bin can be separated from the suction gear and stacked in the stack of a Langstroth-type hive while the contained bees go out of it into the ordinary hive stack segments above or below it.
External links, and references
Google search Beekeeping
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