THE BITTER END- Hot Tub Killer Bees Didn't Escape (although they tried)
Channel: Christina Huntnlady
Date: 06/11/2023

In the second part of this massive bee removal, we both thought we were done. I had counseled to stand up and re-evaluate before calling it a day. 
It took a few minutes for me to see that the queen and her bees- a surprising amount of workers still alive after we had worked at destroying all for over two hours- had bivouacked on the fence a mere ten feet away.
Had we simply packed up the equipment and left; there is a chance that the resulting "swarm" could have found a weak hive and taken over to survive in a new location.
I really feel that the queen was in this hostile bivouac. I took these bees home and attempted to locate the queen inside a closed barn, but she was not found. The workers were integrated successfully into a weak hive, which is still alive in November and looks like it has a chance to survive winter.