Posted: 3/28/2014 3:31:37 PM EDT
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Last week I got to work with a bee keeper who had a store bought bee vac. it was really neat to be able to vacuum the bees into a container
from a cut out in a house. so I decided I will research DIY bee vacs and this is what I came up with. first of all I had just about all the things needed for a bee vac which gave me a total cost of about $10 for 1" pipe fittings and nuts/bolts. Things I had on hand were a shop vac, cats(this is were I got the buckets from), some alum. plate(1/2" plywood would work), 1/2" osb, 1/4" plywood and 1/8" wire mesh. Here is a pic of it 
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This is how it will be transported once the bees are in it. It is a screen top that screws down to the angle alum. attached to the bucket.
I will make another bucket with a screen top so if I come across a large numbers of bees I can split it between two buckets. Any questions or comments ? Do you see any problems with this design? I will practice on a few bees going for the baited sugar water before I actually use it on a cut out. 
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