anyone hauled bee's before

That is backwards. Loaded you at 7pm when it is cooling. You need to be moving when it starts heating up. Slow down to arrive when it is cooling off (sun going down) or for you evening stop. You do NOT EVER stop while the day is heating up. It will roast/kill them. They need airflow when it is heating up during the day. Maybe temperatures when you did this were cold enough. Though that is terrible advice for bees and you!. Cool =break. Heat/warming up MOVE IT OR LOSE IT

 

Possibly drive 2 hr at night. Take your break though once it heats up move it or ... well the bees will tell you they do not appreciate it.

 

384, 408, 432, 448, 456 are common load sizes. Depends on season. Fall =heavier spring =lighter. ... individual bees do you really want to sit there and count?gl

 

Mann lake ( cali or minnesota) or sheriff from england?i think. Mann lake is cheaper and do just fine

 

You will probably have to be aware that if you wreck, you need to run. Do not swat. There will be enough angry bees in there to take your life.

About 7 weeks in spring or so we have working bees come around and as long you do not swat at them near you or even on you evaluating the situation you will be fine. Just move slow and calm. if you swat even one. Then that one will send a message chemically to all others in range or the entire hive. You would need to be gone.

 

A friend of mine used to haul bees on a regular basis, all across the country, he had a water bubbler hose in a track on his stepdeck, he just hooked up a couple of times a day. I don't know why, but he stopped at my house a few times and we would stand around bsing, with bees flying all over us, unless a guy slapped them or something they never stung us. My dog however kept sticking his nose down on them when they landed on the ground, till one finally stung her, then she would squash every one that landed with her paw. lol

 

Chemicals go out when you get stung. You are correct do not attack them. Turn your face.
However working with/hauling bees. Some of them are just mean no matter what. Good news is they will let you know quickly lol

 

I know they get mean if you try to load or unload in the daylight warm hours very quick. they tend to not like anybody messing with their house. lol
I do not know why, but they are just not bad about stinging me, I have literall reached in to wild hives in trees with a knife and cut out pieces of comb and get handfuls of honey with out getting stung and even if I did, just a few times.

I remember hearing about a truck that overturned with a load of them down in the San Antonio area, that they actually killed the driver, I would say hem were some of the mean ones.

 

The problem is africanized bees. Those are the dangerous ones.

What I love is just big fat bumble bees or working bees coming around that have a certain way of circling a plant for potential food.

The ones coming through gangway in a straight line are not good.