Last winter we had to dismantle an old Empress tree. There we several larger cavities, (yep trees get them too, sorta) and in one of the cavities was a honey bee hive.
We lowered sections of the tree and had to fell the trunk. Prior to climbing the tree we enclosed the hive with lots of foam wrapped around the trunk and taped with plastic.
It all worked out real well. The beekeeper came and took care of them. Later in the year he took the queen and moved the hive. The photo of the trunk is a piece that was originally about 40 feet high. Our customer's children thought is was cool, so did we.
