October 7, 2019 Bee Removal

I'm not a big fan of doing bee removals so late in the year. Too many things can go wrong with the colony, but this was a strong colony so maybe they'll be ok. I was surprised just how much brood there was and how little food stores there were for this time of year. The fall flow has started only a week ago, but I still thought a feral colony would be backfilling the brood nest by now.
In doing this removal I never saw the queen. It was dark in the little building and my eyes aren't that great anyway. All in all I think it'll work out either way. I did get a bunch of brood and my colonies here on the farm still have drones, so if I did miss the queen or she got squashed in the process they have time to make a new and still get bred.

The video is of the entire removal. I sped it up, but if you just want to see me putting them in the box at the bee farm then skip ahead to 11:04. If you see anything I'm needing to correct in my removal please let me know. I'm new at removals so any advice would be welcomed. Thank you and I hope you enjoy the video.