Ok.... I'm surprised that is the only one I have submitted here. Do about 6 to 8 a year. I'm doing 5 more within a month. 4 brick buildings, and a brick chimney. This is the right time of year to do them.
Ok, so that was an impromptu trap out I did. Most of what you see there is trash I had in my bee van.
That cone is made from 1/8 inch screen wire and that material is called Number 8 Hardware Cloth. That's like 8 inches from a roll. If you get some, get 3 feet. Plenty of room for mistakes.
That base the cone is in is what goes on the top of fuse boxes. It's in the hardware section near the weatherheads. 4 screws in it. Under it is trash, specifically, a peice of styrofoam stuff that was packing material from a box. It is serving as a gasket, so bees can't get between the weatherhead base thing and the and tree, bypassing the trapout.
That cone is longer than it should be. I was lazy, and they are my neighbors, so if it didn't work, I'd just do it again. Worked fine.
The hole at the end of it is big enough to put my thumb and little finger in. About that big around. You want it to be big enough for 2 bees to walk side by side and get out. or so. Little bigger than your thumb.... or so.
Should be 10 inches long.
If you can't drill into the pillar thing you got, secure the cone to a piece of wood, because you can cut the wood to whatever size you want, and strap it to the pillar. You can use spray foam to seal it off around it. Or a gasket think like me. Bees will want to chew through it.
You need a box or something they can collect inside of. Else, they get obsessive about chewing their way back inside the beehive and they can eat through wood, and will. They go in the box, start making honeycomb, and when the queen comes out, she lays in there.
My box is made of trash. It was a ziploc box. I usually use a medium beehive or two mediums. If I have comb, that helps. If I can put a frame of eggs in there, I do that, and helps a LOT. I wrapped it up like that to make it waterproof.
If you have lemongrass oil, it helps get them to accept it and start building comb in it.
So you got a round thing... Made of stucco.. can put a beehive up there and hold it up with a 2x4 from the ground, and strap it to the pole to keep it from falling over. No holes in the stucco round thing.
When you make the cone, get some thin wire. That green wire they make for making Christmas wreaths helps. thin wire. Needle nose pliers helps you thread it through, like sewing. I put it through, go over a few squares, and put it back through again and tie (twist) it off and cut it and start again.
I think that trapout was done in like 5 days or something. My timing was perfect on it. Easy to get right when it is next door and they don't mind me stopping and doing whatever I want whenever I wanted.
Might take 2 brood cycles to get her out. Maybe longer. 2 weeks is my average, I would guess. I usually tell clients 21 days, maybe more.
Feel free to ask me questions. I just sat down and started typing. I could have missed something. Ask away.