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Re: First swarm of the season here [Re: Bigbrownie] #8391840
04/23/25 08:56 PM
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Around here there are no wild bees left. I collected wild swarms via bait hives until maybe 10 years ago. Wherever I go I look at flowers for bees and never see a one.

Re: First swarm of the season here [Re: Bigbrownie] #8391870
04/23/25 09:35 PM
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I had a bee tree on the edge of my yard. A huge white oak. I caught a lot of swarms over the years from it. They would always hang up in a big rhododendron bush . About eight years ago, it broke off at the stump. When I went to cut it up, ( it fell across the neighbors driveway ), turned out there were two separate colonies in it. That made for a mess trying to cut it up.

Re: First swarm of the season here [Re: Bigbrownie] #8392147
04/24/25 01:52 PM
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Had a swarm come out of one of my hives today. Only went 25 feet. Got them into a new box.

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Re: First swarm of the season here [Re: Bigbrownie] #8393544
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Caught a box full Thursday evening. Was at early worship practice with my son(he does sound) and walked around front to check out my swarm trap and there was a basketball sized beard under the trap. I went back and told Paul to step outside and check out the trap. He ran back to tell me we had definitely caught a swarm. I let them stay until last night and moved them out to the farm. They didn’t like my old black comb. They chewed it all up and started drawing out their own on the frame and lid. I did have one frame of foundation in it. It was completely drawn out and filled but uncapped. I checked on them around lunch today and took my swarm trap back to tho church. They’ve already drawn out about 1/2 of three frames overnight.


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Re: First swarm of the season here [Re: John C] #8393560
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Originally Posted by John C
Caught a box full Thursday evening. Was at early worship practice with my son(he does sound) and walked around front to check out my swarm trap and there was a basketball sized beard under the trap. I went back and told Paul to step outside and check out the trap. He ran back to tell me we had definitely caught a swarm. I let them stay until last night and moved them out to the farm. They didn’t like my old black comb. They chewed it all up and started drawing out their own on the frame and lid. I did have one frame of foundation in it. It was completely drawn out and filled but uncapped. I checked on them around lunch today and took my swarm trap back to tho church. They’ve already drawn out about 1/2 of three frames overnight.

Swarms are comb building machines. They work with a crazy level of intensity.

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