Anyone else here hanging traps?

Swarm traps that is. I know you southern folks are probably well past swarm season and starting the honey flow. Didnt hang traps till May last year but spring is running early so went ahead and got mine out. May still be early but rather having out early than late.

Finished hanging my trap’s yesterday. On warm days my bees have been very active.

hung in the barn.

My hive and the 8 that my brother has have been packing in the pollen. Mine and 2 of hives are 2 full boxes of bees each. Gonna have to keep an eye on them so we can split them before they swarm.

Saw this wild hive in Louisiana the other day.

We won't see any swarming for another 5 weeks. Still winter here.

I like winter, but now that hunting and trapping seasons are over I am glad spring is here. I would be really happy if we just skipped summer and went straight to fall though.

Now that spring is here? I woke up to six inches of snow this morning.

It was probably a month ago we had a nice day was like 60 something I noticed the bees out almost swarming on the side of the box I havnt seen a bee since idk why they would just up a leave like that no way they made it its been below zero since then ...first real year messing with bees any idea on why they would leave like that

Swarming is in full swing and tapering off. It was early this year. Our flow though is messed up by these last couple freezes. Everything is early this year then blasted by temps into the twenties. We lost the locust bloom.
Already scheduling cut outs.

Not yet, few weeks at least weather knocked them back hard Northeast Ohio.

I should get my crap back out this year. We used to get two a year at work until they took down a row of old white oaks with a 48" base. It was always just too easy to graft some up and split after a honey pulled.