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I found them hanging in a peach tree near my apiary. Its late in the year for a swarm this far north, but I've nursed late swarms through the winter before. Getting ready to shake them off into a nuc box. The whole pile on the top of the frames. They are already moving down into the hive. I came back after dark and put the top on, and moved them to a more permanent location.
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Good luck with them. Up here a late June swarm has little chance. I hope you can save them.
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That is fascinating! Put the little winged guys to work for you to make honey.
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That is fascinating! Put the little winged guys to work for you to make honey. It is the girls who do the work. The guys just hang out, eat, and pray for a queen to fly by.
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Good luck with them. Up here a late June swarm has little chance. I hope you can save them. I have 39 hives right now, so I can take some brood and stores from other hives to help them out. Plus we usually have a pretty good nectar flow off of Golden Rod, Milk Weed, Iron Weed, and a few other nectar sources through most of October. If the queen is any good at all they should make it.
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That's definitely cool......thanks for sharing.....
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Very cool photos but dang, doing that bare-handed gives me the willies. Is the ability to do that something that comes with experience or could an inexperienced person wade right in and do the same?
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Very cool photos but dang, doing that bare-handed gives me the willies. Is the ability to do that something that comes with experience or could an inexperienced person wade right in and do the same? Swarms are usually very docile. The bees normally aren't very defensive before they have a hive located and comb drawn. I do occasionally run into a swarm that will drill me a time or two, but most of the time they are easy to work with.
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Bee owners wear gloves, beekeepers don't.
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Very cool, got bit by a wasp today when I went under the fifth wheel cover and was zipping it back up and felt something and saw a little spot of blood, turns out they had built two nests under the flaps. They died!
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That is fascinating! Put the little winged guys to work for you to make honey. Sorry sir but they are all little girls except for any drone which I douht are left by this time.Hope the girls make it. Cheers NC
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Geeze, thats really cool.
Now that I have started planting cover crops with flowering species, we have more bees than ever.
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SIL has a hive in his back yard. Earlier, he gave us a little bit of honey that was created while his herb garden was in full bloom. It was exceptional... you could catch subtle notes of rosemary and other flavorful plants.
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Nice job! I've caught two in the last week, Unusual for this time of year in this area.
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SIL has a hive in his back yard. Earlier, he gave us a little bit of honey that was created while his herb garden was in full bloom. It was exceptional... you could catch subtle notes of rosemary and other flavorful plants. Try poison oak sometime. Hard to get because it is real early but the most delicate flavor.
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Good job. Becoming rather rare in this part of the country.
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Sweet!
Had a swarm clump up on our burn pile a few summers back. Called a pard that keeps them. Was memorable to see what you saw in real time. Watching them 'melt' into the frames he set them on was almost as good as the honey his wife brought by after a spell. The local bees are on our mint right now. Would love to have some of that honey....
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