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Got a call about a swarm in a live oak, nice volleyball-size cluster but it's a solid 10 meters up on a limb I can't ladder to safely. I've done the bucket-taped-to-a-pai…
Minnesota first-year here. My elderly neighbor kept bees decades ago and yesterday, when a swarm (not mine!! checked!) went over our street, he ran out banging a saucepan…
After a near-miss last month I've been photographing every cup and cell I find, and I think a proper visual thread would help a lot of second-years. Posting mine: hive 1 …
Second year, two hives in Ontario, basswood about to pop. Last year I inspected every single week all summer because the books said so, and honestly I think I set them ba…
Caught my first ever swarm off a neighbour's fence post 10 days ago and hived it on foundationless frames with starter strips because that's what I had. Went in yesterday…
Walking fence line on the back forty yesterday and heard them before I saw them — good-sized colony maybe 12 feet up in a hollow post oak, entrance the size of my fist, t…
Kent, third year, four colonies. Yesterday's inspection of my best honey producer turned up six charged swarm cells along the bottom bars, larvae swimming in royal jelly,…
Seven seasons in and I'm getting schooled. Twelve colonies here in Perthshire, and this week the apiary has thrown a prime swarm on Monday and two casts since, all tracea…
Lost a swarm last week — saw it leave, couldn't catch it in time. Want to set up bait hives to catch others (mine or neighbours'). What's working for you? Lemongrass? Old…
Volleyball-sized swarm hanging from a low branch yesterday evening. Boxed them, dropped them in a single deep with foundation + one frame of brood from another colony. Ho…
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