I’m not been hearing a lot from beekeepers so far about swarming , but I suspect this is a heavy swarming year everywhere and not just at my apiary. I was talking on the phone Saturday evening with my bee keeping friend Larry (we were both on cell phones) and he sounded distracted. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was trying to find a queen in a swarm. Realizing that he had his head in bee hive, I told him good bye. But that prompted me to go to my apiary to look for swarms. I found a huge one, 20 feet up in cedar tree. The problem, in addition to the height, is that cedars are a real pain to retrieve swarms from because of all the branches and the prickly needles. I worked for an hour trying to get all the bees, and had only partly succeeded before dark. I told myself that they would still be there in the morning Continue reading
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