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07-03-2011, 08:02 AM
My brother went out on his deck for morning coffee and saw this swarm in his neighbor's tree. It wasn't from any of our hives. I think this would qualify as a large swarm. :eek: Thinking back on it, I wish we would have got a fish scale to weigh it. My guess is 10 lbs, maybe more, but I'm no expert. (By the way, I'm 6 feet tall).
http://home.comcast.net/~k_haas/home/Capture.JPG
Some of the narration isn't actually correct. These bees were VERY GENTLE and we could have done this without a suit. Having heard stories about how swarms can become aggressive, we didn't want to take any chances.
Finally, the swarm was housed in two deeps. The bottom deep already had frames in it when we shook the swarm into the empty top deep. It's all the leftover equipment we had. You can see a mix of everything from drone frames, to built out frames, to foundation. It's all we had. We'll be fixing up their new home shortly.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p_pwIPrGL4
http://home.comcast.net/~k_haas/home/Capture.JPG
Some of the narration isn't actually correct. These bees were VERY GENTLE and we could have done this without a suit. Having heard stories about how swarms can become aggressive, we didn't want to take any chances.
Finally, the swarm was housed in two deeps. The bottom deep already had frames in it when we shook the swarm into the empty top deep. It's all the leftover equipment we had. You can see a mix of everything from drone frames, to built out frames, to foundation. It's all we had. We'll be fixing up their new home shortly.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p_pwIPrGL4