Please Post your Swarm Dates?

[beebuzz]

I got two swarms on 6-6 and a good size swarm yesterday. I heard the queen pipng in the hive the night before so I was watching out for the swarm issuance!

[odfrank]

A late good one 6/15 -95030. This was from a bait swarm I caught on 3/11, it had partially filled a deep, partially filled half a medium honey super, had an empty above that. Only had two queen cells. Now there's a crummy strain of bees if you ask me. Two gardeners who had never worked bees caught it from a 15' high tree limb into a cardboard box following my instructions over the phone. Let's hear if for the Bob and Salvo, the heroic bee luvin' gardeners of Monte Sereno.

[MGaddy]

Lesson learned,

Tuesday, 6-12, went and took down an owl house a gentleman had built and placed about 15' in a tree, he said the bees had been there about a week. Gently took it down and put it in the back of my truck, was going to take them out Wed. When I opened it up the next day, i found that the comb had fallen crushing many of the bees. I couldn't find the queen, but I gave them a frame of brood, and will check them next week. If I can't find eggs, I'll pull the queen cells and combine them with a weaker colony.

Mark

78660

[kbee]

4 bait hives caught swarms this week. Also had a swarm come to another but left. The plywood top had warped and I think to much light was let in. First time that has happened to me.

[Maine_Beekeeper]

6/16/07 10:30 am low 70's
very large swarm in my own yard
lured to bait hive 6/17/07 5:20 pm
04102

[MountainCamp]

Round Top, NY 12473
Today
Swarm moved into an empty pile of hive bodies.

[dougn]

Swarm on April 15th. Liberty Hill, Texas 78642. This was from one of my hives.

[dougn]

3 swarms on April 21st. Liberty Hill, Texas 78642. These were from my hives. Evidently I'm sufffering from the opposite of CCD - Would that be Colony Expand Disorder? I managed to hive two of these three.

[stangardener]

95684-probably my hive. weighed in at 1 3/4 pounds.

[Benton2569]

my bees swarmed today: June 22 Willington Ct. Weather was mid 70's sunny with passing showers.

[justin]

my bees swarmed today and i think i caught them.june 22nd western montana.its been in the hi 80's lower 90's.really dry for this time of year.another bad fire season?

[shylock3]

My only swarm this year so far was on 05/19, I had an old hive out and they went right to it.

[stangardener]

95667- question whether the swarm was my bees. very dark queen and bees and hive inspections didn't show any queens missing. 6/22 swarm may not of been mine either.

[Tia]

I'm disgusted. Checkerboarded on 2/28. Caught someone else's swarm on 3/27. Checkerboarded again on 4/2. 2 swarms issued on 4/21. hived them. 5/29 another swarm. Hived them, but they left. 6/1 checkerboarded again.
6/8, 6/12, 6/19, 6/21, 6/24 and today, 6/28 all swarms which either settled 50' up or flew into the woods. Nine bloody swarms this year! Checkerboarding has always worked for me in the past--I've had only one swarm in the past three years and that was the one I hadn't checkerboarded. It wouldn't be so bad if I had been able to retrieve them and I wouldn't mind if I thought they'd make it on their own. But between the county mosquito spray truck and the people around here who just love their insecticides. . .Breaks my heart.

[Mrs. Jack T.]

Swarm call 7:45 last night 6/27 got the swarm this morning 6/28 about 8 am cloudy and started to rain about 2 minutes after I finally got them boxed and loaded up. . .
Prague, OK 74864
Nice big (I think)swarm! They came from a tree about 10 yards from where they swarmed at. Still several in/out of the tree so hopefully we'll get another swarm from them next year (nice cause it's in my in-laws yard) this is the 3rd year they've had a swarm there but this is the first year we've been bee farming. . .
Here's a Linkto the pics if interested.

[stangardener]

small swarm-95667

[Swobee]

Four swarm calls this year- Central Kansas. May 7, May 11, May 28, June 10. Had one in between the middle May dates that I missed- they had already left before my arrival. I'd call them all 'average' in size. They all seem to be doing well after being hived.

[Maine_Beekeeper]

Swarm call from local new beekeeper 10:15 am (swarm from nuc installed approx 5/25/07). 10:45 am when I arrived swarm had moved to unknown location.
zip code 04102

[Drifter]

Went on a swarm call today 7/8/07 was a large swarm but probably be a honey eater if the big boys saying holds true .

Drifter

[jolsen]

Picked up a swarm Saturday 7-7-2007, and caught one of my own today 7-10-07, 70's on Saturday, and low 90's today.