Please Post your Swarm Dates?

[riverrat]

basketball size swarm located in a bush in south wichita kansas 4-27-2008 call came in at 2:30. Bill where where you on this one they called but you didn

[Swobee]

Hays, Ks. Thursday, April 24. I even got to witness them gathering onto a branch- what a spectacular site. It took maybe no more than 10 minutes for the entire swarm to cluster together.

[dairyman]

Harrington DE 4/20 one of my hives Had a box ready all whent fine

[Rasputin]

Hi , new to this all . got a call Friday at 12pm with a swarm on a Japanese maple . Luckily it was about 4 feet off the ground. I picked it up at about 4 p.m. and they are now in their new site on the farm . It was about the size of a soccer ball . sonoma county california

[paintingpreacher]

Has been raining for past two days, sunny today around 70 degrees. Caught three swarms today from my own hives. Two swarms-- 38863,, One swarm --38871.

[paintingpreacher]

Caught a small football size swarm yesterday 4-29-08.. 38863 Clear around 70 degrees.

[Ellen]

Got a call from Middletown DE about a football-sized swarm in a shrub. Cut the branch and it fell into my cardboard nuc. It was so easy. 19709

[jolsen]

Picked up a swarm in Seattle. April 29th. About the size of a football. 98072

[EngineeringBeek]

I missed out on a swarm in Brazill, IN on Friday April 25th. basketball size, weathered through a storm until Saturday morning when picked up by a local. I don't think he's on beesource so I posted this info instead.

[sqkcrk]

Collected a swarm yesterday at the Pepsi plant in Conway, SC. It was hanging on a low branch of a Magnolia tree, shoulder highth. I had quite an audience of about ten or more plant workers. They got a real kick out of seeing me pick up a handful of bees that had grouped together a ways away from the nuc box that I used.

While I waited for the bees to get into the box, one worker said that his girlfriend had just called him to report that she had driven through a swarm in flight. I didn't go after that one.

I like the ones I don't have to reach too high for.

[xen]

Picked up a nice swarm in Rahway N.J. 3-5 lbs. 60 degrees partly sunny May 1 08

[paintingpreacher]

Caught a nice swarm today 5-1-08 at one of my yards. Sunny, around 70 degrees. 38863..

[Mrs. Jack T.]

5/1/08
Stillwater, OK 74075
Warm Sunny Windy
2 swarms one tree, one was making comb on the limb they were on but was small (been there since Monday) Odd???
5/3/08
Perkins, OK 74059
Call at 9 AM, cold, mid 40s windy
Unknown Origin on all. . . .

[acwest]

2 swarms from the same colony, in my front yard, 21666, 70s and sunny, first April 232, second April 24. And I 'caught' one in Cambridge MD April 18
Ann

[paintingpreacher]

Caught two swarms Thursday 4-2-08.. windy, scattered showers, tornado watch and warnings all around.. Thunder rumbling as I caught the second. 38863

Caught two swarms Friday 4-3-08,, sunny, windy, around 70 degrees. 38863

[Jack Weston]

Swarmed today 05/04 in southern NY State 15 north of NYC. Zip code 10976.

[the$bee]

drove thru one swarm found another in swarm trap
Martinsville indiana 46151..... 73 and sunnny 5-5-08

[Show-me]

Large swarm yesterday (5/4/2008) from one of my hives. Many, many capped swarm cells in my other hive, now splits.

[Walts-son-in-law]

From Roy:

Is anyone recording/charting/mapping these posts? I think Walt would be interested, but for me to print this for him would be 108 pages!

Roy, for me

[drobbins]

Roy

I'm collecting it here

http://www.drobbins.net:8080/blooms/new_map.jsp

along with the info on what's blooming
don't click the "display all" button unless you have a really fast machine

Dave