Please Post your Swarm Dates?

[Cacklewack]

First call of the season in Portland, Oregon 97202. Likely 4-5lbs, hanging nicely about 5 feet up from the branch of a cedar tree. I hope they are all this easy this year!

Here's a link to some photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...4562852&type=3

Matt

[Barry Digman]

04-09-12
87401

Ugh. Mine and I couldn't keep up.

[squarepeg]

scottsboro al, 35768, Easter sunday, caught 'em in a trap.

[BeeGhost]

4/9/12 - Received four swarm calls but couldnt get them due to work.

Stockton, CA - A swarm in a tree about 10' up, caller said about the size of a basketball and a half!
Stockton, CA - A swarm in a peach tree about 7' up, little smaller than a volleyball.
Stockton, CA - A swarm in a tree by a pre-school, about 10-12' up, close to size of basketball.
Manteca, CA- A swarm on a bush about 4' up, size of a basketball.

All between about 10 AM and 3:30 PM.

[enchplant]

4/7/12
Received a call in Berkeley CA for a swarm a little smaller than a soccer ball, low on a bush. warm still day.
Really gentle.
Here is a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8aUK7ctRU

[LSBees]

4/0/2012
4-1/2 - 5lb Swarm in Washoe Valley, Nevada 89704
Clustered on retaining wall

[sasquatch]

first sworm of the year,in a flowering tree baskitball or larger,sunny,65deg 5ft of ground.put a handfull in hive body and used a frame for them to crawl rite in.zip 81505,grand junction colorado.

[Dave360]

april 10 2012 zip 75961
first swarm call of the year on a semi trailer
then swarm call each following 2 day 2 call yesterday 04 11 12 called club member for last one

David

[Sherillynn]

@enchplant- Another great video. I commend you for how you educate the public and was surprised they were actually brave enough to touch the bees. You do great work.

[delber]

It's on!!!!! One of my hives swarmed today and landed on a fence about 20' from the hive. 19320 Pretty nice size. Found the queen, put her in the nuc. . . They wouldn't all go in a 5 frame nuc, but did once I put a second on top. WOO HOO!!!

Sorry I didn't give times / teps. About 1:30 and it's 70 degrees today.

[cg3]

45701 - 3-4 lb swarm on tree trunk, 100 ft from parent colony. First call of year. Former owner had no extra equipment, so I got 'em.

[MooreHoney]

3-4 lb Swarm 15 feet up a tree. Found wild parent colony 20 feet away. Mayslick Ky 41055. First of the year. About 70 degrees off and on rain all day. I was able to get them down and in a hive.

[rkereid]

Three different swarms that I know of in the Blacksburg and Christiansburg, mountains of southwest VA (24060 and 24073) area in the last two days. Weather sunny and in the 70s and 80s.

[cinch123]

Beekeeper in my neighborhood had one of his hives swarm on him on Friday 4/13. He was able to catch it. Canton, Ohio.

[SteveBee]

4/15, Lebanon, TN. Got there two minutes after the bees left.

[WhiteOakAcres]

4/13/12
25840 - Fayetteville, WV
Second swarm of the year in my outyard at about 3:00 pm. Queen couldn't fly and the 2# swarm ended up at the base of a chain-link fence post behind the hive. Would have been fairly easy had half the swarm and the queen not been under a piece of mine conveyor belt that is under the hives. First swarm that I've captured while laying on my side...better than 20 feet up a tree though! Finally found the queen and installed her in a 5-frame nuc with the swarm. Made up 7 splits from this yard on 4/14/12...hope I am ahead of them for a change.

[sasquatch]

big sworm on a rv,during thunderstorme,somewhone beet me to them,81505.grand junction colorado.

[1littlefarmer]

Soccer ball sized swarm from one of my hives today. My wife captured it (her first!) and it replaces the one colony we lost this "winter"

Wallkill, NY 12589

[rkereid]

Two more swarms in Blacksburg and Christiansburg, VA.

[sabic apiaries]

saw few swarms in the last couple of weeks....