Please Post your Swarm Dates?

[rhetoric]

5/13 in a branch near Rochester, NY -- probably a swarm from one of my neighbor's hives. I don't have any idea how much it weighed. I'd say it was basketball sized! 75 degrees, the second day of some warm breezy weather after a stretch of cold.

[frederick]

got my 2 swarm today in spencerport.

[rhetoric]

I can't get any more swarms -- I'm out of frames!

[ees2guns]

Had 5 swarms leave my hive last 2 weeks. Captured 3, Kept 2 with one leaving the prepared hive next day. Noblesville In.46060

[jarodmorrison]

5/11/2012 - Springdale, AR
73 Degrees
Basketball sized swarm in Maple tree. Shook them in a box and all the strays ran in.
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[jarodmorrison]

5/16/2012 - Springdale, AR
78 Degrees and sunny
Got a call about a swarm that had moved into a drainage pipe at a school. I don't have a bee vac and I think that is the only way they'll get them out. The pipe runs down behind the brick so there is no way to take it apart and get them out. Not sure what happened to them.
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[frederick]

got my 3rd swarm today in rochster

[Karen1611]

Oshkosh WI -Thursday May 10th 5:00 in the afternoon. Swarm came from my hive within the 1st hour of putting a nuc into a new hive. About 1/2 the hive swarmed. They were captured and put back in the same hive. It has been 7 days now and they seem to be ok and are producing honey and baby bees .

[Corvair68]

Just hived my 6th swarm this week. I only have two hives that aren't recent package installs. All the swarms have come from one hive. The second hive hasn't built any queen cells. I got into this as a hobby, but it seems to be turning itself into a full time job. That so far doesn't pay very well. I knew the hive was strong, but if I thought it was going to swarm like this I may not have bought four packages last month. So in a little over a month I have gone from 2 Hives to 12.

[PeteBridwell]

One of my hives swarmed last week and set up house in a hollow tree about 40 feet above ground. Today, they apparently decided to move again and are currently clustered out on a branch...also 40 feet overhead. Wish I could reach them. I've set up a couple of boxes around the property with old comb and lemongrass oil; maybe I'll get lucky.

Pete
Hendersonville, TN. 37075

[Dave360]

one of our club members says that you can take a frame of open brood throw a rope over branch raise frame of open brood to swarm and they will slowly move on to frame than you can slowly lower

David

[Jebbert]

Hi all
My hive swarmed last Saturday 5/12 in Pensacola fl. Very upsetting but don't think as many left as is usual. Then we cut out about 11 swarm cells. The next day we heard piping! Very interesting experience.

[Northwest PA Beekeeper]

Punxsutawney, PA 15767 (Yes, Punxy Phil the groundhog). Got a call this afternoon from a man who had called the local pest control company who gave him my number. He had all kinds of bees flying about the front of his building. Wanted to know what I could do about it. I told him nothing - until the swarm settled and clustered. I explained to him what to look for, and he called me around 3:30 saying they were clustered in a shrub in front of his building.

I went after work and got it hived. Came to find out, this is the third swarm this WEEK on this street! They had a swarm yesterday across the street. This looked like a regular swarm - not an afterswarm. But did find there are bees in the local churchs bell tower.

Some other beekeeper got yesterday's swarm, but the church now has my number.

[FindlayBee]

Findlay, Ohio 5-18-2012.

Got a call while I was at work about a swarm in a tree. Before I could get there the swarm had moved two houses down and entered a crack in the siding of the house. Was not able to get anyone to answer the door at the house. Left my name and number.

Sunny, 78°F.

[Corvair68]

Just hived swarm #7 this week from my 2 Original hives. The queen from one of the swarms got caught between the boxes, so the bees from that swarm moved in with another swarm from the same day. I am getting worn out painting boxes and chasing swarms. I hope they are done. They are costing me an arm and a leg.

[frederick]

one of my hives swarmed today. corvair68 if you think catching swarms wares you out try doing cut outs.

[rhetoric]

Got some free-bees yesterday. Biggest swarm I've captured. I muffed it the first time (snipped the high branch and the whole thing fell apart and "reswarmed") but then it landed on a small shrub 100 yards away. The bees really resisted going into the box. The beard completely covered the front and one side of the hive, despite the fact that I had seen the queen in the box. It made me worry that she had crawled back out, but it got cold enough last night that they all went in. I will move it home tonite.

[chip.gotro]

front yard swarm.jpgswarm in nuc box.jpgcaught a swarm in front yard, believe it was from feral hive in oak tree in my yard. swarm captured on 5/6/12 @ fosters,alabama,tuscaloosa county,35463. weather was clear skies mid 80's

[Northwest PA Beekeeper]

Got a call from a guy in Indiana County, PA last evening that he had a swarm on the side of a building. Being a county away, I told him to check on the internet to locate a more local beekeeper. I called him right before dark to see if he had found someone, and he had some leads but they didn't pan out. He said most of the bees had gone into a hole in the wall for the night.

I explained to him, that no, the bees didn't just move in the for night, they had moved in and he would now either have to have a beekeeper do a cutout or just get rid of them. It sounded like they were in a wooden porch rail - so it shouldn't be too bad of a job - although you never know until you get there. Hopefully he finds someone.

[wadehump]

caught another 1 today on a golf course about 3-3.5 pounds saw queen apeared to be virgin very small 85 and sunny