Please Post your Swarm Dates?

[Cyndi]

Here we go again. I just split this hive 2 weeks or so ago. Oh well.

[monachica]

My bees swarmed 6/26/08. I'm in Bozeman, MT 59715

[Luke]

Dover New Hampshire. This hive was started from a nuc in May. I was there to pull some frames out of the brood box to give to a slower nuc but was too late. Luckily they were low and I had an extra deep and bottom board with me.

[Budvar]

My bees swarmed. Burbank, Washington. 99323. 100 deg day.

[coondogger]

At around 10 am this morning one of my hives swarmed. They flew up into a tree around 40 feet up. I couldn't climb up and didn't have a long enough ladder. July 6, 2008.

[beemused]

Collected approx 2 lb feral swarm from a homeowners porch at 7 pm last Wednesday. First one this year. Neighbors all watched from a distance, drinking beer and asked lots of questions. Wanted me to bring back a colony to place on their property when I got them going in their new hive.

[newbee816]

This is my first year as keeping bees and half of my hive swarmed about 20 feet up in a tree above their hive Saturday July 5th I'm in Townsend MASS. I managed to attach a bucket to a roof shovel pole via duct tape (love this stuff) and scraped the branch a bunch of times and put the bees into the top hive body with empty frames except two frames in the center. Soon the rest of the straggler bees followed and went back to the hive. Nothing like taking a shower in bees Mind you all this is my first experience with bees. What an experience. Now I need to go into the hive tomorrow and cut out the queen cells to try to encourage these bees to stay.

I don't understand why they swarmed they only filled out 8 frames out of 10 in the bottom deep hive body and they have not begun to fill the top 10 frame deep super . This hive was a 3lb package installed on April 7th 2008.

If anyone has any advice at all please let me know as I said I am new at this and will appreciate all your help and support. Thank You

Eileen Moran

[chaindrivecharlie]

Bee's just started swarming here 7/1/08, I had one hugh swarm, thay left after hived one day. Then my bee's I installed in april in a Warre hive swarmed, at least 40,000 strong, half gone now. They went over to my nieghbors empty hive box's and took up residence. Oh well there will be more soon to try and catch.

IHS/cdc

[gene travis bickford]

I had a swarm arrive in my empty hive on the 4th.
Pittsfield, Maine. (Central, ME)

[Romahawk]

Huge swarm came flying in about 4:00 PM and settled into an empty hive about a 100 feet out in front of the small yard I have. I don't know where they came from but it wasn't my hives. May be ferel but I suspect they may have come from a small yard about a mile south of me. This is the first swarm I've seen or heard of in this area which is in the northern part of Oneida county, NY.

[beemused]

Got a call that a "ton of bees" were flying around the callers home and she wanted them gone. The bees began entering a large screened vent in the foundation and she was sure they had just arrived. Turned out they had only one 6x6 comb and two 1x1 combs built when I removed them from between floor joists the following evening. Estimated 6-7 lbs of very docile golden colored bees removed and now happily in residence in one of my hives.

[JoeMcc]

From one of my hives I split a week ago.... still swarmed.

Darrington, WA 98241
July 14, 2008

[Troy]

drobbins,

Either your website is down, or my employer is filtering the port 8080.

I can't get to your website with or without the 8080.

[jeeper038]

I just picked one up yesterday in Cicero, IN

[drobbins]

Troy

it should be up now
had trouble with my ISP

sure would be nice if folks would include zipcodes with these post so I didn't have to try to look them up

Dave

[xC0000005]

July 13 - 2lb swarm moved into a playground swing tube - 98033

[Rob S]

I lost a swarm on April 19 -15 miles east of Memphis TN. -Rookie Mistake.

[Durandal]

Location: North Bend, Ohio, Southwestern Ohio
First Swarm Call: May 11
Last Swarm Call: June 25

I was told by my Bee Club that swarm season in this region is normally 2 weeks before and after Mother's Day. I think because of lots of rain and cool temperatures this year was either extended or pushed back a bit.

A half of my swarm calls (5 of 10) were clusters that had been caught out in inclement weather and clustered for at least 24 hours.

[Maine_Beekeeper]

Very Large swarm in one of my outyards. 5-6 lbs of bees approx 20' in pine tree.
Hived into deep equipment several hours after issuing 7/27/08
Likely is several swarms together.
04062

[seamuswildhoney]

I live in South Carolina. I had a swarm in May, I don't remember the date, its building to a strong hive. I had two swarms that I caught this month one Friday th 25th.