Please Post your Swarm Dates?

[artnailer]

caught another swarm on 5/16 then caught 2 more nice swarms on the 19th that makes 5 swarms and 3 cutouts this season thus far

[Woodman_63379]

I am in Troy, Missouri and have picked up swarms on the following dates:

29 May 2010 - Medium
5 May 2010 - Large
10 May 2010 - Very Large
18 May 2010 - Large
18 May 2010 - small

I have been lucky so far. All of these have stayed in the hive and are going to town building comb. We have been having a lot of rain. It has been raining for several days in a row. I have been getting calls on the first sunny day after a rainy spell. The best one was on the 18th of May. The swarm was hanging off a limb not even 3' off the ground. I held a bucket under them and brushed them off the limb into the bucket with my bee brush. So far there was only one that was high off the ground. It was about 15'. Got to LOVE IT!

[LSBees]

Picked up a nice large swarm in Gardnerville NV 89410 on the 19th of May.

[ealldredge]

Medium Swarm on 5-10-2010 Cottonwood Heights, Utah 84121.
Medium Swarm on 5-14-2010 West Valley City, Utah 84119.
Large Swarm on 5-18-2010 Herriman, Utah 84096.
Medium Swarm on 5-19-2010 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115.

[Woodman_63379]

I just got back in the door after picking up another swarm. It was a small swarm on the seat of a riding mower. The owner said that the bees landed on his leg while he was cutting grass. He said he stopped, stood up, and stomped he foot on the ground. The bees fell off. Some flew off. Then they refromed on the seat. He left them and went in the house. He called me today beause they were still there. It is raining today and he was worried about them getting wet. So I picked them up and will give them a nice dry new place to live.

[Brent]

Picked up a medium swarm yesterday.

Went to pick up a large swarm today but they were gone when I arrived.

Brent

[LSBees]

How many of you collect multiple swarms from the same location (spot) multiple times in a week?

Earlier I had picked up two swarms on the same exact fence at the same exact post less than a week apart.

Last evening I picked up a very large swarm on a patio swing about 25 feet from a large cottom wood tree and now I have a call back where the owner claims another swarm has gathered on the same swing?

Thanks

[RGrinnell]

12601

5/20/2010

First swarm I've seen this year. She got away.

[Old Buzzard]

47872
5/20/2010
medium sized
issued at 1:50 PM, from one of my hives. Overcast sky, light rain.
Captured, so far.

[LSBees]

How many of you collect multiple swarms from the same location (spot) multiple times in a week?

Earlier I had picked up two swarms on the same exact fence at the same exact post less than a week apart.

Last evening I picked up a very large swarm on a patio swing about 25 feet from a large cottom wood tree and now I have a call back where the owner claims another swarm has gathered on the same swing?

Thanks

Heres a picture of my second set of bench bees, the first on was alot larger but I didnt have the camera.

[Deeptime]

NC Indiana, just north of Columbia City

5/20/10 Got a call (7:00 pm) ...a swarm in his front yard tree.Late evening, 71 degrees, overcast, just before rain. Bees extremely docile. Appear to be Carniolins.

Got home about 9:20 (drizzle), had hive stand, medium box w/plastic foundation, no inner cover, no outer cover. Dumped both buckets of bees (4 #), put piece of indoor paneling as lid, covered whole affair with garbage bag (now raining), stuck in entrance reducer and headed for the house. Everything seems ok this a.m. (checked them in moderate rain) Assuming rain will keep them in the hive for the time being.
No stings.

[queenking]

ive got 4 swarms this year so far and did 12 cut outs so far

[pine_ridge_farms]

May 21st. Swarm on the ground. Maybe 2 pounds.

[rkr]

Cleavland, Mo (Missouri) 64734 5-21-2010
Discovered in the afternoon, about 3-4 lbs.
75 degrees and clear with light wind

[boknows honey bee's]

witnessed swarm Rehoboth mass 5-19-10

[rkr]

One of my hives swarmed
same size as above swarm
multiple queens/cells in original, thinned down to one virgin
5-22-2010
Harrisonville, Missouri 64701

[mothergoosemagic]

Fairlawn, VA. About 3 pounds in a maple. Looked very much like rkr's photo.

[queenking]

got a call today about a swarm in a ttree and i got there the bees were swarming from one tree to the other tree and they landed about 5 feet off the ground and got them . to them home and ten minutes after i put them in a nuke they swarmed again. went back out to check on them 2 hours later and found them hanging on a branch 70 feet from were they last swarmed. will check in morning to make sure they stayed.

[dox]

Caught my first swarm of the season the morning of 5/22/10. Got the call and they were on the head of a practice calf roping dummy in their backyard about 2-3 feet off the ground. Just swept them into the box about 2# of bees.

[Old Buzzard]

47872
5/22/2010
small to medium sized
issued at 12:50 PM, from one of my hives. 2nd cast. previous cast 5/20/10.
Blue bird day.
Too high to reach. ignored my bait box.