Alabama

[stillwaters]

March 24th '08 3 swarms
March 26th '08 1 swarm
March 28th '08 1 swarm

[BeeAware]

First swarm this season on 3/25. Second one on 3/26. Looked like Russian bees. NW Alabama.

[Docking]

Just captured 1 swarm 40 ft off the ground on an apt. building lastnight. Basketball size.
Russellville, Al 35653

[Docking]

Caught a grapefruit size yesterday off the concrete divider of a 4 lane hwy.
Russellville, Al 35653

[Bonsai]

Location: Birmingham, Al 35111
Date /Time: 05/05/09 10:00 AM
Weather: Partly Sunny 75 degrees

Small swarm from my only hive settled in a sweetgum tree about 50' above the hive. Left the next morning before 7:00 AM. They did not take up in the nuc that was set up nearby.

[fatscher]

Pearmund Cellars (google it) off of Georgetown Road had 3 swarms on May 9, 10

Then off Logmill Road east of Bull Run Mountain, north of 20169, one hefty swarm.

May 16th, another swarm same place.

[possum51]

Caught a very small swarm Friday June 12, 2009 at zip 36201 Anniston/Oxford, Alabama

[msteinkampf]

My hive swarmed today to a nearby tree at 4 pm. Sunny, temp 90 degrees F.
Birmingham, Alabama, zip 35223.

[possum51]

Captured a small swarm today July 20, 36272

[copper287]

Cullman,AL-Aug.09,2009-italians i think-hot and sunny. very small swarm. copper287

[msteinkampf]

I noted a sudden decrease in the number of bees in one of my hives between Sept 17 and Sept 20th. When I inspected the hive, numerous empty queen cells were found. I had been feeding this hive since it had swarmed in late June. Looks like it swarmed again - guess I overfed them. Zip 35223.

I never saw the swarm depart.

[Adam]

First Swarm of 2010 in extreme southern Alabama for myself was on 3/13/2010.

[msteinkampf]

March 27, 2010, at 12:35 pm. Birmingham, Alabama, Zip 35223. Temp 62F, full sun. A three-pound swarm from a hive that itself had been a swarm the year before. It coalesced in a small tree 30 yards from the parent hive, about 12 feet up. I captured the swarm and set it up in a nearby hive box that I had prepared for a package due to be delivered next month.

[Rohe Bee Ranch]

Sunday, 4 April 2010, Central Madison County, Alabama, 2-3 pound size swarm.

[possum51]

I've lost two swarms last weekend and this weekend April 11, 2010. There is a large pine tree next to my hives and the swarms bunch up in the higher part of it and I can't get to them. I just have to watch them fly into the woods. I plan on cutting the tree down to stop them from swarming in it. I guess we need more bees to make it in the woods anyway. So not all is lost in my opinion. I'm located in Piedmont, Al 36272

[Bonsai]

Caught my 1st swarm using a plwood 5 frame nuc. It was a small swarm but they began building comb right away.
April 13, 2010 / 80 degrees / Vance, Alabama / along tree line next to an open pasture / Appears to be a feral swarm.

[copper287]

First swarm of the year for me,4/18/10,but i did stop 2 from swarming last week. copper287

[mrsl]

Caught a swarm on 3/25/10, missed one on 4/10/10, caught another one on 4/23/10. Zip code 36445. The two I caught are two of my three hives

[Rohe Bee Ranch]

Picked up my first swarm of this year last night. Rather small one, about 2 pounds of bees. Off of Nick Davis Road, Lori's Landing subdivision, Harvest, Alabama.

[Foleybees]

Received a call Thursday (29 Apr 10) a swarm of bees were in front of a local doctor's office on the ground. Customers were afraid to come out and leave the office until the Bee man showed up and got those bees out of there.

Really made a big show and even got reported on the nightly news bees hold customers at bay. Ha.

Everybody in the office and customers came out to see the bees being picked up. I showed them how gentle the bees were and then brought them to their new home.