[odfrank]

I have caught three baits hives on my pile of 2005 and older combs awaiting melting. This swarm scouted for a week and chose a box full of EFB combs. Ten pounds of bees? They kept coming for about 15 minutes and filled a deep wall to wall and a softball size clump hanging down below.



Later after re-organizaton with a box of Ritecell foundation on top.

 

[Mr.Beeman]

You are one lucky dog Frank.

 

[queenbee3074]

All I can say is, Awesome.

 

[cjfoster72]

Why would you have frames with European Foul Brood laying around. Shouldn't those be burned right away? I'm just asking...I have no experience with EFB...just what I've read.

 

[ForrestB]

...European Foul Brood laying around. Shouldn't those be burned right away?

You're thinking of AFB.

 

[odfrank]

You burn AFB combs, not EFB. It is supposidly a "stress" disease that can be cured by re-queening and medicating. I have not had success with medicating and just melt them down now.

 

[KQ6AR]

That's a monster, 0 in my bait hives this year, & very few swarm calls.

 

[Gypsi]

I melted all my EFB wax. Had a bait hive then had to swipe it or a nuc that got too big, don't really want too many hives out here, with the drought just more to feed. Wait til someone calls and go do a cutout, get paid, offset the sugar bill

 

[odfrank]

That's a monster, 0 in my bait hives this year, & very few swarm calls.

That's my feeling over on this side also. Fewer baits every year, more guys chasing swarms, but caught a lot of my own.

 

[odfrank]

Here is the video of this swarm starting to come in.

http://youtu.be/PvR0ybmcs1A