Swarm Re-claimed

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AstroZomBEE

Discussion Starter · May 13, 2014 (Edited)

There are about 200 colonies 50 yards from this bush. Swarms in this yard tend to get a bit large....

here is what it looks like just a bit down the hill from the swarm.

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treeWinder

· #3 · May 13, 2014

Nice, looks like a double deep swarm, I'd have plenty of traps out, free bees.

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Teal

· #4 · May 13, 2014

That is a big swarm! Cool pics.

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Mr.Beeman

· #5 · May 13, 2014

Nice sized swarm for sure. Question.... what are those boxes on the perimeter of the bee yard? Swarm traps?
If not, I would have about a dozen or so scattered about the hillside.

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@Mr. BeemanThose are the nucs that didn't fare so well on the trip from florida to Pennsylvania, I set them to the side for a week or so and recheck them, they normally bounce back very well and get sold.

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Agis Apiaries

· #7 · Sep 4, 2014

What the heck? They landed within an arm's length of the ground? My last swarm landed 40 feet off the ground in the top of a Ponderosa pine tree. Nothing like hauling a modified vacuum cleaner up 40 feet and vacuuming them all up!

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