Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: tincan on May 17, 2013, 04:26:13 pm
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Im in northeast wisconsin and have only seen one swarm in my life 49 years am I just missing them or do they not swarm in the north as much as the south because it seems like they get alot of swarms in the south
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every place is different and every year is different. some years i get so many calls i can't keep up with them and other years, none. how long have you had your name out there?
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Thats funny, Tincan, I was just wondering the same thing this afternoon as I looked around a set of old barns. Didn't see any indication that there had ever been a swarm or hive in either of them. Plenty of hornets and wasps, but no honey bees. And, I have never heard of one in the area in the over twenty years i have lived here in NY.
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this is only my third year but i thought in 49 years i would have seen or heard of some
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I am in my first year as a beekeeper, and thought it would be nice to find a hive in an old barn or house and try to catch it. So I started looking around in some of these places and can find no evidence of any ever having bee, I know we have feral honey bees around her, just haven't located any sites yet.
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I'm a second year beek from Montana and I had never heard of one until last year, there were three on craigslist. I was able to get one of them. I think in our area there are some but they are rare to find. I don't know of any feral colonies but there must be some somewhere. I've never heard about a cutout in our area either. Not many bees and a lot of area.
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some people go a lifetime without shooting a banded duck or goose.. some shoot a banded bird every year..