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Title: #16. :):):)
Post by: bailey on March 21, 2013, 06:49:53 pm

Got a swarm call while at work.  Hour before I could get off and the swarm had been in the tree for 3 days.
I was fully expecting to arrive to find an empty tree with wax bits where the swarm was. 

Thankfully I was wrong. It was a very nice swarm just sitting there waiting for me to come give them a nice new home!!!
Pics below.
Bailey

(http://s7.postimage.org/3rogstutz/image.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/3rogstutz/)


(http://s23.postimage.org/b2fvlvbrr/image.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/b2fvlvbrr/)

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Post by: goatmanbees on March 21, 2013, 07:10:09 pm

Fantastic!!  I can't wait for swarm season in the frigid north!!

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Post by: bailey on March 21, 2013, 07:12:17 pm

Told you goatman. Run from the white crap!!!   Run fast.  It's a plague upon mankind!! :evil:
Bailey

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Post by: goatmanbees on March 21, 2013, 07:23:58 pm

It might just happen. This cold weather is making me crazy! :rant:

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Post by: buzzbee on March 21, 2013, 08:17:21 pm

I tell ya what.That just makes it seem all the colder here! :)

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Post by: bud1 on March 21, 2013, 09:27:49 pm

them lousiana boys have just as much in the air as youall do white stuff    skeeters and knats

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Post by: bailey on March 21, 2013, 09:49:05 pm

Bud has it exactly right !!!
Skeeters and gnats are tough here!!!

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Post by: RHBee on March 21, 2013, 11:03:16 pm

I think the mosquitoes state bird of South Carolina.

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Post by: Bush_84 on March 21, 2013, 11:16:03 pm

Quote from: Ray Bayless on March 21, 2013, 11:03:16 pm

I think the mosquitoes state bird of South Carolina.

Have you ever been to Minnesota? 

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Post by: gov1623 on March 21, 2013, 11:28:46 pm

That looked like an easy one.  Just the kind I like.

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Post by: bailey on March 21, 2013, 11:39:23 pm

Nice bees easy catch and a large swarm.  Basketball size or bigger!
Bailey

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Post by: vmmartin on March 21, 2013, 11:40:15 pm

Enough is enough already Bailey.  Why don't you just update us at every 5? :-P Oh but then again, that would still be every day.  Congrats to a great start friend.

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Post by: capt44 on March 22, 2013, 01:02:25 am

Just as things were getting ready here it snowed of all things.
I'm in Central Arkansas.
Next Thursday it's supposed to be in the 60's soooooo I look for these gals to swarm all at once.
Congradulations on all the swarm retrievals

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Post by: bailey on March 22, 2013, 07:27:52 pm

Vmmartin

Does that mean you don't want to hear about the trap that hit today? :evil:
It isn't on the rack yet so I wasn't going to report it yet :-D
Bailey

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Post by: Georgia Boy on March 22, 2013, 09:27:40 pm

Tooooooooo darn lucky.   X:X X:X X:X X:X X:X

Should be getting close to swarm time here.  I hope to get just one and I'll be happy.  :)

Congrads man.

David

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Post by: bailey on March 22, 2013, 09:51:12 pm

Y'all gotta understand something. Jp is my mentor.  I gotta try to make him proud by " snatching the pebble from his hand"

Till then I will be working hard to get every swarm in southeast la.

For you younger folks who don't get this look up the old tv show Kung fu.
Bailey

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Post by: Georgia Boy on March 22, 2013, 10:05:28 pm

I understand "Grasshopper"  :)

I think I got that right. LOL

David

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Post by: vmmartin on March 22, 2013, 10:43:29 pm

Quote from: bailey on March 22, 2013, 07:27:52 pm

Vmmartin

Does that mean you don't want to hear about the trap that hit today? :evil:
It isn't on the rack yet so I wasn't going to report it yet :-D
Bailey

Aw, go ahead. I got a feeling your going to anyway.  I got my first trapped swarm of the year yesterday and scouts galore on another one today so I am not as jealous as I was. 

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Post by: buzzbee on March 23, 2013, 02:51:54 pm

Afternoon is setting in. # 17 today Bailey? Your on a roll,keep it up! :)

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Post by: bailey on March 23, 2013, 06:08:37 pm

If the weather clears then I will have # 17 on the rack tonight. 
Just got back from running the trap line and I have at least #17 ready to go on the rack and suspect # 18 as well in another.
But they don't count till I have them on the rack!
Bailey

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Post by: blanc on March 23, 2013, 06:10:21 pm

You ought to start going into the swarm business!  :-D
Blanc

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Post by: bailey on March 23, 2013, 06:15:51 pm

Kinda think I am already :evil:
Bailey

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Post by: bailey on March 23, 2013, 06:49:09 pm

But since you mentioned it and the weather cleared I guess I better go run the other trap line so I can give a good report tonight.  :evil: :evil:
Bailey