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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: montauk170 on March 09, 2011, 02:08:41 pm

Title: First Swarm of the Season
Post by: montauk170 on March 09, 2011, 02:08:41 pm

Removed my first swarm of the season on Monday March 7th.
About 15 ft up in a tree. Barely reached it with my 10 ft ladder.
Hearing many others throughout California catching swarms just this week.
There's a good nectar flow right now here in the SF Bay Area.

(http://tackletour.net/temp/images/picsanmateospuraway110307c.jpg)

(http://tackletour.net/temp/images/picsanmateospuraway110307a.jpg)

This was the bulk of the swarm. I cut a branch before this and removed only about 1/6 of the group.
Took three branch cuts to remove the entire thing.
(http://tackletour.net/temp/images/picsanmateospuraway110307e.jpg)

A few more pics on my blog: http://losaltoshoneybees.wordpress.com/ (http://losaltoshoneybees.wordpress.com/)

Title: Re: First Swarm of the Season
Post by: Tommyt on March 09, 2011, 08:22:52 pm

Nice "Tis the season"

I got 3 calls for tomorrow :-D

Tommyt

Title: Re: First Swarm of the Season
Post by: AllenF on March 10, 2011, 07:15:43 pm

Thanks for the pics.

Title: Re: First Swarm of the Season
Post by: JP on March 11, 2011, 08:05:34 am

Wonderful!


...JP

Title: Re: First Swarm of the Season
Post by: hardwood on March 11, 2011, 09:37:18 am

Good job! Nice pics too!

Scott