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Offline montauk170

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Swarm gathering or Swarm moving in?
« on: March 31, 2011, 04:18:54 am »
Bee removal experts, what do you think of this?
Is it a bee swarm just gathering or bee swarm moving into the attic?

Here's my observation today and determined it was a swarm moving in.
There were bees inside the attic, how many I couldn't see. But looks like
they were all around inside looking for the right place to settle when i looked into the attic.
I see many flying bees like they were orienting.
I see bees entering in nearby holes and where the cluster is.



My suggestion was for me to get the bees on the outside, and if I can find the queen then no cutting to remove
bees inside is needed. But if the cluster outside didn't have a queen there, perhaps she already moved inside, then cutting
would be necessary.

What ya'll think?

Offline iddee

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Re: Swarm gathering or Swarm moving in?
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2011, 08:30:29 am »
I agree.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*