tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637106756798831463.post5558364969854789598..comments2023-12-24T23:45:43.679-05:00Comments on The Bee Journal: Eat . Sleep . Bees .Bee Magic Chronicles for Kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818365668819339658noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637106756798831463.post-45226897526736824942012-05-22T12:34:41.513-04:002012-05-22T12:34:41.513-04:00Chris - thanks too for the swarm trap update. I m...Chris - thanks too for the swarm trap update. I might try that next year.<br /><br />As for finding swarms - a good place to call can be your City or Municipality and have your name on their call list. When our city has to deal with their property often bees are found and they need someone to call and come get them.Bee Magic Chronicles for Kidshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818365668819339658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637106756798831463.post-15730542905596257432012-05-22T12:32:52.153-04:002012-05-22T12:32:52.153-04:00Chris, thanks for the queen excluder tip. A fello...Chris, thanks for the queen excluder tip. A fellow beeker told me that one just recently and it'll come in handy.<br /><br />I will update my blog about that swarm because I did end up getting them! I did give them some brood this time and they stayed.Bee Magic Chronicles for Kidshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818365668819339658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637106756798831463.post-84332667225370012732012-05-19T03:12:26.899-04:002012-05-19T03:12:26.899-04:00The next time you collect a swarm that has indeed ...The next time you collect a swarm that has indeed already left a hive and you have retrieved them from some portion of the landscape, try this. Place a queen excluder between the bottom of your brood box and your bottom cover. Place the bees in the brood box, the bees can leave freely but the queen will be unable to. After a few days they should adjust to this new home...the scouts can attempt to scout but without the queen responding they should remain. After all you have retrieved them after their instinct to swarm had already been wrought.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09557994284216736973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637106756798831463.post-7791635140368281042012-05-17T11:18:11.838-04:002012-05-17T11:18:11.838-04:00Hi,
Great pictures and story. Sorry to hear they ...Hi,<br /><br />Great pictures and story. Sorry to hear they didn't stick around though! <br /><br />I've read that if you provide a caught-swarm with a frame of brood (that's assuming you have one available) they won't leave. Bees (even a caught swarm) will stick around for sure if a frame of brood is present. <br /><br />I have a <a href="http://www.littlehouseonthebighill.com/beekeeping/index.php?detail=115" rel="nofollow">swarm trap deployed</a> near my house, baited with lemongrass oil, but it hasn't caught anything yet. None of my hives swarmed, nor our neighbors, and I suppose there just aren't enough "wild hives" in our area to have caught in the trap.<br /><br />I'm considering asking the conservation department if I can deploy a trap on some public wooded areas next year to see if it works any better.<br /><br />ChrisChristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612958852770385279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637106756798831463.post-11483348768504678182012-05-13T21:49:24.305-04:002012-05-13T21:49:24.305-04:00Hey Randy. It is frustrating. I've talked to...Hey Randy. It is frustrating. I've talked to a couple beekeepers today that watched as their bees flew away. And another call about a huge swarm not far from my hives.... now I think they might be those abscounded bees of mine!<br /><br />I'm interested in your swarm trap. How do you bait it? It sounds like you have it up in a tree as well?<br /><br />I'd love to hear more about it.Bee Magic Chronicles for Kidshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818365668819339658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637106756798831463.post-79616007293818608472012-05-13T21:16:44.962-04:002012-05-13T21:16:44.962-04:00Barbara,
That hand is really swollen, sorry to rea...Barbara,<br />That hand is really swollen, sorry to read about it. Shame the bees did not stay after all that work. A few weeks ago I got stung 6 times in 2 days, I know how your feeling.<br /><br />Last Sunday I had 4-5 pounds of bees swarm out of my hive and land 50 ft up a oak tree. Nothing I could do, but hope. Tuesday night I found my swarm trap full of bees, mine or otherwise I do not know. Now we have a hive in a tree as they are actually in an 8 frame deep box.Randy Emmitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10292186655869617897noreply@blogger.com