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General Beekeeping / Re: Swarm Out of Reach
« Last post by The15thMember on April 11, 2024, 04:10:49 pm »I set up one medium in the apiary, bated with dark comb and LGO, and another one on top of the buck barn, which is about 4-5 feet off the ground and a decent ways away from the bee yard. Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll pick one of those options. I took a look at the swarm with binoculars, but no dancing that I could see. The outer mantle of bees is in umbrella mode, everyone stationary with their wings open, and there are no more than five scouts flying around the cluster. The rain has really picked up again. Poor girls, this whole endeavor was just poorly planned.