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Offline iddee

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First swarm, 2019
« on: March 13, 2019, 08:28:49 am »
Caught a 3 lb. swarm yesterday evening. March 12.. Season has began.
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Re: First swarm, 2019
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2019, 01:31:24 pm »
Good catch, Iddee! :)


Pictures?
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Re: First swarm, 2019
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2019, 02:06:59 pm »
No pics. Someone else dropped them in a box for me and I picked them up at 10:30 PM.
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Re: First swarm, 2019
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2019, 06:43:08 pm »
No pics. Someone else dropped them in a box for me and I picked them up at 10:30 PM.
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Re: First swarm, 2019
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2019, 11:29:48 pm »
Thanks for the heads up.

I've just put up another swarm trap.  Don't know if I'll catch anything this year, but I'm trying to be prepared.

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Re: First swarm, 2019
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2019, 02:12:29 pm »
I might have caught my first swarm using the Swarm Bandit by Pigeon Mountain Bee products. 
There was a definite catch to it.

Once I realized that the trap was full of bees and they stayed there for several hours (which seemed to indicate the queen was in the house)  I slowly transferred the bees to the same sized hive DIRECTLY in front of the old hive.

The bees seemed to naturally migrate to the new hive and over the period of 2 days they have slowly entered the new hive.
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Re: First swarm, 2019
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2019, 03:37:45 pm »
All the bees from the old hive entered the new?
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