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General Beekeeping / Re: Swarm Out of Reach
« Last post by The15thMember on April 12, 2024, 03:58:39 pm »Well, we got managed to get the swarm down. They were positioned differently this morning, with most of the cluster dangling over the ground, so my sister got out the pole saw and used that to shake them down onto a tarp, where I scooped them up into a hive. It went pretty well, considering it was only in the low 50's F (low teens C), and partway through the process it became extremely windy and started raining. (We've been having this weird weather for the past two days, where one minute it's storming and the next it's sunny, and we just mistimed our window a little bit.) I'm pretty sure we got the queen, since there was a good bit of fanning at the entrance, and I'm really glad we got them down, because it was storming so badly after we went in that I think they would have been blown down from the tree. I left the hive nearby to hopefully pick up as many stragglers as possible, since many bees were scattered around in the wind when we were knocking them down, but we did manage to get the overwhelming majority of them in the box.