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« on: April 10, 2016, 08:35:36 pm »
I got called to this little swarm today, over in the next town. Looks like it was a secondary swarm, the hive numbers are too far down for this to be the primary.
There were wrapped around a small cypress tree. The look on the homeowners' faces was priceless when I lifted them off with my hands.
This is the hive that I cut out of a birdhouse last summer.




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Re: #4
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2016, 06:19:16 am »
You know where this swarm came from? ???

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« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2016, 10:17:36 am »
We see several swarms of that size in this area each year, even after swarm season.  Seems a characteristic of AHB influence (small usurping swarms).
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« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2016, 08:15:51 pm »
This one came from the hive that I put the birdhouse bees in. The homeowner saw it happening and called me.

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« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2016, 09:21:56 pm »
Looks like it was a secondary swarm, the hive numbers are too far down for this to be the primary.
Not always give the hive a few days. all those bees were insulating brood once the hatch out happens over the next week the hive population will be back that you other than the lack of brood in all stages, It will be hard to tell that it swarmed.
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