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Offline Yankee11

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Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« on: April 27, 2014, 11:28:35 am »
Does it get any better?





Looking for the Queen  :laugh:





That's a deep hive body. They are now in 2 deeps. Glad I took a deep and not a nuc.










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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2014, 11:45:07 am »
N I C E ! !  That is super bad A__!  Looks like an aardvark too! Ha!  That is a load of bees.  I bet you could split that sucker now.  You are getting my bee excitement notched up pretty good.  Good Job!!!!!
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2014, 11:51:46 am »
Awesome looking swarm!  Looks like a tree sloth to me.  With the right food supply, I wonder how long it will thatke them to draw out the frames?  :jealousofthatswarm:
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2014, 12:16:14 pm »
Wowee !! Good for you. The keep who lost that one will be sick.

How did you get it down ?  I have a mental picture of a sheet on the ground and a collector doing a Tarzan act shaking the branch.   :laugh:
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2014, 12:46:04 pm »
I need to remember to put a sheet in the truck. The homeowner had a 6ft ladder.

I did do to Tarzan shake though.



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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2014, 12:49:05 pm »
Would have paid money to see that!  :laugh:  Find the queen?
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2014, 12:56:07 pm »
Not yet.

I gave them a deep frame of capped honey, A frame of brood and a quart of 1-1 syrup on inner cover.

Will let them settle in. Only about 100 bees left flying when I left with hive. I know shes in there.

That many bees fanning I could almost feel the breeze through my Ultra Breeze Jacket....
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2014, 02:02:46 pm »
Holy Schmoly! That doesn't look like a very big branch, so glad it didn't break. It would be hard finding the queen in that crowd! Love the pics!
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2014, 03:52:13 pm »
Looks like Central Arkansas is in for a good year.  If the hive the swarm came from could produce such a massive swarm, something must be going right. :)
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2014, 03:52:50 pm »
Fantastic! Some of us look up at the clouds to see different things, but I like what you do better!  :D :photos:
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2014, 10:01:12 pm »
WOW!   Like LB I am also jealous of that swarm!  Fantastic swarm catch!
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2014, 10:13:45 pm »
Great Catch!!

Would have loved to been standing in the middle of that cloud of bees before they clustered on that branch. That is just AWESOME!
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2014, 01:22:14 am »
pretty amazing that that's only half the bees from one hive.  good catch!
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Re: Huge swarm. Looks llike a bear hanging upside down
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2014, 04:39:52 am »
That's a huge swarm. Congrats and thanks for the pictures. Good luck.
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