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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2014, 09:57:11 pm »
Nah! I'll just send you one of mine, shipping paid!  :D
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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #21 on: May 11, 2014, 10:19:45 pm »
OMG!!  NO!!  I dont want to take the chance it gets loose any closer to the state, much less my town!!    :'(
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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #22 on: May 11, 2014, 10:22:25 pm »
What  ??  afraid of a little swarming? Pft!

 ;) 8)
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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #23 on: May 11, 2014, 10:28:32 pm »
TERRIFIED!!!   :o
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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #24 on: May 11, 2014, 10:30:58 pm »
MmHm! Now I know women rule the world!!
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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #25 on: May 11, 2014, 11:18:23 pm »
a LITTLE swarming?

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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #26 on: May 11, 2014, 11:33:26 pm »
Just a tad...  ;)
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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #27 on: May 13, 2014, 02:29:25 pm »
I would think that there may not be much pollen and nectar stored in the hive as G3 would like to see. after the first 3 days all the pollen and nectar being brought into the hive would have been used to feed the young larva that the queen started laying in abundance. It took 1 frame of honey and 1 frame of pollen to allow the bees to produce each frame of brood. The solid brood is a testament to the resources available to the bees to produce this quantity of brood so quickly.
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Re: What in the world is wrong with this first swarm I caught?
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2014, 10:27:09 pm »
I will check this hive tomorrow.

Pollen is crazy right now and a heavy flow is also going on.