I started off on March 25th splitting Hive #4 (old East Hive) and creating 2 nucs because of swarm cells in the hive. Eventually one of these nucs died out because the queen cell didn't hatch.
On March 26th I received a call for a hive extraction from at tree bulldozed down by Mike Ellis. Unfortunately, I didn't get the queen, and I had to place a queen cell from Hive #4 in the nuc.
On April 7th Aaron, Nicolas, and myself extracted a hive from an outbuilding in rural Funkhouser. I have to apologize that I forgot the home owner's name...I need to make a couple of phone calls to find out!
On Friday, April 20th, I helped Jonathan Donaldson capture his first swarm that was moving into a Hummer at the Effingham City Hall.
The next day, on April 21th, we received a call from a farmer in the Silver Lake subdivision reporting that there was a swarm on a 5-bottom plow. Dawn and I went out, and Dawn lead the capture....she did a great job! Due to the cold temperature the swarm had broken into three clumps...below is the upper clump. We used the vacuum to retrieve the rest of the bees.
On Thursday, April 26th, I received a call at work for a swarm near Dexter. I drove out to the Laue Farm and retrieved a swarm from their park bench in the front yard.
Today, April 27th, we received a call from the Sauers Family in Louisville reporting a swarm on a tractor tire sandbox in their backyard.
What an amazing month for swarms and there are 3 days left.....more to come!!!!
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