It is finally here...Swarm Season!!! Bees have been building up their numbers and are swarming. I received two phone calls yesterday resulting in both swarms being successfully captured. The first was over my lunch break; I received a call from Brad Hibdon about a swarm on a bush in Effingham. Brad and Amy were there to watch, and it was probably the fastest swarm catch with the vaccuum ever! Dawn ran the swarm to the farm and placed it in a hive, but when we checked on it in the early evening it had moved out of the hive and back into the bee-vac box...apparently the queen was one of the stragglers in the box. We put it back in the hive where it belonged!
Next received a call from Casey regarding a swarm trying to move into a tree. Dawn and I got there after dark and vaccuumed the swarm from the side of the tree and from the inside of a small hollow area. Somehow I managed to get stung on my left arm....what a surprise!?!? I wonder if there will be any calls today?
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