Catching a swarm...
This actually happened last year but I never got around to posting it. I was called by a friend that said there was a swarm in Moscow that needed rescuing. I had an empty hive box so I headed there. It was a fairly small swarm and it was not too high up in the tree so this was all promising...
I laid a tarp on the ground under the swarm and then cut the branch off that the swarm was hanging on. Again, luckily, it was a small branch and I could just cut it off with a lopper...I set the swarm box on the ground and opened it up...the bees started marching into the box...
More waiting...
Here is a little video that I made of the bees going into the box:
Finally got them into the box and too them home. I took the frames out of the swarm box and put them into the hive...
Have an eggcellent day!
~Denise
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