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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: Rebel Rose Apiary on June 21, 2009, 04:30:12 PM

Poll
Question: What was the weather conditions when you captured your swarms?
Option 1: Sunny day votes: 3
Option 2: Cloudy day votes: 1
Option 3: Thunderstorm votes: 1
Option 4: Rain only votes: 1
Option 5: Tornado Warning! votes: 1
Title: Swarms and Weather Conditions Poll Please
Post by: Rebel Rose Apiary on June 21, 2009, 04:30:12 PM
I have captured many swarms lately in thunderstorms. Not one swarm this year was taken during sunny weather. Of course this has been a bad and rainy year, but I wondered just what weather conditions others had when they captured swarms.

So far, that ratio for my swarm captures has been like this:

Sunny day: 0%
Cloudy day: 10%
Rain only: 39%
Thunderstorm: 50%
Tornado Warning:  1% (I did not know it until after I had taken the swarm!)

Brenda