I received a call about a swarm (tree #1). Then, the same woman called again to tell me there were two...one in her tree, one in a neighbor's tree (tree #2). By the time I arrived, the woman told me that the swarm in her neighbor's tree had moved...it went high into a huge, tall tree in my caller's backyard (tree #3). There were lots of of bees flying ...more activity than around most swarms I've seen.
I thought I captured the the swarm in my caller's yard (tree #1), and I left them to settle in their box while I went for lunch. But when I returned, the box was essentially empty...and the swarm in tree #3 had grown huge. It was too high to reach (maybe 30 feet high), so I simply left a medium-depth box with frames, old comb, and some lure on a fence beneath it hoping they find it appealing.
Do you think I found a single swarm early in its transition? Do they sometimes all separate and then reconnect?
I'll be they don't come to my nice box, though.
-Liz
The swarm was probably just getting it together when you showed up.
Why didn't you climb that tree after that swarm?
If one medium is all you left, I'm making the same bet as you. If you had left 2 or 3 mediums stacked, you would have had a better chance.
Quote from: iddee on May 19, 2011, 10:29:10 PM
If one medium is all you left, I'm making the same bet as you. If you had left 2 or 3 mediums stacked, you would have had a better chance.
Heck fire.
You should've been at Bud3...we could have shown you how to drop that swarm with only a .22 and a .357 :-D
Scott
Quote from: hardwood on May 20, 2011, 12:39:56 AM
You should've been at Bud3...we could have shown you how to drop that swarm with only a .22 and a .357 :-D
Scott
Hey, Scott...I think I dreamed about this last night! :shock:
-Liz