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Title: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: schawee on March 18, 2012, 01:42:45 AM
well the day started by going to the hunting camp were most of my bees are.i had a hive i let get over populated  and videoed it swarming .they landed in a near by tree and boxed them up.i checked the hive and have 15 good queen cells i will use to make nucs.i got a call back from a guy i had taken two swarms from and he had another swarm in the same tree again.this was a small after swarm and i put them in a nuc.i will pick them up tomorrow nite.when i got home i went to the garden to pick up some pots and notice a huge swarm in my orange tree.i put them in a cardboard box and looked for the queen.i hit the motherload of queens ,i had five queens and was looking for more when the sky was buzzen with bees.i thought ith bees were leaving at first but i noticed all the bees were landing on the box.im sure it was another swarm and maybe got con fused and landed in the box with the other bees. when i was looking for more queens they had a ball of bees so i picked them up and sure enough there was the sixth queen.im thinking it was the queen from the swarm that just landed in the box but i had two other queens that they were balling.out of the six queens three were tiger stripe and the other three were caramel colors. the bees were balling them and not the tiger stripes.i notice some bees fling by some empty boxes and frames  i had under my back porch that had old waxmoth cocoons that i never cleaned yet.so i went to see why they had all the bees flying .well they had a swarm move right on in the boxes.i didn't see any flying yesterdayso they must have moved in sometime today.so thats five swarms in one day.i have all of it videoed and will be posting it soon i hope.        .......schawee
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: jaseemtp on March 18, 2012, 03:47:24 AM
WOW!
That's a pretty awesome day.
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: PeeVee on March 18, 2012, 07:30:09 AM
That's just amazing! Can't wait to see the video. Congratulation on a busy day.
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: splitrock on March 18, 2012, 07:52:29 AM
Amazing!!! Sounds like a dream. You had to have pinched yourself at least a couple times, didn't you?

Joel
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: G3farms on March 18, 2012, 09:16:06 AM
Was you wearing green and standing under a rainbow somewhere :lau:

How did you shoot that video with all of that action happening, what a day :piano: :piano:
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: AllenF on March 18, 2012, 09:42:39 AM
He needs a Progear helmet cam to video all the action going on.  Did you even get to take a milkshake break during the day with all that going on?
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: G3farms on March 18, 2012, 10:07:06 AM
That just might be a two shake day :-D
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: JackM on March 18, 2012, 10:55:20 AM
Impressive
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: Country Heart on March 18, 2012, 04:33:49 PM
Quote from: AllenF on March 18, 2012, 09:42:39 AM
He needs a Progear helmet cam to video all the action going on.  Did you even get to take a milkshake break during the day with all that going on?

Another vote for the helmet cam.
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: hardwood on March 18, 2012, 10:23:16 PM
It just don't get any better! Now you're wanting another day like that already too huh?  :-D

Scott
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: JP on March 18, 2012, 10:52:14 PM
He called me all shook up folks, breathing heavy. Was really concerned for my buddy ya know. He was so outta breath!  I said okay buddy take a deep breath, put down the milk shake & gather yourself. That's when he started telling me about all the action he was having. Wish I would have been there. Definitely a two shake kinda day!  :-D

Can't wait to see the footage buddy.


...JP
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: schawee on March 19, 2012, 02:58:46 PM
allen i was just getting over the milkshakes then you and george bring it up again.then jp had to put his 2cent in too. yall need to stop bringing it up cause im a recovering milkshakeaholic  :-D           ...........schawee
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: stella on March 19, 2012, 03:37:11 PM
schawee! Wowee!
Thanks for sharing! That story made my heart race. Inconceivable to my newbee brain. Please share the video so I can believe it really happened. Lucky you!
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: G3farms on March 19, 2012, 04:35:51 PM
http://foodbeast.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/choclate-milkshake1.jpg (http://foodbeast.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/choclate-milkshake1.jpg)

Just for you Schawee!!

Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: AllenF on March 19, 2012, 06:32:25 PM
Well done Schawee.   Admitting your problem is the first step to recovery.  (btw the shake I had at Starbucks this weekend was very lacking.)
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: Birdswood on March 19, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
I know how hard it is Schawee. Like you, I am a milkshakeaholic, but with a lot of effort and with support from family and friends I have been milkshake free for 11 months 6 days and 7 hours... :-D
I know you can do it, even though you associate regularly with JP. who is obviously the milkshake devil in disguise.  :evil: :evil: :evil:

Be strong brother, you can do it!!!
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: JP on March 20, 2012, 12:43:10 AM
Not the milkshake devil, maybe a milkshake pimp.  :-D


...JP
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: schawee on March 20, 2012, 08:37:38 PM
i can see  you dressed in a pimp suit. you can order one from this site :lau:      Halloween Pimp Costumes for Men (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsLpz_xEOcw#)
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: JP on March 21, 2012, 01:07:06 AM
I didn't see any milkshake pimp outfits on there but saw a few you'd look good in.  :lol:


...JP
Title: Re: had a big swarm day today (5)
Post by: blanc on March 21, 2012, 05:43:18 PM
Dang schawee! Send some o dem swarms to Reserve! LOL Went all the way to Houma to get a swarm last week. Got the Fever now!