swarms 14 and 15

schawee · March 30, 2013, 12:37:32 AM

had a call from bridgeline office about 10:30 this morning that they had a swarm of bees by one of their well heads.i was at the camp working my bees and it was 4 miles from where I was.nice swarm about 4lbs.easy too,backed my truck right up to them. about 3 I got a call from a lady in hester that they have hundreds of thousands of bees in her backyard.bigger swarm than this morning ,about 6lbs.well had a great day today. schawee

second swarm

Moots · March 30, 2013, 07:29:01 AM

NICE...VERY NICE! :)

Bailey...don't look in your rear view mirror now, but he's smack on your bumper and he's charging hard. :lau:

schawee · March 30, 2013, 10:04:16 AM

Bump and run!!!! :-D

bud1 · March 30, 2013, 10:19:10 AM

shawee bout half way , got no 5 Thursday and 6&7 yesterday. then went and caught 5qt. of croppie dang been missing my naps

schawee · March 30, 2013, 10:49:20 PM

bud you will come on strong,this is your time with the swarms.now save me some of them croppie to catch .now go take a nap.

AllenF · March 30, 2013, 10:51:13 PM

And still waiting on swarm #1 up here.

Georgia Boy · March 30, 2013, 11:24:15 PM

Hey Allen,

When should our swarms start???

David

bud1 · March 31, 2013, 10:21:09 AM

shawee put no 8 in yesterday

AllenF · March 31, 2013, 03:06:40 PM

I got a swarm in a tree right now. Just need someone to babysit the baby for me o get it.

jmblakeney · March 31, 2013, 05:19:10 PM

I would be hard pressed not to take the baby with me to get it.... :-D

James

AllenF · March 31, 2013, 05:40:12 PM

I climbed the 8' ladder and racked 2 handfuls of cold wet bees into a box with the baby strapped to me. I got stung on the wrist and thought that the 2 handfuls better be enough and came back inside to play and chill with the poop pants.

tefer2 · March 31, 2013, 06:05:20 PM

You better not tell the wife about that little episode. :bee:

AllenF · March 31, 2013, 11:10:46 PM

She won't let me take my 3 month old mudding next weekend. What gives? :-D

divemaster1963 · March 31, 2013, 11:26:30 PM

Quote from: AllenF on March 31, 2013, 11:10:46 PM
She won't let me take my 3 month old mudding next weekend. What gives? :-D

Just tell her yall were outside playing mudpie making ;). I'm waiting on call backs on three hive cutous and a two trapouts. Hope they call back?

John

swarms 14 and 15

Moots