Open air hive.

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Oldbeavo

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February 19, 2020, 06:41:14 AM
This is an air hive that was in a bush mid to late summer.
I cut it out and put it in a hive, still going now but not as the original shape.
The picture is 90 degrees wrong, tilt your head

van from Arkansas

#21
February 19, 2020, 10:06:11 AM
Quote from: Hops Brewster on February 07, 2020, 10:51:52 AM
no live bees in the pic, so this could possibly have been a swarm from last year that never found a suitable cavity to hive.  Just built up over the course of the summer then died out when it got cold.  It happens.

This I would believe as Hops texted, sounds reasonable, very possible,  also Old Beavo. 
I have been around bees a long time, since birth.  I am a hobbyist so my answers often reflect this fact.  I concentrate on genetics, raise my own queens by wet graft, nicot, with natural or II breeding.  I do not sell queens, I will give queens  for free but no shipping.

AR Beekeeper

#22
February 19, 2020, 01:00:40 PM
And the next time we see a post that says the bees always know best, remember those photos.

Psparr

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February 24, 2020, 03:24:36 PM
It?s certainly not fake, he nor I figured it was still alive. Very well could have been an indecisive swarm. The last swarm I got, I got a call on a Monday. Was out of town and told the lady I could t help her, but not to worry,they would find a home and move on. Well I got another call on Saturday and they were still hanging out in the same branch.

jalentour

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February 24, 2020, 04:54:59 PM
I have a couple of those on my property.  Hard to see when leaves are on the trees. 
Mine are from swarms.  They don't survive the winter here, maybe down south...
If they are low enough I cut them down and put them in a box.

Ben Framed

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February 25, 2020, 07:31:25 AM
Quote from: Psparr on February 24, 2020, 03:24:36 PM
It?s certainly not fake, he nor I figured it was still alive. Very well could have been an indecisive swarm. The last swarm I got, I got a call on a Monday. Was out of town and told the lady I could t help her, but not to worry,they would find a home and move on. Well I got another call on Saturday and they were still hanging out in the same branch.

I know a fellow that did a cut out who lives in Florida. His bees left and landed in a tall tree where he could not reach and retrieve them. This hive never came down after making an open air hive.  Thanks for getting back to us.
Phillip Hall
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