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gunny

August 08, 2007, 05:39:02 PM
Neighbor came over in a panic.  She has a flower pot on her front porch that some honey bees (probably mine) have taken up residence.  Pot is about 12" in diameter, about 20" tall and has a plant growing in it.  She said I can have plant, pot and all just get the bees off of her porch.  I'm goint to wait until dark when they are all home and get it.  Then what?  Kind of late in the year for a swarm to amount to anything.  Will probably tear up what comb they have trying to get them out. She noticed them when a good pile of potting soil appeared under the flower pot so suspect they haven't been there long.

Any ideas/comments/advice?

Kathyp

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August 08, 2007, 05:51:03 PM
i'm not sure i understand.  the bees are in the soil...under the pot....in the plant?  seems like an odd place for a swarm unless they have just landed on the plant for a bit.
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TwT

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August 08, 2007, 07:15:08 PM
 look down the page at the 12th set of picture's,
http://www.owensapiaries.net/removals.htm

here is bill owens site, he has found one under a plant before in a oldbutter churn, you can hive them and put some frames of brood with them from another hive and then pour the feed to them, they might be fine, we still have a while till winter...
THAT's ME TO THE LEFT JUST 5 MONTHS FROM NOW!!!!!!!!

Never be afraid to try something new.
Amateurs built the ark,
Professionals built the Titanic

Moonshae

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August 08, 2007, 07:16:50 PM
If it's too late to make a whole hive, you could combine them with one of your current hives, or make a nuc that you could baby over winter.
"The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer." - Egyptian Proverb, 2200 BC

Kathyp

#4
August 08, 2007, 07:24:24 PM
TwT...never would have believed it.  was trying to picture how bees would take up residence in a planter with plants in it. 
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

gunny

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August 08, 2007, 08:39:34 PM
Thet are crowding in and out of the drain holes in the bottom.  Neighbor says she used a lot of rocks for drainage.

Moonshae

#6
August 08, 2007, 08:43:44 PM
Tell her that the holes in the bottom provide drainage, rocks only take up space that roots then can't occupy. The rock method is an old-fashioned way of potting, but really isn't useful with well draining soil and holes in the bottom of the pot.
"The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer." - Egyptian Proverb, 2200 BC

CWBees

#7
August 08, 2007, 10:17:09 PM
Ted that was a great site on bee removal. I never thought honey bees would take up residence in some of those places.
A swarm in May is worth a bale of hay.
A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon.
A swarm in July isn't worth a fly.

TwT

#8
August 08, 2007, 10:26:46 PM
Bill Owens is a friend of mine, he does alot of work for the UGA, he lives about 1 1/2 hour drive from me....
his OB hive is the one I have shown on here before...
THAT's ME TO THE LEFT JUST 5 MONTHS FROM NOW!!!!!!!!

Never be afraid to try something new.
Amateurs built the ark,
Professionals built the Titanic

gunny

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August 08, 2007, 10:29:04 PM
Ted:
Yup. Flower pot, about the same as the one you have in your website.  My (the one that used to be my neighbors) is bigger than yours but has less bees, for now.

Got the flower pot home and out beside the house.  Will figure out what to do with them later, they'll keep.
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