Cut Out & Swarm---August 27, 2009

JP · August 28, 2009, 12:54:28 AM

Cut out between floors, lots of honey, lots of bees, nice bees, got queen the following evening. Small swarm caught on jasmine & chain link fence.

Pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/pyxicephalus/August272009#

...JP

poka-bee · August 28, 2009, 04:40:50 PM

JP wonderful pics as usual! I love the one with the "glowing" bees! Took a minute to see it was a bee with the flash..looked like tinkerbell there at first glance! Keep it up!
Jody

annette · August 28, 2009, 05:19:49 PM

Gosh, you still get swarms out there? Do they have time to build up??

JP · August 28, 2009, 05:59:22 PM

Quote from: annette on August 28, 2009, 05:19:49 PM
Gosh, you still get swarms out there? Do they have time to build up??

Last year I caught a late swarm I believe in November, I'll have to check. They all have to be fed but even on our coldest of days it'll warm up in the middle of the day.

...JP

joker1656 · August 28, 2009, 06:21:44 PM

JP, how do you hang that curved comb in your frames? It always causes problems for me.

JP · August 28, 2009, 08:32:19 PM

Quote from: joker1656 on August 28, 2009, 06:21:44 PM
JP, how do you hang that curved comb in your frames? It always causes problems for me.

You can deform comb sections to fit a frame if you need to. The bees will repair it to their liking.

...JP

Cindi · October 14, 2009, 11:59:02 AM

JP, again, such interesting pictures, I still love the queen cage thingy that you use. You doin' any swarm retrievals this time of year now? In the prior post you said you got one in November, you thought, did you check it out to see if that was accurate? For how long during the year do you stop swarm catching. I bet you are into your winter down and laying low time soon, smiling. I know that you do take a break, that is in the cobwebs of my mind. Have that great and most awesomely wonderful day, health, Cindi

JP · October 15, 2009, 10:14:04 AM

Quote from: Cindi on October 14, 2009, 11:59:02 AM
JP, again, such interesting pictures, I still love the queen cage thingy that you use. You doin' any swarm retrievals this time of year now? In the prior post you said you got one in November, you thought, did you check it out to see if that was accurate? For how long during the year do you stop swarm catching. I bet you are into your winter down and laying low time soon, smiling. I know that you do take a break, that is in the cobwebs of my mind. Have that great and most awesomely wonderful day, health, Cindi

Cindi, we have had a few days near 90F and most days in the upper 80's the last several weeks.

I just checked about that November swarm last year and I was incorrect. It was caught on October 3, of 2008.

I'm still doing removals Cindi. Not everyone can wait until spring. Our winters really don't start throwing fronts until November, but we have had 80 degree days in December and even our coldest nights rarely go below the freezing mark and on those rare days, it may even warm up into the 70's the following day once the sun warms things up.

...JP

Cindi · October 16, 2009, 11:56:54 AM

JP, beautiful, a land of warmth and sunshine, conjures up a very beautiful picture in my mind's eye, somewhere I would want to visit, one fine day, and that day may one day come....smiling. have that incredibly wonderful and awesome day, living in great health. Cindi

JP · October 16, 2009, 11:15:17 PM

Well, if you ever did make it down this way, you, Ken, my wife and I would have a blast!

...JP

Cindi · October 17, 2009, 10:45:28 AM

JP, yep, yep, yep, you know that thing!!! Have that great, most wonderful and awesome day, cool, health. Cindi