Okay to capture a swarm early in the morning?

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TwoHoneys

May 25, 2011, 07:57:21 PM
I have an opportunity to collect a nice-sized swarm that settled in today. However, I can't get there tonight, and I have to work tomorrow...I'd like to collect the bees in the morning at around 7AM. Is that a good idea? I've never tried it so early in the morning and don't know what to expect.

-Liz
"In a dream I returned to the river of bees" W.S. Merwin

iddee

#1
May 25, 2011, 08:31:10 PM
Suit up well. They may be in cluster mode. If so, they will be mean.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

AllenF

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May 25, 2011, 08:36:10 PM
Go for it.

Kathyp

#3
May 25, 2011, 08:36:19 PM
also check before you go. they may be gone by morning.
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

vmmartin

#4
May 25, 2011, 09:02:15 PM
I got a call last week that a swarm settled on a limb at 3:30pm.  It was a little drive and my girls had two softball games so I asked him to call me if they were there in the morning.  6:00 am came and they were long gone.

TwoHoneys

#5
May 25, 2011, 09:03:20 PM
They just got hailed on. I'll bet they're grumpy.
"In a dream I returned to the river of bees" W.S. Merwin

Kathyp

#6
May 25, 2011, 09:07:00 PM
cover yourself well.  swarms in storms can be nasty.
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

TwoHoneys

#7
May 26, 2011, 03:51:06 PM
Thanks for the encouragement, friends. I collected a nice swarm of bees this morning...after they endured pummeling by hail and a beating by storms all night long. Rather than being angry, they were extremely docile. Wet clusters of them were in the grass when I arrived at 6:30AM, but most were still waiting quietly on a low branch for me. I put them in a bee-worn, dry box with some old comb...they began perking up on the ride home, and they were soon flying around in their new yard. I'm calling them the "Hailey" hive.

-Liz
"In a dream I returned to the river of bees" W.S. Merwin

G3farms

#8
May 26, 2011, 08:00:32 PM
Sounds good, bet they were glad to find a dry place and a roof over their heads.
those hot bees will have you steppin and a fetchin like your heads on fire and your keister is a catchin!!!

Bees will be bees and do as they please!

hardwood

#9
May 26, 2011, 09:48:41 PM
You done good Liz X:X X:X
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

AllenF

#10
May 26, 2011, 09:57:01 PM
Way to go

SmokeEater2

#11
May 27, 2011, 12:06:19 AM
Very nice!  :)
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