And they came to me

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jayj200

June 17, 2014, 07:17:39 PM
woke up last Friday to find two swarms in our backyard Avocado tree. how cool is that?
not as cool as waking up Saturday with another swarm in the same tree.
while the wife didn't want any more bees they came anyway. we told our local bee club about them, that we wanted no more bees. no one called asking for the bees. so the wife recanted. I caught that swarm the first or the biggest one. It did take four tries though and they(some) did meld with the other swarms making two. So one is in the box and one still in the tree. Placed another box under this swarm with only five frames and small piece of old comb just laying on the bottom board. they looked at this box more than once. then nothing. these girls are about 17 feet up and hard to reach, so I am kind of sort of leaving them in place, alone. moved a tree limb in front of the entrance and this invigorated  the bees interest in this box. many more was now coming and going. Guess this made it a new location. may be a clue to those of you swarm trapping with no luck. put a branch with leaves covering the front. does this make it look more like a tree? well it is now Monday night and the are still there. Staying a long time aren't they?  It rained all day today, I thought the girls would move in today or leave. well maybe tomorrow.
I have three questions. will they stay in the tree or will they go? Or will they move into the box?
You guess. 

rookie2531

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June 17, 2014, 07:25:44 PM
Do you have any of that lemon grass oil? I've seen videos of them putting it on cotton balls. Or even open feeder with hbh mixed in by the entrance. Just a rookies suggestions.

iddee

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June 17, 2014, 07:26:44 PM
I would throw a rope over a limb and hoist the box up to them, or just jerk the rope to dislodge them.
Some tape a 5 gallon bucket on a pole and bump the limb. Then dump them in the box.
"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*

GSF

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June 17, 2014, 08:55:40 PM
Didn't someone mention throwing a rope up and over then pulling a frame of brood/wax. Then when they cover it let it back down and do it again.
When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - then you know your nation is doomed.

jayj200

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June 17, 2014, 09:42:31 PM
All those Ideas are real good.
this limb is 5 or 6 inches across.
a friend of mine has a nest about twenty five feet up. and there it grows and grows.
their up there what do I care. a bee tree.
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