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difficult swarm collection

hotzcatz
18 years ago

Aloha,

Yesterday a swarm moved into a banyon tree nearby. Instead of collecting and hanging on a branch, they are clustered in a fork of the tree. It has a tiny bit of shelter, but not nearly enough for a hive. I put a super nearby (two feet away) with a partly open cover as well as a cardboard box (eight inches away) to give them a choice of new homes, but they aren't interested in either one. I brushed a lot of the bees into each box, they all went back to the tree. I had looked and looked for the queen, but couldn't find her to specifically put her in the box.

The swarm is all settled in that one spot and doesn't want to move. There was some heavy rain and they are still there but where they have chosen isn't a good hive spot nor do they seem to want to move.

Anybody have any good ideas on how to collect this swarm?

A hui hou,

Cathy

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