Honey Bee Swarm Capture II

[supercellwish]

Fantastic. They are the most beautifull Insects I know of. I really need your help. A swarm of bees has decided to make their home (or temp home) on an archway thing that goes overtop of my driveway. However it is right above out letter box. It is saturday today and they wont be a problem untill monday when the postman arrives. He may complain and I might get in trouble from the council. they may force me to pay a pest removal expert guy to remove them and I have no money, how can i move them?

[LETCA]

@supercellwish - A swarm will generally move on it's own after just a few hours (or up to a day). There are scouts seeking permanent (closed-in) living quarters. The big swarm is bundled around the queen, and once she gets word from a scout that a good place is found, she will move on. It's interesting to watch. Hope this helps.

[sooohum]

Ha ha! Yes, the stylish shoes would give it away! Not the dingy brown/grey of the more slavic ones! ;) LOL!

[sooohum]

Are these carniolans or italian bees? Or something else? Thanks!

[LETCA]

I'm pretty sure they're Italians (All the wokers were wearing stylish shoes and I could smell the wonderful aroma of pasta coming from the hive. . . )

[LETCA]

Actually, they're just whatever was flying loose around Sacramento. I had an empty hive that was populated by some wandering bees. . .

[Fenderkicksass]

lol new home

[Breneric]

Oh wow, thanks for that! Good luck in your future yields! :-)

[LETCA]

This hive gave me over 100 pounds of honey in it's first year! Next year should be even better because the bees won't have to build up everything inside. Great tasting honey from suburban Sacramento. I'm happy!

[LETCA]

This is now my most active hive. Two full supers of honey above two deep hive bodies - in the first year! This hive alone will give me about 100 lbs of honey, or about 8 gallons, this year. Not bad for a "free swarm".

[LETCA]

April 28- This hive is not living in two deep boxes and going like gangbusters. I have a new video of it taken on 22 April called "Honey Bee Swarm Capture - 12 days later"

[passievrucht16]

yes very very interesting but i wanna see the big big big bees

[LETCA]

The European honey bee is pretty small. I think you're thinking of some of the wasps that feed on the bees. Luckily, we don't have those in our area.

[otterman]

Very interesting