This morning we walked out the door to do garden chores and heard an "extremely loud buzzing of bees". Uh oh. Another swarm! But this time we lucked out. The swarm went into a low branch on an oak tree, about 10 feet off the ground. All Harold had to do was back the pick up under it, get on top of the truck bed and give one vigorous shake to the branch to put all the bees into a large deep bee hive box. Probably at least 3 lbs of bees were shaken right into the box. Harold had our neighbor Frank help us this time, and he quickly put a ventilated lid on the box. The bees that didn't get into the box in time just hung on the sides and bottom. Harold is now taking this hive out to our friend Joe's farm as I write this. Two swarms in two days! Hopefully we won't have any more swarms, as we need our bees to work for US and make honey!! This swarm was huge, and will probably be ready to go to work out at Joe's farm making honey.
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| Look at the size of this swarm! It is about 30 inches wide and 18 inches deep and 8 inches thick! |
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| This swarm was captured nicely in a regular deep bee hive box. |
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