[Market-farming] Bee Swarm

Wyatt Jones wyatt_jones at netzero.com
Sun Jul 26 21:22:56 EDT 2009


Had a little excitement today, if you could call it that.  Was out pulling up trellises and dripline when a swarm of bees appeared and clustered on a large lambsquarter about 10 ft from me, pretty cool.  I gathered them up and called a local beekeeper to get them as I'm not set up for it at the moment.  The swarm was huge, weighed in at 7 lbs!.  Its rather late for bee swarms and it has an uphill battle to survive the winter around here because they missed the big spring nectar flow but I hope they do.  To get a swarm that big there must be one heck of a hive close.  And no I didn't get stung, swarms are pretty docile as a rule but I almost never get stung anyway, they know who is afraid of them and most strains aren't very aggressive if you handle them right, personally I find them fascinating.  The swallows were loving it of course and darting all over the place, big dinner for them today!!  

Wyatt Jones
Jamestown, Ohio
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