[ocba] SWARM OF BEES IN HOUSE

lcauble at email.unc.edu lcauble at email.unc.edu
Sun Apr 20 19:41:47 EDT 2008


These girls bailed out sometime on saturday afternoon.  Not sure when, 
but they were definitely gone this morning.  I considered putting a 
queen excluder between the bottom board and hive body when I hived them 
but didn't do it.  On the upside, I feel like I still have these gentle 
bees and their genetics in the neighborhood somewhere.

Lewis


Quoting lcauble at email.unc.edu:

> Geneva and I picked up the swarm from the fellow's house in Carrboro
> this evening.  The swarm had moved into the space between the floor
> joists between the 1st and 2nd floors.  They had been there less than 1
> week.  There were 4-6 pieces of comb.  We were able to cut some
> sheetrock out of the ceiling and use a bee vac borrowed from Jack Tapp
> to snatch them.  It worked like a champ.  I'd say we got over 99% of
> the bees and I only saw 3 dead in the bottom of the vac when we got
> home.  The homeowners got a small batch of some seriously local honey.
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Becky Bollinger <beckyalis at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I just got a call from a fellow in Carrboro who said that a swarm of
>> bees has entered his house through an exhaust fan. He thinks it just
>> happened this past weekend. Is anyone available to go check this out?
>> Please call me at 919-491-0016 and I will give you his information.
>> Thanks,
>> Becky
>>
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