[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.
>
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> 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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