Bees are now starting to swarm. In the last couple of weeks I've picked up 4 bee swarms...
2/7 - Isla Vista_ With the help from a friend who climbed the pepper tree to clip the branch as I was perched on a ladder in the bed of my truck with a box... Thanks Jesse. This swarm actually left the deep hive box that I placed it in the next day and I had to rehive it. It is now doing very well.
2/21 - Goleta_ A nice swarm on a wire fence from a survivor hive. The hive was located in the base of a large yucca tree and the bees swarmed and balled up on the fence about 45 feet away.
2/28 - Isla Vista_ A swarm that was slightly smaller then the previous two, but the hive (approx. 30 feet away) was in a small cox cable box. I'm sure the box is full and the bees were itching to find more spacious accommodations.
3/1 - Goleta_ Placed a swarm in a deep hive box today with the help of a friend. It was a swarm he caught, but didn't have an empty hive box to put it in. We took the one frame he had in a cardboard box and placed it in a 10 frame deep. Thanks Jake.
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