My little friends

Peter Drouin · June 30, 2013, 07:20:40 PM

I herd a loud buzz and the sky was full of bees :D
After a minute or two they were 50' up in a tree, all I could do is look at them and put an empty hive to see if they will go into it.

That was at 2 pm , now it; s 7.16 pm and raining hard and there still there.

maybe they will be allright :

bama20a · June 30, 2013, 07:35:31 PM

Yep thats sad :( when there is nothing you can do to catch them. Had the same thing happen about 2 weeks ago, A very large swarm,

drobertson · June 30, 2013, 08:21:28 PM

Never seen that before, almost sounds like their hive has been destroyed, maybe by a plow or mower? maybe even a tore down house structure, busy bees will find a way if there is a queen, david

thecfarm · June 30, 2013, 09:14:41 PM

Nice picture Peter. I have never seen a swarm either. I take it you must do something with bees to have a hive?

Peter Drouin · June 30, 2013, 09:44:08 PM

Quote from: thecfarm on June 30, 2013, 09:14:41 PM
Nice picture Peter. I have never seen a swarm either. I take it you must do something with bees to have a hive?

Yea, I have , had 2 hives. They made it through the winter ok, Last week I took 5 gallons of honey from that one hive. Good hive.
The spring honey is light and sweet . To me the best. I will leave the fall honey [dark and strong]for them.
see I should have paidattention to them.More :D When the Queen can not lay eggs [ no room] they leave :D. The hive has still a lot of bees in it maybe it will requeen

Maybe tomorrow they will find the hive I put out for them, then put them back
If that happens Ill make sure the queen has room :D

Riggs · July 01, 2013, 09:14:41 AM

Good luck with them Peter, I caught my first swarm about two weeks ago. They seem to be doing well. Mine had actually swarmed to the side of an empty hive that I still had set up from last year. They were no trouble at all to catch. 50 feet up like these, I wouldn't know where to start.

cutterboy · July 01, 2013, 07:07:07 PM

It's good to see the honey bees thriving. A few years ago there were none around here. Now I see a few, it's good to have them back.

Peter Drouin · July 01, 2013, 07:30:45 PM

Well I herd a loud buzz around 11am and the swarm flue a way south east of me :D
So I called all the neighbors to have them keep a look out for them, Some of my neighbors gave up on bees and left their old bee hives out, I'm sure my bees found one. But will the neighbor call ? :D :D :D :D :D :D :D Maybe

There still a lot of bees it the hive and eggs hatching too
So will see if they requeen or I'll have to buy one, bees can be a pith

Peter Drouin · July 13, 2013, 07:41:45 PM

Well today my wife was out and looking at her flowers Garden.
And look what Ann found

So Ann came a running and said look here.

I got dressed and the tools to get them. I don't think they are the swarm I lost :D
first get the smoke, the good stuff. :D :D

then cut , there were two stick, I cut one then cut the outher with one hand and hold the first one.

JUST SHAKE IT, get them in the box , give them a little smoke and shake again
got most all in. I know a got the queen too :D I think, a lot of bees to look at and looking for one ,queen :D :D If some one calls. have you seen my bees I'll tell them to come and get them :D more pics

All 3 hives in the bear box ;D 8) 8)

beenthere · July 13, 2013, 08:00:56 PM

That was pretty slick. Nice bunch.

Paul_H · July 13, 2013, 08:05:46 PM

Well done!

bama20a · July 13, 2013, 08:32:58 PM

Man that is great,Also love the pics-.
You may already know this,But if you will take a rake of brood from another one of your hives, it will give them a good head start,By the queen not having to wait for them to build wax,Also that will give you young bees till she does lay,Mark,,,,

POSTON WIDEHEAD · July 13, 2013, 09:09:04 PM

Use the shop vac like Willie, Phil, Jase and Si did. :D

Roxie · July 14, 2013, 08:51:31 AM

That was very interesting! Thank you for taking the time to take and post the pictures.

(Poston, :D)

Riggs · July 14, 2013, 09:05:38 AM

Glad you got 'em.

Jim_Rogers · July 14, 2013, 10:52:00 AM

So to all you people who don't have bees, do you know how to tell which one is the "Queen".....

Jim Rogers

Wildflower · July 14, 2013, 11:03:40 AM

I think she is the biggest bee in the bunch.

POSTON WIDEHEAD · July 14, 2013, 11:20:50 AM

She's the one that's continually buzzing about nothing at all. ;D

Jim_Rogers · July 14, 2013, 12:03:09 PM

I won't say No to wildflower but that wasn't the answer I was looking for.

And I won't say NO to poston either. But that wasn't the answer I was looking for either.

Jim Rogers

Magicman · July 14, 2013, 06:04:48 PM

She is actually the largest bee in the hive, but there are other differences. Queen Bee

sandhills · July 15, 2013, 12:19:42 AM

It's not the one wearing the crown? Seriously though I like reading about this, we have a few bee keepers around here, rented some pasture a few years back that had hives in it and really had fun watching them (the bees). Never had any trouble walking by them or fixing fence around them.