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   MikeHennessy | Jun 03, 2009 03:35pm | #1

   That's more honey bees in one place than I've seen over the last 5 yrs all together! Cool.

   Mike Hennessy
   Pittsburgh, PA
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   Scott | Jun 04, 2009 10:05pm | #2

   What's going on? Is this behavior a good thing? (Of course the bees are good.....)

   Scott.

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   McPlumb | Jun 05, 2009 03:16am | #7

   If a bee colony is healthy in the spring they produce a new queen and she moves away from the old colony taking some of the workers and drones with her to establish a new hive. Somewhere along the creek by our house there must be a wild colony. Last year we had another swarm hang around for awhile.

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   Hudson Valley Carpenter | Jun 04, 2009 11:06pm | #3

   You might get some money for that swarm, from a bee keeper.  They've been hurting for new colonies lately.

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   Luka | Jun 05, 2009 12:31am | #4

   Did you poke at it ?

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   McPlumb | Jun 05, 2009 03:43am | #8

   Nope!

    

    

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   It rained and was cool ( mid 50's) yesterday, a friend brought over a hive, we cut off some of the vines with the bees hanging on them and lowered them down into the hive. The hope is they will like it and convince the queen to move into the hive.

   The weather was better today 70 and sunny but there doesn't seem to be much movement towards the hive. The bees we put in yesterday just act like the box is an extension to the swarm.

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   mikeroop | Jun 05, 2009 06:06am | #9

   you need to move the queen herself ,they will follow her, I doubt she will follow them

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   Hudson Valley Carpenter | Jun 05, 2009 01:42pm | #10

   That's right.  It's why you need a beekeeper who has the protective gear, knows how to find the queen and move her successfully.  

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   mikeroop | Jun 05, 2009 10:06pm | #11

   she's right dead in the middle and looks differant than all the rest :)~

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   Hudson Valley Carpenter | Jun 05, 2009 10:18pm | #12

   Yea, like many of us, she can be recognized by a large abdomen.  ~!~

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   plantlust | Jun 05, 2009 01:59am | #5

   Now THAT is cool.  And your poison ivy is so green.  Mine here comes up rather purplish and either grows as a vine on the ground or like a thin stemmed tree.  I usually see it as a vine on the ground or on trees w/the hairy roots.

   Plantlust - wondering if there's room in the backyard for a swarm...

   This time I've really thwarted Kitty's escape route!!

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   JeffBuck | Jun 05, 2009 02:02am | #6

   Just today my Dad told me they had a swarm in their alley.

   Mom heard the school kids yelling ... she took a look.

    

   said a big swarm was in the middle of the alley.

   Dad called the Boro ... manager came up and spray painted a big arrow.

   coupla hours later the manager called to make sure my Mom had seen it too.

   The bee guy went up ... no more swarm.

    

   bee guy said they'll staick around for a coupla hours ... then disappear.

   said they usually show up about 150 yds or so from the last spot.

   Jeff

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