I got a text from our very own, lovely, Tambo252 on Wednesday that there was a bee swarm outside her office. I headed over to get them.

I got there and they were up higher than I prepared for so I had to go get my "water jug on a stick" to retrieve them with. It worked well. I left the bees there for a few hours then went back and got the hive. They are now home and already at work.

Thanks again for getting in touch with me Tammy!

Great rescue of the bees and great friend to alert you to their whereabouts!!

You seem to be enjoying catching those bees way to much.

That looks like "Chicken Man".

Good job. I am surprised nobody called the popo on the man in the white hood stealing honey

Thanks for the replies. I love hiving swarms. I still get a kick out of watching 10's of thousands of bees, walk into a hive.

The mother hive, in the tree had an afterswarm the next day and Tambo texted me again but they were gone before I could get there. The bad thing about them flying off, is that they often time end up in the wall of someones house. That's not good for the homeowner.

Timbercruiser, it use to be. I'm retired from that now.

Well it ends up that I only caught part of the swarm. I left the box there, to get all the bees. Before I left it, I opened it up and there were bees on every frame in the box. I had not opened it again, until this afternoon. When I opened it today, there was only 2 frames of bees and they had pulled queen cells on the frame of open brood that I put into the hive when I caught them. I have a caged queen that I'm going to put in with them tomorrow.

I am fairly certain that where I screwed this whole deal up, was spraying swarm lure on the top bar of a frame, right before I dumped the bees in the hive. First and last time I'll ever do that.

Tambo sent me a picture of "another" swarm the next day, which really didn't make sense because of the timing of the queen cells hatching, so now I know that the swarm she sent me a picture of the next day, was the majority of the swarm that I put in this hive the first day.

Hives typically swarm with the old queen, the day of or day after the queen cells in the parent hive are capped. They hatch around 8 days later and cast afterswarms, if the first virgin queen doesn't kill all the other queens while they're in their cells. I knew it didn't make sense for their to be 2 big swarms 2 days in a row. Now I know why.

Thanks for that info. Good stuff there. Keep it up.