Ted Fischer wrote:
 
>  REGARDING           High swarms
>
>Regarding the continuing conversation about retrieval of high swarms: The
>simplest answer is, to my mind, the best: Just let them sit there- they'll
>eventually go away.
 
   I suggest placing a couple of swarm hives with lures about 200-300m
generally upwind (prevailing wind, that is) from the swarm location.  Yes,
they will eventually go away, but why not provide a place near the ground
that they can occupy?   That will help keep them out of the wall of
someone's house, too.
 
   I always have 2-3 swarm hives in my yard and end up with a swarm or two
each season, even though no one keeps bees near my neighborhood (near
downtown Santa Barbara).  Just yesterday the swarm hive up in my cherimoya
tree became occupied by a swarm from who knows where.
 
                                                Adrian
 
 
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