>I'm curious if other people have had similar
experience with weather.

Bees can be moody.

I managed to do an extraction
Tuesday in clouds and rain. 
without suiting, -occasionally I 
wore veil and gloves.  I never 
can manage to keep count of 
stings, - I think about 6 to 9 
stings which was fine with me,
and due to this aggressive behavior,
it perhaps rules out the possibility 
they were gentle AHB.

Was a rather large prime swarm
which built up a nice size nest in
a very short time. I could smell 
the alarm pheromone when I 
stuck my head in the wall void
to search for queen.  I was
cutting comb, and no use of
smoke for safety reasons.
I new things were about to get 
out of hand, but they remained 
rather workable.

Swarm Call update for 5-16-2012
Today- 4 calls for bees just 
swarming into houses, -2 within
9 miles from home, and 1 at 
about 15 miles, and 1 just 
outside my range which I turned 
down. 

My friend called from the pest
control company to advise me 
of one of the above calls.
He mentioned "It a bad year
for bees, their swarming everywhere"
To which I replied, "seems like
a good year to me."

Weather calls for 2 more nice days,
so swarming will continue I hope.

Bests Wishes,
Joe Waggle

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