I'm a new beekeeper (only in my second year) and I got
a call from a local about a swarm settling on his
house. By the time I got there the bees had made their
way under his roof two stories up. With the rain we've
had here in Saskatchewan the house has been
inaccessible for most of a week, so the bees have been
there a week and a half now. I would assume that they
would have made comb and would have brood under way,
since the carragana trees have been blooming and
dandelion are plentiful, so would it be possible to
open the facing board on the roof, cut the comb out,
and attach it to frames in a nuc with fishing line,
thereby adding a new colony? Is it worth bothering
with an operation like this two stories off the
ground? What should I be looking for (the farmer is
okay with me prying the board off his roof in order to
get at the bees)?

Steve Forbes in (usually sunny) Saskatchewan


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