> As I understand it, the Arizona method is to drive around collecting swarms, as many as twenty a day in season.
 
Dee's reply: That's for the pesticide/swarm cut out people and really don't know of any beekeepers doing such. and when Ed died I stopped doing swarm removals way back in 2006 

My comment: See 2008 video filmed by Dean, which shows you installing numerous swarms collected with swarm traps, the same kind used for capturing African bees along the border. 

https://vimeo.com/31298104  (at 17:45) 
> Receiving as many as "twenty" swarms on a single day from southern Arizona golf courses certainly helps replenish losses! "Free money your gettin'... you know."

Further information:
>  We obtained invoices with data on honey bee colony and swarm removals from 1994 to 2001 from a private company in Tucson, Arizona, which specializes in the removal and control of Africanized honey bees.

> BeeMaster, Inc., removed 6,524 colonies and swarms from the greater Tucson metropolitan area from 1994 through 2001 (Table 1). The number of colony and swarm removals increased from 14 in 1994 to 458 in 1995 following the arrival of Africanized honey bees in 1993. 

> Removals increased 228% from 1997 to 1998 for colonies + swarms, decreased by 43% from 1999 to 2000 and increased by 307% from 2000 to 2001 (Table 1). A majority of the colonies were located in buildings (55%), followed by the miscellaneous category (27.9%), trees (10.1%) and in the ground (7%). Swarms were primarily located in trees (55%), followed by buildings (22.5%), the miscellaneous category (13%) and in the ground (9.5%).

Africanized honey bees in urban environments: A spatio-temporal analysis 
Kristen A. Baum, Maria D. Tchakerian, Steven C. Thoenes, Robert N. Coulson
Landscape and Urban Planning 85 (2008) 123–132

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