Superbees? When I returned home in the afternoon, my wife tells me someone with an unusual swarm just called me, the bee man in Shawnee, OK. The bloke works at the nearby Air Force base, about thirty-minute drive away. As he got out of his work, he saw a big swarm resting on his white van, covering the driver-side headlight and bumper! Scared, he gingerly got in, using the passenger-side door, and drove home, hoping the bees would just fly away. He then drove home doing at 70 mph on I-40 while observing at one point a good lump fall; however, about 500 or so bees were still hanging, tooth and nail, on the headlight and bumper when he got back home, hence the call. Come to find out the queen was missing, gone probably with the lump that got dumped in the bump. I did not bring any brood to lure the queenless swarm. Having watered them and flopped a good number of them down into my special swarm-retrieval box, filled with ten deep foundations, I left the box alone till sundown. They were all moving in and out of the box, frantically searching for the missing Mother Superior till finally they decided to settle, painfully slow, into the box at dusk. I combined these extra bees with another colony. The man said while he was driving home other motorists would gesture him in an attempt to say something about this gob of bees hanging on his van as he was driving along the Interstate at 70 mph! Go figure. Yoon :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- Visit www.honeybeeworld.com/BEE-L for rules, FAQ and other info --- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::