Mr. Reddell,
Where are you located that you can catch 42 swarms?  Are these from
your apiary or are they calls that you get?  Do you get this many
swarms every year or is this exceptional?  How many hives do you have
total if you caught
42 this year?
Just wondering-----------billy bee
 
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From: Michael Reddell <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Swarm
Date: 12 juil. 1997 13:26
 
Betty's statement is generally true, but there are rare exceptions.
This year I've hived 42 swarms and 2 of them settled into the box
nicely the first
day, only to abscond  hours later the same day, or the next day.  In
one case I
put them back in the same box and then they stayed.  The other one took
off across the countryside and I lost track of it when it crossed a
creek.  In both cases, the queen was in the box.
 
A frame of brood in all stages of development will generally keep a
swarm in a box even if they don't particularly like it.  Problem is, I
don't always have a spare frame of brood handy when hiving a swarm.
 
 
If a swarm does not immediately leave the hive box, it has adopted it
as a
new home.  If the queen has not entered, the entire swarm will leave
again
within 5 minutes.
 
 
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