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Re: shotgun swarm retrieval
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eabell <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 21 May 1999 07:27:25 -0700
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> Is the objective to hit the branch and break it off behind the swarm? Or is
> the idea to shoot directly into the swarm, thereby causing them to lose their
> collective grips and fall, obviously sacrificing a few bees, hopefully not
> the queen? --

I have tried this but have no idea if it works or not.  My ideas was to HIT THE
QUEEN so the workers would return to the hive where they belong.  Lots of bees
are killed but if even 50% return home that is better than losing them all.

>

Eric & Marnie Abell
Box 87
Gibbons, AB  T0A 1N0
Canada
Phone/fax (780) 998 3143
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