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j.w.freck 
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Posted: 03 May 2017 at 10:31pm |
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have any of you allis elite captured ank honey bee swarms yet this yaer?pretty slow here in east texas.only caught 2 so far
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Mule
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Posted: 03 May 2017 at 10:53pm |
I'm far from being Allis elite but... does it count if you caught your own bees swarming? 
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Ray54
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Posted: 03 May 2017 at 10:57pm |
Had 4 swarms that got taken away and one new hive in a dead tree. The fact that about double of normal rain, there has been plenty to eat this spring. Starting to get hot and dry up so swarming could be over here.
J W you ever us a shop vac to collect a swarm if they are really high in a tree? That is how the one was captured here,it was a first for the guy doing it. Had a super set up to put the vac on and used 2 other supers as the canister for vac. The swarm was getting up close to 30 feet up. Talked to him a few days latter when another swarm was in same group of trees,said he had the queen and all was good.
The other first was one swarm stopped and set up in a whole in the ground in my corrals.Wanted to vaccinate cows but didn't and know body got stung so let it go.
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Tracy Martin TN
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Posted: 03 May 2017 at 11:09pm |
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Caught one so far. Tracy
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shameless dude
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 12:14am |
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I was glad to see a few today, left them alone and maybe they will start a hive somewhere here! they are getting so scarce anymore!
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 5:50am |
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Haven't seen any around here.
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lowell66dart
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 7:13am |
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Found one in a tree near my garden. My buddy set up a box nearby and we are hoping they split eventually.
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Nathan (SD)
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 7:17am |
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I know some beekeepers that camp up around the Naples-Marietta area. Looks like it is about 50 miles north of Karnack. They are having a tough time getting the bees into shape this year. Sounds like it is a little on the dry side there, so the bees do not have a lot of nectar to collect to assist in the hive population build up.
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ac fleet
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 10:55am |
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No swarms here, has not been any for years.---lots of honeybees in the fruit trees, so there are plenty bees around,---just don't know where they hole up at. thanks; ac fleet
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 11:11am |
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I had no idea there were so many bee keepers here. If I weren't so allergic to a bee sting, I'd try it.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 12:06pm |
Used to have bees till I started to swell up when stung, the neighbors barns still has bees in it that pollenate my trees & garden.
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 1:16pm |
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Haven't seen any yet, still cold and wet here, no frost last night but plenty the few nights before that. Lost 40 hives over the winter, hope we can pick up 30 or more swarms this spring.
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j.w.freck
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 9:16pm |
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sorry to hear of your loss hd6.sure hate to loose the hummers.they do us a lot of good in agriculture and just plain fun to watch them.i am by no means a tree hugger but I like my honey bees,for entertainment and the benefits they serve.i rescuded a hive on a limb next to my soybean field in Indiana in mid November,brought them to texas and they are doing great.guess they appreciated the warm weather.....
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j.w.freck
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 9:22pm |
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ray,have read of the bee vaccum,but never tried it,i would probably do more damage than good as far as the welfare of the bees.
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allischalmerguy
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Posted: 04 May 2017 at 10:35pm |
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My bees are near Deep River, Iowa. I have not seen any swarms yet...I was able to check my bees (my docs gave the Ok) for the first time last week. I have not cked a hive since the first part of last Sept before my leukemia. I did not see any queen cells yet. But it rained and there could be some on the hives now. I hope to get to them the first part of next week. I start my infusions again next week and my immune system will go down and I need to get them cked before that. Sorry to hear of those who lost hives...I lost 6 hives and have 11 going yet.
Pastor Mike In Iowa
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shameless dude
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Posted: 05 May 2017 at 1:40am |
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good to hear from you again Pastor Mike! let hear an update
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 05 May 2017 at 8:15am |
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Good luck with everything pastor😁.
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Ray54
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Posted: 05 May 2017 at 8:57pm |
Just passing on what the one fella told me. Smaller bees are heather than larger bees. He had done something and workers build smaller cells in the honey comb.For all the none bee people like me, bees grow to what ever size comb they are but in as a larvae.
Sounded like maybe a year since he started trying to get smaller bees. Over winter the smaller had done better than his others. The other fella had been reading other "experts" and thought size didn't matter. He was making a box different than "normal",but I have no idea what is different as I was not home when he captured his hive.
There are 2 valley oaks in my back yard that where pruned extensively over a 100 years ago. A lot of big dead wood with woodpecker wholes,been as many as 5 hives in the trees at one time since the 70's when we noticed. With the drought 3 years ago was the first time there was not any bees,but now there is a very active hive. But 200 yards away there has been a hive in a old Cat D7 engine for close to 10 years. This is the 3rd hive I have seen in old crawler tractors. After all the swarming there is a 3rd hive here this in a dead Chinese Elem tree. So wild bees are increasing again around here.
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ocharry
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Posted: 06 May 2017 at 11:29am |
i built 2 top bar hives last spring in hopes of catching some bees in a swarm or maybe they would find the new condos i made but none yet....poop  ,,,,,not even a swarm to catch,,,may have to buy some for next year,,,unless any of you guys want to donate a colony with a queen,,,,got a couple nice new hives that need tenets ,,,lol
ocharry
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allischalmerguy
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Posted: 06 May 2017 at 7:48pm |
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Thanks guys! Good to be alive and be on here.
My bees are small cell bees. I am not sure it makes them any more healthy but some claim it does...I tried it.
On attacting a swarm..a good sized box will go.
Get two things to put in it.
1. An old frame out of a bee hive that has drawn comb on it and put it in there.
2. Get some Lemon grass oil and put several drops of it in the box also.
Put the box out in swarming season, in Iowa that is April 25-End of June.
Ck it once a week.
Pastor Mike
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Sugarmaker
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Posted: 07 May 2017 at 8:37pm |
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In Northwestern PA Our three hives did not make it through the winter. We have not been treating for mites. Our weather was mild and for a few days way warmer than normal.
So we will be looking for a swarm or two. But they seem to be getting harder to find.
Regards,
Chris
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j.w.freck
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Posted: 07 May 2017 at 9:52pm |
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same way in east texas sugarmaker,have only caught 2 swarms so far
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