Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Catching a Swarm

Well I got permission to set a swarm box out over at my Uncles house.  Going this week to get Pheromone and a swarm trap.  These bees have been in a old milk pallor for the longest time.  I know they have been there before I was born, which is over 30 years. 

This is a good sign that they are resistant to disease and mites.  This also means they produce very good queens. 

I plan on either giving the swarm to my other Uncle that has a Top Bar Hive, if he doesn't have an bees in his hive already or keeping them for myself and trying to produce a few queens from these bees. I would love to try some of these bees. 

Keeping my fingers crossed and hope they swarm!!

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