capturing swarms – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:31:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 capturing swarms – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Swarm Stories; Capture or Not https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/swarm-stories/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/swarm-stories/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2016 21:28:38 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=2648 A thing of beauty-perfect teardrop swarm   Swarm forming on branch As a new contributor to Keeping Backyard Bees, I have lots of swarm stories from 20 years of beekeeping. Averaging between 2 and 4 hives each season, I have certainly seen my share of mass exodus of carefully tended bees that decide to look for a new […]

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