Hah!\u00a0 I received a call today from a gentleman that was referred to me by another beekeeper.\u00a0 He said that he had a lot of bees on the outside eve of his house – and that he’d had bees removed from a wall of his home about 3 weeks ago.\u00a0 I thought to myself – there may have been enough stragglers to cluster for a few weeks…\u00a0 I’ll go scoop\u00a0 ”em up and be on my way… No biggie.<\/p>\n
When I arrived and evaluated the situation – It was a “holy crap” moment.\u00a0 The “cluster” was under the 2nd floor eve, and was about 2 feet long by about 8-10″ deep, and as wide as the eve (about 12″ at that spot).\u00a0 With that many bees – I knew they had drawn comb.<\/p>\n
Whoever had performed the work before – assured them that he had removed the queen and all the bees.\u00a0 The homeowner’s family told me that the comb and bees had been “bagged up”.\u00a0 Eh?\u00a0 Bagged up?\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Okay – so someone came and exterminated the bees.<\/p>\n
Whatever the case – there was now 4\u00a0 sizeable exterior combs built by the bees, and pollen and nectar had been stored in them.\u00a0 After removing a comb or two, I also saw that there were FRESHLY laid eggs.\u00a0 Less then 3 days old.\u00a0 There was a queen present.<\/p>\n
I was going to bring a 5-frame nuc to put the bees in – but I felt a little tug of instinct telling me “bring a box or two”.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0 I brought 2 mediums – which wound up being perfect for this amount of bees.\u00a0 I was VERY happy that I’d brought the right boxes.<\/p>\n
They are gentle bees – no sting attempts or bumping – and they now sit in the Richardson apiary.\u00a0 I’ll probably combine my “cluster” that was left from when I removed my other hives from the city, as they are already building comb.\u00a0 It would be good to combine them with the huge rescue from today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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