{"id":815,"date":"2015-05-26T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T02:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rex.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/?p=815"},"modified":"2015-05-26T21:45:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T02:45:30","slug":"swarm-season-too-much-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Swarm Season \/ Too Much Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not think that in 45 years, I have ever seen as much rain as we have received here in North Texas over the last two months.\u00a0 Too much rain can be detrimental to our agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the obvious problem of erosion of our topsoil, there are other problems with too much rain.\u00a0 When rain falls over fields of blooming flowers, it can wash out the nectar from the flowers, leaving hungry pollinators.\u00a0 Generally at this time of year, the bees have an excess of nectar that they are bringing into their hives.\u00a0 But with a shortage of nectar, there is a serious possibility of starvation.\u00a0 Yes &#8211; even with all the rain and flowers&#8230; that does not mean that there is available nectar for them to forage upon.<\/p>\n<p>Below are pictures of bees that swarmed recently to a crape myrtle tree.\u00a0\u00a0 They settled on a branch about 5&#8242; off the ground, and sat long enough to build 2 smallish pieces of comb under their cluster.\u00a0 The homeowner called and I responded within the hour to remove the swarm from their back yard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3654_sm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3654_sm1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Img_3654_sm\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3654_sm1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3654_sm1-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3654_sm1-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3654_sm1.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3656_sm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3656_sm1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Img_3656_sm\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3656_sm1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3656_sm1-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3656_sm1-400x536.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3656_sm1-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Img_3656_sm1.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not think that in 45 years, I have ever seen as much rain as we have received here in North Texas over the last two months. Too much rain can be detrimental to our agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the obvious problem of erosion of our topsoil, there are other problems with too much rain. 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