swarm-list Mailing List: Re: Swarm in Oakland near airport on Hegenberger area - managed

[Gerald Przybylski (gtp000000]

    The bees filled up part of the volume between the fender liner and
    the tire. 
    
    I used a 12 oz plastic cup to scoop up about 10 scoops of bees
    and gently poured them between frames. 
    Eventually I saw the queen.  
    Eventually I closed them in with a screen cover over the top. 
    A few bees settled onto the cover, but a lot still wanted to hang
    out in the wheel well.
    So I collected stragglers with the bee vac until I was down to about
    3 bees, and 
    the door to my power outlet had to be locked up for the night. 
    
    It was a company mini-van.  I'm glad the driver didn't just drive
    off scattering the bees. 
    
    The queen looked like she was checking out cells already. I think
    she's the mother queen.
    Probably about football size filling up perhaps half of a 10 frame
    medium. 
    
    To get some of the stragglers to move out of the wheel well I tried
    "thumping" 
    on it for a while.  I'd read about "drumming" being used to get bees
    to move from one 
    skep into another.  It may have helped a little but I got tired of
    it after a while. 
    
    j

On 4/8/24 2:43 PM, Mathieu Salgues via swarm-list wrote:

I work at the airport and have my gear ready.

msalgues [at] sbcglobal.net

Thanks

Matt

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 8, 2024, at 2:34 PM, Richard Godfrey via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:



Caller in Oakland is anxious so info to Jerry who lives nearby.

Good luck!

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 2:07 PM Richard Godfrey <richgodfrey77 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Arrived in last hour and cover the front cover panel of a car

Who can go?

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