swarm-list Mailing List: Re: [ACBA BeeTalk] In case you were interested, it's the beginning of the 27th week of 2024. Looking back on th swarm season

[Elinor Levine (elevine]

Jerry,

Thank you for the great graphs, and all you do for the swarm hotline.

On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM Gerald Przybylski <gtp000000 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

800 swarm hotline calls so far this year, of which over 360 were swarm calls.
The pink graph is year-to-date snapshot of the data from this year.
Not as many swarms as last year, but more than two years ago. (the rains of 2023 made for an exceptional year)
(Reproductive) Swarm calls should flatten out this month.

Requeening or expanding your operation this year with a swarm is becoming less likely.
So if you want new queens, then split from the best half of colonies in your apiary,
or work out a deal with a friend to get some great queen cells,
or get queens or queen cells to renew your hives for best probability of success getting through the winter.

Thank you to everyone who went the extra mile to retrieve a swarm this year,
even if it was a swarm they didn't really need.
This year we don't seem to have many members who are still beeless (unless they just now took up this game).

Thank you to the rest of the hotline volunteers for taking their share of the calls.

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