swarm-list Mailing List: Re: Swarm in Castro valley 10’ up just arrived

[Gerald Przybylski (gtp000000]

    Hi Eric,
    
    We appreciate your responding to swarm calls. It's good for the
    neighborhood, and beekeepers in general when we swoop in and make
    things better. 
    
    A number of years ago when Sung Lee just joined the club,  he was
    quick and efficient with his responses to swarm calls, and he was
    free
    to go after multiple swarms a day, and he did. 
    
    It began to dawn on us that other beekeepers who needed bees were
    not getting the calls perhaps because they were a little less
    efficient at responding
    to the calls, or they were otherwise occupied with real work, or
    were in the middle of something they couldn't leave for a couple of
    minutes.
    
    We asked Sung to hold off for a day (or two) with claiming swarms so
    that others could get the opportunity,. 
    
    That revealed another problem.  If everyone who sees the posting got
    a swarm today or yesterday, so are  holding off making a claim, 
    swarms might go unclaimed, and hotline-volunteers are stuck to their
    phone or computer until a claim is made, or they decide to go out
    themselves. 
    
    So now we ask, 
    • If you got a swarm today, wait for at least 10 or 15 minutes
    before making a claim to give others the opportunity. 
    • After 10 or 20 minutes, any swarm posted is fair game for anyone
    who wants to chase it, no matter if you had just taken a call. 
    
    You see we have competing priorities.   Beekeeper response time
    (related to their phone or email service),  prompt service for
    callers in the community, spreading out the calls to more swarm list
    members, freeing up volunteers (not asking too much of them) <-
    in no particular order. 
    
    So we ask our members to use judgment in responding, and be generous
    while there are still beekeepers out there who don't have any
    bees...  when we have a yard full.
    
    How does that sound? 
    
    jerry

On 3/9/25 2:10 PM, Eric Smith via swarm-list wrote:

Elinor,

Please let me know when I can start responding to swarms again. 

ericsmith1961 [at] gmail.com

925-519-6520

On Mar 9, 2025, at 2:03 PM, Elinor N. LEVINE via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

 Eric got one recently. 

This one will go to Aftab. Aftab please text me at 510-508-5053.

Elinor

On Mar 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM, Aftab Usmani <aftabusmani [at] gmail.com> wrote:



I can take it

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Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2025 1:54:40 PM
To: aftabusmani [at] gmail.com <aftabusmani [at] gmail.com>
Cc: Elinor N. LEVINE <elevine [at] berkeley.edu>
Subject: [ACBA Swarmlist] Swarm in Castro valley 10’ up just arrived

 

Near Proctor School. Size of footballs.

Anyone available to go now and return after dark?

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