swarm-list Mailing List: --- no we're not missing anything. No calls today. It's cold. If you got a swarm I hope you're feeding it.

[Gerald Przybylski (gtp000000]

The only hotline call yesterday was from a telephone-spammer  :-(

With this stretch of cold and rain,  your newly collected swarms may not 
be foraging.

There are two reasons to feed a swarm:
- On days like today when it's too cold, and their foraging force is 
small, and they may not have much honey yet,  they might be nutrition 
stressed.
- The average age of bees in a swarm is 10 days after pupating. They're 
almost entirely house-bees.   They are fantastic wax producers,
so a good swarm can draw a box full of new frames.  Do check on them 
every couple of days to "groom" comb when they start getting it wrong.

On a day like today when there's no swarm traffic, I'm breaking the 
posting rule.  my bad.

On high traffic days, please minimize unnecessary posting to this 
group.  (don't 'reply-all' --  reply directly to the party you want to 
reach)

Thank you for helping make this community the great thing it is.

jerry