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

[Bo Droga (bo_droga]

Thank you Jerry for your extra tips! Always appreciated!

Best Regards 

Bo Droga 

On Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 03:40:11 PM PDT, Gerald Przybylski via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

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

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