swarm-list Mailing List: Re: swarm in Alamo - Bees on the ground in a driveway. kinda a rescue. Who's up for this adventure?

[M Gleisner (heidi.gleisner]

This swarm rescue was way bigger than it looked.  Thankfully we lived very close by because we had to go get more boxes.  We found 2 very healthy queens in there and think there honestly could be a third queen by the way the bees were acting though couldn’t find her before it got dark.  So for now they’ve been put in 2 separate hives in our apiary.  

-Heidi

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On Mar 25, 2025, at 18:07, Paula Breen via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:



Always a good possibility, but I have had a couple of ground swarms with perfectly good queens, so not hopeless!

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 6:03 PM Gabriel Harber via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

Look for a dead or injured queen on the ground.
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> On Mar 25, 2025, at 6:02 PM, Gerald Przybylski via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:
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> Call to Heidi. Good luck.  Take an Amazon box, and a knife or utility knife.
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>> On 3/25/25 6:00 PM, M Gleisner wrote:
>> Jamison and I can do it.
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