swarm-list Mailing List: Re: Are you noticing anything out of the ordinary with this year's roll-out?

[Sung Lee (sungleethebeecharmer]

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Sung Lee The Bee Charmer 

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 8:44 AM Bo Droga via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

Hi Jerry,

I was wondering if you might be able to share a message with the Alameda Bee Association. Sadly, my queen bee has passed, and the hive is now without her. If anyone happens to have a virgin queen they could kindly spare or donate, it would mean a great deal.

I’m doing my best to help this little colony through a tough time, and any support would be deeply appreciated. Thank you for your support .

Cheers

Bo

On Monday, March 24, 2025, 2:18 PM, Gerald Przybylski via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

The graph's horizontal axis is truncated at April 2, and shows the roll-out of swarm calls since 2017.

By about a week, this is the earliest Swarm year ever in spite of the cold, rainy weather we had, and the roughly normal rainfall.

2023 had the highest end-of-the-season total of around 450 swarm calls.  That was a wet year.

If you set out swarm traps, and some of these swarms move in,  it'll perhaps lighten the load on the swarm-chasers
who I fear may get burned out,   and tired of seeing their phone explode.

If you're thinking of getting bees, please help us get these swarms placed.
If you haven't inspected, please do.  You may be able to head off some swarming by opening up space in the brood boxes.
There's abundant pollen now, so pollen frames will be ignored, so you can take them out or move them up into the honey supers.

Please, let's try to not contribute to the swarm problem by managing our hives, and splitting them.  :-)

Pardon the ranting!

Cheers,
jerry

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