swarm-list Mailing List: Re: WHO Doesn't Have Bees, and wants them? What cities are you in? What prevents you from chasing swarms?

[Gerald Przybylski (gtp000000]

    Is your plan to keep only one hive?    It's a risky strategy because
    there's a randomness to bee dead-outs. 
    If your colony happens to die out (bad queen, queen disappeared,
    starved because of ivy honey, equipment disaster)  then you have a
    hard time rebooting your operation.
    If you have a second or third colony you have "insurance."  The
    second hive can be a Nuc colony, rather than a full size colony. 
    Michael Bush says two to four is a good number. 
    Keeping several hives, you learn beekeeping that much more quickly.
    
    
    j

On 5/4/25 8:38 PM, yolanda huang via swarm-list wrote:

I have one empty hive.  I have not caught a swarm, but would like to try with a swarm that is accessible from the ground.

Best,

Yolanda

On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM Gerald Przybylski via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

We'd like to get an idea of how well the swarms are getting to where
they need to be.

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