swarm-list Mailing List: Re: Swarm # 500 out of nearly 1200 calls so far

[Robin Chatham (angel2020connect]

The best photo of the year? It's worth a thousand words, that's for sure. Happy 500th.

Robin Chatham

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 3:17 PM Paula Breen via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

Number 500! What do we win? 😜

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 3:07 PM Gerald Przybylski via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

Thanks, Paula, for taking that call today.

According to the tally for 2025, this was the 500th swarm call of the year. ~90% of these calls are from Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

405 swarm calls last year, and 473 the year before when we had a really rainy winter and spring.

Why?  More urban beekeepers?   Better surviving feral/wild bees?  Better publicity?  More word-of-mouth referrals?
Just guessing.

Thanks everyone who stepped up and collected a swarm or several.
Thanks for the educational outreach and good-will building you've done along the way.

History suggests there may be another dozen or two dozen swarm calls before they entirely dry up in August.

Cheers

On 7/27/25 12:21 PM, Liz Griffiths via swarm-list wrote:





 Here’s a pic for news swarmers who haven’t collected bees from a fence yet. They marched right on to the frame as Paula very gently raised it up to collect them. The clusters between the posts on the other side were collected in a 32oz yogurt container squeezed to fit in the space between the posts.

These gals were hungry and made straight for the part of the frame with some nectar stored. 

Liz

On Jul 27, 2025, at 10:41 AM, Elinor N. LEVINE via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

 Claim to Paula.

Elinor

On Jul 27, 2025, at 10:40 AM, Paula Breen <paulaellen70 [at] gmail.com> wrote:



Sure!

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 10:37 AM Elinor N. LEVINE via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

Anyone available right now? Give name and phone number.


Elinor
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