swarm-list Mailing List: Re: Extraction in Berkeley from Water Meter box on Spaulding (from the ebmud customer affected) First posted yesterday by neighbor

[realrambo [at] aol.com (realrambo]

Done it a couples months ago , flat crow bar , smoke , h2o fine mist , and beevac  everything went well , very prolific hive .

Some say the higher the swarm the younger is the queen , yet the the queen was quite small , it is now a large one . 

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On Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 9:54 AM, Robert L Mathews via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

FYI, I talked to everyone involved in this thread and the homeowner, and I'm going to go and get them this evening for free as a public service, thinking "How hard can it be to get bees out of a water meter hole?"

I'll let you know what actually happens and how naive I've been.

On Aug 12, 2025, at 4:02 PM, Gerald Przybylski via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

2347 Spaulding Av    Berkeley    Ca
 The swarm/colony is Perhaps a week or two old    - not much comb. Perhaps still only on the lid

This is a nice source of a new queen if you need one, or a small colony to put in a nuc as an insurance policy

Jennifer Johnson    (510) 414-9659

Just returned from a trip
Someone in the household has an Epi-pen, so concerned about bee stings

Would you be interested if she bought some honey?

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Robert L Mathews

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