swarm-list Mailing List: Re: Swarm in Pittsburg- south west neighborhood. Football plus. Low

[Gerald Przybylski (gtp000000]

    Yikes!! From Fremont to Pittsdburg is a long drive.  
    If it were me I would only want to make one trip, so I would take a
    Bee-Vac with me. 
    I would get most of the bees and the queen into the box. 
    I would smoke that tree branch to encourage the rest of the bees to
    move. 
    I would put screen across the entrance of the bee box so the colony
    was confined.
    Then I would vacuum up stragglers for 45 minutes or until fewer than
    one bee per 5 minutes was returning. 
    Then I would go home. 
    i.e.  one trip, and not have to leave the box until evening. 
    
    If you Really need those bees, you can have the call.

On 5/15/26 11:26 AM, Ahmed Mustafa wrote:

I can take it if still available. I live in Fremont.  Will the ees be ok with an hour long ride?

-Ahmed

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Subject: [ACBA Swarmlist] Swarm in Pittsburg- south west neighborhood. Football plus. Low

 

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