The old saying is: A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; a swarm in July isn't worth a fly.

It looks like I caught a swarm yesterday, if so I'll need to get them built up for winter.

I always figured if I had the woodenware ready, why not grab the swarm? There's a chance they will do well. If not, no harm, no foul. 80% of wild swarms do not survive.

Absolutely, but I'm pretty sure they took off so problem solved.

You have the house, they decide if they want to live there or not.

nowhereman had the best honey I've ever tasted, and believe me, that's a sizeable amount. :haha:

I'll tell the girls their efforts were appreciated. Spun out about 140 pounds last weekend. Still have to design this year's labels and order bottles.

Nice haul! I feel like you're a lot more committed to this than me. :notworthy

We have clover honey here dark and delicious.

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A very strange bee...

We talked about that little guy/gal this week on the Damn Interesting Week podcast! (Past tense because it's already recorded, but it won't post online until Friday.) Bilateral gynandromorphism is when the traits split down the middle, mosaic gyndandromorphism is where they're all mixed up as they are here. But the yellow eyes are actually a completely separate mutation--this bee got two incredibly-rare hits in one! (Also, it's dead now.)

Work, work, work, it's enough to drive a gal to drink...

The first one is the poop on the self draining combs...



The second one is too long because he just loves watching the honey dribble. :rolleyes:
However this one is a few weeks after the first and he explains what the bees did to recover
from the first drain and refill the comb quickly without missing a beat.

I think this would be fun to do...

Neat. I bet they hit that hard.

I want to see them all cored out after the bees are done.

This is a new wrinkle...

Bees save TaTas... outstanding.