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Honeybee Swarms Removed - $1
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Swarming is how honeybees reproduce at the colony level, and here in the NRV the peak of that activity is April, May and June.
If you have a giant ball of honeybees hanging from a bush or the branch of a tree or a fence railing… you name it… here’s what’s going on. They have left their original cavity with a queen in the middle of that mass of bees and the colony is in the process of deciding what new cavity to move into. That ball of bees that you see hanging is called a bivouac and it is only a temporary state of affairs.
In as little as 20 minutes, or during cold rainy weather as much as three days, once they decide on the next cavity to move into, 10-20,000 bees can take to the sky and disappear in mere moments! And if that happens before I get there, I’ve wasted a trip. So, if it’s nice weather and you want an experienced beekeeper to come get them and look after them in his apiary in Snowville (Radford), you had better message me right away.
Thanks.
Randy