The swarm’s in trouble
Posted by Gord on May 7, 2009 in Beeyard, Swarm removal | 2 comments It’s been three weeks since Greg and I removed a colony from a house and they’re not doing well. They haven’t been taking a lot of syrup and there’s been zero comb-building. I did a full inspection yesterday afternoon and there’s no sign of the queen. No larva, no brood of any kind. What I don’t know is if we had the queen and she’s since died or did we...read more
Removal pictures
Posted by Gord on Apr 13, 2009 in Beeyard, Swarm removal | 1 comment As Greg said, we pulled a few thousand bees from a house on Saturday. Amazingly, given that fact that we’d never done anything like this before, it went quite well. The homeowner called it a “bread oven”, but we think it’s an old ash vault for the main fireplace. It certainly had loads of ashes in it. We needed to get most of it out to maximize working space. The vault...read more