{"id":323,"date":"2010-05-26T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-06-08T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:30:47","slug":"deceptive-swarm-of-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2010\/05\/26\/deceptive-swarm-of-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceptive Swarm of Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to snag a swarm of bees at lunchtime today. \u00a0Climbed up a ladder, sprayed the huge ball of bees with sugar water and deftly scraped them into a box that had ventilation screens duct-taped over the hand holes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324\" title=\"Large Clump of Honeybees\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/large-beard-of-bees.jpg\" alt=\"Large Clump of Honeybees\" width=\"491\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/large-beard-of-bees.jpg 491w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/large-beard-of-bees-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 85vw, 491px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Clump of Honeybees on  a Residence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thought that I was very crafty and had done a splendid job. \u00a0That is, until I noticed that there was a hole in the fascia. \u00a0Bees came pouring out of the spot where one of those little louvered vent buttons had been lost to the elements. \u00a0 Oops.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325\" title=\"Honey Bees in the Fascia\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fascia-hole-honey-bees.jpg\" alt=\"Honey Bees in the Fascia\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fascia-hole-honey-bees.jpg 650w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fascia-hole-honey-bees-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Bees in the Fascia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It turns out that the space in the soffit area was very hospitable to them, and that I had just made off with a large &#8220;beard&#8221; of bees. \u00a0The rest of the hive was just fine and in the house. \u00a0The heat (91 degrees), it seems, had caused a whole lot of them to seek some fresh air outside. \u00a0A major house extraction is beyond me, so I am working to help the homeowners find someone to come up and do their magic.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I at least get a bunch of bees to combine with a &#8220;queen-right&#8221; colony in my apiary. \u00a0It should give them a nice boost of a field force.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bees hung out in the box in my chilly dark basement (simulating night) until I had time to borrow a couple of supers from a fellow beekeeper. \u00a0 As they were nice and docile, I just shook them into the hive (with newspaper between them and the queen-right colony) and was delighted to have at least 4 lbs. of new bees.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-331\" title=\"Bees from the beard combined with another hive in my apiary\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bees-from-the-beard.jpg\" alt=\"Bees from the beard combined with another hive in my apiary\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bees-from-the-beard.jpg 600w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bees-from-the-beard-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bees from the beard combined with another hive in my apiary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>And a Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/library\/quicktime\/scripts\/ac_quicktime.js\" language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/library\/quicktime\/scripts\/qtp_library.js\" language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<link href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/library\/quicktime\/stylesheets\/qtp_library.css\" rel=\"StyleSheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\n\tQT_WritePoster_XHTML('Click to Play', '\/catching-a-swarm\/catching-a-swarm-poster.jpg',\n\t\t'\/catching-a-swarm\/catching-a-swarm.mov',\n\t\t'640', '496', '',\n\t\t'controller', 'true',\n\t\t'autoplay', 'true',\n\t\t'bgcolor', 'black',\n\t\t'scale', 'aspect');\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"496\" classid=\"clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B\" codebase=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/qtactivex\/qtplugin.cab\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/catching-a-swarm\/catching-a-swarm-poster.jpg\" \/><param name=\"href\" value=\"\/catching-a-swarm\/catching-a-swarm.mov\" \/><param name=\"target\" value=\"myself\" \/><param name=\"controller\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"autoplay\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"aspect\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"496\" type=\"video\/quicktime\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/download\/\" \nsrc=\"\/catching-a-swarm\/catching-a-swarm-poster.jpg\"\n\t\thref=\"\/catching-a-swarm\/catching-a-swarm.mov\"\n\t\ttarget=\"myself\"\n\t\tcontroller=\"false\"\n\t\tautoplay=\"false\"\n\t\tscale=\"aspect\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to snag a swarm of bees at lunchtime today. \u00a0Climbed up a ladder, sprayed the huge ball of bees with sugar water and deftly scraped them into a box that had ventilation screens duct-taped over the hand holes. 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