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To: AnAmericanMother

Finding the queen and caging her are not steps that are included in my swarm collections. Take an empty deep (brood chamber) and scoop the bees in or whatever maneuver best collects the balled bees. Have never lost a queen. Most of the time I even skip the cardboard box.


27 posted on 08/02/2012 1:29:52 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
We did lose a queen once -- therefore we work it by the book now (but if I can't find her quickly I just dump the lot in the box and that soon indicates if you have her or not).

My grandfather-in-law was the first to truck hives to Florida for the orange crop, back in the 1920s. He was quite the bee entrepreneur - queen breeding, honey sales, etc.

His day job was Methodist minister, which in those days didn't pay particularly well. He also was a U.S. Marshal in Arizona Territory back when things were still pretty wild and wooly out there.

30 posted on 08/02/2012 3:37:23 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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