Friend of a friend had a swarm enter their rotating composter. It would have been easiest to retrieve asap, but the homeowner was hoping they would leave on their own.
Fast forward a few days and now they wanted me to come get em.
Bees in a swarm cluster are gentle. Nothing to defend. Newly housed bees are often not as friendly. New home to defend.
These were friendly thank goodness. Scooped em out one handful at a time. Did see the Queen at one point, but she was fast and not interested in the sunlight. Couldn’t see if she went into the box or not.
She must not have, cause all the bees we did put into the box went back to the composter by morning.
So we scooped again. Golf ball size of a comb has been built overnight.
We got her this second time and we took em across town to our place.
Made a new floor and gave em one additional box to grow into.
All is well, but it was just a few pounds by the time we got to em.
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