Swarms and Nucs

[Beeboy01]

Well this has been a fun week so far, I hung a Coates 5 frame nuc set up as a swarm trap behind work baited with swarm lure last week. A swarm moved in two days ago and I took it home last night in my SUV. Half way home a bee flew up to visit me so I looked around and saw about 100 bees clinging to the inside of the rear windows of my truck. Yikes!!! Luckly for me the sun was shining in the back of the truck so the bees were nice enough to stay there instead of helping me drive. Got them back to the bee yard and set them up as a 5 frame nuc tower and when i opened the swarm box up i found that they had drawn out a piece of comb the size of my hand in under 24 hours. As I was leaving the yard I glanced over to a flower pot design swarm trap hanging on the side of the shed and saw a second swarm that had moved into it. That makes the second swarm in two days and I'm running out of equipment. The flower pot trap ended up strapped hole side down onto another nuc with a hole cut in it's lid loaded with some used comb and so far they look lke they are moving in.
  The only bad thing that occured is that the little nuc which had a queen in it lost the queen sometime over the last week. I think I must of rolled her during the last inspection. Oh well, win some lose some.
 
 
 

[AllenF]

Very good luck in finding those swarms.   
Better rebait them up for more.