There are 10,000 bees under this floor!

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[handmade34]

1. good job

I have 2 hives... usually 1 hive averages 50,000 bees... he did a good job cleaning them up and finding the queen... I've always wanted to find a wild hive and box them... an old timer taught me how to line bees... nothing like it

[Arkansas Granny]

3. A few years ago my daughter called me about a swarm of bees in one of her trees.

I suggested that she call the local farmers co-op to see if they could hook her up with a beekeeper. Within an hour a man had come to her house and captured them.

She said he put a cardboard box on the ground underneath the cluster of bees and sprayed them with water from a squirt bottle. They just dropped off the branch into the box.

[Rorey]

2. Amazing

I was concerned about the vacuum, but it appears that they're fine.

[Dem2theMax]

4. Fascinating!

One day I walked across the street to go to my neighbors house, and it was a somewhat windy day. I saw a mass of something floating through the air, and I thought it was just a bunch of leaves that had been blown up by the wind.

It turns out it was a swarm of bees, but I didn't realize that until I was in the middle of them. Luckily for me, I'm not afraid of bees, and I think they know it. They didn't bother me. I had to walk back across the street to my house, and I went right back through the swarm again, and again they didn't bother me.

When I got inside my house, I looked across the street and realized that they had all settled in a tree. The queen must have landed in the tree and all the other bees followed her. The swarm was about the size of a football, and just about the same shape.

I called and warned all of the neighbors, just in case they went near the tree. The bees must have stayed there for about an hour, and then they all took off. How I wish I had gone back out there with a camera to take a picture of them. Nature is amazing!

[Coventina]

5. Swarming bees are usually not aggressive.

They are more concerned with getting somewhere safe than looking for trouble.

Agree, nature is amazing!!