Good or bad this is the season for BEES to SWARM. We can be your Local SWARM BUSTERS! BUT you need to call RIGHT AWAY before the swarm moves on or sets up residence in your barn or carport or tree, etc. If we can do it safely we will. The only cost will be we get the BEES to go to work at Santa Rosa Honey Farm making HONEY! CALL (804) 928-0019 and we will get to work removing your swarm of BEES. We caught two swarms on Sunday, April 17, 2016! Around 9:30 am we saw the first smaller swarm of wild honey bees that was located about 2 feet off the ground in the Leyland Cypress tree behind the strawberry patch which is only about 30 yards from our bee yard. The swarm was not from our hives since we checked each frame of our hives in mid-March and there were no queen cells present on any frame at that time and it takes 60 days for a queen bee to hatch. We quickly cut off the branch that the wild honey bee swarm was swarming on and placed it inside a hive we set up for the purpose of giving this swarm a new home. We were excited to add this swarm to our bee yard since wild honey bees are very hardy and quite disease resistant. Later in the day we saw another honey bee swarm in the Leyland Cypress tree right next to the cypress tree where the first swarm was swarming, this second swarm was much more massive than the first. This second swarm of wild honey bees was not so simple to reach since it was swarming on a branch about 20 feet off the ground. We set up a ladder and reached this swarm as well. The only mishap was that in her excitement Cynthia did not don her bee suit and as she was holding the ladder steady some bees from the swarm fell onto her head and stung her once . We placed this honey bee swarm in a second hive that we had set up. We are THE SWARM BUSTERS!
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