About 21 days AFTER the Swarm Part 1, Sensei was, once again working on the house. This was about 10 days after we had decomissioned the heat pump along the side of the house, next to the infamous camilia (which is supposed to be hard to grow in the mountains, so we preserved it through every bit of painting, window installation, metal bending, etc. cursing each time we had to hold it away from the house and climb around and through its scratchy branches. It's thriving though!!). We sold the pump and the furnace to a guy working on affordable housing, so they found good homes.
The reason the timing is important is because during those 10 days, approximately 10,000 honeybees gathered near that spot and began to create a cone/hive. This humming was equally loud (but less threatening, since he wasn't staying there at the time). The swarm inside the house occurred the same way with the same number of casualities.
I called Extension Services for help. They gave me 4 numbers of local beekeepers who often assisted people like us with bee swarms. This was on a Friday afternoon and I left messages or spoke to each person and none of them was in a position to help us. They wished us well and we swept up more bees.
On Monday, we received a call from a local pastor who was one of the people who was sorry not to be of help on Friday. His hives had all been full at the time. Over the weekend, some cold weather had killed one of his colonies and he had room for ours!! We were sorry for his loss but anxious to find a good home for our collection!!
We'll post a slide show of that event (soon) when the bees were swept off their feet (all together in a clump) and moved to a happy hive. Ah, the natural world is so fascinating!! I so enjoy it when it stays outside!!
The reason the timing is important is because during those 10 days, approximately 10,000 honeybees gathered near that spot and began to create a cone/hive. This humming was equally loud (but less threatening, since he wasn't staying there at the time). The swarm inside the house occurred the same way with the same number of casualities.
I called Extension Services for help. They gave me 4 numbers of local beekeepers who often assisted people like us with bee swarms. This was on a Friday afternoon and I left messages or spoke to each person and none of them was in a position to help us. They wished us well and we swept up more bees.
On Monday, we received a call from a local pastor who was one of the people who was sorry not to be of help on Friday. His hives had all been full at the time. Over the weekend, some cold weather had killed one of his colonies and he had room for ours!! We were sorry for his loss but anxious to find a good home for our collection!!
We'll post a slide show of that event (soon) when the bees were swept off their feet (all together in a clump) and moved to a happy hive. Ah, the natural world is so fascinating!! I so enjoy it when it stays outside!!
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