Got a call from a condo manager fri. night about a swarm. It was almost dark and I was an hour away so I told him that it would be in the morning. When I got there at 7:30 this is what they had. So i set up a couple of ladders and raked them down into a NUC. The weather was foggy and the bees were a little pissy. It had me concerened that they could be a little AHB. I must have raked the queen down with the first big handfull because all that fell went down in the nuc. I set the nuc on top of the ladders, against the building and started to get a march from the ones that was left. I had to do a little smoking on some of the stubborn ones since I could'nt leave the nuc, But did'nt leave over a dozen bees since they had not started flying for the morning The HOA said they would pay me for my fuel and we left with a swarm. This morning about 1/3 of the bees were bearded on the front of the hive and I decided that it was to many for a nuc, so I moved them into a 10 frame deep with an inner cover, 2 quarts of 1 to 1 on top with an empty deep. They were very gentle when they were transfered so it relieved my tensions about aggresiveness. Sorry this is so long but I wanted to show and tell the whole story. junkhound
