[BeeHunter]

I got 3 calls today. 2 for trouble bee's in homes. So I'll do cutouts on them and another was a swarm in a tree. It fit in a nuc just right. Good timing, I was grafting some queen cells into some nucs to make some queens for my hives to requeen soon. Not many calls this year.

 

[G3farms]

I agree with you not many calls at all. For me...........zero swarm calls, one bee tree and a couple of cut outs is all.

glad to hear you are getting to do a little bee work, even though it is getting kind of late in the year for cut outs.

 

[BeeHunter]

yeah its late all right. I may just try to incooporate a nuc and feed feed feed. I have a couple others I'll be feeding this year anyway. Thinking of making a 5 nuc lid w/ a trough feeder.???

 

[rast]

I got a call today. Cutout required from description, 35 miles away. High income area. Oh no, I'm not paying you to get them out, I giving them to you. 2 like that this month.
Thanks, but no thanks.

 

[G3farms]

You should have said, "if you are giving them to me, just bring them on over!"

Free bees, yeah right.

 

[rast]

I got a call today. Cutout required from description, 35 miles away. High income area. Oh no, I'm not paying you to get them out, I giving them to you. 2 like that this month.
Thanks, but no thanks.

Make that 3 call's now this month wanting no charge bee removal.

 

[tecumseh]

beekeepers are suppose to work for free rast... they are all communist... don't ya' know?

invariable it is the folks with the highest incomes that seem quite adamant that 1) I as a beekeeper I need to come to their place and take care of THEIR problem right NOW and 2) I also need to do this for free.