Swarm Patrol

5/30/2003 1020 AM - I was contacted by McGee Pest Control about a hive of bees in a building in Hopkinsville, KY. They want me to go take a look at them and tell them what I can do to remove them from the building. I'll go out there and take a look tomorrow afternoon and see what can be done. If it is too high up they stay.

5/10/2003 11:25 PM - Called by a roofing crew working on the Shady Grove Baptist Church, they had a tornado there. They had a colony in the eaves, I said I would go take a look. Dang! they were 22 feet off the ground. I had to take the better part of valor... I walked away from that one for some one better equiped than I to do it.

5/05/2003 3:55 PM - During a Thunderstorm, I received a call from a lady in North Windwood subdivision she reported that she had a swarm on one of here new peach trees and it was bending it over. She wanted it gone now! Of course I was working (real estate agent) so I drove over there and there they were about a 5 pound swarm of Carni/Italian mix. I was totally unprepared so I asked if she had a pillow case and some string. She looked at me like I was crazy and went and got one. I took the pillow case and scooped it under the swarm and gave the tree a good shake. They all fell into the bag and scrambled about. I shook them all to the bottom and tied off the bag with the string and tied a loop in the free ends. I hung the pillow case bag from the rearview mirror of my car and drove off to my apiary and installed them in a super with a top and bottom.

4/28/2003 - Swarm season begins. First call Lady has swarm on here house, they moved inside by the time I got there. Went back the next day coned the entrance and went into the basement with the owner and opened the ceiling where they were coming in by the window. Removed the new combs bees and queen and installed into a hive body. took it back out side and set it on a ladder next to the cone. removed the hive a week later and it's in my back yard.