An updated informational blog of our adventure with Arizona bees. Africanized, black, docile, honey, european, we welcome all of the bees to our blog.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Interesting Swarm call and Bird House!
Monday was a loooooong night. My wife was reminded why she doesn't like coming out with me on bee calls. We didn't finish up until after 2am! Like usual the calls didn't go as planned. The first call was a swarm that was suppose to be the usual swarm call where the bees get placed in a box and removed at nightfall. Well they were the size of 2 basketballs, "just as our friends said" and they decided to congregate in crazy places outside of the box that night as well. This was a huge swarm, but the bees don't spread out like that during a swarm call. This was one of my first crazy calls in the 3 years we have been in business. Then I went to Scottsdale to get the bee hive in a birdhouse. Fifteen feet into the air with the hive just above my head, I had to balance and try and sawzall through the screw that held the birdhouse beehive to the mesquite! This goes without saying to beekeepers and others in this business. I needed to plan this out well, as to keep the bees from going crazy on me. I waited and looked, and planned and waited some more. There was no getting around the mesquite that was situated between other trees and shrubs not to mention the new outdoor light that was delicate and just installed. I was hanging off of a 2" diameter branch with my left hand and sawing with my right hand. After much sweat and patient sawing. I did it...but the birdhouse was still rocking as though it were attached. Frustrated I pulled and pushed myself up on the ladder on my tip toes and sweating profusely now, saw another screw! Well I was in the thick of it at that point so I went at it, but needed a new blade, since my metal blade I had was too short! After 10 minutes of looking for the allen wrench I misplaced and getting the right blade on, I cut through that next screw like butter (well really ice cold butter with a spoon as my saw) not literally but it took me a good minute or so of sawing to get through that too. Well that was just half of the night. I won't mention the rest unless asked :)
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