I collected this swarm today, easiest one ever as it was already housed in a 5 gallon plastic oil can. You can just make out the screen of bees in the entrance forming the colony cluster.
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- colony cluster filling the entrance
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- swarm find own skep
May 25, 2010 at 11:14 am |
The answer turned out to be simple, I left the can in the sun, the majority of the bees got too hot and surrounded the outside of the can. These were brushed into a hive, the can cut open after a while and the remainder brushed to join the the colony.