How do I hive this swarm?

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

: swarm find own skep

This entry was posted on May 18, 2010 at 8:19 pm and is filed under Swarms. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “How do I hive this swarm?”

seanbees Says:
May 25, 2010 at 11:14 am | Reply
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.

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