The following club members will remove swarms of bees. Check the list of beekeepers below and find one close to where the bee swam is located.
If you are a beekeeper in the Dunn County area and would like to be added to this list please contact me at maryp@dunncountybeekeepers.org
The 2012 swarm season has started early this year with three swarms reported by our beekeepers on May first.
Thanks to Mary L for providing this image. Last year's swarm pictures follow below.
This is the first swarm reported to me in Dunn County. It is in a small apple tree about 200 feet from the other bee hives. The bees were successfully captured and installed in a new hive on Wednesday 6-22-2011. Before landing, they were buzzing around the tree and caught my attention 50 feet away and in the house.
This slideshow is pictures of Paul Will's removal of bees from a garage wall. The comb filled 2 deep brood boxes and a 30 gallon trash can of comb and honey. The extraction took 5 hours.
Here are two pictures of the hive removed from the New Hope Pine Creek Church during the week of June 26, 2011. The picture on the right shows a foot of the 5 feet of comb removed. The left photo shows a bit of the second-floor joist space filled with comb. The bees were relocated along with 9 frames of brood and honey comb and seem to be doing well in their new location.