Seattle Urban Honey Collecting Swarming Honey Bees in the Seattle Area
We had another honey bee swarm yesterday, the 18th of the year. It was about 10 feet up in an alder tree and very accessible (unlike one that we got out of a blackberry thicket earlier in the week). The order of the pictures seems to be out of my control.
- The first picture is the swarm in the tree before we touched it and
- The second picture is placing the bucket under the bee swarm just prior to bumping the branch to get the bees into the bucket.
- The third picture is placing the swarm into a fresh hive.
We will be at the Phinney Farmers’ Market today, Friday, June 22, from 3 to 7 p.m.