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Day: April 9, 2015

Catching a mondo swarm

Posted on 2015-04-092023-01-06 by Allison J. Gong

On Easter Sunday we got a call about a big swarm of bees in our neighborhood. The woman who called has a couple of hives in her backyard, one of which had swarmed three weeks earlier. We caught that swarm and installed it into our Green hive at our house. This time it was her other…

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