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[DogLover]

I believe if you call Cooperative Extension Service tomorrow and ask them to put you in touch with Paul Marks from Ida. He has retired from there, but, has beehives and is very knowledgeable.  I am sure Paul would be glad to help you.

[BigRedDog]

I believe if you call Cooperative Extension Service tomorrow and ask them to put you in touch with Paul Marks from Ida. He has retired from there, but, has beehives and is very knowledgeable.  I am sure Paul would be glad to help you.

Thank you for that info DogLover...    I was able to get ahold of Paul and get lots of info.  Not all of it was what I wanted to hear but it did reinforce what I had been reading online.

Our swarm is very, very late in the year for bees to be swarming.  They should have done it several weeks ago so they could find a home and get established and put up a good supply of honey for the winter.  It will be hard for them to do all that yet in what warm weather we have left.  Makes it sound like winter is just around the corner.

Our swarm is also very, very small...   probably has something to with it being very, very late.  Most beekeepers will not want to fool with a swarm this small. 

He also says just leave them alone and they will move on in a few days once they find a better place than a tree limb

Paul is very knowledgeable and was very courteous.  Thank you very much for the info.

[BigRedDog]

BRD --- OMG IM Scared to death of bee's and just those pics are giving me the willys.  Anyway..... Just wanted to tell u about a house on War rd just north of Nadeau that has Bee houses in the Back I remember seeing signs last year for "honey for sale " but havent noticed any this year . I dont know if its an accuall "bee Keeper" . I know its really not any info but It could help.... or u could call Billy the Exterminator. LOL

any way GOOD LUCK on getting rid of them , 

My wife did stop there on the way home yesterday afternoon ss...   there wasn't anyone home and they don't have any signs out for Honey either.  She's off today so will have to wait until Tuesday to try again.

[BigRedDog]

You know there's a honey bee crisis going on now. Their numbers are dwindling rapidly. Someone could be a hero to the agricultural industry by taking this swarm and maintaining it.

http://www.honeybeecrisis.com/index.shtml

I had read that in the news and found some other articles on it while researching these bees.  One of the reasons is that all these little swarms take off from the main nest and go out on their own away from the beekeeper and then they have trouble surviving.  We're still hoping someone will want to take them in.

[Baby Hitler]

Thank you for that info DogLover...    I was able to get ahold of Paul and get lots of info.  Not all of it was what I wanted to hear but it did reinforce what I had been reading online.

Our swarm is very, very late in the year for bees to be swarming.  They should have done it several weeks ago so they could find a home and get established and put up a good supply of honey for the winter.  It will be hard for them to do all that yet in what warm weather we have left.  Makes it sound like winter is just around the corner.

Our swarm is also very, very small...   probably has something to with it being very, very late.  Most beekeepers will not want to fool with a swarm this small. 

He also says just leave them alone and they will move on in a few days once they find a better place than a tree limb

Paul is very knowledgeable and was very courteous.  Thank you very much for the info.

Then all you will have to do it climb up the ladder and get yourself some honeycomb.

[BigRedDog]

Then all you will have to do it climb up the ladder and get yourself some honeycomb.

The bees bambeezled on their own this afternoon.  My wife and I were both out in the yard working.  Sometime in  about a 20 minute window they were just gone.  Neither one of us saw or heard a thing.  Just a few bees still on the limb and some kind of a sticky goo where they were hanging.  I do have a picture I'll post tomorrow.

The strange (maybe not) thing is I had just gotten a solid lead on someone to take them.  Maybe they want to be wild bees rather than domestic bees.

Thanks to everyone who posted or PMed or emailed me with helpful info and people to contact

[BigRedDog]

There are just a couple of bees hanging around where the swarm had been hanging for the few days they were here.  Apparently they didn't get the message on where the rest of the swarm moved to

Here's the photo of the goo they left behind...   

this photo should be tolerable for even superspice_10

[BigRedDog]

Here's some info I found yesterday on our bee adventure last summer: