Started the day at 9am, loading the bee van with nucs and mini mating nucs. Went to a yard with Scott Nelson of Nelson Family Honey and there were 3 swarms. We hived them and went through the others and pulled out queen cells and shook bees into mini mating nucs. I came home with 11 queen cells. Some were starting to hatch!!! I watched other queens hatch today. Very cool. I got a call from the JC and there were 2 swarms. I told them I would be there before 4pm. Left Scott and Rose and went to the JC. There was another swarm in the exact location we got the last one on the tree. I hope that I will be able to look at the original one on Sunday. See how they are doing! The second swarm had taken off and all that was left was the few foragers that came back. From there I went to the Montgomery/mission area and looked at a guy’s bee problem. Wall extraction, 2nd story job…refer to Glenn Murphy.

Tell the guy in the next 2 1/2 weeks, Glenn will get to it. Tell him to vacuum the dozen bees in the house. Then on to Rohnert Park where the guy tells me that the swarm is the size of a grapefruit. Turns out he’s petrified of the bees and really hasn’t investigated the cluster. 10 pounds of bees. Hahaha. Go back and pick up bees at dusk. Come home, hive bees and eat dinner at 9:30p. Better get to bed soon. Meeting Scott at office tomorrow at 9am to super hives and cull swarm queens all day…. unless I get a swarm call. LOL!

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