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Offline Sean Kelly

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How to Bee-Line
« on: March 27, 2007, 12:57:10 am »
Has anyone had any success doing a bee-line when looking for feral colonies?  I read a little about it in the ABC's & XYZ's of Bee Culture and found it pretty interesting.  How would you transfer a feral hive to a man made one?  When I was finishing my bee yard today (no bees yet) I saw tons of honey bees and bumble bees flying around and I know for a fact that there's not a single beekeeper in my area for almost 8 miles.  So there's got to be feral hives somewhere.  Is it worth looking for?

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Re: How to Bee-Line
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2007, 07:21:03 am »
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Re: How to Bee-Line
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2007, 11:12:48 am »
Quote from: Jerrymac on March 27, 2007, 07:21:03 am
It has been discussed many times

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=8093.0

Sorry, should have checked the archives.

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Re: How to Bee-Line
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2007, 07:05:48 pm »
Good Luck Sean! Hope you get your Bees this season.
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Re: How to Bee-Line
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2007, 03:13:49 pm »
Quote from: GerryL on April 02, 2007, 07:05:48 pm
Good Luck Sean! Hope you get your Bees this season.

Thanks Gerry!  Yeah, I'll be getting my bees on the 14th or 15th from a local company near my house.  Pretty excited.  For a while there I was thinkin that I would have to find my bees in the woods.  :-)  Still sounds kinda fun though.  I've read a little bit about Bee-lining in ABC's of Beekeeping and maybe I'll have to make myself a bee-line box and give it a try this summer.

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