Bees swarmed on one of the vines across the street yesterday. A neighbor who is a honey producer captured it. He lightly smoked the bees, placed cardboard on the ground under the swarm, placed his open box hive on the cardboard, and then hit the vine. The majority of the bees dropped into the box which he quickly lidded. Those bees that dropped to the cardboard he smoked lightly again and eventually they entered the box through a slit at the bottom. The whole hive was recovered in a matter of minutes. Facinating.
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