Today was an interesting day, I all started with a knock about 9:30 this morning at the bedroom widow, which is on the second story of the house. My husband Jim was power washing the house, up on the ladder, and noticed a swarm of bees at the windows above the garage, the area that he previously power washed the day before. He had taken out screens and in the evening he opened the windows without replacing the screens during a thunderstorm. His plan was to power wash the screens and replace them in the morning. Those plans changed and he started power washing the house and he forgot about the screens and open windows. Which lead to the knock on the bedroom window to let me know about the swarm.
The second floor of the garage is where I keep my beehive supplies, brooding boxes, honey suppers, honey extraction equipment, etc, basically this was an opportunity for the bees to rob me, instead of robbing them for their delicious honey, touché. Some of the boxes had winter stores of honey/sugar water which they gladly took advantage of. I put on my bee jacket and veil and went up to the second story of the garage. I didn’t see any sign of a new colony moving in, which would have been awesome, only a peaceful robbing situation. Just incase, I did put out a hive box out with some swarm lure, which there were some bees interested in that, but not many. My next course of action, sit and wait. Eventually these bees will return to their hives and I can close the windows. These bees grasped an opportunity in a space that was behind a closed door and not in our living space, so I let them take that opportunity.
We had a few thunderstorms came in and majority of the bees left because of them. By nightfall, I didn’t see any bees in that space so hopefully all of them made it out safely. I closed the windows and all should be well tomorrow. Thank you for reading and bee kind.
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