POSTED MAY 03, 2026
LENGTH 1:36:00

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Episode #297 – Swarm and a Storm

SYNOPSIS:

Local Hive Report, Swarm Management Woes, Swarm capture, swarm capture, swarm delivery, swarm capture, Big Beekeeping, Local Hive Report

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Agenda

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

04:10 | Roundtable 1: Swarm Mismanagement – Misnomer

11:02 | Roundtable 2: Swarm capture during thunderstorm

18:41 | Roundtable 3: Bringing swarm from breezeway to Bob Kloss – bees coming back to box after it was gone

25:20 | Roundtable 4: Massive Swarm housed on metal stand location

32:34 | Roundtable 5: Collecting a swarm from another beekeeper and placed it into an Apimaye hive

38:28 | Topic 1: Big Beekeeping vs. Little Beekeeping.  How industrialization sometimes steers hobbyist beekeeping wrong

1:11:56 | Local Hive Report

1:26:17 – 1:36:00 | Closing Comments

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