<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Happy to take a couple of swarms from people if you already have too many hives.<div class="">Thanks for keeping me in mind!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Happy bee season!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 24, 2024, at 6:26 PM, Kate Whealen <<a href="mailto:katewhealen@earthlink.net" class="">katewhealen@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve gotten calls in Santa Fe as early as April 15, it seems like there are a few early swarms some years. The fruit trees are blooming weeks earlier than they used to and the fruit tree nectar is the stimulus for brood production. Usually our swarm season is busiest around the first week of May which is not far off, but the climate is changing and the bees may be adjusting their rhythms.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 24, 2024, at 5:34 PM, <a href="mailto:bgoodfood@aol.com" class="">bgoodfood@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><div class="">
Question:<div class="">Isn’t this very early for swarms?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="yahoo-signature"><a style="font-size:12px" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661" class="">Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS</a><br class=""></div><br class=""><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(132, 115, 255); padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Monday, April 22, 2024, 8:21 AM, Stephen Black <<a href="mailto:sblack@casafirst.org" class="">sblack@casafirst.org</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv2635713213" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="" class="">Hello Beekeepers,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our monthly SDC Beekeepers meeting will be held this week at our usual time and place: starting at 6:30 PM Thursday April 25 <span style="font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">at the Unitarian Universalist Church on </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">107 </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""><span dir="ltr" class="">W Barcelona Rd in Santa Fe</span>. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">We will be sharing information on “splits and swarms" as well as other spring hive management </span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">tips</span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">. We always invite our members to bring photos or videos or stories from their beekeeping journey as well as any questions you may have about your bees.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">We hope you all can join us in person…..if you can only join via Zoom:</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84271790136" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84271790136</a>
Meeting ID: 842 7179 0136</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">Hope to see </span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">you all there,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">Kate and Steve</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">Rumor has it there will be cookies and </span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">for sure there will be free</span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">smoker fuel available to all attendees!!</span></i></div></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">hive mailing list<br class=""><a ymailto="mailto:hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org" href="mailto:hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org" class="">hive@lists.sdcbeeks.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.sdcbeeks.org/listinfo.cgi/hive-sdcbeeks.org</a><br class=""><blockquote class=""></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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