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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has NAPPC or other groups compiled information on efforts to save bee swarms? — to answer the staffer’s question at last week’s congressional briefing about ‘what to do about swarming bees?’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s a great clip (with Toni Burnham at DC Beekeepers Alliance): <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28004876">http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28004876</a> (she is very cool)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here in the DC area, DCBeekeepers is very active catching and saving swarms to build a new hive. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also see: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-bees-swarm-its-good-news--for-the-bees-anyway/2014/06/23/68c33a80-dd15-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-bees-swarm-its-good-news--for-the-bees-anyway/2014/06/23/68c33a80-dd15-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_story.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BANV also provides some support catching swarms: <a href="http://beekeepersnova.wordpress.com/club-activities/bee-swarms/bee-wranglers/">http://beekeepersnova.wordpress.com/club-activities/bee-swarms/bee-wranglers/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prince William Regional Beekeepers Association (PWRBA) has similar information on their website: <a href="http://pwrbeekeepers.com/">http://pwrbeekeepers.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If it doesn’t exist already, maybe NAPPC could consider a public service on this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This same question (‘what to do about swarming bees?’) often comes into our local VCE extension offices each year and there is often little information about what to do — and some volunteer master gardeners who work the phones often just suggest calling an exterminator! This might be a useful partnership.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Renee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=105 height=58 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CF9094.8F5FE620" alt="Description: cid:image001.png@01CD3DB1.909C71D0"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Renee Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Specialist in Agricultural Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Congressional Research Service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>202-707-9588<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:rjohnson@crs.loc.gov">rjohnson@crs.loc.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>**This information is intended only for the congressional addressee or other individual to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information is only at the discretion of the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. The foregoing has not been cleared by CRS review and is not for attribution. This response is provided to help in time-limited situations.**<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>