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<p>I live and work in Bellingham Wa. I work at the 911 Center and our local Beekeeper Assoc gives us a list of beekeepers willing to catch swarms. Citizens and businesses often call us advising of a swarm and we call one of the beekeepers on the list and
they respond to collect the bees. Some beekeepers will collect county wide, some will only respond to the east side of county etc. It works great, someone is always available and willing to respond. We are a county of approximately 200,000 people and have
a list of about 20 beekeepers [all non commercial keepers]<br>
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<p><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><strong>Stacy Neal</strong></font></p>
<p><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light">Public Safety Dispatcher</font></p>
<p><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light">what-comm 911</font></p>
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<p><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light">Bellingham Wa</font></p>
<p><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light">360.676.6912</font></p>
<p><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><a href="mailto:sneal@cob.org">sneal@cob.org</a></font></p>
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<p><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><font color="#666699"><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light">Be Kind, for every person you meet is fighting
</font><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light">a hard battle ----- Pla</font>to</font></font></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Pollinator <pollinator-bounces+sneal=cob.org@lists.sonic.net> on behalf of Johnson, Renee <RJOHNSON@crs.loc.gov><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 25, 2014 1:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pollinator@nappc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pollinator] Bee swarm rescue</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,</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?’</p>
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<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)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here in the DC area, DCBeekeepers is very active catching and saving swarms to build a new hive.
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<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></p>
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<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></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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If it doesn’t exist already, maybe NAPPC could consider a public service on this?</p>
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<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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Renee</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Renee Johnson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Specialist in Agricultural Policy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Congressional Research Service</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">202-707-9588</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:rjohnson@crs.loc.gov">rjohnson@crs.loc.gov</a></span></p>
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