[Pollinator] Bee swarm rescue

[Calfee, Robin]

This is a great question!  My husband John is a local beekeeper here in
Columbia, MO.  Fortunately he also used to work for the Missouri Department
of Conservation and has established a network of communication with the
receptionist who takes calls on what to do with bee swarms.  They refer all
callers to him so that he can go out and try to save the swarming bees.  He
has also called all of the PEST exterminators in the local area because
what we have found is that the exterminators don't really want to kill the
bees because they know how important they are.  A PSA in local areas or
communication through local extension offices would be wonderful.  Of
course there has to be someone or some group that knows how to save bee
swarms for people to contact.


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Johnson, Renee <RJOHNSON at crs.loc.gov>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> 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?’
>
>
>
> Here’s a great clip (with Toni Burnham at DC Beekeepers Alliance):
> http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28004876 (she is very cool)
>
> Here in the DC area, DCBeekeepers is very active catching and saving
> swarms to build a new hive.
>
> Also see:
> 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
>
>
>
> BANV also provides some support catching swarms:
> http://beekeepersnova.wordpress.com/club-activities/bee-swarms/bee-wranglers/
>
> Prince William Regional Beekeepers Association (PWRBA) has similar
> information on their website: http://pwrbeekeepers.com/
>
>
>
> If it doesn’t exist already, maybe NAPPC could consider a public service
> on this?
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Renee
>
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> Renee Johnson
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> Congressional Research Service
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Robin D Calfee
Research Biologist
Columbia Environmental Research Center
U.S. Geological Survey
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Columbia, MO 65201
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