The stage where a swarm sits on a branch in a cluster like this only lasts a day, or, at most two days. They’ll fly off to a permanent location once the scouts find one.

When a hive throws a swarm, they tend to first land for a day or two at a low point, conveniently for beekeepers who want to collect themselves a new colony. They usually locate their actual future permanent nest in a more protected location than this. Scouts are probably flying around trying to find a hole in someone’s nearby wall right now.

A friend and I were goofing off in a field when we came upon a migrating bee swarm. We took the skeleton of an old Christmas tree and rammed it into the swarm, then ran like pigs.

“What can he do about this?”

In my experience, ram it with the skeleton of a Christmas tree and run like a pig.

*Still chuckling at #14.

I have one of those electrified tennis racket bug zappers if you need it (you have to supply two c batteries).

wat

That was an incredibly funny forum thread.

Seems to be an electric bicycle. They’ve been cropping up a lot lately. Bees like a basket on their bicycles, but don’t like the buzz of the electric motor- maybe it’s saying something the bees don’t like or agree with. Hmmmmmmmmmm (translation: honey is actually no better than processed sugar).

Shop Vac.

And make sure you use a long handle (like a duct taped broom) or be prepared to suck and run then rinse and repeat.

Yep. That’s what I’d do!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176

http://www.backyardhive.com/

Or find a local beekeeper in the yellow pages and they will be happy to come collect the swarm.

Problem removed for you, free bees for them.