Right in the middle of a phone call, three of my siblings rushed downstairs saying something about one of my hives swarming. I put my bee suit on, and hurried out to assess the situation. I had read a bit about catching swarms, so I wasn't very nervous at all, and went out to look at the place that my bees had decided to rest.
It was a bad situation. The bees were suspended twenty feet up in the air on a branch that was directly over a particularly dense piece of forest. My brothers Asaph and Zion and I began to cut away all the branches and foliage in the path of the branch. My sister Havilah climbed up the tree to cut and lower the branch down to where Asaph and I could shake the bees off. She tied it up so that it wouldn't fall to the ground.
When it came down it jerked and about half of the bees came off and started buzzing fiercely. We got away fast and decided to wait for them to calm down again. A member of our church group who is also a bee keeper came over to help us capture the swarm. We got them into the extra box that he brought. It was ironic that the only people who got stung were the ones with full bee suits. I myself got three stings, while the children with nothing but a veil got none.
--- by Ephraim
1 comment:
I hate bees, lol.
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