Spring has arrived, and as the temperatures rise, the swarm calls begin.Mark has gotten 3 swarm calls in the past week.The first was from one of the young truck crop farmers who was working near our Starkville bee yard. Good news: his quick call allowed Mark to catch one of our own swarms. Bad news: the bees were mean and 20 feet up in a cedar tree.The second call was from a woman in a trailer park. Incidentally, she’d called the sheriff first, so this is the first swarm capture observed by law enforcement. Good news: it was a sizable …

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