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<blockquote data-quote="jwithington" data-source="post: 11728" data-attributes="member: 667"><p>Greetings readers, I suspect this topic may have been covered before, but there is some conjecture among swarm collectors and owners as to when you own bees and when you don’t particularly during the swarming period.</p><p></p><p>My understanding and happy to be corrected, that the general rule is that when the bees occupy your hives, they belong to you. If they swarm and cluster/settle within your property, they are still your bees. If they cluster/settle in a neighbouring property or beyond they are no longer your bees. However, if you notice your bees have swarmed to a neighbouring property and with the permission of the property owner you can retrieve them. But if someone else collects the bees, they become theirs and you have no right to claim ownership. </p><p></p><p>I believe there is some long-standing unwritten rule around this, which someone may be able to include in a subsequent posting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jwithington, post: 11728, member: 667"] Greetings readers, I suspect this topic may have been covered before, but there is some conjecture among swarm collectors and owners as to when you own bees and when you don’t particularly during the swarming period. My understanding and happy to be corrected, that the general rule is that when the bees occupy your hives, they belong to you. If they swarm and cluster/settle within your property, they are still your bees. If they cluster/settle in a neighbouring property or beyond they are no longer your bees. However, if you notice your bees have swarmed to a neighbouring property and with the permission of the property owner you can retrieve them. But if someone else collects the bees, they become theirs and you have no right to claim ownership. I believe there is some long-standing unwritten rule around this, which someone may be able to include in a subsequent posting. [/QUOTE]
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