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Elmwood Park Honey Thanks for your past swarm calls! Thank you! This is a home-based business with curb-side pickup of our honey.

Please report all future swarms here: www.BeeSwarmed.org

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EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SOLD! Thanks everyone!!FOR SALE and to GIVE AWAY Bee Equipment – Updated 8/14/2026If you want to kil...
07/25/2026

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SOLD! Thanks everyone!!

FOR SALE and to GIVE AWAY Bee Equipment – Updated 8/14/2026

If you want to kill Varroa Mites organically, but don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on a vaporizer – replacing a little water with glycerin makes the OA dribble method more effective.

SOLD -$10 - Food grade vegetable glycerin - 1 gallon minus a little that I used to make my Oxalic Acid (OA) liquid for killing the Varroa Destructor Mites using the OA dribble method. I can provide the recipe for making the solution to whoever buys this. It is from Randy Oliver and his website www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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SOLD - $1 – One Metal Queen Clip - much better than the plastic ones. I always put queens in this when I catch a swarm, to make sure they don’t leave while I’m collecting them. Also used before selecting bees for an alcohol wash mite test – to make 100% sure I don’t kill the queen.

These can be used to hold bee hive cut-out comb in frames, hold candle molds closed and other uses.

Free with any purchase – Advantage Rubber Bands - Firm Stretch – 1/4 pound of #64 bands

Free with any purchase – Advantage Rubber Bands - Firm Stretch – 1/2 pound of #32 bands
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Everything below this line is SOLD TOO!

You need this if you ever add wax to plastic foundation!

SOLD - $5 – 1 electric rectangular pan with a little cappings beeswax in it and its lid, and a 6-inch paint roller to apply beeswax to plastic foundation. This works much better and faster than a paint brush. I used only cappings wax when I added beeswax to plastic foundation because it has a lot less pesticides and other chemicals in it than other, older beeswax. You will need more beeswax to cover your foundation.
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SOLD - $5 – one eight-frame deep super assembled – built by me from raw lumber. It started out to be one of 22 10-frame deeps. But I made a few mistakes and made only four 8-frame deep supers instead.

SOLD - $5 for four pieces of lumber that is cut to make 10-frame deep supers (some of them make 8-frame deeps). Enough to make 18 deep supers. Un-assembled.
$60 for all 72 pieces of lumber.
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Please text or call with your name and what you want to buy. First come with cash, first served. Mark Welsch 402-510-7565 I'm at 56th and Howard Street in Omaha NE. Just three blocks east of UNO and Elmwood Park.

Why am I selling my bee equipment?
I have rehomed my very last honey bee swarm, not just for this year, forever. I set a personal record of rehoming 21 swarms in 2026 – and I told other beekeepers about 20 more swarms I didn’t have time to catch.
I’ve ended the hobby I started 60 years ago, when I was 10. Thanks to everyone who made this a fun hobby!! I’ve sold all my bees and a lot of my equipment. I still have the few things above to sell.

06/30/2026

Thanks for your past swarm calls!
Please report all future swarms here:
www.BeeSwarmed.org

After getting the 5 pounds (yes, I weighed them) of bees captured with swarm #21, this is what they were doing this mor...
06/29/2026

After getting the 5 pounds (yes, I weighed them) of bees captured with swarm #21, this is what they were doing this morning. First I gave them some shade, and then more room. I'll be posting more pictures and videos of this swarm capture later.

Swarm #20! At almost 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 22, 2026, Barry called me about a swarm 12 feet up in his oak tree in We...
06/23/2026

Swarm #20! At almost 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 22, 2026, Barry called me about a swarm 12 feet up in his oak tree in West Omaha by Zorinsky Lake. He thought it had been there for a week. That would have been very unusual for a swarm to stay in one location for that long. After getting the swarm down, and seeing no honeycomb on the branch, I determined it was a second swarm in that tree a week after the first one had landed and left.

After several attempts to remove the swarm, or at least the queen, from the branch with my mesh wastebasket taped on the end of my long, expandable pole, I got Barry's permission to cut the branch off of the tree. I lowered it slowly to the ground. At that point it was easy to find the queen, put her in a queen clip and into the five-frame nuc box I brought with me.

With the queen securely held inside the nuc, I had to get all of the other bees to move into the nuc box so I could bring them home. I scooped up a lot of bees off of the tree branch with a folded piece of paper and put them into the box on top of the frames with the Queen.

I moved the small branches and leaves the swarm had been hanging on so they were much further away from the hive. Until I moved them farther away, some of the bees were going to them instead of to the entrance of the hive where the worker bees were fanning the Queen's pheromones out into the air.

At 9:00 I fired up my smoker with a roll of burlap as fuel and coaxed the last few bees to get inside of the box. I shut the nuc entrance, loaded them into the car and headed for home.

After I got home I put the nuc on top of two quarter pallets in our backyard, opened the entrance and released the Queen from the queen cage into the hive. I put a yard sign right in front of the entrance to make sure they realize this is a new place so they will reorient to it and return to this new hive location.

This took a long time but it's one more swarm that will be well taken care of.

If you see a swarm of honey bees, please call me at 402-510-7565. I will give them a good home.

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Thank you!

06/22/2026

SOLD: $590 MiniMax Honey Extractor - 9 Frame Radial with electric motor - Hillco brand - Thick stainless steel - Purchased July 3, 2023, used 3 years for my hobby - Excellent condition - Food-grade synthetic grease included. I paid Hillco $939 for it new. It is my favorite tool for beekeeping!

At 56th and Howard Streets in Omaha NE.
Text or call me, Mark Welsch at 402-510-7565.
I will be listing medium supers with drawn-out foundation and other things soon.

Swarm #19 in 2026, in Tina's backyard tree in Bellevue on Thursday, 6/11/2026. It was easy to reach, just 6 feet above...
06/14/2026

Swarm #19 in 2026, in Tina's backyard tree in Bellevue on Thursday, 6/11/2026. It was easy to reach, just 6 feet above the ground.

Tina's grandson was not afraid of the swarm of bees and wanted to get very close to them. He was taught from an early age that when he sees bees on flowers, if he leaves the bees alone, they will not sting him.

I gathered the bees on the tree into my nuc box by holding a frame underneath them and they crawled onto it. Tina told me she will post her video of me doing that on Sunday. When I receive it, I will repost it here on this page.

Once the queen had been put in a queen clip and moved into the box, all of the other bees flew off of the tree and into the box.

They got to ride in first class comfort on the way home, in the passenger seat, right next to me, in the car. I put the air conditioner on high and pointed the vents towards them, to keep them cool. To keep them, and me safe, I put the seatbelt around the nuc box.

After I got them home and looked the next day, the bees covered only one frame of waxed foundation with very solid bees. If they were on honeycomb they probably would have spread out and covered almost two frames.

To help this new, small swarm build honeycomb and brood more quickly, I am feeding them some one-to-one sugar water inside their hive. I only do that a little bit to help them thrive.

If you see a swarm of honey bees, please call me at 402-510-7565. I will give them a good home.

If you like this, please Like and Follow my page! Thank you!

06/07/2026

I caught the queen in swarm #18 in a tool I use to hold her still while I put a white dot of paint on her thorax. I'm releasing her back into the hive in this video. It takes her less than a second to move into the hive at 8 seconds into this video.

Swarm #18 of 2026 on a bird feeder in the Benson neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska 6/4/2026. (2 short videos & picture.) ...
06/04/2026

Swarm #18 of 2026 on a bird feeder in the Benson neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska 6/4/2026. (2 short videos & picture.) A couple in Benson called me to come get the swarm in their backyard. I grabbed my five frame nuc and headed out the door to rush to their home.

They shared great videos they took as the swarm was arriving and landing on their bird feeder. If you have delicate ears, turn the volume down. Lol!

As I scooped frames of bees off of the feeder, I looked for the queen. I found her in the third scoop, put her in a Queen clip and then inside the five frame nuc box. Almost immediately the bees started fanning outside of the entrance, attracting all of the other flying bees and bees off of the bird feeder down into the box. I'll pick up the box and bring them home after dark tonight, when all of the scout bees will stop flying and be inside the hive.

Swarm #17 in 2026 was REHOMED on May 27th from an apartment building in Bellevue. Curtis called me about the swarm. He ...
05/30/2026

Swarm #17 in 2026 was REHOMED on May 27th from an apartment building in Bellevue. Curtis called me about the swarm. He was mowing, looking down at the grass. He drove right into the middle of the swarm of bees in the air! Some landed on and got stuck in his beard. He stayed calm because he knew bees that are swarming usually don't sting anyone. He gently helped the bees get out of his beard. He and I talked about bees while I moved them into a 5-frame nuc box I brought with me.

Unfortunately, I didn't know it at the time, but many of the bees in the swarm had found a small hole in the building and they started to move into it before I got there. I did see the queen and put her in a queen clip so she couldn't fly away. She was marked with a blue dot on her thorax, which means she came from a managed hive and a beekeeper put that paint on her to more easily find her during their hive inspections. The blue color indicates she was created in 2025.

The next morning, Curtis called to let me know there were more bees in that area. At my recommendation, he called Ryan Gilligan to bring his heat detecting tool to see if they had moved into the building. They had, and Ryan removed them through a hole he cut in the ceiling of the apartment.

I took the one pound of bees I collected, and the queen, home with me.

If you see a swarm of honey bees, please call me, Mark Welsch, at 402-510-7565. I will give them a good home.

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Swarm #17 GOT AWAY! On May 26, 2026 I got a call about another swarm from a friend of a friend - with bees landing in a...
05/30/2026

Swarm #17 GOT AWAY! On May 26, 2026 I got a call about another swarm from a friend of a friend - with bees landing in a small redbud tree in her front yard. The message was, 'She said just grab them. She’s at work. She has a hive in her back yard, but she can't get them.'

They were still landing, I put a nuc in the car and stopped to fill my car with gas. Just as I was about to call to let her know I was on my way, she texted and said they have left the tree.

The moral of the story is, sometimes swarms stay in their location for less than an hour. So have your gas tank full during swarm season!

If you see a swarm of honey bees, please call me, Mark Welsch at 402-510-7565. I will give them a good home.

If you like this, please give this a "Thumbs Up", and Like and Follow my page! Thank you!

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