CLSranch
Almost Self-Reliant
If your interested in beekeeping, throwing a swarm trap up could be a good way to get started. If the beekeeper has inhabited hives not just a pile. Sooner or later one of the hives will swarm. Sooner (earlier in the year) is better. Also if? it is just a stock pile you could assemble one in the spring and just see what happens. A drop of lemon grass oil would help.we have a large pile of hives out back from the beekeeper, they're not ours. plenty of bees around of several kinds.