How to catch a swarm of bees 

24/ 08/2016 Hi John, I have also just collected my first 2 swarms in Albany Western Australia. I am new but found this method fast safe and as I also have 40 swarm traps out fast is good. I take the hive body out compleate with 10 frames in and place it as close to the swarm as I can, then spray the swarm with sugar water. Then with my hands pick up as many Bees as possible and place them on the top bars. After they settle I replace the lid, brush any remaining bees to the ground and as in your great video they march in. I then close the entrance take them home place them where I want and have a beer. Works for me, good luck Jonathan.

lol this guys so chill "just hit tha beez, hit em haaard".

Thank you, now I can make a bee grenade

The reason why you shock them off the branch is to disrupt their defensive communication, and in the few moments you've got, they will run towards the infra red signal created by the largest mass, ideally at the entrance of the hive. I'd normally reduce the entrance down to a smaller hole perhaps about 10mm x 80mm. You can often hurry them up into the box, by tickling them with a green twig. Just brush the ones at the back, to hurry them up, and brush the ones on the entrance to get them to go in instead of clustering. Not a good time to use a lot of smoke, since they are not sitting on honey, and will only become alarmed.

beautiful job

Very nice swarm. Great job. I love catching swarms in the spring. It's one of my favorite things to do.

1:40 is that the queen at the bottom left corner?

thanks John!

Nice catch and thanks for shooting a video of it. I'm a new keeper and expect that sometime soon, my friends and neighbors will call with news of a swarm to catch and this looks like the best way to catch them. Question: When you brought the nuc box back to your bee yard, you popped the entrance screen off right away, but isn't there a worry of those bees robbing your other hives and other hives robbing your feeder on the nuc box?

I Yotubed how to get a swarm on COD, but this is interesting enough.

Very Good!

Bottle what is inside their I want to know

I have same question as Tommy Bizzell. What is it about the nuc that the bees want to just march on in and make it their new home?

What if there inside the lining if my sofa chair

I was looking up basketball drills....how tf did i get to this...

Nice

Did you use lemongrass oil in the nuc or bait it in any way, or do they just see the opening and say hey, there's home?

What is in the bee feeder jars? A pollen mixture or just water? Could you tell me the recipe please?

I can’t figure out what part of a bee is its “adomen”. Just joshing. Great video!

How did you get a swarm? Is the portable hive box empty on the inside or does it have frames in it? Your videos are really informative.

curious about your formula of "food" i have been speaking to keepers more and more about what they are feeding their bees. been trying to find out more about hive collapse and i am astonished to hear how many keepers feed bees HFCS (high fructose corn syrup - which is all GMO and contains glyphosphates as well as other chemicals highly harmful to bees). thanks

the website won't come up

Did you smoke the bees before knocking them from their swarm spot onto the sheet?

Thanks for education and sher idea sukses for

Why are some of the bees from the other colony going inside the white hive

what is drawing them into the empty box?? Where is the queen at this time?

Did anyone notice he is missing a little of his left pointer finger

Turkey could send the queen bee

""Master beekeeper John Pledger from Triad Bee Supply shows how to catch a swarm using a portable hive box, white sheet below the swarm and some know-how. John, I am also a Master Beekeeper in NC. I don't remember seeing your name on the list. When did you get your Master certification.

I was watching Dan and Phill.... wtf is my life

You’ve got serious nerves being that close to bees I don’t think I can do that without getting jittery

what the fuck am I doing with my life