Keep your Swarms from Leaving!

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Swarms will sometimes leave again but not with these tips they won't!
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@Taz3434 3 года назад

QUEEN ALERT: 15:02-15:38. Running w swarm near bottom of video. "Look at that" when she enters hive.

@chasebrunner 2 месяца назад

How can you see her

@gordonspond 2 года назад

Got a swam from 26 feet up a few weeks ago... THAT was fun! Used a bucket on the end of a VERY LONG bamboo pole, standing on a ladder, trying to dislodge them. Luckily I got the queen and a few bees on the first try. Stuck the queen in a queen clip in the box. The rest of the bees were still 26 feet up and I banged the ball a few times to dislodge them and get them to come down. It still took the rest of the swarm over two hours to get in the box... but I got them in the end!!!

@chasebrunner 2 месяца назад

That ending watching them go into the hive is so cool

@brownlmatt 2 года назад

Great job

@PriscillaCostea 3 года назад

I love the march and how committed the bees are to their queen

@robertlewis3336 7 месяцев назад

One of the coolest things I've ever seen. Never get tired of that

@tomciak3843 2 года назад

Always good tips. Thanks

@gailosborne7239 3 года назад

Lamont you rock! Best swarm video yet. Thanks from Idaho.

@johnbrowning741 3 года назад

It just means that you are well grounded

@donbearden1953 3 года назад

K&L, thanks nothing like watching a March before Church on Sunday morning! Watching a March and standing in the middle of a swarm in flight is two of the coolest things about beekeeping! Thanks for the video!

@Noahsoak 3 года назад

These videos are really appreciated. I know they're time consuming and thank you greatly! Keep swinging' -)

@KeifusMathews3 3 года назад

Loved it.

@nightswan1234 3 года назад

This is so amazing the way they follow their queen inside.

@t-bonejones3576 3 года назад

Being short does not represent any inadequacy. You are excellent.

@kamonreynolds 3 года назад

Well I landed Laurel didn't I? That's all that matter haha!

@t-bonejones3576 3 года назад

@@kamonreynolds Yeah. Yer right. That gives you one up on me. And I am 6'4"!

@12ArmyNavy12 3 года назад

Thanks Kamon, really loved this video. You are the best!

@suzylarry1 3 года назад

love seeing the RUN into the boxes. Amazing

@danskisbees7348 3 года назад

Love it! Sharing.

@stuartmc8779 Год назад

I’m 6foot tall and would have dented the roof so be glad you got it and didn’t damage your roof lol. Thanks for the videos sir.

@LarryLeesBees 3 года назад

Watching them march into the box never gets old. I could do that all day long. 😃 Thanks for sharing! Love these videos! T-minus 6 days and counting until my new bees arrive!

@labella9291 3 года назад

I love watching the march of the bees. There is something that is just so satisfying about it.

@jesshowe4591 3 года назад

That's a good thing to watch follow the leader just Like Sheep

@Noahsoak 3 года назад

I've not seen that sort of rehiving before. Cool stuff. What makes them just know, oh yeah, over here. Smell?

@zetectic7968 3 года назад

That 2nd swarm couldn't wait to get into their new home. They were going like a train

@trichard5106 3 года назад

Thanks !!

@CELOCKSAFE 3 года назад

never gets old watching that march!!

@TNRonin 3 года назад

That one down vote is The beekeeper that lost the swarms!

@Goodnews4man 3 года назад

Two things. First I had a swarm I caught twice before I losing them the third time when I was not home. Second, I approve of announcing to the world the shirt I have on is at least 6 years old. Some of mine go back even further!

@michaelfike7542 3 года назад

Caught a swarm last week and you got to love that march.

@kamonreynolds 3 года назад

Yessir!

@AlleyCat-1 3 года назад

How come you shake them outside of the hive, instead of inside of the hive? Watching them walk into the hive in person, is definitely awesome. 👌

@slavkei 3 года назад

Kamon, my man, if there weren't below-average-stature guys like you who were positive and awesome, you know what all short guys would be? Insecure douhebags with small-man syndrome. Tis dudes like you that prove that height doesn't matter, heart matters. Keep on being awesome.

@jonclemons1421 3 года назад

I watched this video first thing this morning, then went out to check my colonies. 5 minutes in I watched one of the swarm. I beat on a metal pot and they landed in a close by tree. I don't have another yard to put them but followed the rest of your tutilage. So far so good. Thanks for beeing there Kamon! Shared

@cellobert 3 года назад

I’m fairly new to beekeeping. What does banging on a pot do? I watched one of my hives swarm last year. Pretty awesome sight! I did manage to get it back (went to a neighbor’s tree)

@jonclemons1421 3 года назад

@@cellobert I've seen where someone said it imitates thunder. When they hear or feel the vibrations it causes them to land. I personally have used it 4 times this year and had them land each time. There really is something to it and I'm a believer!

@plumcreekbees4418 3 года назад

Excellent

@bediaswild6337 3 года назад

Really interesting! Always something new to learn about bees!

@rickeyharwood9322 3 года назад

Great video. Thanks

@beeruption913 3 года назад

Nice work Catching and releasing those swarms. Good to see ur hives are “mortal” and susceptible to swarming like mine 😃

@Leelz247 3 года назад

I really don't want to have to catch my own swarms this year. I'm making splits in a few days and it's supposed to be raining until then 🤞. In Maryland we are still getting brood chilling so my colonies might not really be booming yet, but they do have adult drones, so.

@pooterist Год назад

Love your videos, and don't worry - you're a big man in my eyes at least. I live in France, deep in the rural countryside and after a couple of years with empty hives, I just caught my first swarm - Yipee. I have my first bees. Now time to review all the old videos and see what to do next. Cheers, and thanks - big man

@michaelobrien4644 3 года назад

Excellent video and those 2 bee marches are among some of the best i have seen, and mate let me tell you don't put yourself down to be a big man you only need a big heart i have seen a lot of big men in stature that had no heart height doesn't determine what sort of man you are but your heart does anyway mate cheers from Australia .

@jimhughes4765 3 года назад

Don’t worry about your size. Remember dynamite comes in small packages and it is not the size of the man in the fight but the size of the fight in the man! You are big teacher.

@Makermook 3 года назад

I never get tired of watching bees march into a hive. If I put an empty baited hive body in my bee yard, is that a good strategy for catching my own swarms?

@rodneymiddleton9624 3 года назад

I'm going to do this with my next swarms!!! That is too cool!!!!!!! Thanks Kamon!!!!

@jeffsea6490 3 года назад

A few swarm traps placed near apiaries used from cull equipment attracts absconding bee colonies.👍

@mssmooth961 3 года назад

Slogan for one of your T-shirts…”It’s Always Awesome!” 😁

@privacyleech409 3 года назад

This was perfect timing. I had to catch one of my own swarms this afternoon!

@garybishop3885 3 года назад

That was freakin' awesome.

@UTsnowsailor Год назад

Thanks L&k. Fascinating and informative!!

@DavidCrosley-id7eq 8 месяцев назад

A real beautiful thing to see

@SeedFiddler-kp4eg 4 месяца назад

This is more fun! Thank you and God bless. Miles

@calvary1808farm Год назад

I don't "want to get sent to the house!" LOL! Great information.

@marshalljames8359 3 года назад

Did this exact same thing yesterday with two swarms. Same spot the two swarms were at just 8 hours apart. Thanks for teaching me about the scout bees will still make them swarm if they have made there mind up even if you put them in a nuc. Watch every video of yours in Central Texas!

@BlanchardsBees 3 года назад

Pretty fun to watch the girls march into their new homes.

@gssimplebeekeeping8158 3 года назад

Good catch! Awesome video. Great tips about using the nuc boxes and moving swarms to a new bee yard.

@jingles1963 3 года назад

So fascinating! I’m surprised by two things; that the bees go into the box without a queen in it and that they even move away from the queen into the box. I thought you would have had to put the queen into the box first to get them to go into it. What makes them march towards the box? I’m a first year beekeeper. We just did our first split from a swarm we caught last spring. Thanks for your videos, never get tired of watching and learning about the bees!

@tobermoryattraversiamo9575 Год назад

Apparently it's the bees themselves that give off the signal pheromones to give the marching orders! This applies to swarming too. How one bee decides one day to start this signal which then begins copycat signalling from the others is anyone's guess?

@davidzeiner8338 3 года назад

I’m just curious, why do they walk right into the hives ,like that since the queen is not inside the box.

@viscache1 2 года назад

i use lemongrass essential oil in an extreeeeeeemly tiny amount smeared just inside the top of the new hive box. This imitates the pheromone of the queen. I’m really new at this but so far it works!

@pete0205 3 года назад

Great video! I'm always preaching if a managed colony swarms you missed a management step, but sometimes we're trying to manage too many....

@royschrader8003 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing 🙂 Mr. K I'm watching this while getting sugar water ready

@anabelaramos8399 3 года назад

Me too. A new swarm as well.

@DavidWilliams-wr4wb Год назад

I’m excited!!!! I just got done setting my first swarm trap of the year today , it’s my first using swarm commander ! Years ago I caught ferals with spearmint and lemon grass oil, it worked every year, at one time when I was younger we had 400 colonies and every single bee was caught, this was in harford county Maryland, most of my family is from Denton valley Tennessee and Bristol, which every summer in Bristol we would catch a couple swarms and take them back to harford , Maryland and keep the gene pool mixed up , we had great success years ago but there weren’t mites back then either and the bees were naturally hygienic back in the 70’s and didnt tolerate strangers in their brood boxes very well , I’m basically learning all over again after a 25 year break, but I never forgot my foundation for bee keeping , that’s a plus 😜

@kamonreynolds Год назад

Welcome back, happy beekeeping, and thanks for commenting with that awesome story! Can't wait to hear what is next!

@johns8771 3 года назад

I feel your pain. It's swarm time in SC as well!

@sonofthunder. 3 года назад

great job laurel ,,saw her goin in...

@jedd.5407 3 года назад

Have fun doing this when you are in your 30's! But at 65, this show ain't happening on top of a truck. I missed a small swarm Saturday in a willow tree at arm-length level. Got there a little too late, and the queen went from the swarm cluster to the air and I watched them with a tiny tear in my eye as she turned the corner around the lake. :(

@Leelz247 3 года назад

LMAO at the liability disclaimer.

@normanclayne 3 года назад

Kamon Reynolds have you heard of a queens throne? Blue Green Horizons has a website for the queens throne for reaching high swarms.

@katyad13 2 года назад

Do you add any attractor to any boxes for swarms to go in? Would you recommend adding lemongrass oil and if not, why?

@lancewalker3712 3 года назад

Question: Say you don't have the luxury of additional bee yard would you carefully cage the queen for 48 hours or so in hive with swarm?

@oksanabotsman6893 3 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing this video you are absolutely right this is the most amazing and fascinating to see how they marching insight into that box do it more if you can't your wife is a very good record that she makes a great videos thanks guys stay healthy be happy peace

@MegaFireRat 3 года назад

Awesome video thanks for the info

@jims7131 3 года назад

I just lost my first swarm yesterday. They were gone by the time a friend came to help me catch them. Wife wouldn’t let me get them because she just brought me home from the hospital after finding me unconscious from a sting.

@Noahsoak 3 года назад

Omg! You're done. Lol

@pattishelton3169 3 года назад

I’ve never seen anything like this. I have shaken into the hive, this is beautiful. Did you put lemon grass oil inside the super or something to attract the bees to go into the super?

@plainsimple442 3 года назад

Good job man...........

@Bourbonsouth47 3 года назад

Nothing wrong with being hobbit sized lol your closer to hive on the ground so you save your back ! I'm 6'3 my back hates me after inspecting mine

@yoopermann7942 3 года назад

that was cool! i never saw that done on the ground , i seen a wild swarm do that on a side of our old barn though! thank you for the tips!

@navarra4 3 года назад

Did you add something in the hives, like lemon grass, that attracted those bees to enter?

@MikeChamplin 3 года назад

So if you don't have another bee yard 3 miles away to relocate them.... what steps do you take to ensure they stay around within your own bee yard?

@benjamindejonge3624 3 года назад

Let the bees do their bee natural bee thing, yes sir

@lakeinthewillowsapiary2324 3 года назад

If only someone would make a video how to prevent swarming, had to catch 3 of my own today.

@catsmandan 3 года назад

Just caught my first one of the season here in Southwest Virginia on the 19th

@jamestownsendjrtbees3226 3 года назад

awesome!

@tjhughes66 Год назад

How far should you move a new sworm

@alswedgin9274 11 месяцев назад

Swarm/bee attracter: Lemongrass oil 👌

@thetruthnevertold 3 года назад

Question. I see all be boxes are the same size. What if you made them bigger would the amount of bees grow? Like a fish adapts to the size of a tank. I see outside huge hives and think no way can that fit inside a small box. Has anyone ever tried? Or they want to keep it easy for them to just rob the honey 🍯 and forget the bees? We need more 🐝

@Bourbonsouth47 3 года назад

Last swarm right b4 you say 1to1 syrup queen went into hive

@gazinta 3 года назад

Carry pruners to save time.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 3 года назад

LOL you are catching swarms and I’m prepping for snow !! Ha ha ha you caught that standing on your vehicle LOL

@russellkoopman3004 3 года назад

He may have to get a Tahoe since they are 6" taller. LOL

@judicorbett9401 3 года назад

So funny Ian, he was hoping you would go gather them caus he's too short. Lol Hoping your snow doesn't come down our way. Hives are filled with broid but few to no drone brood ..... yet!

@kingsol333 3 года назад

Can there be 2 queens to 1 hive?

@sgt_retiredcharlie4102 3 года назад

Where abouts in TN are you? I'm in Clarksville and I'm hoping my swarm box gets used this year.

@paulahello7435 3 года назад

Can you put the swarm back in your yard after a time? My mom would be cool for a week.

@kamonreynolds 3 года назад

Yes. I typically wait till the queen has laid for a week before I move them

@StonewallJackson-n8w 5 месяцев назад

If you ain't having fun catching swarms your at the wrong job.

@cruzanmongoose 3 года назад

I did that without a bee suit one time got stung to hell.

@jameswoenker2659 3 года назад

Coffee ☕️

@MohamedUAE 3 года назад

You guys always the best couple and best videos makers, well, at least to me *__O

@markstevenson3880 2 года назад

Hi Kamon, in this clip you took on 2 swarms, would it not have been a LOT safer for you to have used a long pipe bee-vac than risking your neck with a potentially bad fall for the high swarm?

@cjs4300 3 года назад

How far do you thin you syrup for feeding the swarms caught and why thinner? Thanks

@Brianbeesandbikes 3 года назад

1:1 is common. Buffer with a little apple cider

@Lsmith-ly2cm 3 года назад

Swarm fever, I know that feeling .

@marytoal5184 3 года назад

Do you think that the coming cicada emergence will have any effect on the bees?

@kamonreynolds 3 года назад

Hey Mary. I don't think so. However, I have been wrong before!

@johncallahan1105 3 года назад

So your a smiget away from being a tall man ?? Haha Learn a lot from your videos, still more to learn, thanks

@mrrufus89 3 года назад

What do you mean by drawing down the foundation?

@allisdad08 3 года назад

With 2 swarms could one be a prime and the other a secondary? Or does secondary usually come few days later? Too , if one is secondary will one have a virgin queen or will she have already mated?

@carrollrhodes4050 3 года назад

Dear TN, Here in SW Florida, I have been working with a lot of hybrid bees owing to the advent of the Africanized bees. The big surprise has been that there are a lot of virgin queens along with the old queen. Sometimes the whole 30 to 40 thousand population will leave a box. The virgins will be very active. The virgins and old queen out at one time. Here is tjhe deal. By the time the swarm gets to a new location they will still be in a swarm mode. This is when they will start dividing. The old queen will leave with a contingent to a nearby cavity. The next division will be the oldest virgin. fNot the newest mated virgin. She stays with the first worker-comb built by the originating workers. Then they will continue to to leave until the virgins all leave and ultimately are mated at their new location. I was stunned to find a swarm that ultimately gave 10 colonies. Yes the secondary virgin, and more will leave the area of the old queen swarm! Will the secondary have mated? Not at the first leaving of a colony. Even Europeans. These A-bees can be an eye ope;ner. I have been watching Canadian bk's and NC bks and one in TN and you are not quite in the real fight. You are all good bks and you won't have any problems with hybrids. I really enjoyed watching Kamon put those bees in a box!

@chickenwhisperer8410 Год назад

So in your opinion bees would not mind the hive bodies made of eastern aromatic cedar????

@claudesully 3 года назад

Aaaannnnd WHAMO!!! As I leaned in for a closer look the camera zoomed, as I looked to the left the camera moved left.....Great job Laurel. Kamon I don't want to scar your fragile ego any further but...May be a Russian scion or two would help retrieve those swarms...about 4 foot off the ground, so you can reach them....hee hee