This swarm was caught on 3-28-2024. It was a little larger than I first thought. I had to change plans on how to capture them. This vacuum was purchased from www.allmybees.... #beekeeper #beekeeping #honeybees #swarm #everythingbeevac
@@josephrawls That's one of the differences between Louisiana & my part of Texas. "Asking" bees here, given that most are africanized, is like talking to wall... a wall with 30,000 stingers that would be happy to inject you. Or even worse, like trying to get a teenager to do their choirs without a drill Seargent! I skip the 'asking' part & go straight to boot camp bee vac! Again, nice video.
That looks like the first swarm I ever saw. Someone put bees on my uncle's alfalfa a mile away. A little while later there was a swarm in the apple tree. Down on the White River we knew a man who kept bees he said saw the branch they were on off and put them in a bushel basket and cover with a tarp he'd be by after dark and pick them up. I was just a kid and full of it so I did just that. Never once was stung. A couple years later they brought more bees back and a swarm moved in under the red granery. They lived there from 1963 till we sold the farm in 1980. No interference or help from us. In all those years we had maybe a total of 3 stings to us and a couple more to the horse. The Red Granery was in the middle of the barn yard so we were constantly passing by it.
It has been a crazy swarm season here near Kansas City. I had swarms two weeks earlier this year than in any time in the past. Hope to catch up with you in Louisville in January.
The same thing has been happening here. We have had some swarms to build more swarm cells and splits doing the same. Also we have had trouble with them plugging the brood nest and not moving up to drawn comb in the supers.
