The EASY Way to Catch a Honey Bee Swarm! 

yes sir i have been doing that for years even the ones that are at ground level i have a video to release of me and a new beekeeper doing that exact thing.

my thing is work smarter not harder

Most always having fun. I like working smarter not harder

I do not harvest honey from the tbh. That is a toy I play with. I might inspect it 3 times a year. I'll watch it so I can expect it to swarm and catch it using this same method. It is right up there with the polystyrene hives as far as how strong it is coming out of winter. This video is the only time it did not make it through winter in 10 years so far.

that is why i do these videos 2 show there is a different way to do things and i think my way is a lot less work than ie them clustering 30 ft up. thanks for watching.

I had a hive swarm 3 times last year, watched them leave the hive and land. So they can keep swarming and you don't have any bees left. Newly also.

you are correct but the top bar hive that i shook them into has a laying queen a week after i put them into it. as sarah below states a hive can swarm itself to death. each virgin comes out and takes a portion of the hive with her.

As far as I know,the older queen leave with some bees. The virgin queen that survive mate and came back to the hive. The other hatched queens being killed by the first born,because she is the stronger one(exceptions on the rule). So swarming to death, highly unlikely. Think about it. Why does the older queen leave before hatching of the new one? She will be killed by the stronger younger queen. Cobus🐳

@@jacobuslodewikusjoubert4467 hives swarm out all the time. It's not uncommon for each new queen that emerges to take a portion of the hive with her. Queens don't always kill all the other queen brood. Mine never do.

anytime you see a swarm in the air.

it works every time.

every bar in the hive had honey in it so as not to start robbing i used a dry langstroth frame.

unless something comes up that video will be the next one up. thanks for watching. just for you heres the link.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FFz3zTsIuGA.html

A small amount goes a long way . Too much will cause the bees to leave .Just three drops on a cotton ball inside a baggie with the top not sealed and placed in bottom of bait hive is all you need.Sometimes a small q tip with two drops of swarm commander on it and swiped on the front of the hive opening is also helpful .

i would never put it on the entrance hole of the trap. i do a spray on the top of the frame in the very back. i want them to come into the trap not build on the under side.

ive soaked the swarm with a water hose then thrown a 1/4" rope with a metal disc over the limb and shook them down onto a sheet.

you missed the point of the video but thats ok. the video was to show how easy it is to collect a swarm and with a single frame you can direct where you want the swarm to land so thanks for watching you are correct but showing how they collect on the frame helps new beekeepers not old hands like me.

@@WoolieBsApiaryYou want those Bees in the Box... .not all over the tree...and don't forget that lemon grass esential is like a magnet for bee.I have 2000 beehive and I do almond polination.My bees are Carniola and in the spring we have a lot of swarming, but, we control those swarmings.If you take that Queen away from them ,in jus few hours they will go back to the old house and suport the new young Queen.

Smell is to strong

its so simple if you catch them before they light.

ill type it again. this is not a collection of bees from other hives i showed the hive i watched them swarm out of. the top bar hive is alive and thriving with a buckfast f1 daughter.

before they cluster in a tree on the wall ect

As in 'alight' - land

Dex Stewart as in “light a shuck” it’s an old hillbilly saying

good advise. BUT in a managed queen rearing yard there is only one cell put into a colony so there can only be one queen.

No that hive was used as a starter finisher. I used all the grafts making splits and left the few cells they drew off the combs

In that case, these types of swarms might possibly contain multiple queens. Found a swarm once with 11 virgins in it at my QC hatching yard.

@@Pren10 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FFz3zTsIuGA.html post swarm hive inspection

simple and easy

no sir there is a laying queen in the top bar hive i shook them into.

@@WoolieBsApiary Thank you, the dots in my head must not have all connected, lol

i hung a frame on a fence post knowing a hive was about to swarm and went down later and they were swarming and landing on it i really need to build a real one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CapgtPHaBXk.html

the hive they were put into is a top bar hive and the langstroth frame would not fit. the bars are V shaped not rectangled

very valid point but you have to consider what i did not show you. 1 every bar in the hive had at least 1/4 to full bar of honey. while a swarm will stir up a bunch of hives when you are running 100ish at one yard. and in doing that i did not want to maybe start a robbing issue with a new queen and workers that had not set up shop in their new home with no plans for defense of that hive. thanks for watching

@@WoolieBsApiary Ah ha! And as Paul Harvey used to say; And now, the rest of the story! I've caught four swarms in the last week, two in traps, two in trees. No two retrievals are the same. As for robbing...I absolutely hate it. I haven't found a realistic way to stop it once it starts and it's pure Beemageddon while going on.

@@mark-wn5ek before i got rid of every italian hive in my operation i would smoke the hell out of the outside of the hive and once they get tired of the smoke it takes 5 minutes then i move the hive. now that i do not have italians in my operation i do not have robbing issues unless i leave a frame of honey out.

langstroth frames do not fit in a top bar hive so you have to get the bees off the frame. have you never shaken a swarm out of a tree no difference.

How is this robbing? Im new to this Idk anything

@@joelouis1889 its not robbing it was a frame of drawn brood comb with a 1/8 squirt of swarm commander. people do not pay attention or comment and do not watch the video.

Ned Kelly did you even watch the video it was a drawn frame of brood comb with NOTHING in the cells and a 1/8 squirt of swarm commander.