Hi Chris. Another great RUclips Video. Luckily my Bees don't Swarm. Ever ! Or hope not to do so, on my watch. In Third Year Beekeeping and non to date. 😉 I do interventions like: Splits, Queen Frame Caging (IPM technique.) Harvest and use the best Queen Cells the bees make themselves. They know. Queens of good traits are the best to make new Colonies with. The Hives are in my Side Garden. I get to check on them just by coming and going to the Chooks 🐓and Ducks 🦆 : By watching the Hive(s) Landing Board activity... Oh and keeping a good eye on their progress, the space left and any needs that they have. Simples. 😎 Did collect : Wednsday, someone elses (last seasons) Swarm that over wintered well in a Plastic Composter Bin. A lovely (2022) local Native Black Bee Queen. Got maked with a Yellow Dot, kinda Crowned via a'Posca Pen'. 😉 She and her Colony will mean my Apiary will have more genetic diversity, re Drones, joining my Area. Nice. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Off to see my new Girls progress : top up their 1:1 Syrup. See if the tiny bit of Pollen Patty was taken in their 48hrs Install (Hive Lock In !) Guess their is so much Dandelion, flowering now, that they are feasting on these instead. What a blanket of Yellow Flowers we have right now. 👍 Off to see my other Hives. And do some catch up Gardening. Means I can be 'busy' rather than having to watch this 'Royal Debacle' happening right now down in London (?) "Do like my Regal Bee Queens" but not into this new King stuff ! Let the Tourists enjoy the Rain, all that Red, White and Blue Tat. Dont think the even 'Kings Coronation' Biscuit Tins will hold their value, like that of his Mothers. Bizarre.🥴 Bee themed Question : Do you have any notion to Swarm Captures via Mesh Cone Netting ? Was a thing in Germany with Skeps Circa 1970's using pegged Entrance Nets on Tall Poles. [Video on RUclips somwhere.] Check it out. Quite a thing in it's day... And, Beeks who bang Metal on Metal : Doing Swarm Control via doing "Tanging" ! (Fake Thunder Claps to rein in a pending, and or leaving Swarm.) Do these old heritage practices work with todays Beeks and their Bees ? 🤔 Value your thoughts...
Hi, yes I watched the video some time ago of the old timers in central Europe using mesh catch bags to catch swarms as they emerge from their hives. They put all their hives in one place during swarm season and watched them all day every day. Qute a site, three old beekeepers leaning on catch sticks, smoking their pipes (which they use to smoke the bees) and jumping into action when a hive started swarming. That was their way of collecting bees for the following season because harvesting honey from a skep destroys the hive. I have heard of the metal clanging technique, but have never tried it. Many beekeepers will tell you that it works. I can't say because I haven't seen it myself. Cheers Chris
I started to laugh at about 2:00 ....I was thinking, I wonder who Chris is thinking about...2:07 ok now I know...LOL. I am lucky enough to be able to spend a huge amount of time in my bee yard (or on the deck watching my bee yard) keeping a close eye on things during peak swarm time. I see most of my swarm coming out of the hive, so the game is easy..(most of the time). My queens are marked so if I am away and come home to find a swarm in a tree, I hive it right away and look to see if it has a marked queen, this will help me know which hive (or hives) to check first. Also I look closely at the swarm as I find that most of my swarm will have two or three queens, I make nucs from each queen. I check my records to see what hives have a marked queen of the color that I find in the swarm ( If I do) I then look at those hives first. If I do not find a marked queen well then you are correct things suck, as I need to look at them all. But having said that most of the time I know which hives are strong enough to swarm and which are not so it does narrow the search down a little If I find a hive with many cells I never tear down the cells, I make nucs from them all, I can always unite any of them, they fail to get a mated queen. One last thing I would say to the newer beekeeper, if you are lucky enough to see a swarm issue and you have thousands of bees swirling in the air, get naked and run with the bees...you haven't lived until you run naked with the bees....Scott
@@KiwiWildman " I hope you didn't mind me using that clip" no problem it made me smile...I am so looking forward to a few good swarms this year. I am going to play with a few Snelgrove boards though to see if that will stop the swarms or at least slow a few down....But not all of them. Scott
Hello Chris also my thoughts on a hive that has swarmed. I may not do it right away I will probably wait In tell they have built up some BUT I will requeen that from another stock because I think if it swarms it is in there genes so I use other bees colonies that has not swarmed to get that swarming out of them . Some people say it will not help but I think it does help . Just my thoughts. Keep up the great video’s. THANKS
Thanks. Yes, I agree, some hives are prone to swarming so it pays to re-queen them. But some swarms are more down to the beekeeper than the queen in my opinion. The hives that go into swarm mode despite having lots of room and somewhere for the queen to lay, definitely need a new queen. Cheers Chris
I enjoy watching Scott Hendrix in Ontario
That guys crazy...LOL
Thank you.
Scott
Very well put together, educational for sure
Hi Chris, this is a very informative and thorough video. Cheers, Peter
Great honest information 🙂
Hi Chris. Another great RUclips Video.
Luckily my Bees don't Swarm. Ever ! Or hope not to do so, on my watch. In Third Year Beekeeping and non to date. 😉
I do interventions like: Splits, Queen Frame Caging (IPM technique.) Harvest and use the best Queen Cells the bees make themselves. They know. Queens of good traits are the best to make new Colonies with.
The Hives are in my Side Garden. I get to check on them just by coming and going to the Chooks 🐓and Ducks 🦆
: By watching the Hive(s) Landing Board activity...
Oh and keeping a good eye on their progress, the space left and any needs that they have. Simples. 😎
Did collect : Wednsday, someone elses (last seasons) Swarm that over wintered well in a Plastic Composter Bin.
A lovely (2022) local Native Black Bee Queen. Got maked with a Yellow Dot, kinda Crowned via a'Posca Pen'. 😉
She and her Colony will mean my Apiary will have more genetic diversity, re Drones, joining my Area. Nice.
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy Beekeeping 2023
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Off to see my new Girls progress : top up their 1:1 Syrup. See if the tiny bit of Pollen Patty was taken in their 48hrs Install (Hive Lock In !) Guess their is so much Dandelion, flowering now, that they are feasting on these instead. What a blanket of Yellow Flowers we have right now. 👍
Off to see my other Hives. And do some catch up Gardening. Means I can be 'busy' rather than having to watch this 'Royal Debacle' happening right now down in London (?)
"Do like my Regal Bee Queens" but not into this new King stuff !
Let the Tourists enjoy the Rain, all that Red, White and Blue Tat.
Dont think the even 'Kings Coronation' Biscuit Tins will hold their value, like that of his Mothers. Bizarre.🥴
Bee themed Question :
Do you have any notion to Swarm Captures via Mesh Cone Netting ?
Was a thing in Germany with Skeps Circa 1970's using pegged Entrance Nets on Tall Poles. [Video on RUclips somwhere.]
Check it out. Quite a thing in it's day...
And, Beeks who bang Metal on Metal : Doing Swarm Control via doing "Tanging" !
(Fake Thunder Claps to rein in a pending, and or leaving Swarm.)
Do these old heritage practices work with todays Beeks and their Bees ? 🤔
Value your thoughts...
Hi, yes I watched the video some time ago of the old timers in central Europe using mesh catch bags to catch swarms as they emerge from their hives. They put all their hives in one place during swarm season and watched them all day every day. Qute a site, three old beekeepers leaning on catch sticks, smoking their pipes (which they use to smoke the bees) and jumping into action when a hive started swarming. That was their way of collecting bees for the following season because harvesting honey from a skep destroys the hive.
I have heard of the metal clanging technique, but have never tried it. Many beekeepers will tell you that it works. I can't say because I haven't seen it myself.
Cheers
Chris
Another Interesting Video Chris. Keep up the good work.
I started to laugh at about 2:00 ....I was thinking, I wonder who Chris is thinking about...2:07 ok now I know...LOL.
I am lucky enough to be able to spend a huge amount of time in my bee yard (or on the deck watching my bee yard) keeping a close eye on things during peak swarm time. I see most of my swarm coming out of the hive, so the game is easy..(most of the time).
My queens are marked so if I am away and come home to find a swarm in a tree, I hive it right away and look to see if it has a marked queen, this will help me know which hive (or hives) to check first.
Also I look closely at the swarm as I find that most of my swarm will have two or three queens, I make nucs from each queen.
I check my records to see what hives have a marked queen of the color that I find in the swarm ( If I do) I then look at those hives first. If I do not find a marked queen well then you are correct things suck, as I need to look at them all.
But having said that most of the time I know which hives are strong enough to swarm and which are not so it does narrow the search down a little
If I find a hive with many cells I never tear down the cells, I make nucs from them all, I can always unite any of them, they fail to get a mated queen.
One last thing I would say to the newer beekeeper, if you are lucky enough to see a swarm issue and you have thousands of bees swirling in the air, get naked and run with the bees...you haven't lived until you run naked with the bees....Scott
Haha, good answer :) I hope you didn't mind me using that clip :)
@@KiwiWildman " I hope you didn't mind me using that clip" no problem it made me smile...I am so looking forward to a few good swarms this year.
I am going to play with a few Snelgrove boards though to see if that will stop the swarms or at least slow a few down....But not all of them.
Scott
Hello Chris also my thoughts on a hive that has swarmed. I may not do it right away I will probably wait In tell they have built up some BUT I will requeen that from another stock because I think if it swarms it is in there genes so I use other bees colonies that has not swarmed to get that swarming out of them . Some people say it will not help but I think it does help . Just my thoughts. Keep up the great video’s. THANKS
Thanks. Yes, I agree, some hives are prone to swarming so it pays to re-queen them. But some swarms are more down to the beekeeper than the queen in my opinion. The hives that go into swarm mode despite having lots of room and somewhere for the queen to lay, definitely need a new queen. Cheers Chris
@@KiwiWildman I agree 💯percent. THANKS