It is so fascinating to hear you talk about the bees! I am a little afraid of them, afraid to get stung. But I know that without the bees we are in big trouble! We have local beekeepers where I live, I buy all my honey from them, so I know who to call if I should happen to see a swarm. Big spring hugs from Norway!
I wanted to thank you for talking and showing us the bees and all about swarms. You made it all so doable. Love the swarms box great idea. Please show us about gathering honey and maybe how you store and use it.
I enjoyed this video, my husband always wanted bees, he loves honey in his coffee every morning. We buy local from a couple about 3 miles from us. This is a great lesson you gave, thank you ! ✝️💟
Hi Todd. What a great success in catching honey bees. I hope the hive and honey work for the bees. God Bless you and have a honey of a day. Maria. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
Wow! Thank you for this video. We have had several reporting of swarms in my neighborhood and I had no idea this is what was happening. Everyone was saying they will leave in 24 hrs. I wish I could raise/farm bees 🐝
I caught my first tree swarm before work this afternoon. Unfortunately, they weren't on a branch but on the trunk. Found the queen and put her in a box and carefully put the rest in with the help of a half milk jug. I got my first swarm last year in a trap like yours. Don't have the door spin thing but will make one. Great job and thanks for sharing 👍 👏
Loved the simple overview of what happens. I know it’s more complicated than that, but helpful. Also love your philosophy of letting things take their natural course. Thanks for this tutorial.
Hey Todd that was so informative and interesting. We have friends that have a honey farm and it's the most amazing honey local to us. Great video and good to see you. God Bless, Mike
This has been so interesting! I always wondered what swarming means. I’m amazed at how many bees there were on the things you pulled out! My goodness nature is brutal!! And I thought people were cruel!! Thank you for all this!!
In some cases the first queen out doesn't kill the others and every time a new one hatches they swarm again. Had one hive a few years ago swarm 3 times. No swarms the past two years though. Been staying on top of splits.
Fun to learn about and wish I could keep bees but not for me. I have been stung by wasps and yellow jackets at least once a year for the past few years while gardening and have developed an allergic reaction to them. I’ve been using the RUclips to learn about them to figure out how to avoid them and learn their habits but i watch your channel because I like you and bee keeping is a bonus. It’s been really scary for me, terrifying honestly, as my love of gardening and preserving with canning and freeze drying is so important to me. I’ve had to use the epi pen once after the initial visit from paramedics who had to come the first time I had a severe reaction which i was passed out for. I would explain it, but that would take too long. I did come out of that on my own and refused to go to the hospital in an ambulance but i did go. I used the epi pen last year after wearing flip flops and a yellow jacket landed inside the sole before I stepped back down and on it. Epinephrine causes all kinds of side effects and I was not prepared for that. My take away is to go to the hospital for the tacky heart rate that will occur if you do the epinephrine. I did not go (hella dumb) and my Apple Watch was alerting me that my heart rate was too high all night (instructions on the box of the epipen are to administer epi and go to the hospital). Gel cap form of Benadryl is also a very good thing to take immediately. You don’t know if you have a reaction until it finally happens. I’ve been stung numerous times with just an uncomfortable welt which swells more every time it happens and you wonder why that’s happening. That’s why I’m posting this. It snuck up on me. Hope it helps some of your viewers. I am not a Debbie downer, just deeply sad that I have this reaction. I risk it anyway because it’s worth growing and preserving food. Bee keeping though…Jealous that I can’t do that. Suicidal pursuit, I’m afraid. Literally.
I heard one of you homesteaders mention planting "Mountain Mint" Pycanthemum Virgianum because it releases an oil onto the bees that kill the mites that harm the bees. im sure you can research it to find out more info, i dont have bees it just seemed like something i needed to remember haha Cheers
We live in town and bees started hive in clay Mexican man so my daughter and friend put a beehive together and set on top of mex man. They were very happy docile bees at first, but have now started to go after me when I go outside. They also haven't moved up into actual hive box and has been several months. Also about a month ago there was swarm in nearby tree (was wondering if were some of our bees :( ) No one "skilled" caught on soon enough to capture them. We want to keep them but may have to sadly move to friends larger place due to now aggressive behavior.. Any tips? Is it possible to tend bees in the city? We are obviously new at this. Great video. Just found your channel.
We had 4 hives swarm this year and only lost one swarm. They started swarming about 3 weeks early this year compared to the last 6 years. We've also noticed that a couple of these new hives seem to be a little more aggressive. Have you noticed any changes in your bees?
Congrats on catching a swarm, even if it may have been your own bees. You're all friends now, right? When you said gotta catch em first thing that came to mind was Pokemon 😄
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Fascinating, Todd!😀 I love how gentle you always are with the bees. 🤗😍🐝
It is so fascinating to hear you talk about the bees! I am a little afraid of them, afraid to get stung. But I know that without the bees we are in big trouble! We have local beekeepers where I live, I buy all my honey from them, so I know who to call if I should happen to see a swarm. Big spring hugs from Norway!
Thanks Todd! Please keep giving us more information about Bees…so much to learn!💕🐝
I could listen to you talk the whole day! You and Rachel are both great teachers 🍀🐝💛🙋🏻♀️
I wanted to thank you for talking and showing us the bees and all about swarms. You made it all so doable. Love the swarms box great idea. Please show us about gathering honey and maybe how you store and use it.
I enjoyed this video, my husband always wanted bees, he loves honey in his coffee every morning.
We buy local from a couple about 3 miles from us. This is a great lesson you gave, thank you ! ✝️💟
Hi Todd. What a great success in catching honey bees. I hope the hive and honey work for the bees. God Bless you and have a honey of a day. Maria. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
So interesting Todd!. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Thank you for this video. We have had several reporting of swarms in my neighborhood and I had no idea this is what was happening. Everyone was saying they will leave in 24 hrs. I wish I could raise/farm bees 🐝
So glad you kept going with bees this year!
You have the perfect calm demeanor to be a bee keeper. 🐝💛
SO informative! Thanks for sharing, Todd!
I caught my first tree swarm before work this afternoon. Unfortunately, they weren't on a branch but on the trunk. Found the queen and put her in a box and carefully put the rest in with the help of a half milk jug.
I got my first swarm last year in a trap like yours. Don't have the door spin thing but will make one.
Great job and thanks for sharing 👍 👏
Have caught three swam this year in my swam traps. Now I have scouts looking at the trap I just emptied. Fingers crossed I'll get another one.
So amazing! Thank you for sharing. Next time please show us how you take our honey. 💐💙🙏
Great explanation, Todd!! I have watched other bee keeper videos and yours is one that I could understand well. Thanks!
Loved the simple overview of what happens. I know it’s more complicated than that, but helpful. Also love your philosophy of letting things take their natural course. Thanks for this tutorial.
This was such an informative video! Thank you! We have had hives swarm too, and my husband has preemptively made a swarm catcher.
Thank you for sharing Todd. That was interesting 🐝
Wow! Thanks for the bee lesson. I am glad to see you having success.
Bees are so amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Fascinating, thank you Todd 😊 🐝
That was very very interesting!!! Thank you so much for sharing ring all of this information with us!!! God-bless!!!
Thank you. My daughter just started with her 1st Nuc. Exciting to see and understand.
Hey Todd that was so informative and interesting. We have friends that have a honey farm and it's the most amazing honey local to us. Great video and good to see you. God Bless, Mike
Very informative Todd, once again great video🙏🏼💚
That was fantastic, thank you Todd 🌟🐝🌟
This has been so interesting! I always wondered what swarming means. I’m amazed at how many bees there were on the things you pulled out! My goodness nature is brutal!! And I thought people were cruel!! Thank you for all this!!
That was so cool! And very informative. Thank you
That was so cool! And very informative. Thank you 🐝
In some cases the first queen out doesn't kill the others and every time a new one hatches they swarm again. Had one hive a few years ago swarm 3 times. No swarms the past two years though. Been staying on top of splits.
Fun to learn about and wish I could keep bees but not for me. I have been stung by wasps and yellow jackets at least once a year for the past few years while gardening and have developed an allergic reaction to them. I’ve been using the RUclips to learn about them to figure out how to avoid them and learn their habits but i watch your channel because I like you and bee keeping is a bonus. It’s been really scary for me, terrifying honestly, as my love of gardening and preserving with canning and freeze drying is so important to me. I’ve had to use the epi pen once after the initial visit from paramedics who had to come the first time I had a severe reaction which i was passed out for. I would explain it, but that would take too long. I did come out of that on my own and refused to go to the hospital in an ambulance but i did go. I used the epi pen last year after wearing flip flops and a yellow jacket landed inside the sole before I stepped back down and on it. Epinephrine causes all kinds of side effects and I was not prepared for that. My take away is to go to the hospital for the tacky heart rate that will occur if you do the epinephrine. I did not go (hella dumb) and my Apple Watch was alerting me that my heart rate was too high all night (instructions on the box of the epipen are to administer epi and go to the hospital). Gel cap form of Benadryl is also a very good thing to take immediately. You don’t know if you have a reaction until it finally happens. I’ve been stung numerous times with just an uncomfortable welt which swells more every time it happens and you wonder why that’s happening. That’s why I’m posting this. It snuck up on me. Hope it helps some of your viewers. I am not a Debbie downer, just deeply sad that I have this reaction. I risk it anyway because it’s worth growing and preserving food. Bee keeping though…Jealous that I can’t do that. Suicidal pursuit, I’m afraid. Literally.
That’s pretty amazing…and you’ve learned so much. Thanks for sharing
I learned so much! Thank you for sharing!
I could never be a bee keeper and it is so so interesting!!! Thank you for sharing❤️
Very interesting. Glad you shared this!
Very interesting I knew some of it but didn’t know why they would leave the hive.
Such a wonderful explanation! Thanks 😊
Thank you for honey 🍯 bees videos keep them coming.
I love your explanation. Thank you!
Very interesting. Nature is fascinating. ♥️🙏🏼♥️
I heard one of you homesteaders mention planting "Mountain Mint" Pycanthemum Virgianum because it releases an oil onto the bees that kill the mites that harm the bees. im sure you can research it to find out more info, i dont have bees it just seemed like something i needed to remember haha Cheers
This was very interesting. Thanks for this !
Also terrifying as I’m scared of bees haha
We got a swarm earlier this month. Why did you put green stuff in front the hive?
Since the colon has been moved, I put some stuff in front of the boxes to confused the bees. To force them to re-orient to their new location.
It’s fascinating about the bees .
Not a bee. Or bug person. Nor snakes.
These swarm boxes, should we use built out frames? What about wax moths while it sitting not occupied?
We live in town and bees started hive in clay Mexican man so my daughter and friend put a beehive together and set on top of mex man. They were very happy docile bees at first, but have now started to go after me when I go outside. They also haven't moved up into actual hive box and has been several months.
Also about a month ago there was swarm in nearby tree (was wondering if were some of our bees :( ) No one "skilled" caught on soon enough to capture them.
We want to keep them but may have to sadly move to friends larger place due to now aggressive behavior..
Any tips? Is it possible to tend bees in the city? We are obviously new at this. Great video. Just found your channel.
Awesome! We love our bees🐝🐝🐝🐝
Nice Swarm!
Michigan Garden Girl
Very informative! Thank u 🥸 👑🐝 🍯
God bless you... that's absolutely beautiful 🥰
Where do I get that bee catcher you used or how do I make one. My hive swarmed already but I want to be ready next year.
Blessings.
Here's some videos on it ruclips.net/channel/UCGlnnV1P-cUPZ-laIOL62_Qsearch?query=swarm%20trap
Glad to see a bee video again.
I know this video is supposed to be about the bees, but I just couldn't keep my eyes off your grass. That is nice-looking grass.
Great video!!!
Interesting! Thanks
That was awesome can you do a video on how you collect and bottle honey?
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that's so neat how bees work and do there thing
Loved it just brilliant. Thanks
We had 4 hives swarm this year and only lost one swarm. They started swarming about 3 weeks early this year compared to the last 6 years. We've also noticed that a couple of these new hives seem to be a little more aggressive. Have you noticed any changes in your bees?
"They stop feeding the Queen and put her on a diet" LMAO! 🤣🤣🤣
Well done.
Congrats on catching a swarm, even if it may have been your own bees. You're all friends now, right?
When you said gotta catch em first thing that came to mind was Pokemon 😄
So very interesting!! Love this video! Thanks Todd!
Good information
Very cool!
Love the bee vids
How long does the Queen live?
1-2 years only.
Well hello Todd!
Holly Molly, I love 🐝 🐝
No thanks Todd., I am afraid to get stung many times that Suit doesn’t protect does it. Thanks for sharing 5-24-2022♥️
Awesome
Cool
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Not Bee related but I wanted to share I am having the same problem with my onions being pulled out. I discovered it was night crawlers. Stupid worms!