Nice new hive you got started from the swarm you got from that bush. It looks like it is going well. I hope that you have good amount of honey from these girls
This is a fantastic way to add bee colonies to your apiary... one thing I often do when getting a swarm, is spraying them down with warm 50/50 sugar water... makes them heavier for shaking down into your box and feeds them in the moment as they may have been there without resources for some time. They wouldn't be "head butting" or "Defensive" as they aren't at their established home... Don't forget to leave the new hive at the location of the swarm for a day or two if you can... there are hundreds if not thousands of scouts out and they will be returning... if the colony is gone, the scouts will just perish.
+Frederick Dunn I don't like spraying the bees down. I find unnecessary. If I can, I leave the caught swarm in the new hive body until night fall then take them home. If I can't wait, I don't worry about any field bees getting left behind because they will return to their old hive.
Your queen walked right in the front door at 11:16 I was just watching and there she was. Start at about 10:55 to see her in the bottom center around 11:00. Very cool.
At 10:55 you can see the queen bottom left of the frame. She moves across the bottom edge of the bottom board and at 11:13 she moves into hive at about center of the opening. took a bit to see her but she is very obvious if you look close. Nice gopro capture
24/ 08/2016 Hi Thurman, I have also just collected my first 2 swarms in Albany Western Australia. I am new but found this method fast safe and as I also have 40 swarm traps out fast is good. I take the hive body out compleate with 10 frames in and place it as close to the swarm as I can, then spray the swarm with sugar water. Then with my hands pick up as many Bees as possible and place them on the top bars. After they settle I replace the lid, brush any remaining bees to the ground and as in your great video they march in. I then close the entrance take them home place them where I want and have a beer. Works for me, good luck Jonathan.
This is why i like swarms, over box bees, and splitting ! Cause there primed up and ready to go to work... They will draw out at less 4 combs very fast and the queen will start laying in them quick
Thanks for your gentle work and love for bees. I hope when you place the frames back to hives you do not kill any bees accidently. I used to own bees and raised them about 10 years and I never killed a single bee. I am worried that when people put the frames back carelessly so many bees could be killed. I just love bees.
Why do you not spray them with sugar H2O to scoop them into the hive. Or even when they were on the branch, to keep them from scattering? Thank you for your efforts and especially the ppl that called you, instead of them spraying them with insecticide. SAVE the HONEYBEES!
Kirby Bracken If there is comb, you need to cut it away from the tool box and secure it to a frame. You can use rubber bands. Once you move the comb, put the bees in the hive.
Drew Mcdonald Thanks for subscribe. Glad you like the yard. I do build my own boxes, mostly bought unassembled from a supply house but sometimes from scratch if I have time and material.
+Leng Vang The queen is considered the most important member of the colony. She is both master and slave. Without her laying eggs to keep the colony growing it would die off in a couple of weeks. She is the only bee that can lay fertilized eggs hence female bees that can be turned into other queens.
he heee need a another box or 2. A big swarm and there all not there yet! I still say bees have more the 1 or 2 places they live at... 1 is the main hive and there brother and sister places! Cause i seen swarms take up to a week before is slacks off... GOT 2 LOVE EM Keep em rolling i love bee blogs THX
I get afraid of one bee and why do need hate me I just waved at one and attacked me I look at one why do they attack me is it my clothes am I making to much noise what is wrong with me
+Research0digo Hi, the queen doesn't have to go in the hive first for the others to enter. The colony is driven to find a place to live. I presented one to them so they entered. The queen, always surrounded by protectors, enters with the rest of the colony. If however she did not and chose to remain outside, the colony would leave to find her. I caught a huge swarm once and put them in a hive. For some reason they kept pouring back out. Finally the queen entered and I thought I was okay though thousands of workers were still outside. I left deciding to give them time to calm down and I'd come back first thing in the morning. A half an hour after I left they did too. I thought about this and realized that scouts had already found a place to live and I had interrupted them and had caused confusion. Once the scouts had convinced everyone they had a better place to live, they left. My loss but it happens. Frederick Dunn has a great video on returning bees to their original hive by removing the swarm's queen. You should watch it. ruclips.net/video/NIuu-fllUIs/видео.html
When I was really little I thought when you kill a bee honey would come out I'm 10 and I'm still wondering what will happen if you kill a queen bee and drones aren't crap they mate with the queen and then they just die and they are kicked out of the hive in winter they really don't matter to the hive at all
Because it's simple , they have tiny wings that technically should not be able to launch under certain circumstances , such as its Overally large body and its small wing size ratio compared to other Insects , if you actually done some research , you would have discovered that scientists has noted why bees can fly and that is because of how many flaps they can do compared to other insects and because of that they need to only fly in short distances and because of that , for the bees to survive they live in hives with a queen and horde a food source (honey and pollen) as its the adequate food to provide lots of broken down sugars to give the energy to fly small distances and maintain its ability to flap its wings at an rapid pace , do the right thing and hide your personal bias baseless opinions and actually take the time to study? Sorry to burst your bubble but there's so much evidence about adaptation of species , the world is a changing climate and so do the adaptations of animals
+Pat Brown Pat - if you are not a competetor, why are you being so rude to this man? Bee keepers are the most awesome people. They are the ones helping us put food on our tables. The Chinese are already hand-polinating their crops.
yeah... F THAT ! Bees are VERY important and we need BOATLOADS of them because of that disease that's killing them but you wouldn't catch ME doing this in my lifetime. there's guys who coat themselves in them and go after bees nests that are 10 times the size of this and etc.... ya, F THAT ! I commend anyone who raises Bees. you have a very important task. w/o them the world would lose fruit, veggies, flowers and all other kinds of plants that w/o them the population might die. but I'm allergic and I wouldn't go within a couple thousand feet of these things just hearing them buzz along gives me the creeps.
Nice new hive you got started from the swarm you got from that bush.
It looks like it is going well.
I hope that you have good amount of honey from these girls
This is a fantastic way to add bee colonies to your apiary... one thing I often do when getting a swarm, is spraying them down with warm 50/50 sugar water... makes them heavier for shaking down into your box and feeds them in the moment as they may have been there without resources for some time. They wouldn't be "head butting" or "Defensive" as they aren't at their established home... Don't forget to leave the new hive at the location of the swarm for a day or two if you can... there are hundreds if not thousands of scouts out and they will be returning... if the colony is gone, the scouts will just perish.
+Frederick Dunn I don't like spraying the bees down. I find unnecessary. If I can, I leave the caught swarm in the new hive body until night fall then take them home. If I can't wait, I don't worry about any field bees getting left behind because they will return to their old hive.
I like spraying them... :) interview ten different bee keepers and you'll get ten varying methods... thanks for the response... happy bee keeping.
Your queen walked right in the front door at 11:16 I was just watching and there she was. Start at about 10:55 to see her in the bottom center around 11:00. Very cool.
You are so right. She just appears then walks right in the entrance. Good catch. I love this stuff.
I really like how gentle you are with the bees, keep it up!
+JediMindTrickster Thank you, I do my best.
At 10:55 you can see the queen bottom left of the frame. She moves across the bottom edge of the bottom board and at 11:13 she moves into hive at about center of the opening. took a bit to see her but she is very obvious if you look close. Nice gopro capture
Wayne Flewelling, JR. I catch it too...late :-)
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I'm late to this one Haha. Good eye. I caught her sneaking in too.
THE buzzing is not as loud when they are not fanning on the camera microphone. great job!!
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24/ 08/2016 Hi Thurman, I have also just collected my first 2 swarms in
Albany Western Australia. I am new but found this method fast safe and
as I also have 40 swarm traps out fast is good. I take the hive body out
compleate with 10 frames in and place it as close to the swarm as I
can, then spray the swarm with sugar water. Then with my hands pick up
as many Bees as possible and place them on the top bars. After they
settle I replace the lid, brush any remaining bees to the ground and as
in your great video they march in. I then close the entrance take them
home place them where I want and have a beer. Works for me, good luck
Jonathan.
I’m new bee kipper so wonderful
probably just a first impression. did not want to offend. love the bees!
This is why i like swarms, over box bees, and splitting ! Cause there primed up and ready to go to work... They will draw out at less 4 combs very fast and the queen will start laying in them quick
Thanks for your gentle work and love for bees. I hope when you place the frames back to hives you do not kill any bees accidently. I used to own bees and raised them about 10 years and I never killed a single bee. I am worried that when people put the frames back carelessly so many bees could be killed. I just love bees.
Gel B I do try to be gentle.
Why do you not spray them with sugar H2O to scoop them into the hive. Or even when they were on the branch, to keep them from scattering? Thank you for your efforts and especially the ppl that called you, instead of them spraying them with insecticide. SAVE the HONEYBEES!
What a great score! Where are you located that you're swarm season starts in April?
Tom Poirier Central VA. It's a good thing I got this swarm because the calls have been far and few between.
I saw her highness waddle in about 10:55-11:15. Nice save, again.
+Steven Shields OK. How on earth do you spot her, just crammed packed with others bees all around her? Bee keepers are awesome people! :)
I have caught me a swarm of bees in a old tool box and need to move them from the tool box to a hive. How is the best way to accomplish this task?
Kirby Bracken If there is comb, you need to cut it away from the tool box and secure it to a frame. You can use rubber bands. Once you move the comb, put the bees in the hive.
iam really thinking of a long box hive, 4' to 8' ! ill start with a 4 foot one 1st. save the old back. and a lot easier to work and to check
You don’t use excluders?
+Brent V Sometimes I do but mostly when making splits. If I know I will be using a commercial extractor to extract honey then I will.
can anyone explain why the bees don't attack the people ?,fascinating to see and learn about.
Bees are passive
insane, incredible, so cool
New subscriber, good vid. Your B-yard looks well organized. Do you build your own boxes?
Drew Mcdonald Thanks for subscribe. Glad you like the yard. I do build my own boxes, mostly bought unassembled from a supply house but sometimes from scratch if I have time and material.
How important the Queen? Does she is the leader?
+Leng Vang Yes, the mother.
+Leng Vang The queen is considered the most important member of the colony. She is both master and slave. Without her laying eggs to keep the colony growing it would die off in a couple of weeks. She is the only bee that can lay fertilized eggs hence female bees that can be turned into other queens.
he heee need a another box or 2. A big swarm and there all not there yet! I still say bees have more the 1 or 2 places they live at... 1 is the main hive and there brother and sister places! Cause i seen swarms take up to a week before is slacks off... GOT 2 LOVE EM Keep em rolling i love bee blogs THX
As a novice bee keeper, please tell folks that yellow jackets belong to the wasp family and wasps are NOT bees.
Steven Shields You just did.
I get afraid of one bee and why do need hate me I just waved at one and attacked me I look at one why do they attack me is it my clothes am I making to much noise what is wrong with me
Hello,
If the queen isn't in the hive first, why don't all the drones and workers just fly back out, toward her pheromones?
+Research0digo Hi, the queen doesn't have to go in the hive first for the others to enter. The colony is driven to find a place to live. I presented one to them so they entered. The queen, always surrounded by protectors, enters with the rest of the colony. If however she did not and chose to remain outside, the colony would leave to find her.
I caught a huge swarm once and put them in a hive. For some reason they kept pouring back out. Finally the queen entered and I thought I was okay though thousands of workers were still outside. I left deciding to give them time to calm down and I'd come back first thing in the morning. A half an hour after I left they did too. I thought about this and realized that scouts had already found a place to live and I had interrupted them and had caused confusion. Once the scouts had convinced everyone they had a better place to live, they left. My loss but it happens.
Frederick Dunn has a great video on returning bees to their original hive by removing the swarm's queen. You should watch it. ruclips.net/video/NIuu-fllUIs/видео.html
When I was really little I thought when you kill a bee honey would come out I'm 10 and I'm still wondering what will happen if you kill a queen bee and drones aren't crap they mate with the queen and then they just die and they are kicked out of the hive in winter they really don't matter to the hive at all
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I'd like to hear an evolutionist or survival of the fittest whatever explain big bee bodies flying with little wings.
Because it's simple , they have tiny wings that technically should not be able to launch under certain circumstances , such as its Overally large body and its small wing size ratio compared to other Insects , if you actually done some research , you would have discovered that scientists has noted why bees can fly and that is because of how many flaps they can do compared to other insects and because of that they need to only fly in short distances and because of that , for the bees to survive they live in hives with a queen and horde a food source (honey and pollen) as its the adequate food to provide lots of broken down sugars to give the energy to fly small distances and maintain its ability to flap its wings at an rapid pace , do the right thing and hide your personal bias baseless opinions and actually take the time to study? Sorry to burst your bubble but there's so much evidence about adaptation of species , the world is a changing climate and so do the adaptations of animals
+Alex Charles TL Dr
wonderful! :)
Thurman, you are afraid of the bees and you are making more work for yourself than you need to. try to do some relax exercises before you start.
+Pat Brown That's funny. I'm not afraid of the bees. I respect them. I work with hundreds of colonies.
+BurnleyFarmApiary You don't seem rushed or stressed at all in my opinion... good capture!
+Pat Brown Pat - if you are not a competetor, why are you being so rude to this man?
Bee keepers are the most awesome people.
They are the ones helping us put food on our tables.
The Chinese are already hand-polinating their crops.
yeah... F THAT ! Bees are VERY important and we need BOATLOADS of them because of that disease that's killing them but you wouldn't catch ME doing this in my lifetime. there's guys who coat themselves in them and go after bees nests that are 10 times the size of this and etc....
ya, F THAT ! I commend anyone who raises Bees. you have a very important task.
w/o them the world would lose fruit, veggies, flowers and all other kinds of plants that w/o them the population might die. but I'm allergic and I wouldn't go within a couple thousand feet of these things just hearing them buzz along gives me the creeps.
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