Honeybee Swarm Removal Trick/ Leave No Bees Behind
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Honeybee swarm season is approaching fast, are you ready? Learn a simple trick that speeds up your swarm captures. It's very effective and helps keep homeowners from recalling you because bees are still hanging around.
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Long time beek here in NE Bama. Took 20 years off serving in the USAF. Now back at it again. Learned from my Grandad and Grandma starting at age six. Liked your videos on catching swarms. I use the same techniques. Only difference is if they swarm on my yard. I have plum trees, three, and they really like them to land on. Once I have one swarm land in a specific plum tree, I don't remove the mojo. The next swarm lands there too and so on, but I do rub the tree down with lemon grass oil Queen juice to keep it fresh. Four out of four swarms caught from our four hives in our front lawn and expecting another swarm tomorrow. So far it has been an excellent year for hive increases. From those same four hives I did five Nuc splits using their on Queen cells. I'm going to have to sell those splits and then keep the four swarms. One swarm caught today was massive and they were the old wild ones we caught and used in the 60s and 70s. I call them hyper yellow and they produce huge Queens with very small wings. It took two brood boxes for that swarm. I just happened to be outside and heard them coming and they started dropping down from about 150ft and clanged tin and they sure nuff landed in the suped up plum tree. My wife was amazed. Gonna use this hive for their genetics. As a hobbyist I've just about enough hives and nucs for us now. Got to go remove a colony from an outside barn wall with boards on either side. This hive has been there for over ten years and they are the hyper yellow. Very easy to work with. Like your trap setups and think I'll do something similar. Thanks for the advice and great video. WB's Honeybees.
Down here on Costa Rica, central america we smoke the spot with similar results.
First, let me thank you for the 20 years of service, much appreciated! Sceond, I have heard old timers talk about clanging pans to get swarms to land but had a hard time believing it was true but now you have me curious about it. I am going to have to try it. Sounds like that hive will be a great place to get genetics from, best of luck!
Jason Chrisman you're welcome. First one must have the right piece of metal to drum/beat on. I use a ridge cap piece of tin about 3 1/2' long. What one is looking for is the right pitch. I use a two foot wooden stake, just happened to be laying on the front lawn, and you hold it where your grip doesn't deaden the pitch. The bends in my piece gives it strength and helps carry a mid to high pitch. It's also kind of a wider ridge cap. I've used a different pieces to bring them down. It's no myth. I've seen my grandparents bring in swarms that we heard coming, back in the day they were huge swarms and they sounded like a huge drone coming. These swarms were between 250' to 500' feet up when crossing. They always had their banging materials handy at home and in the care. That first swarm we caught was about 100' up and when I went to drumming some of the older workers tried to get into one of our hives. But they came to the plum tree I was under. We have now caught 4 more swarms that came from our 4 hives and were headed away before I got them turned around. We started with 2 three lb packages in May of last year. We did a walkaway split on both and they all made it thru the winter with the Queens laying well into December. That was unexpected due the very cold weather we had. I did late winter inspections and wow they were packed. The next week slit them into 5, 5 frame nucs and they still swarmed from each hive. We know have 7 hives and 7 nucs. That's all we need!! Gonna have to sell some nucs. Geez been a good swarm season so far.
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Great video, Jason, thanks for posting!
I HAD a swarm, but now it’s become a large beehive under a large overturned planter. I like having them (for months now) and they’ve not bothered us as we leave them alone. But they did attack the guy that mows my yard and I can’t chance having it happen to anyone else (especially my 4yr old) so I’m having them removed hopefully soon. I would however, love to see what they’ve “created” or produced under there, since it’s become so large.
Nicely done Jason! Gotta love the low level, easy to access swarm retrievals!! Appreciate you sharing your progress! I gave a "thumbs up" ;) 🐝🐝🐝☮️
The swarms shown are from last, still a little chilly here. I figured the pictures would make it easier for new beekeepers to relate. I do prefer the lower swarms though but I try not to turn any away. Thanks for watch and the thumbs up!
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Nice tip, could have used it yesterday. Thanks for sharing.
Your already collecting swarms? We are still dealing with cool weather so we have a little while here yet.
Good trick Jason thanks for posting
Jason good idea I like it.
Makes sense. I used honey b gone on the area after a cut out last year.
Thanks man...lostsa good stuff for the newBEES like me!
This isn't a problem when the swarm site is two feet up. Just like you did, place the box the same height and they'll figure it out. The problem is when the swarm site is twenty five feet up and the bees on the branch can't smell the queen in the box.
Jason, I follow several of these beekeeper video sites. I think yours is very good, As a Longtime beekeeper myself, I recognize when a person knows what they are doing. There are always a few negative people at every site. I suspect they live their lives on a negative keel. Don't let them bother you......Thanks Jason for your work! Rick Riley
Olbas oil or clove oil also work.
Interesting! I wonder if those are ingredients of the products I mentioned?
yep...thats the way we do it also. good stuff!
Always great videos
Great tip Jason, thank you for the video!
Works very well too.
Good job!
can you spray the entrance of a bee hive and have the same results?
Thanks Jason. I wonder if using smoke would mask the the pheromones?
Yes, smoke works great as long as your able to stay there and keep the smoke a flowing. What happens when you post flyers to remove swarms is that the homeowners like all the bee traffic to stop when you leave. I can't tell you the number of times I captured the swarm and the following day the homeowner calls saying there is still bees flying around and want me to return. With the mentioned products in the video, this doesn't happen because the pheromones are masked for many hours. Plus, this stuff seems to push bees away a little faster then just smoke in my experience.
We have bees in the roof of our porch. How can we lure them to an empty beehive?
nice picture please make more
Verryy niiccceee
I was cleaning out in my backyard today and then i spotted a huge bee hive and idk what to do...
I have just found a swarm of bees in my blueberry bush in the backyard how long will they stay there
Get a hot chilly pepper lice it up, pour hot water over it and put the water in a spray bottle, see how that works.
One thing, why are the bees swarming and settling on a spot? If the swarm spot is out in the open, will the swarm eventually leave? Thank you in advance.
They cluster until one of the scout bees return with the news of a new home then they would take flight and move there. They can stay clustered like this for as little as an hour to as long as a couple days.
@@JCsBees They bees are clustered because i blocked the entrance to their hive. The hive is in my house wall, and I have three young kids, and I am afraid for the kids. The bees have been swarming now for a week, and won't leave. A bee keeper wants $325.00 to help me. I ordered the repellant yesterday. sure hope it works.
Great info brother. What hood and jacket do you recommend. Best ventilation
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Jason Chrisman in your Amazon store?
Sure is! Thx
How long will a bee swarm stay in a bush
It's hard to say. They could stay minutes or days. Hope you caught them by now, Sorry for delay.
Do you spray them with anything before you approach them?
Nope! Some people spray them with sugar water to keep them from flying but I don't.
I'd had this same idea, but I didn't want to spray BeeQuick on the cluster site and accidentally hit some bees with it. My thought was that, if a few bees got covered with BeeQuick and then went into my box, the scent would chase all the other bees out.
How do get all the bees off the cluster site so you can spray it with the repellant? Smoke? Thanks!
That is a very interesting point I never considered. I use smoke and my bee brush and once there is no bees there I spray the area. Never had any issues with bees coming back out of the box because they got sprayed.
Had a swarm hang out on a roof eve for a day, they moved on but in that area it looks like a small quantity of then stayed and are setting up shop.
Will spraying b gone make them leave ?
Sometimes when a swarm lands they leave pheromones behind. Yes, spraying that area should make them leave.
So the spray is non toxic to bees?
Yes. It's completely safe for bees they just don't like it's smell.
Would you mind sharing what video editor you use for RUclips? I've tried a few with mixed results. Thanks in advance.
I tried several myself before I realized that best software is not cheap. I now use Adobe Premier Pro amzn.to/2Hoi6qX and I think if you plan to do many videos, it's well worth the money.
Bleach and water works just as well cheaper to
Goodday sir. How do you treat that swarm in order for them to expand within a reasonable time. Cobus🐳
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I thank you sir. Goodday to you,Cobus🐳
You must live a the warm part of Ohio! If anything swarms in northwest Ohio right now they are going to freeze and die.
I am in central Ohio and you are correct, it been a crazy start to spring. I figure I better share the tip so everyone could be on their toes when the season does start. 😉
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Hey how much do sale a package i live in columbus ohio i know you live in ohio but don't know where let me know please.
Hello, I already replied to one of your comments saying "I do not sell packages". I would check with Conrad's Bees in Canal Winchester. I am located in Licking county, close to the Knox county line.
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Nice vid pls reply
Glad you enjoy the videos. Do you have a question?
Bro I noticed a bee hive in my attic I see a lot of bees help me I don't wanna die..
You can call a beekeeper and have them removed but there is a fee for this service.
@@JCsBees Im saving up can u help me with something without the money being spent ?