Bees for beginners Part 7 SWARM!!

Part of our ongoing series on beekeeping. Part 7 shows a swarm and the capture of a swarm. This swarm was NOT from the hives we started in Parts 1-4 but from an older hive that we have. Dealing with swarms is an important part of beekeeping.

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[juliepowers]

Sometimes the flying bees go back to the spot where they smell the queen was, even though you've got her in the new hive.

If you feed them immediately they will seldom try to swarm out again-they think they picked an ideal new home!

Bees that have just swarmed are really in the mood to draw out foundation into comb, but it takes a lot of energy, which you can give them by feeding sugar syrup. That was a huge swarm; hope your honey harvest was as good!

[SurvivalReport]

Yep that's exactly what happened. We caught the 2nd batch of them also ;) These gals were VERY productive immediately following this. Filled out that hive body and most of another deep in less than a month! Thanks for your comments!

[killmytv]

Great vid! I was just about to give it five stars . . . but then he said "beerific.

[DontPanic6X7]

Would the sugar water spray be useful here? - like in the 1st vid (starting a new hive)

[fredkyle23]

what happens if you dont catch the swarm?

[fluffyweapon]

My sister started bee keeping last year after discovering a gigantic swarm. She quickly found a bee keeper on craigs list and by the time he showed up to save the swarm she had decided to start bee keeping. Its going well and her honey harvest produced wonderful amber honey. I'm fascinated by all this !!!

[mechanicalbu11]

the last hive i got was a tree had blown over in high winds. inside the tree was a bees nest, i took a portion of the tree from inside the hollow and put it inside the box covered with those bees with some honey comb inside the box. it took three days but the bees moved in.

[mechanicalbu11]

i have done this two time and was very successful, but i did it differently. i do not care to get the queen right away all i do is put a box under the swarm with a honey comb inside the box. then i shake at least 50 percent of the bees into the box then put the cover on and leave the box till all the bees move in.

the theory is the bees will go back to the swarm and tell the other bees they found a now home and the queen move in.

[iwantosavemoney]

that is cool harvesting bees off the land thats great

the cheap guy

[honeeproducer34]

Ive been beekeeping since the spring of 97 and never thought about using excluders to ensure a queen stays put...that's awsome!!! I'll have to throw a couple excluders in the back of my truck...

[darthom]

Why not use that water / sugar mix on them like you used during the new install in Bees For Beginners Part 1? According to the video, it made them "drunk", happy and sticky, keeping them together and docile.

[COLINAsherwin]

Its like playing. catching pokemon`s :D

[RaceAcer60]

Yep,your right,Hive Manipulation is very important in Beekeeping,there are sooo few who practice this,all new Beekeepers should be taught this from the beginning,do you agree?. :-)