Keep your Swarms from Leaving!
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2021
- Swarms will sometimes leave again but not with these tips they won't!
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QUEEN ALERT: 15:02-15:38. Running w swarm near bottom of video. "Look at that" when she enters hive.
Got a swam from 26 feet up a few weeks ago... THAT was fun!
Used a bucket on the end of a VERY LONG bamboo pole, standing on a ladder, trying to dislodge them.
Luckily I got the queen and a few bees on the first try. Stuck the queen in a queen clip in the box.
The rest of the bees were still 26 feet up and I banged the ball a few times to dislodge them and get them to come down.
It still took the rest of the swarm over two hours to get in the box... but I got them in the end!!!
One of the coolest things I've ever seen. Never get tired of that
Really wonderfull to watch that, cant watch you boys enough from here in uk
This is more fun! Thank you and God bless. Miles
I feel better now that I see your bees have swarmed too, I sometimes feel bad when mine do because I’ve been told I’m not taking care of my bees well, this is hard to understand for me. Thanks for all you to so kindly.
I’m 6foot tall and would have dented the roof so be glad you got it and didn’t damage your roof lol. Thanks for the videos sir.
That's a good thing to watch follow the leader just Like Sheep
Loved it.
Always good tips. Thanks
These videos are really appreciated. I know they're time consuming and thank you greatly! Keep swinging' -)
love it!! very relaxing!!!
I love the march and how committed the bees are to their queen
Lamont you rock! Best swarm video yet. Thanks from Idaho.
K&L, thanks nothing like watching a March before Church on Sunday morning! Watching a March and standing in the middle of a swarm in flight is two of the coolest things about beekeeping! Thanks for the video!
Thanks L&k. Fascinating and informative!!
hey I am short in stature (5'5") and I have a 20 year old (plus) Subaru too and dang-nabbit, people like you! Thanks again for taking the time to share your experience with us Kamon and Laurel.
Hey I am 5'5 1/2" and also have a subaru and bees...hmm... Luckily I have a ladder and a long extendable pole and bucket to help capture swarms.
Congratulation two swarm in one day👍👍👍I always love to watch swarm catching .. waiting for your next swarm catching
Great job
Thanks Kamon, really loved this video. You are the best!
Being short does not represent any inadequacy. You are excellent.
Well I landed Laurel didn't I? That's all that matter haha!
@@kamonreynolds
Yeah. Yer right. That gives you one up on me.
And I am 6'4"!
get yourself a 5 gallon bucket, drill some air holes in it and attach it to an extendable painters pole, it wont matter if your short mate.
I've not seen that sort of rehiving before. Cool stuff. What makes them just know, oh yeah, over here. Smell?
Kamon, my man, if there weren't below-average-stature guys like you who were positive and awesome, you know what all short guys would be?
Insecure douhebags with small-man syndrome.
Tis dudes like you that prove that height doesn't matter, heart matters.
Keep on being awesome.
This is so amazing the way they follow their queen inside.
I love the march too thanks for the videos .
I love watching the march of the bees. There is something that is just so satisfying about it.
First time beekeeper here. My first packages of bees won't arrive until later this month, around 26th, looking forward to learning more and keeping them safe. My wife is already looking into what flowers and trees we are going to plant in the beeyard.
If you have room for a basswood tree they are awesome.
@@russellkoopman3004 plenty of room. I will look into it. thank you
Have you ever had a queen fly away putting them in a hive this way?
Workers that end up just outside the nuc box after a shake join the new I've in the box, they won't go back to the mother hive. Plastic foundation encourages bees to draw burr (of centered) comb
Love it! Sharing.
LOL you are catching swarms and I’m prepping for snow !!
Ha ha ha you caught that standing on your vehicle LOL
He may have to get a Tahoe since they are 6" taller. LOL
So funny Ian, he was hoping you would go gather them caus he's too short. Lol
Hoping your snow doesn't come down our way. Hives are filled with broid but few to no drone brood ..... yet!
Excellent video and those 2 bee marches are among some of the best i have seen, and mate let me tell you don't put yourself down to be a big man you only need a big heart i have seen a lot of big men in stature that had no heart height doesn't determine what sort of man you are but your heart does anyway mate cheers from Australia .
Watching them march into the box never gets old. I could do that all day long. 😃
Thanks for sharing! Love these videos!
T-minus 6 days and counting until my new bees arrive!
love seeing the RUN into the boxes. Amazing
Two things. First I had a swarm I caught twice before I losing them the third time when I was not home. Second, I approve of announcing to the world the shirt I have on is at least 6 years old. Some of mine go back even further!
Videos like this are really helpful, my first package of bees come in next week so this type of stuff will save me some headache down the road.
It just means that you are well grounded
That 2nd swarm couldn't wait to get into their new home. They were going like a train
Almost magical! Wow this is so beautiful to watch. I would love to have my own hives one day. Fascinating, thank you for sharing ❤
Love your videos, and don't worry - you're a big man in my eyes at least.
I live in France, deep in the rural countryside and after a couple of years with empty hives, I just caught my first swarm - Yipee. I have my first bees.
Now time to review all the old videos and see what to do next.
Cheers, and thanks - big man
Slogan for one of your T-shirts…”It’s Always Awesome!” 😁
I watched this video first thing this morning, then went out to check my colonies. 5 minutes in I watched one of the swarm. I beat on a metal pot and they landed in a close by tree. I don't have another yard to put them but followed the rest of your tutilage. So far so good. Thanks for beeing there Kamon!
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I’m fairly new to beekeeping. What does banging on a pot do? I watched one of my hives swarm last year. Pretty awesome sight! I did manage to get it back (went to a neighbor’s tree)
@@cellobert I've seen where someone said it imitates thunder. When they hear or feel the vibrations it causes them to land.
I personally have used it 4 times this year and had them land each time. There really is something to it and I'm a believer!
But you are a GIANT among beekeepers.
You are too kind
How come you shake them outside of the hive, instead of inside of the hive?
Watching them walk into the hive in person, is definitely awesome. 👌
Nice work Catching and releasing those swarms. Good to see ur hives are “mortal” and susceptible to swarming like mine 😃
I really don't want to have to catch my own swarms this year. I'm making splits in a few days and it's supposed to be raining until then 🤞. In Maryland we are still getting brood chilling so my colonies might not really be booming yet, but they do have adult drones, so.
Really interesting! Always something new to learn about bees!
That one down vote is The beekeeper that lost the swarms!
This was perfect timing. I had to catch one of my own swarms this afternoon!
Caught a swarm last week and you got to love that march.
Yessir!
That was freakin' awesome.
Did this exact same thing yesterday with two swarms. Same spot the two swarms were at just 8 hours apart. Thanks for teaching me about the scout bees will still make them swarm if they have made there mind up even if you put them in a nuc. Watch every video of yours in Central Texas!
never gets old watching that march!!
A few swarm traps placed near apiaries used from cull equipment attracts absconding bee colonies.👍
So fascinating! I’m surprised by two things; that the bees go into the box without a queen in it and that they even move away from the queen into the box. I thought you would have had to put the queen into the box first to get them to go into it. What makes them march towards the box? I’m a first year beekeeper. We just did our first split from a swarm we caught last spring. Thanks for your videos, never get tired of watching and learning about the bees!
Apparently it's the bees themselves that give off the signal pheromones to give the marching orders! This applies to swarming too. How one bee decides one day to start this signal which then begins copycat signalling from the others is anyone's guess?
Great video. Thanks
Don’t worry about your size. Remember dynamite comes in small packages and it is not the size of the man in the fight but the size of the fight in the man! You are big teacher.
You should get one of those telescoping boat hooks. They are only about $20 on amazon. I saw someone's channel where they used a wire mesh trash can on a pole to cash swarms. The mesh kept the swarm cool and did not block the pheromones.
I don't "want to get sent to the house!" LOL! Great information.
I never get tired of watching bees march into a hive.
If I put an empty baited hive body in my bee yard, is that a good strategy for catching my own swarms?
Thanks !!
I'm going to do this with my next swarms!!! That is too cool!!!!!!! Thanks Kamon!!!!
i use lemongrass essential oil in an extreeeeeeemly tiny amount smeared just inside the top of the new hive box. This imitates the pheromone of the queen. I’m really new at this but so far it works!
I’m excited!!!! I just got done setting my first swarm trap of the year today , it’s my first using swarm commander ! Years ago I caught ferals with spearmint and lemon grass oil, it worked every year, at one time when I was younger we had 400 colonies and every single bee was caught, this was in harford county Maryland, most of my family is from Denton valley Tennessee and Bristol, which every summer in Bristol we would catch a couple swarms and take them back to harford , Maryland and keep the gene pool mixed up , we had great success years ago but there weren’t mites back then either and the bees were naturally hygienic back in the 70’s and didnt tolerate strangers in their brood boxes very well , I’m basically learning all over again after a 25 year break, but I never forgot my foundation for bee keeping , that’s a plus 😜
Welcome back, happy beekeeping, and thanks for commenting with that awesome story! Can't wait to hear what is next!
Good catch! Awesome video. Great tips about using the nuc boxes and moving swarms to a new bee yard.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Mr. K
I'm watching this while getting sugar water ready
Me too. A new swarm as well.
A real beautiful thing to see
Excellent
Lets hear it for the little guy !
Kamon, what about trimming the queen’s wing so she cannot fly to keep the swarm.
Great video! I'm always preaching if a managed colony swarms you missed a management step, but sometimes we're trying to manage too many....
Awesome video thanks for the info
Have you ever dumped them outside the hive and they didn't run in?
Hey Kujo. Never. However, I have had them leave a day or 2 later when in the same yard.
@@kamonreynolds I have a friend, 1 of her swarms kept running away, several times, she is a very small, fat lady, man, that made me laugh.
She brought it to a friend's land gave them a frame o brood and it's ok now.
Great information! Thanks!
Our pleasure!
that was cool! i never saw that done on the ground , i seen a wild swarm do that on a side of our old barn though! thank you for the tips!
I’m just curious, why do they walk right into the hives ,like that since the queen is not inside the box.
Question: Say you don't have the luxury of additional bee yard would you carefully cage the queen for 48 hours or so in hive with swarm?
Thank you so much for sharing this video you are absolutely right this is the most amazing and fascinating to see how they marching insight into that box do it more if you can't your wife is a very good record that she makes a great videos thanks guys stay healthy be happy peace
awesome!
Pretty fun to watch the girls march into their new homes.
Kamon Reynolds have you heard of a queens throne? Blue Green Horizons has a website for the queens throne for reaching high swarms.
Tall people are all their porridge when they were growing up
great job laurel ,,saw her goin in...
Have fun doing this when you are in your 30's! But at 65, this show ain't happening on top of a truck. I missed a small swarm Saturday in a willow tree at arm-length level. Got there a little too late, and the queen went from the swarm cluster to the air and I watched them with a tiny tear in my eye as she turned the corner around the lake. :(
I feel your pain. It's swarm time in SC as well!
Do you add any attractor to any boxes for swarms to go in? Would you recommend adding lemongrass oil and if not, why?
great video
You mentioned thinner than 1:1 ratio feeding. What do you recommend? I just got 2 swarms from 1 place and a cut out within about 3 weeks. This ladies house is a bee magnet! Anyway, yeah I want them to get them building fast. Thanks for all of your informative videos.
If I am trying to draw combs and not trying to put on a lot of weight. I use 0.75 lbs of sugar to 1lb of water. Works great. 1:1 works nice also but can add more weight on than I like. Ratios can be tweaked thru the season depending on the colonies needs.
I’ve never seen anything like this. I have shaken into the hive, this is beautiful. Did you put lemon grass oil inside the super or something to attract the bees to go into the super?
LMAO at the liability disclaimer.
You maybe small in stature but you are enormous in spite. Thank you for a good video.🤗
Good job man...........
enjoyed this - our bees are coming next month
Nice video Kanon.
I am wondering why you didn't catch that queen and paint mark it ?
As you said a marked queen is easier to spot, Thks.
(queen at door step 15:34)
So if you don't have another bee yard 3 miles away to relocate them.... what steps do you take to ensure they stay around within your own bee yard?
Where abouts in TN are you? I'm in Clarksville and I'm hoping my swarm box gets used this year.
If I were not deadly allergic to bee stings, I would be a bee keeper (I think).
Can you put the swarm back in your yard after a time? My mom would be cool for a week.
Yes. I typically wait till the queen has laid for a week before I move them
You guys always the best couple and best videos makers, well, at least to me *__O
Nothing wrong with being hobbit sized lol your closer to hive on the ground so you save your back ! I'm 6'3 my back hates me after inspecting mine