Swarm Trap Types - Pros & Cons, What Bees Want - Swarm Trapping #1
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Part #1 in the Swarm Trapping Series. We take a look at what honeybee swarms look for in a new home, as well as examine various types of bait hives and swarm traps.
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I love listening to this video. The volume of information in just this one video blows so many other Tubers out of the water. I think the best part is the fact that the trap doesn’t have to be 15 feet up in a tree like others say. Being a 49 year old woman, there’s no way I can handle climbing ladders that high with a box of bees in my arm. I can however stand on the tailgate of my Colorado without falling or breaking my neck on a ladder. Thank you 👏👏
I’m learning to work smarter, not harder!
Bees prefer being off the ground because of how they fly. They don't have to climb to cruising altitude. They micromanage for efficiency.
Interesting thought. Most folks think they like being high to avoid predators.
@@DuckRiverHoney bears and raccoons can climb, so I'm not seeing the logic there.
If you think about bees like airplanes, they save a lot of fuel if they don't have to climb as high. It saves time and energy on the departures and landings.
If I had it better, I'd use a deer tree stand. They come with an attached ladder.
And I find Myself watching this again... Always learn something new
WOW! That was very well thought out! I like the way you think and communicate your ideas and lessons learned. This will be my first year trying to catch swarms. Excited that I don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Nicely done, clear explanations and no random talking about unrelated issues.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
I agree, those 23mins felt like 5mins. Very informative, knowledgeable, and to the point. Liked and subscribed within the first couple of minutes. Excited to see your channel grow!
Thanks for the kind words!
@@texla7392 Same here, and I don't subscribe to very many feeds.
High praise, I appreciate it.
Outstanding video and exactly what I needed to pull it all together. Thank you for not just saying "how" or "what" you did but also giving the "why" because then I can adapt your leanings and information easily to my situation...for instance I have also standardized on one size box but it happens to be 8F deeps (7F in honey super). With the spacer concept I can just adjust the spacer to meet the bees needs/wants using my standard equipment and have an effective swarm catching season. I wish all UTube channels were as articulate, organized and thus effective as yours Thanks again!
I appreciate it! Everyone has different needs so I try to explain things so folks can figure out what will work for them.
Last summer was the first year I tried swarm traps and it was crazy amazing
Swarm catching is definitely something I hope to get the opportunity to do this spring. Thank you for the video!!!
I appreciate it Lorie!
Good information! Been out of beekeeping for many years but starting back up this year. Back in the "old days" we never had these types of resources and had to learn on our own.
Bees are so complex it’d be hard to learn enough on your own. I think there are bad things about tech, but the ability to learn is one of the biggest benefits.
liked the video very much, you covered everything i needed to know about swarm hives , especially not breaking my 71 year old neck
climbing a ladder installing or removing my trap, Thank you
That's awesome! I sure hope it helps. Good luck.
So glad TH-cam suggested this video. I've subscribed and will be following. My entire goal this year is to catch a wild swarm. I want native bees, not purchased bees. Thank you so much for all the details of what works for you.
Awesome, thanks! Good luck trapping. It’s a ton of fun.
Nailed it! - Perfect video. Can't wait to see your success this year.
Thank you much, I appreciate it!
I love catching swarms!🐝🐝🐝🐝
It’s a ton of fun and very exciting checking the line....can’t wait!
Outstanding! I’m just getting started, and this is the most helpful (for me) swarm trap video I’ve found. Thank you for producing this video.
Awesome, I really appreciate the encouraging words!
Great share of information! Thanks so much. Looking forward to swarm season.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
So many excellent ideas! I also use only mediums for brood and supers and this style of swarm trap will be perfect. Transferring a swarm to the beeyard couldn't be any easier. Thanks!
Yep, for the all medium system especially it makes a ton of sense
Very good points…. Thanks for your time and sharing with us
Very informative, I learned a lot. Been a Beek for about 6 years now, had pretty good success catching swarms last year. Looking forward to trying some of your tips.
Awesome, I appreciate it!
Thanks for the videos Nathan. Just watched them again to see what i missed the first time. Headed to the shed to start ripping boards for the hangers and spacers. Cant wait to see how my traps work and to watch your checks with you. Looking forward to your videos. Thank you.
Thanks!
Very interesting and informative Nathan! Thank you for sharing the link to this with me.
No problem, thanks for the kind words!
What I use is a 10 frame shallow box with plywood bottom and one of those entrance discs. On top of that I use a 10 frame deep with 9 foundationless frames and 1 of old brood comb. A man gave me 15 shallow boxes and this seemed to be the best use I could put them to. When I catch a swarm all I need to do is set the trap where I want the bees in my bee yard for a week then when they are ready take that 10 frame deep off and sit it on a regular bottom board, done.
Great communication and explaining. Very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks, I appreciate the kind words.
Great video I really love swarm trapping too.
Thanks Dave, I can’t wait to get traps out.
Wonderful! Able to download a PDF of Honey Bee Democracy! Thank you for helping us understand Bees better.
The free PDF is actually the publication Bait Hives for Honeybees. Honeybee Democracy you'd have to purchase. It's a nice book, worth reading. Thanks for watching, and for the comment!
Great job!! Thank you for all this great information. Just getting started myself..May we all catch plenty of swarms this year.
Thanks for the kind words, and good luck this year!
Great video. Looking forward to your upcoming videos.
Thanks Tom!
What a brilliant bee-keeper, such helpful information....THANK YOU
Thanks!
Top-notch!
This video is well researched, well presented, and well reasoned. It contains some very practical advice based on experience, as well as relevant information about the whys.
I am very partial to channels that don't just take a newly hatched, half-cooked idea and present it in a video without ever having tried it first. This video nails it 🤩
My own traps consist of one or two Warré boxes, a lid, and an eke with an entrance hole and a piece of plywood as floor. Everything is made out of discards, so the total cost is some nails. The upper box has eight top bars with vax strips, so the bees can measure the full volume of the trap while still being guided to build the comb my way - mostly.😉
I do like your foldable platform and will be adapting it. I have a few traps on flat roofs, where I place the trap on a cement tile and tie the whole thing together with baling wire.
Thank you!
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Nice video and very informative another attractant that you can use in your bait hive is a couple hand fulls of cedar shavings they love them I’m in eastern Kentucky and have great success doing this
Neat, I don't think I've heard that one! Thanks
Thank you, what you gave me is perfect. I have built a couple that don't fold up and they are a hastle to store. Have a great day and thank you for the video.
Glad I could help!
Perfect timing season wise!
Wha hoo! I’m so excited to try this out this spring. You are an excellent educator! Thank you
Thanks Jonathan, good luck!
Really great presentation, great information, delighted to have come across you.
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. Hope to shoot part 2 on baiting traps in the next few days.
Thanks for the video . Lot of information.
My suggestion is to use a medium sized box
With all frames in it. The frames should have only one inch strips, leaving lots of space between the strips and the bottom of the frames. The bees will have no other choice but to start building those strips down.
That may well work...one reason I use the spacer is because a single medium is only about 32L, which is a bit smaller than I’m targeting.
Wow! Great information! I learned several new things.
Awesome, I’m glad!
I closed my eyes for a second watching your video. You sound just like Jamie Ellis, professor in UF’s Department of Entomology and Nematology. That's a good thing. Love you videos .
LOL, I did some student teaching in grad school in the College of Ag at the University of Tennessee. I thought seriously about becoming a professor. Thanks!
I have caught many swarms no more than 5 to 6 feet off the ground, and have caught swarm in a box i was working on at my shop. it was outside my door of shop with frames in it and i was building top, noticed bees coming and before i knew it they were everywhere put top on and bingo. Never had that happen again. The bee hive was setting on saw horses outside my shop door. lucky me.
Awesome story!
Great video!! I caught my swarm last year in an 8 frame deep. I will also bee using the 5 gallon bucket this year just because i can get them for free. Good luck this spring!
Thanks, and you too!
This was very well presented. Thank you for putting it up.
Thanks!
Very good video. I would love to see part 2 cover some different techniques for scouting for swarm trap locations. Not just typical open field tree line facing south but more of looking at google maps and finding potential areas like public access areas or places along a river or such and scouting those.
I really appreciate the feedback. I’m planning a location video but I wasn’t going to go that in depth. Now I will...it’ll make it more useful.
I'll be interested too. I take pride in catching many swams each year. My take on it is trap design, understanding flyways where you know bees should be and deer hunting skills. I use a 40 litter 5 frame box like the design on the left. I get between 15 and 20 swarms a year. I run 14 traps. Good video.
Great video with a lot of useful information.
Great video Nathan! Very informative. Subscribed and looking forward to more videos in the future.
Thanks David!
Great video. Thank you for taking the time.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Very helpful thank you!
Thanks new at beekeeping my first time. I hope to catch a swarm to save on buying bees video was educational
Thanks!
Very good video. I use the Swarm box that you got the highest in the tree I've got about 15 of them I catch about 10 a year. I like to dissolve propolis in rubbing alcohol and then paint it on the inside of the boxes it gets rid of the new Lumber smell. I always have one empty swarm box so that when I take a full one out of the tree I immediately hang the empty back up.
Thanks!
Wonderful education; thank you!
Thanks!
Lots to think about, good info
Thanks!
Very good comparative video on traps. Agree on the importance of Honey Bee Democracy book, a must read. Been using 5 homemade traps of the 40L tall type, I actually fill them with 5 med frames over 5 and wired together so you pull 2 out at a time and keeps wild comb out of the bottom. Swarm Commander is great , thanks from Nashville.
Awesome, thanks! My grandmother has lived in Nashville since 1950. Lots of changes over the last 20 years or so.
Excellent video. I like your theory about a possible correlation between bait box and swarm sizing. Subscribed.
Thanks!
What a useful video! Thanks very much - I appreciate it.
Thanks Dan, hope it helps.
Great info and tips. Thanks.
Thanks!
Great information. Thank you!!
Thanks Tony!
Thank you for the book recommendations!
You’re welcome, thanks for the comment!
@@DuckRiverHoney you bet! The book Honeybee Democracy is available as a free PDF download via some colleges. I get my first package next month, the family and I are assembling our hive and stand today after breakfast.
That’s awesome, it’s a great book. Have fun!
great info. hoping to do more trapping this year
Thanks, it’s a ton of fun.
Nice to see a new bee keeper on TH-cam
Thanks!
WOW Young man. Really good video..... You know what you are doing How refreshing So many are wanna bee keepers and newbies. I appreciate their efforts.... that is good and i watch, but I like to find someone with some expertise. Thank you!!! RIck in mountains south western Pa.
Thank you Mr. Rick! I am still learning as well, but if you ask my wife she'll tell you I'm a little obsessive about research and learning.
Looking forward to learn for the trapping season. May thankx.
I appreciate it!
Great video ! Thank you .
I appreciate it!
As a beekeeper, a trap user, i enjoyed this video a ton
Thanks Eugene!
Very detailed and educational
Thanks!
Great, informative video- thank you!
Thanks!
Thankyou, I will be following along and trying this just as you say.
Good luck Bob!
Thank you so much for your videos, they're so full of information. Here in Europe Swarmcatching isn't that much of a thing, only an emergency measure, so it's quite hard getting good information. This video helped so much! Big Thank you!!!
Thanks!
Wow awesome video!!!
Thanks!
Very interesting video. You covered information I have not seen talked about in other videos. Just subscribed so look forward to watching your other videos.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Definitely awesome explanations 😊thnx to you.👍
Most welcome, and thank for the kind words!
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Very informative indeed
Thanks!
You are a bee mechanic - impressive !!
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very good video!
I appreciate it!
Great info. in a great video. Waiting on the rest of the story
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Excellent vid.
Thanks!
The one lowest to the ground, I made a bunch of those last year. Caught 3 swarms with them. Another tip, find someone who is a beekeeper and go to one of their neighbors down the road. Put the traps up there. You'll catch the swarms. Its fun and free.
Good deal! I’ve got about 20 or 21 out now, nearing the end of my line rollout.
Awesome video!
Thanks!
Fantastic video, thank you
Thanks!
Remarkable. Thank you.
Thanks John
So glad to you’re recommending books by Thomas D. Seeley. He along persuaded me to be a treatment free beekeeper. Love his scientific research 🐝
Thanks Colette, how long have you been TF? Is it going well?
@@DuckRiverHoney I started beekeeping in 2015 I have been treatment free ever since and yes it is going well 💪 Sam Comfort is another brilliant treatment free commercial Beekeeper I follow 🐝
Very cool Collette, I think TF is upper level beekeeping. Difficult to succeed, depending on circumstances.
Really great information. I been using the same bait give literature w no success. I use medium supers so this helps me rethink and retool my approach. Thanks much.
I’ll cover locations and baiting pretty thoroughly in the series. I also plan a weekly swarm trap line series. Time and schedule allowing!
Great video and explanation on trapping bees. I have had great success trapping over the past 5 seasons. We use one spray of Swarm Commander in the entrance and one frame of old comb inside as bait. Also agree with the no ladder rule. Did it my first year, never again.
Awesome! I love swarm trapping. Checking them is like Christmas.
Did you have a problem with wax moths on the old comb?
@@plainsimple442 no, I only leave my traps up late May thru July. Moths seem to appear later in the season. And besides that, I used old frames and very old comb that needs replaced anyway.
Great Info!!!
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Great video. Thank you sir
Thanks!
Great video and excellent information. Dr. Seely wrote the book on swarm catching and if you follow his criteria, you will catch swarms!
Thanks!
Great video thank you very much , very informative.
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It works definitely! I got 4 big swarms out of 4 boxes this year;-)
Awesome!
Brilliant brother
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First time seeing one of your videos. Incredibly high quality production all around--lots of info presented clearly and concisely, good discussion of both the theory and real-world results, and you really focused on practicality in all aspects of the subject. Subbed fast, and really looking forward to seeing your channel grow!
Wow Cory, I appreciate it! That is the most detailed and encouraging comment I've seen.
@@DuckRiverHoney Hey, if you're going to be this clear and detailed in your videos, I want to return the favor with my feedback.
Lol, thanks! BTW, I think a swarm just moved into the trap in my parents driveway. Good times.
Very good information and very well produced.
Thank you for the kind words! I’m new to video but learning.
@@DuckRiverHoney please keep it up and good luck with your season
Thanks!
I liked the family picture :-) so cute
Thanks!
Perfect timing.I just happened to be looking at designs to make a swarm trap when your video popped up.I don't need to look anymore your way with the medium is great.I don't have to build anything special just a few easy parts. I really like the fold up bracket. Thanks for the great video and I am waiting for more.
Awesome, I'm glad it's useful!
Very informative
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this more info then most of the books i read! most videos to,, thank you for the tips,,,
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thank you for sharing
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Good content....I’m going to try it....I tried the locating the swarm trap high up....and it was entirely too much effort...so I’m going to use your PU truck method...and use the medium frames in a deep box also...or maybe use the deep frames in a two-medium boxes set up....Thanks....
Awesome, give it a try!
Nathan, very interesting and informative. Good videos.
Awesome Frank, I appreciate it! Stop by sometime and you can go through some hives with me :)
@@DuckRiverHoney Nathan, I am getting ready to retire in August and I will definitely have some time. I plan to get down to the farm and I will come and see you. Hope everyone is well. You do a great job on these videos. Very well shot, narrated and edited.
I'm happy for you Frank, I hope you enjoy retirement! Stop by anytime.
Very nice presentation thanks
Thanks!
Great video, you hit all the right stuff! I use a full sized deep box for a swarm lure. Used boxes are best. They don't need to be removed, just brought home, and expanded, like any other hive.
Never put a box anywhere you can't remain on your feet. No ladders, all your work is ruined by dropping a box, or falling.
Camouflage paint, just basic natural colors, prevent prevents tampering. Outa sight, out of mind.
I like used deeps as well, perfect size.
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
Great vid. A full depth box with medium frames would give a cavity as well.
Yep, it works. With drawn comb for bait I don’t think the void is necessary.
I hang and take down swarm traps using a climbing tree stand that I use for deer hunting. I use a rope to haul up the trap and a rope to lower it down. The tree stand provides a stable platform to hang the trap in the tree. I want my traps high to discourage theft.
I did the same last year and plan to this year as well. That’s the exception I make for ladders since I don’t have to carry the trap up and down the ladder. It won’t be long now!
The video I've been trying to find for 2 years! Thanks so much! Does anyone else feel there is a need/chance for a business model built on a traveling "swarm master". Meaning you come to my 20 acre farm in Allardt, TN, spend 4 hours with me teaching me swarm knowledge including placement and construction of traps on said 20 acres, and I pay you $60/hr. I have 95% of the equipment and probably 80 % of the tools to accomplish my goal of catching 2-3 swarms this spring. This is my 3rd year beekeeping, and caught no swarms with 2 traps out last year.
Thanks! I used to live in Maryville and would have driven up, but you’re a haul away now. Swarms aren’t that hard, but they are persnickety....you just have to be very detailed in what you give them.
Thanks! I used to live in Maryville and would have driven up, but you’re a haul away now. Swarms aren’t that hard, but they are persnickety....you just have to be very detailed in what you give them.
Thanks! I used to live in Maryville and would have driven up, but you’re a haul away now. Swarms aren’t that hard, but they are persnickety....you just have to be very detailed in what you give them.