How To Catch & Re-home A Swarm Of Bees With Cotswold Bees
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2020
- In this video Chris finds a swarm that has moved onto the edge of the apiary, catches it and transfers it to a new hive. You will be amazed to see the bees marching into their new home like a massive army on the move. One of the many miracle sights from the world of beekeeping.
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Thank you very much for this video! I am a brand new keeper. My own bees haven’t even been delivered yet and I have NO physical experience working with bees. I’ve only taken a beginner’s course. I was notified about a swarm last night and took the chance. Followed this video to the T and successfully caught my first swarm! Watching them walk up into the hive was awe inspiring. I am over the moon!
Well done. That’s quite an achievement with no handling experience. Sounds like you have an affinity with bees. I really hope you enjoy your new hobby. Bees are awesome.
@@cotswoldbees Thank you, I love them already! When would you suggest removing the queen excluder and doing their first inspection?
That’s great. First inspection can be done anytime now as soon as it is warm enough. I already have some signs of potential swarming here.
@@cotswoldbees Okay, great. I had read to leave them alone for a week and wanted to make sure I wasn’t going in too soon. I did give them sugar syrup with Honey B Healthy after 3 days. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
Ah sorry. If it’s a new nuc you have just put in then leave them for a week to ten days. Just check on the feeder and top up if necessary. You might want to have a look at my videos on putting a nuc in and first inspections. All the best.
Have always been fascinated by these wonderful insects
Super cool! One of my colonies swarmed today and clustered on one of our apple trees. I was able to shake the majority into a Bo’s on the hood of my truck and the rest just marched right in. It was really awesome! It’s the first swarm I ever rescued.
Fantastic. It really works.
Best Box use ever ! .... Seen lots shaking bees down into a box, close it up, and go (!)
And they miss out on all those foragers !!! 🥺
Using a Queen Excluder is a winner. That a winning Swarm Catch... 👍
Here's your Reward ! 🏆
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Thanks. Glad you like it. It always frustrates me when people take swarms during the day leaving bees behind. Catching swarms properly is a time consuming business.
Nice use of the queen excluder!
'Never knew they have a tendency to march up hill.
I caught a really large swarm last year and successfully got them into a hive. I was really surprised and disappointed three days later when they decided to abscond. Your trick with the queen excluder is great. I find many uses for the excluder beyond the original use. It has become the most versatile tool I have.
I’m glad it will be of use.
If you give them a frame or two of open brood from another hive, they will usually stay put. They seldomly abandon open brood.
That’s very true but I try to avoid robbing strong colonies which will be honey producers for a swarm. Also the bees will need to feed the brood at a time when the swarm is short of food. You are right though. They usually don’t abscond if you have open brood there.
Great video. Just started Nd was given a swarm which we rehived yesterday. I've put the excluder in place to keep the queen in. How long should it stay in place?
@timdavis1042 Take the excluder out as soon as the queen starts laying.
Appreciate your effort doing this video. Watched a few others and then found yours. You explained it so well that I gave it a go to get my first swarm.
Very kind. Thank you. I hope all goes well when you find a swarm.
Great video I’m a new bee keeper 1 year and today one of my 9 hives swarmed….. I get them but did not k own about putting the Queen excluder on the bottom to keep I. Til she lays some eggs….. great info thank you for sharing ….. I’m learning every day. By mid April I will 15’hives strong….. love
My bees!
That’s the trouble with bees. Before you know it the number of hives are doubling every time you look!!
Dealing with swarms is such a rewarding experience!
How True.
love to watch each and every bee is collected.
We do our best.
We always do our best to make sure we don’t leave any behind
Thank you for sharing my wife was absolutely amazed watching this 🍻
I’m so pleased. More to come soon.
There was a giant swarm round the corner from me about a week ago, it was a site to see the keepers got it abit wrong they attempted to shake them into a box exactly how you did they hit the floor and just erupted immeadiatly into a attack the queen was in a ball of them about the size of a cricket ball once she was in the box it was safe for me to come over to see them march into the box it was amazing to seen
Thank you. Very nice video.
Thanks very much for this wealth of teaching. You taught me a lot in these few minutes.
Teaching in Diverted style with written ,.lecture and Blanked show of practical caring of Bee.viewers brain is single to listen or View Vedio to Understand but with the situations of Vedio presentation all is at a time penetrating in Brain and creating disturbances
Man, I hope I saw this yesterday! I caught my first swarm. Moved it to a deep box. When I check the next day, they were gone. I look around and found them but they are really hight, can't get to them. Place the swarm catcher bucket back down, expecting for them to get back in any moment but now I know to place the queen excluter at the bottom.😊 thank you for this information.
Glad it helped. We’ve all had it happen. I lost several until I discovered the excluder trick.
Lovely video! Clear and concise. Great stuff!
Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you. Some nice extra tips from your experience. Much appreciated.
I'm a Texas bee keeper. Here we don't use a cardboard box unless we have nothing else. Here we take a 10 frame box or a 5 frame nuc box with a couple frames of old brood comb and shake them into that. I do like the way you use the queen excluder to cage the queen. We usually try to catch and cage the queen, leave her in the cage 2 or 3 days. I think I'll try your excluder method this spring, easier than fi ding the queen to cage her, my eyes aren't what they used to be.
I sometimes use the nuc method depending on what kit I have available.
Thank you. I've never seen a swarm catch like that!
A pleasure. I suspect there will be more like it as the season kicks off.
Thank you for the useful information advice 👍
Catching swarms is such an adrenaline rush!
I am blessed with this video
Fascinating to watch. I had a swarm attach themselves to the front of my house a few months ago. It was mind bending to see how they were caught !
They are amazing creatures.
Took about a minute.. all the info was better than the good 'ol days pamphlets from Agricultural Extension Offices.
Moving pictures Y'all!
It’s so cute how they fan to let everyone know where to go lol.
Great lessons, excellent narration, Well done Chris.
Thanks. I’m glad you are enjoying them.
Thanks for the video, always good to see the swarms, I think we are all looking forward to the spring. Peter
It’s aways a treat to see the girls March. This is a new way (for me) to catch a swarm. If it works - do it!
Congrats
Glad you like it.
I find it hilarious the bees just lay down and let everyone walk over the top of them.
Bees are amazing, and they pollinate flowers and crops!
Absolutely
Change your box for a plastic bucket and put them direcyly into a bee box with 3 combs removed. As the bees thin out you can put the combs back in they cant hang on to plastic they pour like water
Yes, that’s another possibility. Always more than one way of solving a problem. My thought is that if the swarm is knocked into the box / bucket in the morning or early afternoon it can be a number of hours before all the flying bees are back and you can take the swarm away. If they are in a bucket they can’t cluster. That’s why I always use a box of some description.
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From Norfolk Island, thanks for this epic video, you enabled us to capture a swarm for our first beehive. We shook the bees straight into the beehive which we had positioned under the tree they had swarmed in. The next am we moved the hive before daylight. (When the swarm settled in the tree, hubby finished assembling the hive whilst I watched your video a few times)
That’s fantastic. I’m so pleased. I hope you really enjoy your bees and beekeeping. We will be restarting making our videos very soon.
Bees are fascinating.
With love ❤️ from 🇴🇲 Oman👌
Great teaching video! Thanks
I’m glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much for your amazing video it was a lovely documentary I watched it 5 times already and showed 5 of my friends it's so interesting thanks again. Lucy
Thank you Lucy, that’s great. Please keep your eyes in the channel for more videos soon.
@@cotswoldbees I certainly will 😊
What miraculous creatures! 😮
Excellent instructional video,
Many thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Great view ! Very beautiful upload ! 👍🏾 👍🏾
Thanks lots dear friend💐
Perfect very nice to re-home, thanks to show us.
I absolutely love Bees they are definitely my favourite insect it was great to see an expert at work. 👌👌👏👏🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thank you. They are great.
Fantastic . Thank you . Just going to collect a similar swarm today so just what I needed to know 🙏
Good luck. I hope it goes well.
Did exactly what you said and it was so easy . Thank you xx
I’m so pleased. Well done.
How beautifully you have done the work.I too a beekeeper in India.
Thank you for your kind words. Good luck with your bees
Outstanding presentation. "Bee good!" 😐
Personally, I would use a large sheet underneath the box in the first place, then just fold it over the box in the evening.
A good idea
Very interesting method. I use a 5 frame nuc box for small swarms. I really like the box and excluder.
What a great video. Thanks for sharing🙏🐝🐝🐝
Thanks. It was fun to make.
Fantastic video - thank you very much!
I thought he was saying "Waking up ill"
finally realized it's "walking uphill"
My appalling diction!!!!
@@cotswoldbees naw, they just sound very similar, and my brain wasn't wrapping around it :D
Very useful video thanks .
Great methods and strategy of catching the braviest bees. These are cold "putyukan" in Philippines. Once you injected on their sting after three days you've got fever.
Sounds nasty.
I found put a queen excluder under the bottom will cause a lot of drones dead. have you see a similar issue. if I put a small queen excluder in the front entry, all the bees are good.
The queen excluder is only under the hive for a couple of days and as there are almost no drones in the swarm it is not a problem. The queen excluder has been removed long before any drones emerge.
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I wish I was in a place where I could do this. Awesome videa.
Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Nice catch!! Great video.Thanks for sharing!!
Glad you enjoyed it. That colony is now tucked up for the winter and will hopefully be productive next year.
Fascinant , nu am văzut așa de când sunt , fascinant !!
From nagaland woo I need your jacket🧥 with a face mask nice video
Terrific video :) Thank you.
That's a nice swarm.
I have learnt a lot from your video. Thank you very much.
I am a new honey bee farmer in Sierra Leone and I want your mentoring
That’s great. Please keep watching. There are lots more videos on the way.
Thanks for the education ✅😁🏴☠️🏴☠️
Very interesting method. Thank you.
Beautiful
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Thank you for a very informative video.
I’m glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant video you learn something every day
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
*Awesome video!*
Excellent!
Excellent work and good narration
I’m so glad you enjoyed it. More to come.
I enjoy the video, it's amazing👍👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝
Thank you
Very interesting! Thanks!
I’m really glad you enjoyed it. More videos to follow.
This is a very cool video! Thanks for helping the bees 😂🐝.
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Lo que me cautivo fue esa careta. hay muchas formas de transladar emjambres de abejas.
si pero para mi esta es la mejor manera
V Nice method ...Queen Excluder use is very good.
They are really cute 🥰😍🤗, I love them 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Excellent video my dearest friend
Fully watched and stay blessed 👌😍💫💫🤝🤝🙏🏻🙏🏻
I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent work
What caused the bees to go inside the hive when the queen was not yet there? In some videos, the beekeper finds the queen after shaking the bees, put her in a small plastic box, then placed her in the hive, only then that the rest of the bees follow. You seems to have a deeper understanding of bees behavior when you said they tend to go uphill. First time I saw this technique.
Bees will always walk uphill and there is some drawn comb in the hive. They naturally settle. It is so much easier than having to find the queen.
Nice to watch,you know what your doing,l ll keep watching other videos you have on site.
Thank you for sharing
I put a queen excluder underneath to keep them in but I would never use a wire one like that because Virgin Queens go through them
That’s true but it shouldn’t be a virgin queen in a swarm. The old queen will be really slim though so it’s always a possibility she can slip through. I only have that type of excluder do you use what you have. I’ve never lost a swarm since I started putting the excluder underneath.
I watched another bee keeper..( The Honeystead) and her son said you should never shake a swarm from a tree! 🤷♀️🐝👑
Why not?
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Amazing.
Glad you enjoyed it. Bees are amazing.
Great information I’m going to start Bee keeping in the near future here in Hawaii we can’t import any insects so I will have to find a swarm or get a colony from a local Bee keeper just curious how do you size the hive relative to the amount of Bee’s ?
We use a standard sized hive known as a National and add more boxes called supers as the colony fills up each box.
Thanks super video
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you
Surely a slimmed down for swarming queen could get through the QE if they still wanted to abscond?
You would think so but I’ve never had it happen whereas before I used the queen excluder trick it was not uncommon for swarms to abscond.
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Why don't you shake them directly into a deep or a nuc and cut out the use of the cardboard box? When you did the tip from the box to the towel you risked dumping the queen at your feet and losing her. You dumped a whole load at your feet and into the grass. Bees love old comb and had you dumped them into a deep with a couple of old empty brood frames you would have not have had to have risked the second transfer. I did however like the use of the uphill gradient to encourage them to walk up. I'll use that on my own swarm captures. The nuc on a block, with the towel draping out front as you shake them off is a great idea, thanks.
Your points are good ones. It’s easier to carry a cardboard box around than a floor, brood box with comb, crown board and roof. I rarely have spare Nucs at that time of year. There was some old comb in the brood box but in my experience there is still a chance of them absconding until they actually have brood. Thanks for your comments.
This is similar how we do it in the states, except I prefer to shake them straight into a regular hive body with a frame or two of honey so they'll want to stay.
Interesting. I give them a sugar feed after a couple of days. The thought is if they eat the honey they have brought with them it will get rid of anything nasty in it disease wise as they won’t be able to store it. Thanks for your ideas.
Excellent thank you
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I never knew how people caught swarms until tonight! Amazing! What happens to the few bees who are still flying and don't go with the box though?
Unfortunately you always get a few bees that don’t make it. By leaving the box there for several hours and then coming back to collect them you minimise the problem but I hate to lose any.
I’m looking at getting a hive this next spring. Have a peach orchard and vineyard for them.
It’s so amazing to see how they can be manipulated by the natural instincts like walking into the hive.
Very cool to see in real time the whole process. 👏
I liked it more when the guy before did it without shield and counted the stings , "oh so far I got sting only twice, now three" It added to the drama.
Good beekeeping isn’t about entertainment It’s about good animal husbandry. If you are getting that many stings something is wrong.
It was like eating a piece of cake...so easily done ...
Thanks. If they are in a bush like that it’s pretty straightforward when you know how. Important to celebrate with cake though.
@@cotswoldbees looks straight forward ... easier said than done 💯🤗
I thought that bees walked into a new nuc because the queen was in there. So did they naturally walk up hill and found what looks like a nice new home and entered?
They walk in naturally. No need to put the queen in first.
What material did you use on the ramp? Is it necessary for the ramp to have some grit to it
It’s nothing special - just an old towel to give them something to grip onto and make the walk in easier.
Now thats alot of bees. Sheezz!
Probably more than 20,000
Good work