Top 10 Tips for Catching Honeybees Swarms #swarmtrap

Thank you Sir we are hoping to be beekeepers this coming up spring 24 but for now new support here BIG like and we will continue to watch your videos,,, Greetings from Paducah Ky 😁

Saya senang melihatnya, bisa menjadi pengetahuan buat kami, semoga bermanfaat dan sukses selalu paman. Salam dari kami. 🇮🇩

Tried catching a queen around my pamagranite tree,then I freed her and she left

How do I avoid attracting and catching the bees I already have into a swarm trap? I have 5 acres of land.

Thanks for sharing your ideas

Ever try a hempcrete hive?

Step 1: Set up a bee hive (4-5 stack Japanese Box hive is simplest). 2: Cut a 1 1/2 to 2" hole in one side about half way up and squirt some lemon grass oil inside. 3: Wait. 4: Once swarm has entered and bees are setting up house, close the hole with a piece of plywood and a screw. 5. Bees will now solely start using the entrance............If you build it, they will come.......Simple.....And this works best when the weather is warm and sunny....late spring, early summer......could also happen in late summer.........Z

Very nice information vedeo sir 👍

Thank you for this valuable information!

I am new to bee traping and keeping . Why face the bee trap south .

I just discovered a bee swarm in my back yard. It was not there when I left for work this morning. What should I do with it? Tyvm!

Interesting and very helpful.

When do you typically stop trying catch a swarm for the year?

thx for tips sir !

Can bees get lost after a week of some severe rain and wind storms? A small swarm - maybe 50 or so showed up at my hummingbird feeders so I put a tray of sugar water down for them and they won't go away. Can I relocate them?

Thanks

I'm in the Carolinas and I put up a swarm trap maybe three weeks ago. All I've seen is a moth buzzing around the trap. No honey bees. I have a plastic vial of Swarm Commander from Blythwood and a vial of aniseed oil. I've only see a few honey bees in my garden this season. Last season a swarm landed on my back deck!

I'm new at it , very excited to get started

CAN U CATCH A SWARM IN A NEW BEE HIVE

Thank you so much! Great video

At first I would like to thank you for your valuable advice. My English is weak and I hope that I can communicate the idea because I use Google translator , I would like to add advice, which is to choose the appropriate time of the year, which is to set traps at the beginning of the spring directly, and if you delay a month, you may not get many swarms.

Thank you! I just got my hive boxes built and I have a few swarm traps up….no luck so far. The frame suggestion is the way to go!!! It will make things so much easier to transfer the bees!

Going into my 3rd year looking to catch my 1st swarm this year!

How far from my apiary would be best to catch swarms from them?

Thanks

Thumbs up for the GOA hat.

Just rescued a swarm yesterday (received a call to rescue one) never used a swarm trap but am now I am wanting to put one up. Wondering about the easiest way to build one or a recommendation to purchase one. Not too handy but somewhat capable if easy. Would love advise. Lost our hive this winter due to high wind gusts which blew top off then rain. Was so very bummed - I should have thought to make the hive more secure - won't happen again. Hoping and praying this hive we rescued yesterday settles down in to the hive we put it in this morning. Have another empty hive would love to fill up.

We have a 80' maple tree just starting to bloom, and it's full of bees. We're going to put up a swarm trap tomorrow.

If you use chemicals to control Varroa, I recommend placing whatever you use in all newly caught swarms as soon as possible. Most chemicals kill only the mites on the bees and not those in the capped cells. Your freshly captured swarm has no brood so any mites they have will be exposed to your chemical. I use Apivar. I do not use formic or oxalic as it might cause the new swarm to abscond.

I have had better luck if the swarm trap has open space inside. I use one deep and one medium with 3 frames with old comb together to one side, one above the other. You MUST keep an eye on them in this configuration and get frames inside within a day or so of the swarm moving in to prevent (as John mentioned) a real mess of random size and shape combs. One can use open frames with starter strips to fill the open space, but I have found (for me) bees actually prefer the space to be completely open. BUT if you can’t get back to the trap within a day of capturing a swarm, then DO use frames with starter strips. I use old equipment with knot holes and corners missing but for me, they actually prefer to move in an opening in a surface. My best trap hive has ¼ inch opening, halfway across the front of the box, where the thin part left from the frame shelf was broken out. It is in the deep and I place the medium over the deep so that the opening is in a flat surface.

We all do it different and I am always looking for tips to improve my success, like those provided by John. Thanks John!

Thanks for the tips. I’m in South Irving. Last night my husband and I made a swarm trap. Today I am going to set it up by a fallen tree in someone’s yard. This will be my 1st “removal”. Your tips will be very helpful and I hope to get the bees from the fallen tree somewhat easily. Thanks also to all the comments and additional tips.

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Had 30 traps out last year and caught 7 swarms. While almost all traps had activity by scouts, only 7 caught swarms. After taking down all traps, I found that ALL traps that did NOT catch swarms had one thing in common---each had a mouse nest in the trap! This year I will periodically check if mice have moved in. One other item, most traps that caught a swarm had two entrance holes--one low and one high.

First year swarm for me

Thanks for the tips and love your hat!

Great video.

I'm from the southern hemisphere and I'd like to know why southeast?

I caught a swarm in accidentally in an empty hive. Bees didn’t winter well and both my hives were dead in the spring. I didn’t bother to get more bees but decided to take a break from it. Middle of June I saw bees going in and out and had to add an extra box. That hive was 18” at best off the ground.

Just put it 7 traps for 2023

Keep up the good work.

How often should someone “re-bait” a swarm trap once it’s put out? I haven’t been able to find any info on this. TIA!( I should have probably waited to ask this , but I’m not very patient)

Over my 50 plus years of beekeeping I've caught numerous swarms both in traps and off trees, shrubs, etc. At 91 I'm still catching and still learning new techniques! Thanks!

One swarm trap out last year with 0 success> Did 4 cut outs in 22. I now have 4 swarm traps out Will be putting out at least 4 more by march 1/ 23 Picked up a barbeque full of bees will cut them out early march or before. Was late last year-- but I am early this year. We are now froze out tell at least Friday. Good vid.

I paint propolis in the corners of the swarm trap and I also throw a few dead bees in the bottom

I have never caught a swarm or held bees, but I see one trap here in a tree from time to time. At first I assumed it was a big birdhouse, but most people don't place and remove birdhouses so I had to take a look!

Maybe I'll try and put a trap up myself and if I catch some... time to order some equipment!

I have bear problems with swarm traps

always wanted to raise bees, just learned about swarm traps. trying to learn all I can since there's so many bees come around

I have catch swarm 4 times in same location 😊

Great video