TRANSFERRING A PACKED SWARM TRAP - A DIFFERENT METHOD!

I have a lot of bees, so it doesn’t hurt me to do things ‘the right way’ on every hive. I am allowing this hive to expand how they’d like, and I feel like hives with large combs are always so strong and majorly populated.
I think less time is wasted by giving the queen a massive area to lay in before having to switch over to the next comb. This has me wanting to build a Layens hive for next year.
I plan to give some follow up updates of this hive over time!

[joeyperez]

Awesome young man, I'll be setting up my hives in a couple weeks. By the way you need comms for your homestead and family and friends, as in ham radios.

[thomasrape]

I'm a Texas beekeeper too. Not sure where you're at but I've subscribed. I'm kinda new to bees but I've been working with an 80 year old guy who's kept bees since age 14 and my wife's family kept bees on a small scale. I've also been watching some guys out of Louisiana as their climate is simular to mine(50 miles west of houston). It's been a bugger of a hot dry summer this year and just about all of the nectar flows have been slim to none so I'm getting a crash course in keeping bees alive right now. I'll be watching!

[jamesbamber]

This is just what I’ve been looking for good on you bro thanks very much, so much to learn 👍🏵️🐝🐝

[beeawesome]

I use a couple medium frames in my brood boxes so the bees can build up the bottoms like that, they seem to really love it, I get lots of communication holes.

[TheGoatMumbler]

So I'm guessing checking your swarm traps before that comb gets drawn down below the frames is a good idea?

[bluelab]

This was asking for problems. Not idea but personally I'd have done a cut out and reframe on the day you moved them.

[bradgoliphant]

This is very interesting because all my hive are two hive stacked double-deep boxes which hold frames that are 18.5" deep. More like what you find in nature. I really like working with them longer, a and feel like the bees do as well. But the bottom bar on the deep frame are blocks for them--so my frame are all one frame and 18.5" deep.

[Swarmstead]

The bees do really well with the longer combs. I do this, but with a medium or shallow underneath.

[suznanesutton]

Thanks so much for sharing! Any updates?

I caught a swarm in a large bucket, not in frames any advice how to make the move, in Philadelphia

Thanks

[SylantBill]

Those frames would work in a Layens hive.

[rickochet]

What’s the purpose of having all that extra space in the bottom of the trap to begin with ?

[noahriding]

Wow so much to think about with bees!

I had some other things to talk to you about. :)

I'm curious if the area you are in is well watered or more arid? And related to that and why I ask, I ran into a guy that commented from Phoenix area that mostly it was africanized bees there that took over the area and that they don't see much that isn't africanized there.

This has me wondering if desert beekeeping, or just keeping bees where there is less water is going to be impossible without africanized genes? For reference I'm in the southwest. Many of the only areas that are cheap to live now are the areas with not a lot of water. Outside town kinds of areas, and areas that don't get much water or vegetation. I'm puzzled how to find data on this and thought I might see if you had any reply. I think your state has both water plenty and water starved areas... so I guess thats a crap shoot on if there will be a hit. But its still interesting to consider, what kinds of bees can survive in various climates.

[skipsandvig]

Will you do a video on combining bees sometime?

[noahriding]

When you see crawling bees on the ground... I'm curious if you think some of them could be young bees pressured to forage when there's no food? I know the mainstream view is that they are deformed wing virus bees or others. But some of them don't have deformed wings. And this made me wonder if a hive has decided its deficient on a certain thing, maybe it could pressure recruitment for foragers early?

Or what do you do you think?

[jamescraig]

Why didnt you put 2 frames together? 1 on top of the other.

[Lsmith-lycm]

Not a good idea . You cant inspect the hive. You need to be able to inspect for mites, foulbrood and other ailments of the hive. Your taking a risk and that bottom box is gonna have some wild unworkable comb thanks for the video.

[keithgiarrusso]

Disaster in the making.folks don’t build these type of extra deep traps. This happens every time.
Build them to hold more frames to equal the space.