Stop Your Bees From Swarming. The Artificial Swarm

In this video I share with you my method of stoping bees from Swarming.

This is a fail safe option and is easy to do. At the same time saving your honey crop!

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[AubMar]

Hey Gwenyn, I'm wondering why did you not leave the single swarm cell on the last frame to finish and emerge, and they would have a new queen in 7 or 8 days! Is it because there are eggs and the bees would try to make more QC's?
Thanks for all your excellent videos!

I read all the comments and you already answered this Q way down at the bottom - Because there are eggs!
Thanks again G!

[foleydave]

Nice job buddy. I am in the states and trying to learn bee keeping so I can enjoy the hobby as well. Keep up the good content. I know how hard it is to get subscribers but you just earned mine.

[bengibbon]

Probably your best video yet, thank you. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[mickhoyle]

Just made my first ever split using your method and everything went well second time as I couldn't find the queen first time, so I put everything back together and left it until today. The Queen is now safe and sound inside her new NUC and the hive is queen-less for a week or so. Thanks again Gruff for your simple precise instructions.

[richardevans]

Greetings Griff from a Welshman in California love ❤️ your videos on bees and farming in Wales makes me homesick sometimes .Anyway not to in anyway tell you how to run bees just a little tip please don't take the wrong way .When I make shook swarms I often harvest a few of bigger swarm cells put them in mating nucs with a cup full of nurse bees in each Nuc they will if all goes well be mated in less than two weeks .Then in a week from artificial swarm knock out all emergency cells in mother hive rendering them hopelessly queen less.Then re introduce now mated swarm queen from one of nucs This saves me so much more time for honey production.Time is Honey in this game! All the best butti

[mikealdridgeret.]

Great video Gwenyn 👍🏻. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐝

[DiverPeg]

Brilliant! I’ll do this if I need to prevent a swarm.

[s.y.g-gamer]

great video just starting out myself my first bee hive your videos are full of great tips :)

[GC]

I made a (long) separate comment on your other VLOG. This one I understand. P.S. Very high tech hive tool - very purposeful, professional looking (not like mine ! LOL). I suppose what threw me was that you are making up nucs under slightly different circumstances in the two videos - & unloaded them not too far apart (one being a split to stop swarming - and the other just doing a split on a less robust hive). Perhaps that's why you requeen a less robust/successful maybe I'm beginning to understand (I can be a bit slow on the uptake....) ! Really good video - thank you for the fast forward bit (it can be really painful watching other beekeepers looking at every single frame in real time. The bee VLOG equivalent of watching paint dry !) Excellent stuff !!! Thanks

[stevienicks]

Great video. I am definitely going to try this method. Thanks for the advice.

[glynisreynolds]

This is an excellent video. Well done for including so much information. I wish I’d seen it in March, before the swarm season started, as it definitely better than the method I’ve been using over the last few years. Am going to subscribe and I’m looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

[petermurphy]

Hello mate, exactly the way I split my colonies I was shown this way many years ago and have never really tried any other method but I do take the nuc to my other yard leave them locked up for the day or two and as you said there good for the following year. Thanks mate good vlog.

[maconwright]

I’m a keeper as well. I think it would be neat to swap honey. I live in the states (Indiana). I’m intrigued by different honey flavors. :)

[markw.]

Another great video. Thanks. Keep them coming. I am experimenting with this type of split and a Demaree. With Demaree Bees are back filling top box brood frames with nectar.😱😱

[reade]

Really enjoyed this vid. Very interesting and the way I'd have thought an artificial swarm should be executed. I've never quite understood when some methods are in leaving or rearranging frames and the Queen, to ultimately her ending up back where she started in the original hive and position. To me this kind of method goes against the reason to why bee's want and to swarm. The Queen doesn't want to hang around with her original crib!! Innit? 😆

[alanpurse]

Hi if you don’t have any room for more hives
Can you reintroduced the nuc back to the original hive minus the old queen once they have produced a new queen hope that makes sense
Thanks

[Holdfast]

Some people suggest putting the new box at the original location. The theory is that the flying bees from the original will return to the new hive and lose the desire to swarm. Has anyone here tried that?

[Beehivesto]

You said to never put foundation in the middle of the hive. I always put my foundation in the middle of the hive. Just 1 frame and skip 2 brood and then the second foundation. Widens out the nest and make fast comb.

[CJBeekeeping]

Great vid again Gruyff- just wondering, did you make a follow up vid of the original hive and the new queen? My mentor does the same thing, but moves the nut to a separate Apiary over the 3 mile mark.
Looks like there is no need to this.

[arthurkinderman]

Can you use a brood box instead of a nuc
very helpful video, thanks