Cheapest Way To Catch Bees - Start Beekeeping For Free - Easiest Way To Catch Swarms

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[kimmurphy]

WOW as a newbie keeper, I love that this is a low-cost way to get into swarm catching. Going to spend part of this weekend hunting up a couple of these boxes from our markets. Thanks for all the tips and insight into simple swarm traps. Just joined your channel can't wait to catch your older videos.

[yoooreds]

Hey Lawrence. You’ve missed a trick.

The plastic tubes /viles which come with Covid Lateral Flow tests, are perfect for adding lemongrass and other oils and placing in a bait hive

Best wishes

[dawntharme-mbfi]

Hello, I do melt wax and paint it on the inside all over. I also put skewers across the box to act as top bars. These I dip in wax. It is a successful way to catch swarms. Not big enough for frames though.

[norfolkhoneybee]

I do enjoy sitting in garden with mug of tea, watching scouts bees inspecting my swarm traps.

[BrooklandsHoneyBees]

Fantastic tips! Looking forward to spring to try this. Many thanks

[BlanchardsBees]

🐝💨That's one way to do it!🐝💨
My first bees were a swarm that landed on a fence. Just knocked them into a box and boom I'm a beekeeper! LOL 😎🐝🐝

[divecamera]

Top tip Lawrance, Ive been using these for the last 3 years & found they seem prefer deep to long & shallow. However ive caught in both using lemongrass oil on cotton wool in a small zip bag with a pin hole held inside the entrance with a drawing pin.

[coreydavoll]

Can't wait till spring to try this!

[paulkillick]

Love this Lawrence can get hold of these so easily

[eastsussexbeesandwildlife]

Thanks Laurence, having had a disaster with my colonies i cant wait for a few swarms to arrive. Hope all yours are ok.

[TimeIsHoney]

Good cold morning from South Texas Sir!

[JOSIANGREENVLOGS]

Appreciate your novel ideas of swam catching.

[SuburbanSodbuster]

Great idea! I love the benefit of a lightweight but insulated box. I am curious about how you will hang the box - it seems like you'll have to use a platform due to the fragility of the styrofoam. Also, since you're not using frames, it seems like adding parallel wooden skewers across the box as a place for bees to start comb might be beneficial. Thanks for the video - I'll keep this in mind for when my plywood swarm traps fall apart.

[angelamitchell]

That's a really neat idea as the cost of timber has gone through the roof

[lynjenkins]

Excellent idea! No more building plywood boxes.

[JP-nxrm]

I had wildly good success using half an old national frame in a pallet wood box at about 1.5m my garage

[CatswildlifefarmBigVHoneyBee]

How are you hanging that in the tree. We have a lot of thunderstorms during swarm season how does it hold up to a swarm

[ELeroy]

Hi Lawrence thanks for the great video.

[timothymoore]

Love the thrifty idea! As a newbie in Australia, should i be facing the boxes north?

[uswwt]

Good tip! Thanks. I thought about placing some empty boxes out too. If there are no frames, we better monitor the activities every day. If you are a few days late, you cannot be sure if it has a virgin queen that mated or not. I suppose you can come and close the entrance at evening time and grab all the bees. But in that case you want to move the box for more than 6 miles. I am concerned that the virgin queen (if there is one) maybe between mating flights and may still head out. If you waited for a week or more, the box will have a lot of wild comb built. That's a lot of fun to cut out.