Catch your own FREE BEES!! (Building Swarm Traps)

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Want to catch some FREE bees? I'm showing you how, starting with building your own swarm trap, using the right attractant, finding the perfect location, then hoping and waiting for the drone bees to find it and make it their new home.

With just a few materials and a couple week's time, I was able to successfully capture a bee swarm. They should make great little pollinators this summer, and maybe we'll even get some honey!

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Anne, apropos of something completely different: having listened to you on a couple podcasts, YOU ARE THE BOMB for including your mental health and academic struggles in your story. Thank you for being such a vulnerable badass!

jenniesue
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You are so cool, Anne! The bee’s knees. 😀 Also, Lucy is such a good helper!

BarbaraFischer
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Got to love that late spring tarp harvest...

davidmiedema
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Just watched your Aug 15 2020 live stream. You mentioned that you want to make a frontier home for the public thing to show people what it was like to live 200 years ago, had to laugh, my mother's grew up in fentress county Tennessee in the 40s & 50s and they way they lived was just like it was 200 years ago. A lot of people lived that way in the south. I used to spend a month during the summer with my grandparents ( I loved it) no electricity or in door plumbing until 1978. Used a mule to till the garden until late 60s. But I absolutely loved getting up to milk the cow gather eggs for breakfast, feeding the stock then working with my grandfather ball day. But any way do it as a camp for kid's they would love it, learn new skills and could be profitable for you.

waynealbright
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buzzin x :-/ grate to see spring is actually going to happen this year ... was starting too wonder, it must of had its covid jab ! so could the end be comeing ??? thanks 4 the vid Anne, glad u guys survived the lockdown winter xx

dizzaster
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Thank you Anne for providing future homes for the bees. We need as many bees as we can get. I think Miss Lucy remembered she had a hair appointment when you ask if she wanted to help. Take care and have a great week ahead.

mattevans-koch
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My uncle use to have bee hives when they lived on Vashon Island. Very cool

bobalspach
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Springtime is a great time to add some new frames to your brood boxes and let the bees fill them out.. Put at least 1 old frame in your swarm boxes. It's been my experience, that if you have at least one or two frames in a box, you are much more likely to have the scout bees to put it higher on the list of box choices to share with the other scouts for a vote.. Attractants are good to get them to the box, but, if it was good enough for other bees, and you have plenty of space it the bottom for growth (like a tree), it will usually work. Just remember to keep an eye on them. When they swarm, they are in Wax production mode and they will make a complete mess out of the bottom of your frames if you leave them in there very long. Trick is, move them within 2-3 days max of a swarm moving in.
Move them to the new box, and close the entrance off for 3 days, then open them up and they will swarm around the box and get their bearings before flying off on their foraging runs. (Re-Orientation to the new box location).
Trick to getting a swarm it also to put them where the Scouts/foragers will see the boxes when they are scouting/foraging. They will stop and check it out and remember where it is for later.
If you get lucky to get some wild bees, you will be in business. I picked up a swarm and, they have been the hardiest bees I have ever had.
BTW. I don't feed them, treat them with any of the products for mites, etc and they do fine on their own. I have a bottom board and I don't even close the entrance off for the winter months. They have been with me for 6 years now. I don't actively raise bees any more due to lack of time, but, they do fine on their own. I still have 50 or so gallons of my own honey, so, not a crisis yet.. Ha..
BTW.. I think it is best to leave the honey on the boxes through the winter and once you have a good flow, pull them, spin them and put them back on, leaving the ones that are less than full while you are spinning. If you don't want to have problems with them swarming, give them plenty of supers and keep at least 2 empties for the to work into. One if you check them once or twice a week during the flow.. They will swarm when they run out of space. It's just their natural instinct.
I try never to buy packages or nukes. I have never had good luck with them. Splits are the way to go off of your own stock.
If you want them to start making swarm cells, just reduce the supers early and make them feel like they are going to run out of room and keep an eye on the brood frames for Queen cells.. Pull the frames, shake some bees into the nukes and move the frames closer together and add some new frames to the outside of the box and add at least 2 new supers on top and that should stop them from wanting to swarm. If you want to start raising queens and focus on them and make the whole deal a little easier, Jay Smith has a "Better Queens" series of small books that are very good.. Just remember. All bees are NOT the same. They didn't read or write the books we read. Get an idea of what you think will work and let them bees tell you whether you are on the right track or not.
I have had queens service two boxes during the flow, and I have had colonies use a second hive close to them to store their honey. You would swear you had a swarm move it, but, open the box and all you see is honey and Bee Bread, and No sign of brood. Ever, but, the box is super busy all day and guard bees at the entrance all night long. It's only winter when they move their resources back to the main hive. I have seen them rob the other hives on warmer days during the winter. Just moving from one box back to the main hive. I know lots of keepers that would call me crazy for suggesting what I just said, but, my bees must be different, or, they just simply are not paying close enough attention.. Ha..Ha.. Good luck with the bees. I mix my Spring Honey and we have a heavy Locust flow in the fall. The Locust is too sweet in my opinion, but, mixing it, , it's fantastic!!

MarkThomas
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Just started researching beekeeping, so this video is perfect timing!

tiffanyherrman
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I am so proud and glad to see that you didn't let the setback of the pandemic stop you. We can recover if we can keep the government out of the way. Keep it up. Your dreams may be delayed, but not canceled.

JamesDeese
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Nature at its best. You help it and it will help you. Hand in hand with the rewards joyful.

papaowl
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This was so cool! Hi to Mom of all trades! And of course Lucy!! :)

Kkuts
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You need to make a communication shelf at the opening so they can communicate with each other about the locations of where they found the best food. Just watch other hive openings as they return with their pollen. The opening is where they do the little dances for each other.

clydedecker
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Yay! A shot of the school barn! Great subject for this video! I just recently heard about being able to provide a home for swarming bees! What an awesome angle I wasn't aware of! Smooth as Tennessee Whiskey? ...Tennessee Honey? :)

blackdog
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a truly delightful way to begin my Saturday morning, Thank you Anne for this slice of spring...

davidgleaton
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Awesome stuff Anne, thanks for the info! 😃👍🏻🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝👊🏻

FredMcIntyre
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Who knew "apian" wasn't related to apes? Drone on, Anne. (I mean that in a nice way.)
The Draw Curiosity channel has a few sciencey videos about bees and related topics. Her PhD involved flying insects.

Kenzie
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We have pretty much stopped taking swarms, you trap a swarm of AHB and once they take up residence, it's a pain!

frankmorris
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That's awesome Anne Bee careful have fun take care stay safe and god bless

donaldtrabeaux
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Old English tradition has it that it's unlucky to pay for bees - so it looks like you will be lucky! Best wishes from the UK.

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