Who Wants To Catch A Free Swarm Of Bees?

Who Wants To Catch A Free Swarm Of Bees?

A follow up to my previous video on bait hives.

March/April is the perfect time to set these up and get them ready for the prime swarm season. Early swarms are the ones to catch.

This video has lots of useful tips on how to improve your chances of catching swarms in bait hives.

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[haiybo]

The most helpful video found on this, thanks. It really doesn't matter if the frames are a bit mouldy?

[badassbees]

As long as my frames are absolutely empty of pollen or nectar, I don't have much problem, any trace they get Annihilated, good job

[tanacious]

Hey, dunno if you will see this from such a long time ago but i had a question about bait boxes. If i know where a "wild" colony is hived in a tree can i bait directly under the hive in the same tree or should i bait from a certain space away from the hive in the tree? you rarely see bees in trees nowadays and i don't want to cut them out but they are likely to swarm if they make it through winter and would be a prime opportunity, i thought to put a bait box up.

[foxslocalhoney]

Good advice from Richard and yourself I need to do mine now keep them Wax moth away Dooh!

[bigadg]

What treatment do you use against waxmoth