Fishing for Bees - Swarm Traps and Bait Boxes.

ACBA member Phil Stob discusses everything you want to know about catching swarms using swarm traps. Phil explains when, what and how? - plus lots of practical tips and techniques and creative ideas to inspire you and get you started!

January 2022.

[joshuaheart]

My dad & I have caught 3 swarms with Swarm commander. We put old hives out where we wanted them in the yard & the bees came to us.

[victorkulynycz]

Newbie here GREAT INFO wish I had found this in Feb. Was given some empty hives past winter too cheap to buy nucs or packages so went with swarm trapping. Since didn't have bees used the 12 deep boxes as traps after I begged 2 friends for 9 frames of old drawn comb. Placed all boxes in old hang or short ladder stands on tree stands from the back of my pickup. Caught 5th swarm to box today 3 in box 2 on boxes also got 1 football size swarm on a branch so have 6 hives started since Easter Sunday. Swarm Commander used with 5 or 6 empty old frames no foundation and 2 or 3 frames of used plastic foundation that smell of bees real good some were old supers frames. Just kept bees in that deep trap and moved to my yard. Picked up some real good pointers here and will make adjustments especially adding a frame of brood asap even tho only have 1 hive that is filled out a10 frame deep.

[Leah-ceot]

Great presentation! Thank you from Western Washington!

[seedsandarrowsfrontier]

Hey Phil, I just found your channel! I'm staying tuned for more videos! Good luck catching bees!!

[houstonsheltonbees]

Great talk thanks 👍 looks like a good channel I subscribed.

[randallsauro]

Hi Phil...I anm a new Bee Keeper... Want to catch a swarm

[njsnjs]

When is your spring starting...ours in south Africa is 1 September..

[larslindgren]

You are more correct than you thought, bees are now considered fish in California.

[tryathingtv]

Hey wats up I like your swarm catching videos I have some good one too with bucket has my traps u can check them out if you want to OK keep up the good work

[intheshellify]

Lies and deceptions. Your list in the thumbnail is so much bs. Junk like this is what makes the internet difficult to navigate.

[randallsauro]

Hi Phil...My name is Randy Sauro and .I am a new Bee Keeper just getting started... I want to catch a swarm...Is were way I can Talk to you in person? It takes me too long to type...if you have a private line, I can give you my phone number...Is that ok???