5 Year Old Beehive Swarms 3 Times!

all right folks it's march 20th 2021. this swarm came out of a compost let me show you they've been in this compost for about five years now and every now and then you know each season i'll turn off this warmer too and they threw off a swarm a little bit earlier today maybe a couple hours ago all right so you can see where the parent colony is living so they'll live on we'll take these away and set them up somewhere else this is uh elderberry we're just going to cut the limb and lower it and gently shake them that'll awaken yeah this is dave the homeowner what's happening dave all right and mary hey mary hi so these guys gave me a call and uh i said the bees been living in their compost pile and every year so they they get a swarm so they call me share them so we're having fun today with these things than a year that since the last one i got to go skating so it was really nice to meet you too mary take care now all right so we're just going to go ahead and shake them down over here and then we'll see if we can start the queen or queen okay [Applause] i think they want to land on me yeah they like your hat they do like my hat don't you run to the box come on girl running about all right let's see if we can spot mildred definitely obviously digging the box i gotta back up a little bit because they want to climb my leg pretty cool though huh cool indeed now they really want to look at that they're hauling butt now they're really boogieing you might be thinking well why don't they just go airborne for a while i pondered some of the things that i'm seeing bees do mommy are kind of some of the things that ants do delved into it a little bit and discovered that bees and ants are in fact related well they just cramming into the box now on the box which could mean she's on the outside of the box but uh we're just gonna have fun and we'll figure this out let them figure things out while we relocate the queen pager and put her in the setup what are y'all doing over there [Music] are they digging my snips they're covering that thing i mean i saw just a minute ago like right right here a little tiger stripe looking thing okay all right well we've gone into the box we've pulled some frames so now we're gonna try to see if we can locate the queen on one of these frames oh there she is there she is nice looking queen [Music] the queen is caged for approximately three days in case the bees decide hey we don't really want to be in this box cajun them will anchor them and usually after about three days they've accepted the box and then she's released back into the hive all right folks it's three days after we shook the swarm and got him into our nuke and i want to release the queen it's probably the absolute worst time doing this but we have a lot of rain coming and i don't want to keep my caged up any longer than normal you know they may be a little pissy i don't know but we about to find out but i do want to release her so that um you know she can get the land and stuff i don't even know what's in the hive haven't opened it three days maybe they won't be too upset with the intrusion and if we can show you what they've done in three days okay so here we go all right so this is the one that was next to where the cleaning was caged and see they drawn this out that she can actually start laying this in these cells right away these ones up here she can actually start laying even though they're not drawn out to fruition she actually can start laying all right so they they're working this thing they are working at home okay all right so let's just put this back maybe i'll show you one more this is all in three days folks okay remember swarms before they leave the parent colony they will ingest honey and take it with them and uh so essentially you know they can build home at the new spot with the honey that they bring with them so swarms a lot of times or building machines some of the best times i've ever seen started as swamps look at that look at that more of the same see okay look it's windy we got not just rain but we got rain coming for like the next oh god three four days so i mean it's brewing and yet oh i just got to stay i'm just going to do this with one hand so i could film remember the gopro out of anything set up but look at that wait come on i'll be catching that's until that three days okay it's great to see new phone it means the bees are bringing in nectar they're able to make new chrome so i don't really have to feed them right now which is great so let's get everyone out of there first okay i'm going to release over here you know away from the duke so you can see your motion all right let's go ahead and open it real quick i see you now just saw him [Music] just want to go back in the cage when you believe it come on i may have to shake them come on [Music] come here there she goes there she goes all right she's in it been eight days let's go in and check on their progress i may have to give them a little slow look like they may be a little bit on edge the cooler temperatures let me go ahead and do that this is dead center you know they've been working this and the queen could very well be on this frame right here folks there's a little bit everything on this i feel the weight has some honey some developing uh these see these in larval stages various local stages see them in there eggs down here there's queenie right there so she's filled out quite a bit real beauty [Music] here's a couple of comb sections to be started on this foundationless frame i'll show you their progress on this frame in just a bit if you're going to go foundationless you really do need to keep an eye on things and sometimes with a foundation list they'll go ahead and draw them out but they'll also connect the comb sections to adjacent frames so you get a lot of cross comb and that can be a real disaster all right all right day 11 folks let's go in and now this right here this is a foundationless frame i'm gonna pull out i showed you a little bit of what they were doing with it in the last update let me show it's you another let's see um it's been about another four days since we inspected them last let's see the queen's laying in here tonight i'd be surprised if you jumped on here late in these conceptions but uh just a little nectar but look how they're drawing them out in that pretty it's pretty all huh it looks like they've centered that that other comb section as well see how they're doing that if you're catching that or not they should draw these out just fine but it's something you want to keep an eye on when you're using foundationless frames that uh you know they don't cross comb to the next one shouldn't be a problem with this since the other ones do have foundation on them but uh you know they're enjoying that frame we'll give it to them just go right to this frame here that's kind of in the middle i think we could be on this one i don't know but it's towards the middle let's pull this out lots of eggs developing larvae just keep the phone still i'll pan it see that's some pollen this store in there okay you can see they're developing more of it in the cells all right let's go ahead and place this one back yeah this was that heavy one last but i think the queen was on this one last time let's see let's see if we got any cap root yeah starting to see some cat ruin over here oh yeah look at that folks see how they capped those cells they do that after about eight days she's laying a nice pattern you know here little close-up on that scan it slowly not too fast all right let's put this down go on to the next one i can already tell this one's got a good weight to it so i'm assuming more cat brood maybe a little bit of honey that's a pretty one she's definitely doing a job folks okay i'll tell you what in another week these this hive's gonna have to graduate to a larger setup or they're gonna uh overfill this nuke and start making queen cells and if you don't give them the space they will gear up to storm is a light frame but you know she could be on this one is this another foundationless frame i didn't realize that i guess we didn't pull it last time yeah they drew this out wow they did a beautiful job with this one yes yes finger i gotta be careful cause there's no rubber bands or anything okay see how i'm handling this okay you don't want to just flip it i'm gonna kind of turn it on its end so that the comb doesn't dislodge so i mean they did attach it up here and across the top nothing at the bottom so it's just attached right here so let me show you again back up a little bit so when i go ahead and turn this over so you just want to kind of do a number like this but you don't want to flip it you don't want it horizontal to the ground by any means this is pretty much a foundationless frame okay so again we're just going to go ahead and move it back like that 19 days these girls have been in here but this is the frame where they were drawing out the just the foundation of this frame so let's pull this out i'll show you what this looks like now okay so they really haven't done much more okay they've disconnected them and grease them out a little bit look two little hearts they love you love you long time okay that's what you got i made a little progress there not a whole bunch but the fronts and stuff it backed him up a little bit they didn't make as much progress since the last inspection that i thought they would no big deal this buys us a little more time before we have to graduate them so i think they'll be good in here for another week okay no more than that i don't think let's pull this now i don't think i'm gonna pull the next one out this should show us everything we need right here so cat brood on my side that's a nice looking frame but that's a good pattern she's got just about the whole thing filled up with brood she so you know once those bees hatch out you're gonna have a little explosion you can have an influx in their numbers keep an eye on them in another week they definitely need to be moved to a deep right another beautiful looking frame though just gorgeous looking okay look at that look at this side see they're going to have a population explosion coming up all right see all that beautiful beautiful frame all right all right we'll pull the next one actually might have been on one of those frames i pulled already and i just wasn't paying attention this one's a little light i think we found her on this one last time some drone brood on this one as well this is that foundation this one yeah there's a good bit of drone brood i mean not a ton but this there's some all right there she is you see her on the bottom man you see you he's a big heifer he's huge let me put him back all right folks we're back in dave and mary's backyard we checked that swarm the other day over there on the uh elderberry they'd come out the compost pile over there and uh so we're back a week later actually it's eight days later they call me yesterday but it was sunday even the good lord takes a break on sunday so i knew they weren't going anywhere because we had a little bit of increment weather that's why dave put the garbage can lid over the hive which we're gonna remove right now okay let's just take that off we don't need that here all right so i got a six frame nick with me and it's a lot chillier this morning so they may not uh enjoy this shake i may enjoy it less than they will it might be disagreeable for both of us but it has warmed up since this morning you know yesterday i think we were near 80 maybe high 70s so we had some rain come in and a little front and the temperatures dipped and so now we're going to shake them i hope y'all are going to play nice today ladies okay we'll get you out of this train to a new home [Music] [Music] do what i'm gonna do i'm just gonna go ahead and give this a little bump to dislodge them so they wind up on the bottom and start running up and that way uh i could spot the queen easier that way if she's in fact in here you know they spread out and running up [Music] i don't see her so thinking she could be up there [Music] she could be in here i just don't see yet seen a couple of nice fat grounds this is going to be a virgin queen folks so she's going to be small and they pretty darty so they're a little bit you know nervous and kind of running around quite a bit on you all right i think she's still up there let's go ahead and check the rest where are you [Music] i'm just filming right now having trouble can't film and look so let me give you an idea what it looks like in this box right now all right [Music] lighting is not the best let's see right at the bottom she's running she's running and she's on the right up tops here see because how she's just running all around like that most likely a virgin for me okay all right let's place her in the setup that's all there is to that folks a whole lot to this shake them catch a queen put her on a frame put your frames in put your lid on leave your box there if you can until dark because if you don't pick it up at night you're going to leave some out in the field of course you can't you don't always have the luxury to go back you know but if you're in a residential area you really want to try to go back if you can because you're losing some bees behind and uh i mean you could tell people they're going to be stragglers you know but unless the parent colony is real close by they're just going to die out okay they're not going to like join up with another colony or anything like that but the parent colony like i said is real close by i have seen them i've seen my own own eyes you know uh joined back up with the parent comedy after i uh shipped the swarm but uh it's actually red if that happens so uh if at all possible you want to leave this set up there with the weight cage clean and go back okay and uh pick them up and talk that way the entire swarm is going to be in your box all right so there's still some activity coming and going from this compost bin that's we know for a fact is thrown off two swarms uh a week apart you know the parent colony will swarm depending on numbers they can swim multiple times and then you're left with a smaller population than the virgin queen that has to get mated and keep things going it's one of their main little entrances there of course we're not seeing the numbers we did last time so they've alleviated quite a few bodies right let's take this first frame out we'll see what it's looking like in here and then we'll release the queen okay so they're built growing out some cones that's ready all right and a couple with pollen i'm saying bees nut cells yeah there's some cells with pollen so they're ready i'm going to release it so that uh she can get the land okay they're preparing the cells for see how they're doing that folks so i don't know how you stand up let's go ahead and get her just about chewed through this rubber band all right let me place this back down so we'll go ahead and cut this rubber band it should come off pretty easily see get that out of there all right so put the frames back together [Music] go ahead and release her she's running around like a crazy lady all right this is gonna be fast folks let me see this will take longer let's see i'm gonna open it up now i think she ran in already i could be wrong i think she's still in here you see her in the clip see when you release them like this you just can't see them as well that's why i usually release him in front of the uh the entrance so you can see him run across the concrete see if she's in there yeah i think i saw her run out and run down it was like a split second she's not in here although they still think she's in there [Music] the pheromone's powerful folks let's put this lid back on folks we'll give you a progress report uh maybe another time okay i'm in dave and mary's backyard again folks i think there's a queen in this i think it's a swarm that left i said it was about the size of a softball thing i'm just getting to it now he texted [Music] but they do have one it's gonna be a virgin here we go there's a cane in there [Music] how about that for small folks [Music] this is just a little version that left with a little group of bees usually the way it works really is on a good-sized form where the bees plan to swarm okay they'll plant it out and the queen will leave with them but these virgin queens are real runny they may leave on their own and take a little group with that happens to be loyal too but literally we have in this little thing maybe 40 bees b i'm just going to put them in the office box i'll put it right here i'll come back and get them tonight that's swarm number three if you can call it a swarm folks all right hope y'all enjoyed the video folks another one from jp to be man i hope y'all having a fantastic day out there because you know i am to the next one all right

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Length: 30min 31sec (1831 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021