In a forest about half a mile from where I live in SW France a farmer has about 30 beehives , in the summer they come to drink at my small fish pond . I’ve sat sometimes with thousands of bees on a hot day watching them drink , fascinating insects ,
When I lose a colony, I leave the box in place and will have bees move in every year. They are always huge swarms too. They love the smell of that old comb. I got 4 big ones this year just by doing that. Gotta love it when they come to you.
Amazing and useful knowledge on bees JP. Many people in Canada had a great interest for the sent of lemon grass a long time ago. After some years of people having many bees attracted and attached to something in their yard or the house itself, allot of people had bees and began talking. It took a bee keeper to share his information that the lemon grass sent is what attracted the bees to the home in the first place. So now lemon grass is not grow around houses anymore unless someone wanted bees to show up and take from the flowers in their yard.
My aunt was given gallons of crystalized honey once and I used to feed it to the wild bees. Hundreds would be waiting on me every morning like puppies. One morning an entire swarm showed up in a tree nearby!
Do never feed honey to bees, PLEASE! That honey could possibly have American Foul Brood or something else in it and could end up killing all the local bees and starting an epidemic!!!
@@judicorbett3498 chill out Judi, that morbid fear is far overstated. AFB and EFB both are to be avoided but actually rarely encountered. In the chiding of feeding honey to bees is like saying to a person. ..."don't drink after them, you might get tuberculosis." Yeah....you might, but not very likely.
OBAMFSpike through winter here in oz I never had any bees to call my own but come spring I had plans on getting some somehow and start bee keeping once again, so what I did was made a few jars with holes in the lids sitting on some sticks jar upside down and fed the bees flying around from who knows where a sugar syrup , I felt sorry for them , I did this every chance I got to help them through as there is no food very little at best, I also made my bee boxes , painted them and put them where ever I could find space for them undercover outside . I got one swarm from a house being knocked down so that was lucky and I could not believe it another swarm found my bee box outside just a day ago , I think feeding them brought them into the area , I think that’s how I ended up with the swarm moving in to one of my boxes, it is spring now to so what a great start, and very happy .😁
Hi jp I did this last week and got a swarm absolutely amazing took 3 days for whole swarm to arrive had about 50 scouts in my hive for 2 days then day three the whole swarm arrived I’m soo glad I saw your video from dan (U.K.)
JP you are awesome and the fact that you share your information about your beekeeping with your audience is just outstanding I’m about to go to sleep Sunday evening it’s almost midnight well it’s 1130 and I’m watching your videos and you never cease to amaze me thank you so very much
I live in an apartement in the middle of a big city, barely see any bees most of the time, but I still find this quite interesting - not to mention how important bees are to all of us even if they don't live nearby. Thanks for your educational and entertaining videos JP!
Your videos are fascinating! I’m allergic to bees, so I have always been terrified of them. Strangely, though, it’s always been on my bucket list to harvest honey from a box, lol. My husband noticed that I haven’t been running from bees lately and came in the other day to find me binge-watching your videos. He literally took my iPad from me and couldn’t stop watching! Granted, he wanted me to finish getting ready for our date, but he was happy to see that I watch quality videos along with the junk, 🐝🍯❤️
A few years ago I noticed some bees buzzing around a soda can on my bird bath out back. Idk why I did it but I took the hummingbird feeder I usually add sugar water to and opened it up and set it on the birdbath. It was time to clean it out anyway and I was like >> here ya go bees. Within a few hours there were a good bit of bees. I went out and watched them for a few hours and realized the sound was so calming. My family thought I was nuts. I kept adding sugar water to bowls and whatever I could find to stick on that bird bath until I had a sound much like the first part of your video. I would walk out and just wander through them while my fam watched from the window lol. U couldn’t hear much of anything while in the center of that. My husband is allergic so after a week I had to clean it up. We did watch where they flew to and it was the woods near our home…..so apparently we had a good size hive somewhere back there. I would LOVE to have bees of my own to care for but it’s so expensive from what I’ve read. I can’t very well care for them from my birdbath where my kids play on the porch nearby lol. Sigh.
Have a neighbor with bee boxes a half mile up the road. Every summer a swarm comes to my roses and rehomes in a camper on my property. With zero knowledge I assumed they'd just go home. Who knows how many bees died overwintering on my property because I didn't know enough to try to care for them., Bought a bee box kit for when it happens this year.
My son and I built a top bar hive and my husband baited it with lemon grass oil. Weve planted some sunflowers, clover and daisies around it. Its been several weeks. I wonder if i should melt some bees wax and put a line of it on the bottom of the bars. I am really hoping a swarm will find us on their own. What are the chances? Do you think im just wishing on stars? Lol. BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME. Thats what im counting on.
i absolutely love mother nature. it hurts my heart more people aren't trying to help the bees as a community when bees contribute to 1 in 3 foods, they're super peaceful to watch dance on the flowers. I made a little bee motel and a bee bath filled with branches rocks etc to easily drink without drowning. I hope people see us randomly and start picking up better habits than fighting, stealing, or absolutely not doing shit with their life. we have no planet B, we must care for her and Earth's critters 😌
When there is little to forage on they will sip on the dew, Sprite or other sugary drinks. If there is a good flow going on forget about it. Lol. And it does have more to do with the citrus. I always add lemongrass and spearmint oil to my sugar feed in the fall.
great great great info...exactly what I was looking for! I have a big tree with tons of bees that have been there for about 5 years. I would love to benefit from them somehow, like get some honey! Trying to figure out what equipment to get. Thanks for this video~ Aloha from Hawaii
628DirtRooster Bees Randy, This should help you, (add to your bag of tricks), with a definitive edge on Jeff!! Unless he watches this also! Keep having fun, Phillip Hall PS I saw Schawee when he made an appearance on one of Jeff’s videos! I had been wondering where that rascal was ;-)
''Tellin’ ya, ya gotta watch your back with Horchoff, he’s sneaky!'' Yes he is JP! I wonder what he and ole Eagle Eyes was up to a while back. I saw him, (Schawee) sneaking around with Mr sneaky himself, Jeff. No telling what the bee world will come too with you four mixing it up!! AH HA HA HAA Y'all keep having fun and sharing the good videos. Thanks, Phillip Hall
I am afraid of bees. Yes I said it. But I find your videos so fascinating. I just can't get enough of them. Since I am afraid of bees when I saw your video and what it was about I said to myself that I was going to watch it so I know what NOT do LOL
Jp! a question for u is it possible to tunnel bees through a new hive? I have a healthy hive living in the wall of a old camper trailer, they are coming in and out through a 2" vent on the side! also it is easy to remove the outside, But im new to this and would love to save the bee from Destruction before the camper falls apart! Thanks Nate
I notice bee colonization bunches every so often just like you mention, so I made a bee cardboard box but with no success maybe next spring. Thanks for sharing
JPthebeeman Thanks for this informative content. Please I only have access to beeswax and lemongrass essential oil. Can it still be effective as swam lure? Please awaiting your reply
Nice video! I never thought of embedding the lemongrass oil in wax or propolis. Would there be a problem with melting propolis and wax together and mixing the lemongrass oil into that and make a bar that I could rub on the inside of the boxes? The cotton ball in a medicine bottle is probably better than how I've been adding a folded up paper towel in a ziplock. Ziplocks leach scent pretty quickly. I'm guessing that you put a swarm trap out and don't have to re-bait it, while the way I've been doing it I have to add more paper towels in ziplocks with lemongrass every couple of weeks. Also, I've rubbed slumgum on the inside of the traps (I freeze the slumgum first making it really hard and it only leaves trace amounts on the boxes), but I've only put swarm traps out for 2 years now, so I have no idea if this is a good idea. I see people recommending putting old comb in the traps and that just seems to be a good way to get some wax moths to move in, but to me rubbing the slumgum in the boxes would give the same scent without the place for the wax moths to make a foothold. Any thoughts on that? Keep up the great videos! And thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Next year I'm going to set out some swarm traps. Been wanting to do it for a couple of years. Like you said, take the time during winter to get set up.
Hey JP, New subscriber. I have a bee hive under my shed. I just got a bee box and want to draw the bee out from under the shed. I don't want to remove the floor like you have done. Is there any way to lure them out and take up residence in their new home? Thanks, Chuck
I see a honeybee on a the same group of dandelions in my yard. Now i know of hives that are 2 acres away. Is it a good assumption that that bee would be from one if those hives? Thank you
I bought my wife a small bee house for xmas 2 years ago... I attached it to the side of my garage. 2 years later still no bees... Hopefully this works 🤠
In india we just apply honey and liquid wax to the columns inside the box. Bees automatically comes and starts its living inside the box . Easy trick to attract the honey bees to the box..
I started watching this guy and decided to get into bees lol. Bought a new hive with super and going to order bees in March? April? next year. Even bought a bee jacket and they made a mistake and sent me the full body suit. Just wondering - if there's a bee tree near by could they be put in the hive this time of year? Have to have their honey and all the comb i could save - - i would think. Oh this is in Virginia
Later on in the season you really need experience dealing with/keeping bees & often resources from other colonies to up the ante of them surviving the removal process. I would not recommend going at it right now unless you’re accompanied by an experienced live bee removal specialist. Study up through winter & be ready for spring! ✌️🐝
@@JPthebeeman Yeah i'm not in a hurry, just waiting for spring. I smelled the new hive when i opened the box and resealed it to keep it clean, 'has to be assembled'. Plan is to start them out clean.
@@JPthebeeman love how you melt things together . I'll be dong that from now on. I usually spray a shot on dry drawn comb when doing a removal..... but I'll have to try the pill bottle with cotton ball.
Hi sorry the beeswax and lemongrass that u put in the wood frame, why the wood look so uncleaned... Was it going to be used as an enclosure so the bees are not directly forming the honeys on that piece of wood rit, coz the wood seem a bit dirty
Man bees live in trees and forage for anything sweet, even if it’s found in your local trash bin. Stop worrying about some good ol fashioned wood and go out and catch you a hive. A hollow tree ain’t exactly the cleanest place you ever saw, ya know? Bees don’t attach honey to wood, they put the honey in wax and attach the wax to wood, I’d be more concerned about what the bees are eating during the dearth because anything and everything can be found in honey if the bees get desperate.
00:06 Using lemongrass oil to attract bees 00:36 Pheromones play a significant role in reorienting honeybees. 01:02 Using lemongrass oil to attract bees to your bee box 01:32 Scout bees search for potential hive locations 01:55 Bee boxes can attract bees to swarm traps in specific locations. 02:17 Strategically place swarm traps for bee attraction 02:39 Spreading out and baiting bees increases chances of attracting them 04:49 Prepare swarm traps before swarm season Crafted by Merlin AI.
Is there anything I can do if bees woke up too early in spring I brought a chair in my garage not knowing there were some hunny bees in there and they've woke up since it's unseasonably warm last few days but it will get back to freezing soon is there anything I can do to help them or will they basically die now?
Hi JPthebeeman, greetings to all bee keepers! I would like to start hugging a bee colony. I watched a few videos of inexpensive ways with a simple jar or bottle hive. How to start this fun? Which season is good to start, what to buy and put to the jar?
You always want to start beekeeping in early spring. I always recommend a new beekeeper join a local bee club to learn the basic fundamentals. There are bee clubs everywhere these days & they often have field trips in different apiaries for hands on instruction.
Appreciate your video for being quick and to the point. Getting tired of watching a 20min UA-cam video for 3 mins of quality content. Thanks!
So grateful indeed that I subscribed lol
Humble your self and be passionate
Just enough artful cuts
Soooo truuuu
Someone explained that channels d long videos for more money.
In a forest about half a mile from where I live in SW France a farmer has about 30 beehives , in the summer they come to drink at my small fish pond . I’ve sat sometimes with thousands of bees on a hot day watching them drink , fascinating insects ,
When I lose a colony, I leave the box in place and will have bees move in every year. They are always huge swarms too. They love the smell of that old comb. I got 4 big ones this year just by doing that. Gotta love it when they come to you.
Amazing and useful knowledge on bees JP. Many people in Canada had a great interest for the sent of lemon grass a long time ago. After some years of people having many bees attracted and attached to something in their yard or the house itself, allot of people had bees and began talking. It took a bee keeper to share his information that the lemon grass sent is what attracted the bees to the home in the first place. So now lemon grass is not grow around houses anymore unless someone wanted bees to show up and take from the flowers in their yard.
My aunt was given gallons of crystalized honey once and I used to feed it to the wild bees. Hundreds would be waiting on me every morning like puppies. One morning an entire swarm showed up in a tree nearby!
🐝utiful! ✌️🐝
Do never feed honey to bees, PLEASE!
That honey could possibly have American Foul Brood or something else in it and could end up killing all the local bees and starting an epidemic!!!
@@judicorbett3498 chill out Judi, that morbid fear is far overstated. AFB and EFB both are to be avoided but actually rarely encountered. In the chiding of feeding honey to bees is like saying to a person. ..."don't drink after them, you might get tuberculosis." Yeah....you might, but not very likely.
@OBAMFSpike Gotta get your hands on some old comb to get in there.
OBAMFSpike through winter here in oz I never had any bees to call my own but come spring I had plans on getting some somehow and start bee keeping once again, so what I did was made a few jars with holes in the lids sitting on some sticks jar upside down and fed the bees flying around from who knows where a sugar syrup , I felt sorry for them , I did this every chance I got to help them through as there is no food very little at best, I also made my bee boxes , painted them and put them where ever I could find space for them undercover outside . I got one swarm from a house being knocked down so that was lucky and I could not believe it another swarm found my bee box outside just a day ago , I think feeding them brought them into the area , I think that’s how I ended up with the swarm moving in to one of my boxes, it is spring now to so what a great start, and very happy .😁
I take it that this guy is not just a beekeeper but he has a degree in Entomology.
Hi jp I did this last week and got a swarm absolutely amazing took 3 days for whole swarm to arrive had about 50 scouts in my hive for 2 days then day three the whole swarm arrived I’m soo glad I saw your video from dan (U.K.)
How did it go dan? Are they still buzzing around in one of your hives?
CozyBear yes hive swarmed twice caught them both gave one away so now have a strong colony and another one that’s growing
CozyBear have a look at my garden beekeeping page
Which lemon grass do I have to use? Please suggest me one, thank you.
JP you are awesome and the fact that you share your information about your beekeeping with your audience is just outstanding I’m about to go to sleep Sunday evening it’s almost midnight well it’s 1130 and I’m watching your videos and you never cease to amaze me thank you so very much
I live in an apartement in the middle of a big city, barely see any bees most of the time, but I still find this quite interesting - not to mention how important bees are to all of us even if they don't live nearby. Thanks for your educational and entertaining videos JP!
Where are you located?
@@JPthebeeman Budapest (Hungary), not many bees in the city centre, though there are some around parks and places like that. :)
I caught a swarm downtown new york city this spring. The Bees will surprise you.
@@dvidsuba which side of the river do you reside...in Buda, Obuda or Pest? The bees are there....you're just not seeing them.
@@dvidsuba shift to India, you'll find many bees here.
Just proves once again that you JP, really are The Bee Man. Thanks for the video. Phillip Hall
Your videos are fascinating! I’m allergic to bees, so I have always been terrified of them. Strangely, though, it’s always been on my bucket list to harvest honey from a box, lol. My husband noticed that I haven’t been running from bees lately and came in the other day to find me binge-watching your videos. He literally took my iPad from me and couldn’t stop watching! Granted, he wanted me to finish getting ready for our date, but he was happy to see that I watch quality videos along with the junk, 🐝🍯❤️
👍🐝 you’re my kind of people.
me too, I am so afraid of bees, but I am fasinated watching these videos, I wish I could do it.
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Look at all their little beehinds in the air! 😁 Great video as usual. Thanks so much for sharing. Thumbs up from Ireland 🇮🇪☘️
Jp your awesome my brother you bring soo many smiles to us subscribers much love BEEMAN JP
My new favorite UA-cam channel. Thank you JP
JP, thank you for the sharing. I wish I were younger, I have always loved Honey bee's. You are the best.
Never too late to start. 👍🐝
@@JPthebeeman If I were near you, rest easy, I would follow you, learn and HAVE FUN. Great job.
A few years ago I noticed some bees buzzing around a soda can on my bird bath out back. Idk why I did it but I took the hummingbird feeder I usually add sugar water to and opened it up and set it on the birdbath. It was time to clean it out anyway and I was like >> here ya go bees. Within a few hours there were a good bit of bees. I went out and watched them for a few hours and realized the sound was so calming. My family thought I was nuts. I kept adding sugar water to bowls and whatever I could find to stick on that bird bath until I had a sound much like the first part of your video. I would walk out and just wander through them while my fam watched from the window lol. U couldn’t hear much of anything while in the center of that. My husband is allergic so after a week I had to clean it up. We did watch where they flew to and it was the woods near our home…..so apparently we had a good size hive somewhere back there. I would LOVE to have bees of my own to care for but it’s so expensive from what I’ve read.
I can’t very well care for them from my birdbath where my kids play on the porch nearby lol. Sigh.
Jp thank u for sharing your knowledge about bees in the recent years ive come to love the bees thank u sir
✌️🐝
I love love love all of your total interesting videos!
Thank you for all of it!
Have a neighbor with bee boxes a half mile up the road. Every summer a swarm comes to my roses and rehomes in a camper on my property. With zero knowledge I assumed they'd just go home. Who knows how many bees died overwintering on my property because I didn't know enough to try to care for them., Bought a bee box kit for when it happens this year.
Get you some! ✌️🐝✌️
🐝 thank you I learned more about bees in this short video than I even knew was possible. 🐝 GOD BLESS YOU ALL 💖✝️🕊️
My son and I built a top bar hive and my husband baited it with lemon grass oil. Weve planted some sunflowers, clover and daisies around it. Its been several weeks. I wonder if i should melt some bees wax and put a line of it on the bottom of the bars. I am really hoping a swarm will find us on their own. What are the chances? Do you think im just wishing on stars? Lol. BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME. Thats what im counting on.
You make me remember my grandpa. My grandpa is super nice.
What a happy chappie... such a positive vibe - We need more ordinary hero's like him everywhere
Thank you sir, for the videos, this is one of my favorite video. 👌👍🙏
Thanks for the tip, the only human that makes the bee's dance Mr.jp
JP that is great information. Thank you for sharing and showing us how we can get bees.
What a cool video. My first year beekeepin and I'm doing all I can to learn from videos since life is shut down. Thank you!
Did you purchase your bees?
i absolutely love mother nature. it hurts my heart more people aren't trying to help the bees as a community when bees contribute to 1 in 3 foods, they're super peaceful to watch dance on the flowers. I made a little bee motel and a bee bath filled with branches rocks etc to easily drink without drowning. I hope people see us randomly and start picking up better habits than fighting, stealing, or absolutely not doing shit with their life. we have no planet B, we must care for her and Earth's critters 😌
Great advice...btw I seen forager bees go coo coo for CoCo puffs over Mountain Dew. Idk if it's the smell or the sugar or both but they love it.
When there is little to forage on they will sip on the dew, Sprite or other sugary drinks. If there is a good flow going on forget about it. Lol. And it does have more to do with the citrus. I always add lemongrass and spearmint oil to my sugar feed in the fall.
great great great info...exactly what I was looking for! I have a big tree with tons of bees that have been there for about 5 years. I would love to benefit from them somehow, like get some honey! Trying to figure out what equipment to get. Thanks for this video~ Aloha from Hawaii
JP you are the man.
Great idea mixing the lure ingredients on the bottom board. I like that outro shot with half the dang swarm fanning.
Hey whatever keeps their attention right? Them lil butts in the air fanning like that never gets old! 👍🐝
628DirtRooster Bees
Randy, This should help you, (add to your bag of tricks), with a definitive edge on Jeff!! Unless he watches this also! Keep having fun,
Phillip Hall
PS I saw Schawee when he made an appearance on one of Jeff’s videos! I had been wondering where that rascal was ;-)
@@PhillipHall01 He watches and he takes notes.
628DirtRooster Bees ...and records GPS coordinates, don’t forget that Dirt. Tellin’ ya, ya gotta watch your back with Horchoff, he’s sneaky! 😉👍🐝
''Tellin’ ya, ya gotta watch your back with Horchoff, he’s sneaky!''
Yes he is JP! I wonder what he and ole Eagle Eyes was up to a while back. I saw him, (Schawee) sneaking around with Mr sneaky himself, Jeff. No telling what the bee world will come too with you four mixing it up!! AH HA HA HAA Y'all keep having fun and sharing the good videos. Thanks, Phillip Hall
Thanks JP ! Good to see you
Can’t get enough of your videos.!!! Doing a great job.!
Fantabulous information JP, I love your teachings, very good indeed!!!
thanks JP for sharing this video have a nice weekend
Great info, thanks and God bless.
I am gonna try this :). I saw some wild bees flying around already :)
I am afraid of bees. Yes I said it. But I find your videos so fascinating. I just can't get enough of them. Since I am afraid of bees when I saw your video and what it was about I said to myself that I was going to watch it so I know what NOT do LOL
Thanks for informative video
❤️Love from India ❤️🇮🇳
My mans JP uploading some good info. Glad to see you spreading some knowledge, love the videos can't wait for the next.
Cool new info.....thanks jp......
Thanks for the share! Love and blessings!
You rock JP!
GReat info thank u for explaining in good detail.
Thx so much, in case lemon grass oil not available, any other suitable oil!?
Very good video, I sure do love ur music brings back old members of way down south past the Rio Grand
Jp! a question for u is it possible to tunnel bees through a new hive? I have a healthy hive living in the wall of a old camper trailer, they are coming in and out through a 2" vent on the side! also it is easy to remove the outside, But im new to this and would love to save the bee from Destruction before the camper falls apart! Thanks Nate
Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge from your vast experience it really helps us with halfvast experience.
I notice bee colonization bunches every so often just like you mention, so I made a bee cardboard box but with no success maybe next spring. Thanks for sharing
Best wishes this coming spring, hope you get you some! 👍🐝
Spot on JP👍.🐝safe and keep your smoker lit!!
Konrad
Thank you for the tip here from SA👍🏻
Good video! Very informative and he gets right to the subject.
Thank you for sharing 💕🐝
JPthebeeman
Thanks for this informative content. Please I only have access to beeswax and lemongrass essential oil. Can it still be effective as swam lure? Please awaiting your reply
Beeswax & a little lemongrass oil makes great swarm lure. 👍🐝
Thanks for the great video!
What wonderful tips to start your own hives! Till your next one JP.
Thanks for sharing JP!
Thanks JP! I'm definitely going to try this method!
Great video thanks for sharing 👌🐝🐝
I'm taking my first class September 7 on how to keep bees.
Where r u taking it
I was going to take my first beekeeping class but the day it was scheduled for was the day the city shut down due to the corona virus. 😔
Nice video! I never thought of embedding the lemongrass oil in wax or propolis. Would there be a problem with melting propolis and wax together and mixing the lemongrass oil into that and make a bar that I could rub on the inside of the boxes?
The cotton ball in a medicine bottle is probably better than how I've been adding a folded up paper towel in a ziplock. Ziplocks leach scent pretty quickly. I'm guessing that you put a swarm trap out and don't have to re-bait it, while the way I've been doing it I have to add more paper towels in ziplocks with lemongrass every couple of weeks.
Also, I've rubbed slumgum on the inside of the traps (I freeze the slumgum first making it really hard and it only leaves trace amounts on the boxes), but I've only put swarm traps out for 2 years now, so I have no idea if this is a good idea. I see people recommending putting old comb in the traps and that just seems to be a good way to get some wax moths to move in, but to me rubbing the slumgum in the boxes would give the same scent without the place for the wax moths to make a foothold. Any thoughts on that?
Keep up the great videos! And thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I've done a bar version before. You just rub it on the edges of the frames. It works great.
Great information thanks for sharing 👍
This video was 3 years ago do you still do it the same way?
Of course! 👍🐝
@@JPthebeeman thank you sir. Still love your videos trying to absorb everything I can
Next year I'm going to set out some swarm traps. Been wanting to do it for a couple of years. Like you said, take the time during winter to get set up.
Hey JP, New subscriber. I have a bee hive under my shed. I just got a bee box and want to draw the bee out from under the shed. I don't want to remove the floor like you have done. Is there any way to lure them out and take up residence in their new home? Thanks, Chuck
I see a honeybee on a the same group of dandelions in my yard. Now i know of hives that are 2 acres away. Is it a good assumption that that bee would be from one if those hives? Thank you
Thanks JP.... another beeutiful video.
You make it look easy mate thank you
Where do you set that box? Can I put a bee honey comb out somewhere?
Always great videos thanks jp
Can I lure them to my bee hive? Not a trap box but my hive I have set up?
I don’t see why you couldn’t give it a try. 🐝🐝🐝
Really like your channel, content and knowledge on bees. Wish you and your business the very best!
Will it be windy without a swarm trap? Like if you just put some bee swarm on a tree branch with some honey on it?
thanks for the tip!
I bought my wife a small bee house for xmas 2 years ago...
I attached it to the side of my garage.
2 years later still no bees...
Hopefully this works 🤠
I subscribed because of the music
Cool info 👍
Bee cool ;-)
What if I don't know where a swarm is but I have scouts checking out my house? Will lemongrass oil attract them?
Charlie Sheads could quite possibly attract them.
In india we just apply honey and liquid wax to the columns inside the box. Bees automatically comes and starts its living inside the box . Easy trick to attract the honey bees to the box..
hi, what kind of torch is that and where did you buy it? where do you buy the fuel cans?
H.D., Lowes, Amazon, EBay. Propane. The blue bottles are cheaper than the yellow ones but don’t burn as hot.
: I donot have fresh beewax...
but I got old combs that are partially dark in color.., will it work, if melted ....?
I started watching this guy and decided to get into bees lol. Bought a new hive with super and going to order bees in March? April? next year. Even bought a bee jacket and they made a mistake and sent me the full body suit. Just wondering - if there's a bee tree near by could they be put in the hive this time of year? Have to have their honey and all the comb i could save - - i would think. Oh this is in Virginia
Later on in the season you really need experience dealing with/keeping bees & often resources from other colonies to up the ante of them surviving the removal process.
I would not recommend going at it right now unless you’re accompanied by an experienced live bee removal specialist.
Study up through winter & be ready for spring! ✌️🐝
@@JPthebeeman Hey i been watching a specialist for months hahaha Thanks for advice.
Noone Special don’t mean to deter you nor your wonderful enthusiasm, just being honest & I know you want what’s best for that colony right? ✌️😉🐝
@@JPthebeeman Yeah i'm not in a hurry, just waiting for spring. I smelled the new hive when i opened the box and resealed it to keep it clean, 'has to be assembled'. Plan is to start them out clean.
great video....would Swarm Commander do the same thing as Lemon Grass oil?
Swarm commander has a few more attractants than plain lemongrass oil but both are attractive to scout bees.
@@JPthebeeman love how you melt things together . I'll be dong that from now on. I usually spray a shot on dry drawn comb when doing a removal..... but I'll have to try the pill bottle with cotton ball.
Nice one, JP!
JP the bee genius 🐝
Hi sorry the beeswax and lemongrass that u put in the wood frame, why the wood look so uncleaned... Was it going to be used as an enclosure so the bees are not directly forming the honeys on that piece of wood rit, coz the wood seem a bit dirty
Man bees live in trees and forage for anything sweet, even if it’s found in your local trash bin. Stop worrying about some good ol fashioned wood and go out and catch you a hive. A hollow tree ain’t exactly the cleanest place you ever saw, ya know? Bees don’t attach honey to wood, they put the honey in wax and attach the wax to wood, I’d be more concerned about what the bees are eating during the dearth because anything and everything can be found in honey if the bees get desperate.
Any plans for attempting to make swarm lures?
Hi do I leave the lid of the box open like at the end of your video?
00:06 Using lemongrass oil to attract bees
00:36 Pheromones play a significant role in reorienting honeybees.
01:02 Using lemongrass oil to attract bees to your bee box
01:32 Scout bees search for potential hive locations
01:55 Bee boxes can attract bees to swarm traps in specific locations.
02:17 Strategically place swarm traps for bee attraction
02:39 Spreading out and baiting bees increases chances of attracting them
04:49 Prepare swarm traps before swarm season
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Thanks JP
Is there anything I can do if bees woke up too early in spring I brought a chair in my garage not knowing there were some hunny bees in there and they've woke up since it's unseasonably warm last few days but it will get back to freezing soon is there anything I can do to help them or will they basically die now?
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lot of information like it .what is medicine vial and what if I don't have any can this still works?
I have a question....I read that bees were dying out. Has any progress to save them from the labs?
Hi JPthebeeman, greetings to all bee keepers! I would like to start hugging a bee colony. I watched a few videos of inexpensive ways with a simple jar or bottle hive. How to start this fun? Which season is good to start, what to buy and put to the jar?
You always want to start beekeeping in early spring. I always recommend a new beekeeper join a local bee club to learn the basic fundamentals. There are bee clubs everywhere these days & they often have field trips in different apiaries for hands on instruction.
Thank you sir !
JP, Do swarms always have an old queen with them? And how did you get all of your bee knowledge?
PJ R the first swarm cast from a colony is called the “prime swarm,” which has the mated queen. Subsequent or “afterswarms” contain virgin queens.
When is swarm season in the tropics?
Did you find out?? Cus I'd love to know as well
Spring