How To Attract Bees To Your Bee Box
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2019
- How To Attract Bees To Your Bee Box
In this video I offer up some tips that will help you attract bee swarms to your beekeeping equipment so that you may not have to purchase bees to begin your journey in beekeeping.
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JP the bee man fools with bees approximately 10 months or so of the year in southeast, Louisiana.
I am a beekeeper & live bee removal specialist.
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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.
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 .😁
Look at all their little beehinds in the air! 😁 Great video as usual. Thanks so much for sharing. Thumbs up from Ireland 🇮🇪☘️
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.
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
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.
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! ✌️🐝✌️
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.
😊
I take it that this guy is not just a beekeeper but he has a degree in Entomology.
I love love love all of your total interesting videos!
Thank you for all of it!
Fantabulous information JP, I love your teachings, very good indeed!!!
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.
Thanks for the share! Love and blessings!
What wonderful tips to start your own hives! Till your next one JP.
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?
Thanks JP ! Good to see you
Thanks JP! I'm definitely going to try this method!
Thanks for the tip, the only human that makes the bee's dance Mr.jp
My new favorite UA-cam channel. Thank you JP
Jp thank u for sharing your knowledge about bees in the recent years ive come to love the bees thank u sir
✌️🐝
thanks JP for sharing this video have a nice weekend
JP that is great information. Thank you for sharing and showing us how we can get bees.
Thanks for sharing JP!
Thanks for sharing the knowledge from your vast experience it really helps us with halfvast experience.
Great info, thanks and God bless.
Spot on JP👍.🐝safe and keep your smoker lit!!
Konrad
Thank you for sharing 💕🐝
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.
Really like your channel, content and knowledge on bees. Wish you and your business the very best!
You rock JP!
thanks for the tip!
Cool new info.....thanks jp......
🐝 thank you I learned more about bees in this short video than I even knew was possible. 🐝 GOD BLESS YOU ALL 💖✝️🕊️
Thanks JP.... another beeutiful video.
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
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
Thank you sir, for the videos, this is one of my favorite video. 👌👍🙏
Thank you for sharing this.
You make me remember my grandpa. My grandpa is super nice.
Great video thanks for sharing 👌🐝🐝
As soon as you started to speak, I knew you were down here in s/e La. good job on the video.
Good video! Very informative and he gets right to the subject.
Always great videos thanks jp
Great information thanks for sharing 👍
You make it look easy mate thank you
Nice one, JP!
Very good video, I sure do love ur music brings back old members of way down south past the Rio Grand
Jp your awesome my brother you bring soo many smiles to us subscribers much love BEEMAN JP
I am gonna try this :). I saw some wild bees flying around already :)
Can’t get enough of your videos.!!! Doing a great job.!
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! 👍🐝
GReat info thank u for explaining in good detail.
Thanks JP
Thanks for the great video!
Thank you for the great information!🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thank you sir !
Thank you for the tip here from SA👍🏻
Yes. Yes it did help. Thanks man!
Great video!
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
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 the bee genius 🐝
Thank you!!!!
Love the music!
JP you are the man.
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.
Good info on this video
Aloha Jp. First off love the videos brother. They are super informative and awesome to watch. I’m very new to this and was wondering if you have made any videos of how to make home made nuc and deep boxes with instructions and dimensions. Unless you just order yours from some of the suppliers out there. For us in Hawaii we get raped on shipping costs and was wondering if you had any advice. Huge mahalo brother. Have an awesome week. Aloha
Pete
Peter Morrow 2 frame nuc measurements - bottom board is 5”x21” , sides 10 1/4” x 19 3/4” , front 3 1/2” x 19 3/4”, back 3 1/2”x 9 1/2”. 5 frame nuc measurements - bottom board 9” x 21”, sides 10 1/4” x 19 3/4”, front 7 3/4” x 8 3/4”, back 7 1/2” x 9 1/2” all material is 3/4” thick such as shelving, be sure to paint all exterior surfaces. Hope this helps!
Cool info 👍
Bee cool ;-)
Thanks for informative video
❤️Love from India ❤️🇮🇳
Good job sir
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 😌
Hey I'm new to bee keeping and would like to ask how you set up your boxes? Do you use queens excruders, just want to get my stuff right. Thanks for any advice!!
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
good video jp a im bee dame forma kenya
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.
Nice video
My mans JP uploading some good info. Glad to see you spreading some knowledge, love the videos can't wait for the next.
What a happy chappie... such a positive vibe - We need more ordinary hero's like him everywhere
Thank you
Very smart man
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. 😔
I like you Bee Man ;)
Thx so much, in case lemon grass oil not available, any other suitable oil!?
Thank you....
You are the best
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 🤠
hello JP thx for the tip, im currently doing a study project, do u mind if i ask few more questions? thank you..
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'm getting bees tomorrow and I did this to the only hive I have sometime back ,will my bees be OK?
The dislikes are all from bees lol
Nope it's from Hornets.
@@raufjaleel8317 this didn't age well
Hello, thank you very much for your beautiful videos, it is unfortunate that I do not understand English. I also catch swarms. I realized from your video that you lure bees into a box with propolis and molten wax on the burner. But I didn’t understand what ingredients you used besides propolis and wax, write me a detailed pity and I can learn about them since I can translate the text. Thank you.
Lemongrass oil
Show, Tmj e inscrito 👏👏🤝
This worked for me
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
Is there a preference in wood used for the nukes or woods to be avoided? Great video again, Thanks!