I've NEVER Seen This Before... EVER!!
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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I’ve Read about it, but never experienced it!!! Oh and Lets make splits with swarm cells!!
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They'll also do that when a virgin queen goes out to mate. I've also had two swarms to merge. Beekeeping goes back in my family to my great grandfather who kept bees in hollow log sections. I learned from my great uncle who had kept honeybees for 50 years. Swarm season is a busy time, I've caught four so far. Good luck!
Yes I have seen that, but definitely not to this degree:)
Thanks for taking us along to see something truly unique.
I got to experience a swarm once so far. It was so amazing, they were all just flying around pretty chill. It was something of wonder for sure. They ended up in the highest branch possible but we got them down ❤️. After 4 years of beekeeping I still feel like a beginner and really appreciate channels like yours.
the last time i heard that sound i was running like a mad man across a hay field.
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So beautiful!
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God Bless you and your mother. I have such a greater appreciation for what you all go through. I look at my honey in a whole new light. WOW!!
I've learned so much about Bees through your channel and just wanted to say thank you! It prepared me for introducing bees to the homestead recently. One of the most amazing experiences of my life 😍 The swarms are going to be interesting!!!
Thank you for your love of those little Ascension beings that keep our earth alive and thriving you’re an awesome young lady the 21st is my 56 birthday been married to my wife for 31 years and to see someone live and love nature the way you do is absolutely awesome keep up the good work I don’t know how to support you in your endeavor so I’ll just keep watching the videos and listen to all the commercials so that you get paid for it much love much love
Fun times Kaylee! Thanks for sharing the feelings with us.
Clanking 2 metal items together aggravates me too, those bees and I can relate on that!
We actually “tanged” a swarm down for the first time this year…actually it has worked twice this year! We’ve tried several times in years past when we’ve actually seen
A swarm happening and it never worked but it does work! The first ones were headed for the tip top of a huge pine tree and had started to settle and we started banging and within probably 2 minutes the started lowering and we got them into a box! It was so awesome!
I was able to stand in the middle of a small swarm last year in Arizona. It was very fun. I helped the guy capture two little "balls" of bees before I had to leave. I was informed that there were 3 balls with one queen. He captured them all and added another hive to his backyard. So neat :)
Such an awesome experience for sure and how great was that to be a part of it! Many never will experience something so magical ✨🐝
@@TheHoneystead Amen!
i stood inside a swarm and they lifted me strong into the air with their muscular bee arms and together we are one and unstoppable
I have a long langstroth as well that swarmed. From what I heard by the experts. I didn't move my honey barrier frame out more; essentially the bees thinking there is no more room in the hive. Hence creating swarm cells.
(First year beekeeper, so I'm just going off my 4 week experience, you, and local beekeepers association in my area)
Love that you family works together.
This happened in our apiary last year.The air was alive with bees.It was so cool I will never forget it.
Best feeling ever
How do you like your Aviary? A friend of ours purchased one for us but we haven't gotten any bees yet plus we are first timers with bees
We had one of our hives last year decamp twice in two days up into a tree, only to return 45mins later.
The sky shot in the swarm was awesome.
The tone of the banging mimics the queen ultrasonic noise and they go grounded. It’s called “tanging the swarm” here in Britain.
Never seen a swarm? During the spring to mid summer i keep horse shoes close by! Any thing that rings loud. like banging pipe togather ect This bring them down on YOU he hee so coach them to a small tree, to land on! RATHER THAN YOU ~ I LOVE SWARMS ~ My grandpa used metal trash can lids banging them togather ~ I use horseshoes
Hi Congratulations on the new season of bee swarms !!
I tried clanging once and my neighbor said “no wonder we’ve been getting so much rain” 😜😂
They may be trying to get to a location not so directly exposed to the Sun. It's warm in a hive, all their motion is converted to heat.
I’m not sure if anyone picked this up but if you listen very carefully ,while the lady was talking you can hear a queen piping from 5:15 to 5:20 and again a very short pipe a few seconds later while she was holding the frame with the peanut queen cell on it. Hard to hear it but you can if you focus , , beekeepers voice was a little strong at the time you can notice a Queen piping.
Had that practice swarming happen in my 1st year of beekeeping 11 years ago. Freaked me out! Didn't know what was happening. Magical & stunning. Hope you caught them in time.
Lol I bet!!!
Yep, when I have that happen I split taking the old queen. Once they are in swarm mode it can be hard to stop that, taking the old queen and leaving the cells behind seems to work better for me.
Yes indeed magical - an excellent if not slightly dramatic audio visual feast on just how unpredictable beekeeping can be - and super useful how to lesson on preemptive splits. Metal clinging to call the swarm down to earth is known to mountain beekeepers in southern Albania as is curiously the sprinkling of water in the air - the thunder explanation makes perfect sense so thank you! Sometimes the swarm lands nearby, other times it flies away!
My largest hive just did the exact same thing two days ago. I was totally perplexed.
Very cool to see a fire drill swarm. I’ve only ever had the real deal! You’re a month or two ahead of me on Canada’s west coast
Sending good bee vibes your way when you’re able to spend time with your girls!
Try to find the queen in the colonies that have capped Queen cells and move the queen to a new spot and let the queen cell hatch in the original position! Good news is have strong hives!
lol its mesmerising, could watch them all day.
I love your channel you’re a blessed young lady several years ago about 15 I was delivering flowers to a dealer and a swarm of bees came in everybody ran inside I didn’t I ran right to the middle of the swarm and stood there as the bees flew around me just blessing them for that awesome feeling of pure earth it was awesome and people were looking at me like I was stupid auto care it was an enjoyable experience to be in a swarm the vibration and the frequency in the frequency is what you’re doing with the clinging to get them to settle but the frequency when you’re in a swarm of bees is just aren’t real
Bee wrangling at its finest. I am glad you all were able to get that taken care of. I seen one of my hives swarm before and I wasn’t able to catch them. Sorta a bummer when you see your bees flying off into the wild blue yonder. Great video ladies.
I was watching a daddykirbs video of trying to get a swarm that was too high. I decided to try out your idea of putting a swarm trap on top of a ladder underneath them. It actually worked the same day. Used swarm Commander and dtawn Combs inside. Thanks for the tip!
If you have garden hose you can spray water above them that will help
Also bang 2 rocks just like you using the tools
Rocks make better vibrations in air
I just picked up on the little green overhang at entrance to your orange nuc boxes. Cool!!. That could help deter small hive beetles from entering.
Oh man.. Go back and watch the video where you just show the bees with the sky as a backdrop. I can see a PATTERN in their flight!!
Great stuff Kaylee! You just never know…
Crazy to see how well tanging helps! I called it pinging in my video LOL
So, the trick is, to recognize the signs, & split them before they swarm. Am I correct?
About to start my venture, soaking up knowledge like a sponge!
So much to know!
Been taking nibbles to keep from being overwhelmed.
It can be overwhelming, but so worth it! Learn how to read a colony, but remember you will always be a student! Let them teach you!
@@TheHoneystead Reading body language takes time, but once you have it, your much less likely to get caught off guard for sure!
Thank you, for doing all you do! Your soft & caring aspect, keeps me coming back to learn more! 👍👍😃
I only use the pro nuc box. For when a nuc customer takes it home. They can over heat and they cause to much moisture. I do my splits in wooden nuc boxes.
Swarms are definitely magical. This is our second year keeping and I felt that shift in the air and saw bees on the front of the hive a day before I found a swarm on the ground and caught them. Must have been them leaving out of their hive and I didn't know what I was sensing at the time! I assumed they were just congested at the door coming in from foraging. Nope! At next hive inspection that colony was definitely the one that swarmed! ❤🐝
Good catch for sure!!!!!
@@TheHoneystead my bees (swarms) often land on the ground. The trees are several hundred feet away. There are some fencing posts and things in between the apiary and the trees. I though it odd that I keep catching them low. Is that typical? Do they usually only fly out a short distance?
@@SageandStoneHomestead
Maybe plant a bee friendly bush nearby? Idk, I’m only a beekeeper in my imagination, lol.
Put out a Russian scion spray it with some lemongrass or swarm commander and clank your metal. Seem videos on keepers using it seems to work well. So it was that longbox again or do you think it was just part two of that swarm event? Been 🌧 then now 🌞the 🐝 said lets 🥳 Ty for sharing your time, Blessed Days...
Blessed bee! 🐝
Lucky bcz You caught them while ' fire drilling'! 🐝👍
The imitation of thunder definitely works, but you'd do better going for more base vibration (like distant thunder), by using a big metal pot and a wooden spoon.
Please keep momma safe! 🙏
I watch your videos in amazement. In one of your videos I watched as you held this ball of bee's and in this video I watched the bee's flying all around you. How do you stay so calm? Though I must admit it seems like a really exciting event to be in the middle of. On video the sound kind of feels relaxing but how do you keep from panicking? I was stung once by accident. I reached in a box to pick up a lens cap and a bee was on it I didn't see. I can't imagine handling a ball of bee's on purpose. I know the value of bee keeping and that bee's are being killed off by monsanto. I watch your videos to learn but just out of amazement also. I have downloaded and archived all of your videos as part of my knowledge base for when I can own my own land. I very much enjoy your videos on wild plans and making tincture's. Thank you for making these videos. I look forward to each new one. MAuy God continue to watch over you, your family and friends.
The exact same thing happened to me last year, that a lot of fun. I took me a while before I realized what they were doing 💕🐝😁.
Wow. So you split them and then leave them open by each other …… the extra bees that are still flying around will decide which box they need to join?
I've never tanged a swarm, but I do believe that it works! Awesome video! Thanks for sharing.
I’m learning a lot from you , thank you , 👍🤙🙏
Magical! And your enthusiasm and curiosity make learning extra delightful.
So crazy this time of year.
I this my horizontal hive swarmed 3 times in like one day!!!! Lol but I’m glad to have made splits with the swarm cells :)
@@TheHoneystead my log swarmed three times too. Luckily they all landed very low.
I have this happen in my bee yard and they did wind up swarming in a couple days. I did collect them. Your splits should help
I'm glad you survived! 😊👌
The bees are good at weather, they can sense barrametric pressure changes. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, let's go out side and play. Also, they looked like a heathy hive and they want space to grow. As you said, the low queen cells are the tell, time to split.
i was checking on hives yesterday and two looked swarm-ish. after i smoked one and took some frames out, the other hive had calmed down. so smoking them might help buy some time too :) not ideal, as i've noticed the smoke stuns some of them a bit too much, but sometimes they just need to be sedated.
Kaylee, please be careful with the pro nucs and them getting too much sun. The first split I made into a pro nuc the heat literally cooked the bees and I had the top on the vented side. I had it sitting where it got 4 or 5 hours of midday sun. I also had another one sitting 5 or 6 feet away in a wooden nuc box that thrived and the wood box didn’t have a top vent at all. Good luck!
Ohhh wow!!! Thank you for that! This is my first season using them!
Great advice Don. Will be using 10 this summer first time. Already have a spot picked out with diffused light. Your basically putting you bees in a green house if you leave in full sun. If you don’t have shaded area, I’m thinking if you cover will avoid overheating should make for a cooler home.
If you put a political sign on top it'll help alot. Buy some time anyhow
I used pro nucs, 20 of them, this year for the first time. All in full sun. I just checked them today. Most were dead. I had no idea why. Maybe now I do. Thanks for the info.
Yeah don't like those pro nucs
How do you tell the difference between a swarm peanut and a queen peanut? The numbers on a frame? Novice here...still patiently waiting for my girls to return to Grandma oak! Thanks
"Look out ! She's got a TROWEL !!'
Cool ! My brother and I have an apiary of about 300 hives. It is always very interesting to see how people do it in other countries, on other continents. With best wishes to the author from Ukraine)
I hope I get to see a bee "fire drill" someday!
Lol 🔥🐝🧯🚒
Same
The shot @ 2:22 is awesome!!
I think I had a false swarm once. The bees flying all over, but then back to the hive.
I've tanged swarms many times. It works for me. I use a metal wheelbarrow and a hammer.
Tanging works every time!!
I've heard that you can spray them with your garden hose mimicking rain to stop a swarm, I've never tried it though.
Lol my luck id drown them!
Since my hives are in my backyard, I’ve had the opportunity to try misting swarms on quite a few occasions. What I’ve found is that a light spray applied when the cloud of bees is still swirling all around and within, say, 15 feet of the hive, the swarm will return to the hive. If some portion is up 25-30 feet overhead or has moved off that far to one side, they won’t return. However, by combining the misting with clanging I’ve had a couple of large swarms leave my hives and quickly settle into a low shrub behind the house next door.
It never gets old
Never :)
Always magical to stand right inside a swarm. Even better without any armour. Better still when your know they will house themselves as planned all along.
It's a good strategy to place several bait hives (nuke boxes and full size both work) and ideally at around 2m sweet spot height around all your apiary sites. Most swarms land at that height and swarm around 1 hour after sun max (real noon). For conventional wax frames make pop holes in middle of brood chamber and relocate queen cups or cells there makes for quicker finding of activity. The cells at base of frame suggest hive running hot and gapping chambers with "matchsticks" may resolve that. The bees will propolis over excessive chilling. Those same low cells are more vulnerable to chill and damage so higher placement mid-brood is preferable in my opinion. I ran many double brood chamber Langstroths, big strong colonies, that facilitate easy increase and ensure adequate brood space and stores. You might also try double queen setups with maybe intended split in mind but using combined heat and ventilation of two colonies in same stack to good effect. However, it does make for heavy hefting.
Always advise run an empty super/s on all hives with sheet of lightly perforated newspaper in between. If they want the space they will use it. The same method can be employed on full intended/envisioned stack and can prevent swarming from lack of available space. Bait hives placed always; you'll probably get a lot of neighbours bees as bees soon know they are there and to considerable distance; your neighbours bees will know.
Please give us an update on how the girls ended up! I love swarms
Absolutely:)
Me too. I wish I was able to have an apiary but I’m a renter, not a homeowner ☹️
I believe the tanging also sometimes causes the queen to return to the hive, fearing and impending storm. I have had this happen 4 or 5 times. I found the queen once on the front of the hive and another time in the grass in the grass in front of the hive. Two other times the swarm hung from the bottom of the hive stand. Only once did they actually go back into the hive, and then swarmed a couple hours later.
greetings karell, you are doing this job very correctly and lovingly, we are watching you with pleasure, take it easy and good luc
Look into making a few 2-frame mating nucs.
I absolutely love mine. If you ever would like, I can send you the dimensions.
I get all this expensive bad ass scrap wood at houses going up around here.
It's great! Free lumber!
Wow!! Magical!!
The queen never left the hive so they went back home.
The swarming is nutty.
I have seen bees do this several times don't know if is a mating flight or practice swarm but they did it several times and returned to the hive and stayed. The pro nuc boxes are ovens for cooking bees they have to be in full shade all day long or you will kill the bees. I have had a hive swarming and take a box set it in the middle of the swarm with the top off and several frames in it and put a little bit of swarm commander on the frames and they fly right in. ❤️🐝
What is this hive at 0:44? Looks like two bottom boards but a single WIDE 20 frame deep box and lid? We need more information about that!
That shot at 2:22 of them flying with the blue sky was just awesome.
Nice one. Thanks for sharing!
I like the clanging metal trick. Is there any truth in calming a swarm using a sprinkle/mist setting with a hose so they go back into the hive thinking there's a rain storm?
I use a crow bar and a hammer. It is loud. It really works.
it's the year of the bees!
I had a swarm go out land in a tree and go back home after 30 minutes. 😆
I'm guessing - maybe the shaking a piece of metal sheet to imitate thunder would work better than clanking? And you could also try a YT video with thunder as loud as you can. Could bee :P interesting to hear, if anyone has any results from these things. At least I already have learned something from my first of your videos. Greetings from Denmark
Im going to inspect my new hives on Saturday.
I wonder if a metal trash can lid would work better than the to diggers.
Oh 100% lol I just grabbed what I had :)
@@TheHoneystead I know but I should have made myself more clear, the next time it happens. Sorry for the confusion on my part.
When hives swarm in nature normally they are the only hive in the area..In your yard you have many colonies . The swarm with a laying Queen .they take to the air wow the entire bees in the area are excited . Some of the bees join and the swarm can get a huge swarm even lost within the roar taking longer flying around your apiary yard . But getting more bigger in size as the older nectar full bees from other hives join it.However a second swarm can also come from the hive as virgins hatch the hive can have many virgins hatching to many fights so off she goes out of the hive .we call these casts ,some gentics can swarm more than once . The casts can be the size of a tennis ball pitching in a tree .weather conditions nectar conditions ,size of yard have impacts .The cast can get bigger just by flying around your yard .Swarms can an do join together eg( More than 1 queen).swarming in a yard can reduce the flying bee's in your yard as they join the swarm .cast swarms virgin queens can be very small .in good flow conditions queenless hives in your yard can be a target for these type of swarms as they can be accepted into this hive without fuss ..Different story if no flow on . Small swarms more likely virgins .
Large swarms more likely more than one queen .after all its very possible in beekeeping yards ,less likely in the wild as colonies are not close to one another .You can write a book just on swarming many factors play a part on why when,where ,awesome
Magical is exactly what it is!
The bee is beautiful, it must be protected from extinction
Love watching you with the bees. Always very informative.
I like doing checker boarding seems to help
Not ASMR, but fascinating to see! 😆
Calling for SNOW tomorrow in Denver. But a "Magical Moment" for Kaylee and Bridget in Virginia🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 I love that sound, knowing they are just looking for a new home. Make a short jump within your space to find a "Nuke Home". You are the best. Nice work Beekeeper.
Ohhh snow!!!!! I couldn’t imagine getting snow!!!
@@TheHoneystead Life in the Big City. Homeland Security Inspection Audit "Of which is on my shoulders" yesterday. Watching you swarm today and snow tomorrow. Oh and we smoked the Audit, above and beyond. Yeah buddy.
I was always told that swarms were the result of restricting space in a hive and that you needed to put in more supers to prevent it?
This hive is a different hive to where you don’t add supers and even with added space, they still wanted to swarm!
You certainly have a bee gift. Have you done a video on mite treatment you could link for me? What do you do to manage them?
I have talked about it in my lives.. but I do need to do a full video on that for sure!
I have had better luck moving the queen out. And letting the new queen have the old hive. What has happened is they make more cells and still swarm with that old queen.
Every time I see a peanut --- bam, split!
Earlier this week one of my hives did one of those 'fake swarms.'
I've never seen that before. They all flew up to the branch (which was above my go gitt'm height). All I could think was - bees, have a nice journey! As soon as they returned I split the daylights out of them.
I don't know where the original queen was so I left each split weak, but with -queen cell,- I mean, peanut.
When each of these single frame splits (if) gets mated...Then I'll give them a couple more frames of goodies. No mated queen, then recombine.
I live in town...I joke about having too many hives, but I'm up to 42 (this is at my house in Austin TX).
As soon as my truck gets going (picking up transmission Monday), I need to haul most out of here to my out yards. Jeasch. 42. Way too many. That's what happens when you massively over feed (not complaining).
That tanging thing I've tried once, but it didn't work.
Hey thanks, Very interesting. I'm thinking about bee keeping on our little "homestead" Been spending time researching, trying to learn as much as I can before jumping in with booth feet. Take care and God Bless you and yours.
Does a swarm happen when the population of the hive is too large? If so, isn't that noticeable beforehand?
What cool visuals you got today
I think your going to hate those plastic boxes. with in 2 year they will crystalize and become crumbly ! While i still have good old fashion wooden boxes, that are lasting over 20 years!
I was out adding more honey boxes and caught a swarm in action like this but mine went into one of our dead out hive. The easiest swarm I caught!
Get the boxes off the ground ..there are mites getting in to your hives... And make the boxes 3 deep instead of 1 bigger the hive the better quality honey