Bait hive etiquette

[tonybloke]

How often do swarms from other apiaries swarm into you apiaries? Do people think that bees attract bees or not?

had one do just that last week!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

si did I three weeks ago

 

[Hivemaker.]

especially when it's not my neighbour's bait hive but it's in my neighbour's garden!

Ask your neighbour if you can put a couple of bait hives in their garden as well.

 

[mbc]

How often do swarms from other apiaries swarm into you apiaries? Do people think that bees attract bees or not?

Bees definately attract other bees, how many new beekeepers find their garden is suddenly a swarm magnet once they have bees and had never had a swarm before ?

 

[psafloyd]

Well, you could always go and find the swarm entering the box and if challenged say you followed them there and have decided to let them settle before resiting them.

Don't see how it is particularly naughty, though. This individual must have access to the land and surely must have bees of their own?

 

[scuttlefish]

Yep, but he only put his bait hives there when he heard I was keeping bees nearby.

And I know they're bait hives not nucs or normal hives 'cos I know the people involved.

So I'll just have to practice swarm prevention rather than swarm control - and hope he picks up any wild swarms with heavy varroa loads that might otherwise nest nearer me...

 

[tkwinston4]

If someone placed bait hives near my bees and they swarmed and settled in one, I think I would be pleased that they were safely hived and not in the neighbour's chimney!
Cazza

 

[flemage]

I did read some thing about this but as normal cant remember where it was from. Could have been practical beekeeping by Dave....err some one.

Any way they stated that setting up bait hives a mile or so away would be fine but putting them near the gates of buckfast abbey would be considered 'sharp practice'.

Perhaps pin a note on the bait hive with that quote on it..........if I can find where I read it. Now was it on the forum???

 

[victor meldrew]

Spanks of gainsmanship to me but no big deal , should your swarm control fail, likelihood is that your swarms will fly off into the blue yonder . Natures way of speading the gene pool . This practice gives pigeon fanciers the willies Young racing pigeons ,commonly adopt this tenancy by 'indulging in a 'Fly away' where all of a crop of youngsters literally disappear over the horizon never to be seen again ! old hen birds liberated from the loft along with the young-uns , to steady them, often get caught up in the excitement and disappear along with them, only to find their way back home in a few days time .
VM

 

[For want of a better word]

putting them near the gates of buckfast abbey would be considered 'sharp practice'.


but a TOTAL waste of time.... everyone knows that them there bees there never ever swarm!

Bred out of them years ago!



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[thorn]

Spanks of gainsmanship to me but no big deal , should your swarm control fail, likelihood is that your swarms will fly off into the blue yonder . Natures way of speading the gene pool . This practice gives pigeon fanciers the willies Young racing pigeons ,commonly adopt this tenancy by 'indulging in a 'Fly away' where all of a crop of youngsters literally disappear over the horizon never to be seen again ! old hen birds liberated from the loft along with the young-uns , to steady them, often get caught up in the excitement and disappear along with them, only to find their way back home in a few days time .
VM

I wish I could persuade my 23 year old daughter to swarm.

 

[victor meldrew]

I wish I could persuade my 23 year old daughter to swarm.

Trick is to find someone/thing to excite her
VM
PS getting rid could be counter productive . My three kids left home , I now have 8 grand kids 5 great grand kids and one on the way . Would have been cheaper encouraging them to stay at home

 

[Elaine]

putting them near the gates of buckfast abbey would be considered 'sharp practice'.


but a TOTAL waste of time.... everyone knows that them there bees there never ever swarm!

Bred out of them years ago!



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I wish someone had told my Buckfasts that they don't swarm