bait hive success?

[tonybloke]

loads of activity round a bait hive on the shed roof.
not from any of my hives, I might add


http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=7005&stc=1&d=1343069864

 

[Poly Hive]

Good luck with them.

Worst year here for me ever for swarms. Not even getting calls.

One arrived in one bait hive from a bee tree (I think) apart from that zero. Said bait was by said bee tree...lol

PH

 

[For want of a better word]

requeened 7 bait hives this morning... who actually wants swarmy bees?

 

[Bates]

requeened 7 bait hives this morning... who actually wants swarmy bees?

Best thing to do IMO requeen them swarms.

 

[enrico]

Good luck with them.

Worst year here for me ever for swarms. Not even getting calls.

One arrived in one bait hive from a bee tree (I think) apart from that zero. Said bait was by said bee tree...lol

PH

Our swarms have just started!!?something to do with sun finally arriving

 

[Shabro]

8 swarms collected this year! some given away, others made queenless and united

 

[Sammo]

I had a very large swarm arrive on Sunday afternoon. Seemed to be a very large swarm. Very excited to have seen this. The bait hive had a couple of drawn frames and a few foundation frames. Before the bees arrived, there had been hundreds of scout bees checking the hive out.

 

[Outlander]

How's that baited swarm doing Tony.

 

[Polyanwood]

Today I found a tiny cast swarm living in some frames of foundation. Not more than a teacup of them. Never had much luck with bait hives. I was surprised the cast went in there as I had left the OMF open to reduce the risk of wax moth and I thought that open floor was no good as a bait hive. I gave them a frame with a few eggs and stores today when i found them and reduced the entrance to a couple of bee spaces.

 

[Poly Hive]

I fully expected phone calls today but nope not a chirrup.

PH

 

[MJBee]

Fairly average this year. 1 swarm, 2 easy cut outs and 2 bait hive successes

 

[Polyanwood]

Quite a lot of swarms in London. More than last year.

 

[tonybloke]

here's a video of the bees arriving this morning
http://youtu.be/LONCO35zaoA

 

[BeeJayBee]

here's a video of the bees arriving this morning
http://youtu.be/LONCO35zaoA

Brilliant

 

[Rosti]

My single bait hive has had 5 serial takes this year (End of April to 2nd week June) but it then stopped in it's tracks. Not even a wayward scout to be seen since. Reasons ?......
Weather (only really good patch was last to weeks of May here)?
Early swarming?
Poor forrage meaning slower re-build?

Still, bolstered 2 of my colonies early in the year and got two new beeks up and running for free. Hopefully we wont see a repeat of last year with a high swarm rate in September. There are only so many combinings you can do!

 

[susbees]

There are only so many combinings you can do!

Much easier this year since building ten commercial nucs with separate OMF floors...allows quick combines of one or two nucs over a brood box, nuc over nuc then into a brood box, or enlarging colony towards full box before moving up if short of kit. Always remembering to take newspaper would help!

 

[BeeNice]

Good luck with them.

Worst year here for me ever for swarms. Not even getting calls.

One arrived in one bait hive from a bee tree (I think) apart from that zero. Said bait was by said bee tree...lol

PH

Hi Poly, if you want a swarm or 2, I can put you on our swarm collectors list, having at least 2 a day, always know when the calls are coming as soon as the sun comes out after the spell of bad weather. Collected a very large swarm yesterday. If you can travel to Sheffield or Rotherham you will be welcome. Because I running out of space, again.
regards
Steven

 

[village girl]

here's a video of the bees arriving this morning
http://youtu.be/LONCO35zaoA

exalant vidio how long did it take for them all to settel in ?...

 

[tonybloke]

about 20 minutes, village girl.