Swarms

[Erichalfbee]

Thought I’d start a thread so people can post their videos and pictures of this years swarms.
Just for fun
Here’s a small cast to get started

https://www.dropbox.com/s/10ndbfcgcyzuiwd/Video 19-05-2020, 13 06 42.mov?dl=0

 

[bingevader]

Not in school as often!
Got to school last Friday to find a full bait hive, so no pics, sadly.
Transferred it on Monday, wall to wall bees and eggs and larvae, so been there a few days.
Nice and calm, settled down quickly (I'm sure the eggs and larvae helped with that) and no obvious signs of disease.

 

[beeno]

Lovely, video Dani. Were they going into a bait hive?

 

[Swarm]

Lovely to watch. Regular as clockwork as well, heh.

 

[Antipodes]

Brill.....Lovely to see the blossoms and hear the birdsong too!

 

[Curly green finger's]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219934280760568&id=1028434284
Here's my second from yesterday.. They absconded and when I went to out apiary 1 they were in a 14x12 poly nuc in the shade.. This out apiary is half a mile away down the hill a bit.

This might work better.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BritishBeekeepers/permalink/3307257815975682/

 

[Erichalfbee]

Lovely, video Dani. Were they going into a bait hive?

Yes. The bait hive up there in the garden never fails and the swarms always come from the same direction

 

[fizzle]

Made a couple of swarm traps over winter. Gave one to A friend who sent me this about an hour ago

https://youtu.be/RAYf9MRSm6k

 

[XYZ]

Vacuumed this one up yesterday and hived them. Couldn't find the queen.

Didn't take long before the abelo entrance reducer was taken out while they marched in

 

[enrico]

There's the queen ...... 36th row down 20th from the left.....

 

[XYZ]

There's the queen ...... 36th row down 20th from the left.....

Hey! Stop that!!

 

[burren]

one cast

Here is a cast from my hive. the nuc box appeared too small, so decided on a national. There were several patches of bees that eventually went under the branches, not too high, 5 or 6 feet and formed 3 big lumps of bees. i shook the branches over the box. This was 10th July. They stayed in the box, moved it over to other 2 hives 10-15 feet away. Today eggs seen on one side of frame 5.

 

[burren]

one cast

cont

 

[Erichalfbee]

Here’s the first of the year. Potting shed again
Never fails
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[The Poot]

My first this year. Hived into a double brood Payne’s nuc, all good. Vaped on day 2, fed on day 3, absconded on day 4........

 

[Newbeeneil]

My first this year. Hived into a double brood Payne’s nuc, all good. Vaped on day 2, fed on day 3, absconded on day 4........

I've had them abscond after vaping. I now wait until I see eggs before vaping as nothing will move them once HM is laying.

 

[elainemary]

Here’s mine from my Cloakboard hive today. Bees returned to the hive as Cloakboard still on, back entrance closed & queen clipped. I already swarm controlled earlier in the week after I found 2 open cells taking away all the brood bar one patch of sealed and putting the sealed grafts at the top of the hive above a Horsley board. Thought I’d done enough to take the swarm urge away. No! Found the queen back in the main hive and she’s now safely in a Nuc. Downside of grafting into a prolific hive. What a week!

 

[The Poot]

I've had them abscond after vaping. I now wait until I see eggs before vaping as nothing will move them once HM is laying.

In retrospect I should have added a frame of brood. You could be right about vaping though.
They had drawn new comb and had some old comb, but there was no sign of any eggs. I do wonder if the queen was lost in the melee.
I think they might have returned to their old hive, will be checking what’s occurred to the queen cell I left in there in a few more days.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I've had them abscond after vaping. I now wait until I see eggs before vaping as nothing will move them once HM is laying.

I've had them abscond after the queen has started laying too.