Time laps video of swarm arriving into a bait hive

[Tom Bick]

Time laps video of a swarm arriving at my bait hive. I filmed this over seven days of heavy scout activity to catch this few minutes of action and you can see from the start scout bees at the hive and about 20 seconds in the hive starts to go quiet and almost completely quiet at 50 seconds as the scouts go to collect the swarm and just after the minute the swarm arrives.
The hive also went quiet for about 30-40 mins on Wednesday (swarm arrived Sunday) and could have been when the colony swarmed?
I was at the garden most of the week and of course round the corner looking at a few hives when I got a call but managed to get back and stand in the middle of some of the action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMEfUQvYW20

 

[Erichalfbee]

Excellent stuff, Tom.
No activity at my bait hive yet but then we seem to be in the middle of some deluvian hurricane for the last few weeks.

 

[midnight sun]

Wow, brilliant piece of video. Thanks

 

[Tom Bick]

Excellent stuff, Tom.
No activity at my bait hive yet but then we seem to be in the middle of some deluvian hurricane for the last few weeks.

This one was great but a bit odd in that it quickly built up to 30+ scout bees and stayed reasonably constant for seven days. The bees were guarding the hive. Not aggressive just polite checking of bees entering the hive. Good luck it will all probably kick off once it stops raining.

 

[jonnybeegood]

Loved it, thsnks for sharing, lovely big swarm

 

[einsteinagogo]

Time laps video of a swarm arriving at my bait hive. I filmed this over seven days of heavy scout activity to catch this few minutes of action and you can see from the start scout bees at the hive and about 20 seconds in the hive starts to go quiet and almost completely quiet at 50 seconds as the scouts go to collect the swarm and just after the minute the swarm arrives.
The hive also went quiet for about 30-40 mins on Wednesday (swarm arrived Sunday) and could have been when the colony swarmed?
I was at the garden most of the week and of course round the corner looking at a few hives when I got a call but managed to get back and stand in the middle of some of the action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMEfUQvYW20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvssgseszTI

interest in ours, a week ago, but no swarm arrived, but a colony in the fabric of the building did swarm over that weekend, but it was not caught by us! (I've since thought I may close up the entrance, now I have spare entrance blocks!)

 

[Dan Job]

Nice vid. What sort of camera did you use for seven days constant recording?

Here's a pick of the swarm that arrived in our box last Monday. Really only had busy scout activity for the two days before it arrived. 20-30bees at times.

Dan.

Sorry not sure why its rotated my photo!!

 

[Tom Bick]

The camera is a Brinno TLC 200 I stopped the recording every evening and deleted the days activity and resumed the following morning.

 

[BeeJayBee]

Brilliant video Tom, well worth being patient.

 

[beecology]

That's brilliant footage - really interesting to see the swarm develop into a whirlwind of bees filling the screen.

Thanks for sharing the vid, great stuff

 

[abm]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing this.

 

[Bosleeu]

Great video!