Thank you very much for this video! I am a brand new keeper. My own bees haven’t even been delivered yet and I have NO physical experience working with bees. I’ve only taken a beginner’s course. I was notified about a swarm last night and took the chance. Followed this video to the T and successfully caught my first swarm! Watching them walk up into the hive was awe inspiring. I am over the moon!

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Well done. That’s quite an achievement with no handling experience. Sounds like you have an affinity with bees. I really hope you enjoy your new hobby. Bees are awesome.

@DanyaRhea

3 жыл бұрын

@@cotswoldbees Thank you, I love them already! When would you suggest removing the queen excluder and doing their first inspection?

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

That’s great. First inspection can be done anytime now as soon as it is warm enough. I already have some signs of potential swarming here.

@DanyaRhea

3 жыл бұрын

@@cotswoldbees Okay, great. I had read to leave them alone for a week and wanted to make sure I wasn’t going in too soon. I did give them sugar syrup with Honey B Healthy after 3 days. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Ah sorry. If it’s a new nuc you have just put in then leave them for a week to ten days. Just check on the feeder and top up if necessary. You might want to have a look at my videos on putting a nuc in and first inspections. All the best.

Appreciate your effort doing this video. Watched a few others and then found yours. You explained it so well that I gave it a go to get my first swarm.

@cotswoldbees

6 ай бұрын

Very kind. Thank you. I hope all goes well when you find a swarm.

Nice use of the queen excluder! 'Never knew they have a tendency to march up hill.

I caught a really large swarm last year and successfully got them into a hive. I was really surprised and disappointed three days later when they decided to abscond. Your trick with the queen excluder is great. I find many uses for the excluder beyond the original use. It has become the most versatile tool I have.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad it will be of use.

@zerotobeesixty7050

Жыл бұрын

If you give them a frame or two of open brood from another hive, they will usually stay put. They seldomly abandon open brood.

@cotswoldbees

Жыл бұрын

That’s very true but I try to avoid robbing strong colonies which will be honey producers for a swarm. Also the bees will need to feed the brood at a time when the swarm is short of food. You are right though. They usually don’t abscond if you have open brood there.

@timdavis1042

16 күн бұрын

Great video. Just started Nd was given a swarm which we rehived yesterday. I've put the excluder in place to keep the queen in. How long should it stay in place?

@cotswoldbees

15 күн бұрын

@timdavis1042 Take the excluder out as soon as the queen starts laying.

Super cool! One of my colonies swarmed today and clustered on one of our apple trees. I was able to shake the majority into a Bo’s on the hood of my truck and the rest just marched right in. It was really awesome! It’s the first swarm I ever rescued.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. It really works.

Have always been fascinated by these wonderful insects

Thanks very much for this wealth of teaching. You taught me a lot in these few minutes.

@abdulrahimkhan5714

2 жыл бұрын

Teaching in Diverted style with written ,.lecture and Blanked show of practical caring of Bee.viewers brain is single to listen or View Vedio to Understand but with the situations of Vedio presentation all is at a time penetrating in Brain and creating disturbances

Best Box use ever ! .... Seen lots shaking bees down into a box, close it up, and go (!) And they miss out on all those foragers !!! 🥺 Using a Queen Excluder is a winner. That a winning Swarm Catch... 👍 Here's your Reward ! 🏆 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Glad you like it. It always frustrates me when people take swarms during the day leaving bees behind. Catching swarms properly is a time consuming business.

Great video I’m a new bee keeper 1 year and today one of my 9 hives swarmed….. I get them but did not k own about putting the Queen excluder on the bottom to keep I. Til she lays some eggs….. great info thank you for sharing ….. I’m learning every day. By mid April I will 15’hives strong….. love My bees!

@cotswoldbees

2 ай бұрын

That’s the trouble with bees. Before you know it the number of hives are doubling every time you look!!

love to watch each and every bee is collected.

@cotswoldbees

Ай бұрын

We do our best.

@cotswoldbees

25 күн бұрын

We always do our best to make sure we don’t leave any behind

Lovely video! Clear and concise. Great stuff!

@cotswoldbees

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Fascinating to watch. I had a swarm attach themselves to the front of my house a few months ago. It was mind bending to see how they were caught !

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

They are amazing creatures.

@michaelshadwick3487

2 жыл бұрын

Took about a minute.. all the info was better than the good 'ol days pamphlets from Agricultural Extension Offices. Moving pictures Y'all!

Dealing with swarms is such a rewarding experience!

@cotswoldbees

Жыл бұрын

How True.

Thank you. I've never seen a swarm catch like that!

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

A pleasure. I suspect there will be more like it as the season kicks off.

Thanks for the video, always good to see the swarms, I think we are all looking forward to the spring. Peter

Great lessons, excellent narration, Well done Chris.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I’m glad you are enjoying them.

Thank you. Very nice video.

I am blessed with this video

Man, I hope I saw this yesterday! I caught my first swarm. Moved it to a deep box. When I check the next day, they were gone. I look around and found them but they are really hight, can't get to them. Place the swarm catcher bucket back down, expecting for them to get back in any moment but now I know to place the queen excluter at the bottom.😊 thank you for this information.

@cotswoldbees

2 ай бұрын

Glad it helped. We’ve all had it happen. I lost several until I discovered the excluder trick.

Thank you for the useful information advice 👍

It’s aways a treat to see the girls March. This is a new way (for me) to catch a swarm. If it works - do it! Congrats

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it.

I'm a Texas bee keeper. Here we don't use a cardboard box unless we have nothing else. Here we take a 10 frame box or a 5 frame nuc box with a couple frames of old brood comb and shake them into that. I do like the way you use the queen excluder to cage the queen. We usually try to catch and cage the queen, leave her in the cage 2 or 3 days. I think I'll try your excluder method this spring, easier than fi ding the queen to cage her, my eyes aren't what they used to be.

@cotswoldbees

6 ай бұрын

I sometimes use the nuc method depending on what kit I have available.

It’s so cute how they fan to let everyone know where to go lol.

Thank you so much for your amazing video it was a lovely documentary I watched it 5 times already and showed 5 of my friends it's so interesting thanks again. Lucy

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Lucy, that’s great. Please keep your eyes in the channel for more videos soon.

@lucyfunnell9962

2 жыл бұрын

@@cotswoldbees I certainly will 😊

Thank you. Some nice extra tips from your experience. Much appreciated.

From Norfolk Island, thanks for this epic video, you enabled us to capture a swarm for our first beehive. We shook the bees straight into the beehive which we had positioned under the tree they had swarmed in. The next am we moved the hive before daylight. (When the swarm settled in the tree, hubby finished assembling the hive whilst I watched your video a few times)

@cotswoldbees

6 ай бұрын

That’s fantastic. I’m so pleased. I hope you really enjoy your bees and beekeeping. We will be restarting making our videos very soon.

Bees are fascinating.

Thank you for sharing my wife was absolutely amazed watching this 🍻

@cotswoldbees

24 күн бұрын

I’m so pleased. More to come soon.

Catching swarms is such an adrenaline rush!

I find it hilarious the bees just lay down and let everyone walk over the top of them.

Bees are amazing, and they pollinate flowers and crops!

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

Perfect very nice to re-home, thanks to show us.

There was a giant swarm round the corner from me about a week ago, it was a site to see the keepers got it abit wrong they attempted to shake them into a box exactly how you did they hit the floor and just erupted immeadiatly into a attack the queen was in a ball of them about the size of a cricket ball once she was in the box it was safe for me to come over to see them march into the box it was amazing to seen

I absolutely love Bees they are definitely my favourite insect it was great to see an expert at work. 👌👌👏👏🐝🐝🐝🐝

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. They are great.

Very interesting method. I use a 5 frame nuc box for small swarms. I really like the box and excluder.

Fantastic . Thank you . Just going to collect a similar swarm today so just what I needed to know 🙏

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck. I hope it goes well.

@crimper264

2 жыл бұрын

Did exactly what you said and it was so easy . Thank you xx

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so pleased. Well done.

Fantastic video - thank you very much!

Great teaching video! Thanks

@cotswoldbees

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it

Fascinant , nu am văzut așa de când sunt , fascinant !!

With love ❤️ from 🇴🇲 Oman👌

What a great video. Thanks for sharing🙏🐝🐝🐝

@cotswoldbees

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. It was fun to make.

Great view ! Very beautiful upload ! 👍🏾 👍🏾 Thanks lots dear friend💐

Nice catch!! Great video.Thanks for sharing!!

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. That colony is now tucked up for the winter and will hopefully be productive next year.

Nice to watch,you know what your doing,l ll keep watching other videos you have on site.

How beautifully you have done the work.I too a beekeeper in India.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words. Good luck with your bees

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Change your box for a plastic bucket and put them direcyly into a bee box with 3 combs removed. As the bees thin out you can put the combs back in they cant hang on to plastic they pour like water

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s another possibility. Always more than one way of solving a problem. My thought is that if the swarm is knocked into the box / bucket in the morning or early afternoon it can be a number of hours before all the flying bees are back and you can take the swarm away. If they are in a bucket they can’t cluster. That’s why I always use a box of some description.

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Very interesting method. Thank you.

I have learnt a lot from your video. Thank you very much. I am a new honey bee farmer in Sierra Leone and I want your mentoring

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

That’s great. Please keep watching. There are lots more videos on the way.

Howdy from Texas!🤠🤠👍🐝🐝🐝

Excellent instructional video,

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

I wish I was in a place where I could do this. Awesome videa.

@cotswoldbees

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

Very useful video thanks .

Brilliant video you learn something every day

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Great methods and strategy of catching the braviest bees. These are cold "putyukan" in Philippines. Once you injected on their sting after three days you've got fever.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds nasty.

I’m looking at getting a hive this next spring. Have a peach orchard and vineyard for them. It’s so amazing to see how they can be manipulated by the natural instincts like walking into the hive. Very cool to see in real time the whole process. 👏

*Awesome video!*

Thanks for the education ✅😁🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Great information I’m going to start Bee keeping in the near future here in Hawaii we can’t import any insects so I will have to find a swarm or get a colony from a local Bee keeper just curious how do you size the hive relative to the amount of Bee’s ?

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

We use a standard sized hive known as a National and add more boxes called supers as the colony fills up each box.

This is a very cool video! Thanks for helping the bees 😂🐝.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it.

That's a nice swarm.

From nagaland woo I need your jacket🧥 with a face mask nice video

Outstanding presentation. "Bee good!" 😐

Very interesting! Thanks!

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

I’m really glad you enjoyed it. More videos to follow.

What miraculous creatures! 😮

V Nice method ...Queen Excluder use is very good.

I found put a queen excluder under the bottom will cause a lot of drones dead. have you see a similar issue. if I put a small queen excluder in the front entry, all the bees are good.

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

The queen excluder is only under the hive for a couple of days and as there are almost no drones in the swarm it is not a problem. The queen excluder has been removed long before any drones emerge.

I enjoy the video, it's amazing👍👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Excellent work and good narration

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you enjoyed it. More to come.

They are really cute 🥰😍🤗, I love them 🤗🤗🤗🤗

Terrific video :) Thank you.

I never knew how people caught swarms until tonight! Amazing! What happens to the few bees who are still flying and don't go with the box though?

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you always get a few bees that don’t make it. By leaving the box there for several hours and then coming back to collect them you minimise the problem but I hate to lose any.

Beautiful

Personally, I would use a large sheet underneath the box in the first place, then just fold it over the box in the evening.

@cotswoldbees

Жыл бұрын

A good idea

Thank you for a very informative video.

@cotswoldbees

6 ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it

What material did you use on the ramp? Is it necessary for the ramp to have some grit to it

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

It’s nothing special - just an old towel to give them something to grip onto and make the walk in easier.

Thank you for sharing

Thank u very much.Now I know how to rehome the bees .God bless you and your family always. OFW watching here in Jeddah,K.S.A.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a pleasure. Good luck with the bees.

Excellent!

Lo que me cautivo fue esa careta. hay muchas formas de transladar emjambres de abejas.

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

si pero para mi esta es la mejor manera

Amazing.

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Bees are amazing.

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Ilyen vólt az udvaromon 2ève!! Csodálatos èlmèny vólt! Szoltunk mèhèsznek ès befogták őket!!!

I thought he was saying "Waking up ill" finally realized it's "walking uphill"

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

My appalling diction!!!!

@jawstrock2215

2 жыл бұрын

@@cotswoldbees naw, they just sound very similar, and my brain wasn't wrapping around it :D

Excellent thank you

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Where did these come from - did they empty anther hive or does a hive get too many bees and part of them try to find a new home?

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know the exact source. It wasn’t one of my hives. It would be another hive in the area that had decided to split and swarm.

Excellent video my dearest friend Fully watched and stay blessed 👌😍💫💫🤝🤝🙏🏻🙏🏻

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

What caused the bees to go inside the hive when the queen was not yet there? In some videos, the beekeper finds the queen after shaking the bees, put her in a small plastic box, then placed her in the hive, only then that the rest of the bees follow. You seems to have a deeper understanding of bees behavior when you said they tend to go uphill. First time I saw this technique.

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

Bees will always walk uphill and there is some drawn comb in the hive. They naturally settle. It is so much easier than having to find the queen.

Great video. Thank you. So I followed your instructions and I have the bees in a box, but my new hive doesn’t come for five days. I put the box in a shed. I poked lots of holes in the box and one the size of a coin on the top where i put the top feeder. There not eating. Do you think they will live through these five days?

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

You need to put the box with them outside where they can fly to be able to collect food.

@laughtersun

2 жыл бұрын

@@cotswoldbees so I should cut a whole in the box, tape the Queen excluder over the hole, but won’t they leave the Queen after a few days and not come back?

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the best bet. They must fly and collect food or they will starve. They won’t leave the queen behind.

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@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

We will keep the videos coming but unfortunately you will need to supply the cake. Thanks for watching.

Good work

This is similar how we do it in the states, except I prefer to shake them straight into a regular hive body with a frame or two of honey so they'll want to stay.

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I give them a sugar feed after a couple of days. The thought is if they eat the honey they have brought with them it will get rid of anything nasty in it disease wise as they won’t be able to store it. Thanks for your ideas.

Thank you

Really is miraculous, gotta love it!

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

They are great.

What did you apply in the entrance that those bees just walk inside?

@cotswoldbees

Жыл бұрын

Bees naturally walk up hill and so apart from the comb in the hive no attractant is necessary. They sort it out all by themselves.

WoW Amazing

Thanks super video

@cotswoldbees

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.

I thought that bees walked into a new nuc because the queen was in there. So did they naturally walk up hill and found what looks like a nice new home and entered?

@cotswoldbees

3 жыл бұрын

They walk in naturally. No need to put the queen in first.

Excellent work