Beekeeping: How To Deal With Swarm Cells For Swarm Control
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Published 2024-04-03
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All Comments (21)
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David, it's Friday, April 5, 3 inches of snow and still snowing, no hive inspection, etc until next week. GREAT POD CAST last night! Hope your weather is getting better.
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My preference is to allow my hives swarm whenever they want. I think it’s just better for the bees and reduces stress. I just keep empty hives around the yard with old brood comb and they always seem to get filled with swarms. On occasion I might need to grab a swarm or two out of a tree but I don’t mind.
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It really is amazing how calm they are when they're away from the hive. Looking forward to more info on that beetle vac. You need a belt holster for that thing.
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This cold spell really slowed things down with the bees. I'm wanting to make splits, but worried about more cold weather coming in April.
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Windy here as well. I had a queen in one hive elude me all year last year. And it was a mean one. She's got to go this year.
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Thank you for sharing!
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Needed this video!!!! Thank you
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Another timely video. Thanks David. Same weather problems here in Maine
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The only guy I know that can intelligently use "red-dot" in two unrelated contexts.
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I've been worried about my big hive that overwintered. It's really strong, and I love this queen. I have two deep brood boxes a medium super on that they have nearly filled with nectar and i just put on a shallow super. I have only seen one empty queen cell. I keep watching, there's plenty of space for brood in the deeps for the queen too. Here in Virginia everything's blooming so there's a lot of resources. They love my cherry tree. Thanks for the information.
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I’m so happy to know about your MOB podcast!
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David THANKS for the video - GREAT ONE! Yes, weather here not very good, rain all day now snow flakes flying, expecting the same until Saturday warmup. I have everything ready to add a feeder, etc. HAVE A GREAT DAY 👍
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Love this video!!!!!!!
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This calls for suspense and popcorn :-)))
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Thank you for this! This is next level beekeeping!! Call it my imagination, but I thought I saw a tiny glisten of an egg on that cup on frame #5 that you didn't destroy. Have you ever tried a "Russian Scion" for a temporary swarm attractant?
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Hi David, I’m happy to see you using the Beetlesucker5000. It works great!
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Watching this is painful. I have the same problem and have already done all the things you said not to do (remove swarm cells without finding queen, install queen excluder, etc). Hopefully the bees can overcome my new beek mistakes. We'll see Monday when the temp warms up again. (Lexington, KY).
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Fun caveat to the queen excluder rules... if you have uncapped brood below the queen excluder, the queen is safe regardless
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Same issue i have here in SW Ohio. All the brood boxes, upper most, are packed. The weather is terrible. Found one with swarm cells capped a week a week ago. Did five Demaree and two splits on the only 60* day. It's snowing this morning, Thursday. Super cell removal Sat/Sun at the latests when it'll be sunny and maybe 55*. Luck. Maybe reduced swarming, into the cold, which would probably kill them.
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Like thst beetle blaster
