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Beekeeping => Swarms, Cut Outs, Trap Outs and Bee Trees => Topic started by: Intheswamp on April 16, 2014, 11:25:52 pm

Title: Video: Hiving a swarm in a privet hedge thicket....
Post by: Intheswamp on April 16, 2014, 11:25:52 pm
One of the swarms from the privet hedge thicket.  It's a five part video but the best parts are the first few.

Ed

http://youtu.be/mjkLFGm6pKA
Title: Re: Video: Hiving a swarm in a privet hedge thicket....
Post by: blueblood on April 17, 2014, 06:49:24 am
Nice catch! Thanks for the vid.
Title: Re: Video: Hiving a swarm in a privet hedge thicket....
Post by: G3farms on April 17, 2014, 09:20:26 am
That was a dandy swarm, glad to see you got them put up!!
Title: Re: Video: Hiving a swarm in a privet hedge thicket....
Post by: Intheswamp on April 17, 2014, 09:32:29 am
Thanks, guys.  If I can just keep'em all int their boxes I *might* make some honey this year.<sigh>  I walked out back yesterday before heading to work and at first thought another swarm might've issued from one of the hives but once I got to looking it was bees working the flow...definitely need air traffic control down there :D ....bees were going and coming from everywhere!!! 

It's been five days since I got that swarm and bees still are buzzing that limb!!!!!

Here are the other parts of the video (if your life is *really* boring...or maybe for the winter months...cheap entertainment... ;) ).  I think I got them in the right order.<g>

Part 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnTHXhQvWWw
Part 3:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7q-riwrI4
Part 4:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFxUWQUuxk
Part 5:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0WlMU96A0Q

Ed
Title: Re: Video: Hiving a swarm in a privet hedge thicket....
Post by: LazyBkpr on April 17, 2014, 11:24:42 pm
Keep right on videoing...  Watched them all.. I just need to set a loop to vid 3 so I can run it up on the big screen and let them sing me to sleep every night..   Well done and thanks for taking the time!!!!!
Title: Re: Video: Hiving a swarm in a privet hedge thicket....
Post by: rrog13 on April 19, 2014, 10:46:22 pm
Great videos!  My wife spotted a pineapple size swarm up in a pine tree the other day and wanted to help get it into a nuc.  She was cracking up over them “sticking their butts in the air” and fanning.  She doesn’t don her bee jacket very often, but I love it when she does.  ;D
Title: Re: Video: Hiving a swarm in a privet hedge thicket....
Post by: apisbees on April 20, 2014, 01:29:59 am
Nice swarm catch thanks for posting the video