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!

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.

Have always been fascinated by these wonderful insects

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.

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

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 ! 🏆 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

love to watch each and every bee is collected.

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.

Dealing with swarms is such a rewarding experience!

Lovely video! Clear and concise. Great stuff!

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

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!

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

Catching swarms is such an adrenaline rush!

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

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 !

Great lessons, excellent narration, Well done Chris.

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.

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

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.

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

Thank you for the useful information advice 👍

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

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

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)

Bees are amazing, and they pollinate flowers and crops!

Thank you. Very nice video.

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

Bees are fascinating.

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. 👌👌👏👏🐝🐝🐝🐝

I am blessed with this video

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

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

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

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

Fantastic video - thank you very much!

What miraculous creatures! 😮

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Howdy from Texas!🤠🤠👍🐝🐝🐝

Terrific video :) Thank you.

Very useful video thanks .

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

*Awesome video!*

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?

Outstanding presentation. "Bee good!" 😐

Brilliant video you learn something every day

Very interesting method. Thank you.

That's a nice swarm.

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 ?

Great teaching video! Thanks

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

Excellent work and good narration

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

Very interesting! Thanks!

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.

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

Excellent instructional video,

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

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

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

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

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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. 👏

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.

Amazing.

How to relocate colony from high rise buildings. These are generally rock bees in India. Your guidance in this regard will be great full. Thanks. Your video is excellent and help us to migrate small colonies. Thank you very much for sharing video. Regards.

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.

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

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?

Oh, very nice idea to use the excluder to prevent the queen to leave the hive. How long do you leave it in there? Asking because 2 days ago I've picked up a swarm, put it in a hive and today they flew away from the hive leaving it empty :-(

Thank you for sharing

Beautiful

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Excellent thank you

Why don't you shake them directly into a deep or a nuc and cut out the use of the cardboard box? When you did the tip from the box to the towel you risked dumping the queen at your feet and losing her. You dumped a whole load at your feet and into the grass. Bees love old comb and had you dumped them into a deep with a couple of old empty brood frames you would have not have had to have risked the second transfer. I did however like the use of the uphill gradient to encourage them to walk up. I'll use that on my own swarm captures. The nuc on a block, with the towel draping out front as you shake them off is a great idea, thanks.

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Thank you for a very informative video.

WoW Amazing

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.

Good work

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Excellent!

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Now thats alot of bees. Sheezz!

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Would you be able to put a swarm back into its original hive?

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