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The new hive with the caught swarm has pollen going in and the bait hive might be back to scout bees and no robbing.
#beekeeping #bees #beehive #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #SwarmTrap #April21 #HoneyBees
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The new hive with the caught swarm has pollen going in and the bait hive might be back to scout bees and no robbing.
#beekeeping #bees #beehive #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #SwarmTrap #April21 #HoneyBees
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The new hive with the caught swarm has pollen going in and the bait hive might be back to scout bees and no robbing.
#beekeeping #bees #beehive #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #SwarmTrap #April21 #HoneyBees
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The new hive with the caught swarm has pollen going in and the bait hive might be back to scout bees and no robbing.
#beekeeping #bees #beehive #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #SwarmTrap #April21 #HoneyBees
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The new hive with the caught swarm has pollen going in and the bait hive might be back to scout bees and no robbing.
#beekeeping #bees #beehive #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #SwarmTrap #April21 #HoneyBees
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This same hive swarmed at the same degree days last year and it's not even the same bees unless the swarm I caught and put in the box was from there originally.
My bee log entry last night:
"Last year: April 23, 2025 107.4 + 184.9 = 292.3 Blossom degrees
Swarm day, West hive, might have been a fire drill,, but that meant queen flying.""Apr 18, 2026 Feb 8.5 + Mar 145.9 = 154.4 + 150.5 = 304.9 Blossom degrees"
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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This same hive swarmed at the same degree days last year and it's not even the same bees unless the swarm I caught and put in the box was from there originally.
My bee log entry last night:
"Last year: April 23, 2025 107.4 + 184.9 = 292.3 Blossom degrees
Swarm day, West hive, might have been a fire drill,, but that meant queen flying.""Apr 18, 2026 Feb 8.5 + Mar 145.9 = 154.4 + 150.5 = 304.9 Blossom degrees"
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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This same hive swarmed at the same degree days last year and it's not even the same bees unless the swarm I caught and put in the box was from there originally.
My bee log entry last night:
"Last year: April 23, 2025 107.4 + 184.9 = 292.3 Blossom degrees
Swarm day, West hive, might have been a fire drill,, but that meant queen flying.""Apr 18, 2026 Feb 8.5 + Mar 145.9 = 154.4 + 150.5 = 304.9 Blossom degrees"
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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This same hive swarmed at the same degree days last year and it's not even the same bees unless the swarm I caught and put in the box was from there originally.
My bee log entry last night:
"Last year: April 23, 2025 107.4 + 184.9 = 292.3 Blossom degrees
Swarm day, West hive, might have been a fire drill,, but that meant queen flying.""Apr 18, 2026 Feb 8.5 + Mar 145.9 = 154.4 + 150.5 = 304.9 Blossom degrees"
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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This same hive swarmed at the same degree days last year and it's not even the same bees unless the swarm I caught and put in the box was from there originally.
My bee log entry last night:
"Last year: April 23, 2025 107.4 + 184.9 = 292.3 Blossom degrees
Swarm day, West hive, might have been a fire drill,, but that meant queen flying.""Apr 18, 2026 Feb 8.5 + Mar 145.9 = 154.4 + 150.5 = 304.9 Blossom degrees"
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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One of the hives swarmed today and it was low enough in a tree I could catch it while standing 7 feet up on a ladder with a fiberglass pole I modified. Once most of the bees were caught the weight couldn't be held vertical and then I heard a crack from the pole I let it go and landed on my roof. I got them in an empty hive before dark.
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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One of the hives swarmed today and it was low enough in a tree I could catch it while standing 7 feet up on a ladder with a fiberglass pole I modified. Once most of the bees were caught the weight couldn't be held vertical and then I heard a crack from the pole I let it go and landed on my roof. I got them in an empty hive before dark.
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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One of the hives swarmed today and it was low enough in a tree I could catch it while standing 7 feet up on a ladder with a fiberglass pole I modified. Once most of the bees were caught the weight couldn't be held vertical and then I heard a crack from the pole I let it go and landed on my roof. I got them in an empty hive before dark.
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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One of the hives swarmed today and it was low enough in a tree I could catch it while standing 7 feet up on a ladder with a fiberglass pole I modified. Once most of the bees were caught the weight couldn't be held vertical and then I heard a crack from the pole I let it go and landed on my roof. I got them in an empty hive before dark.
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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One of the hives swarmed today and it was low enough in a tree I could catch it while standing 7 feet up on a ladder with a fiberglass pole I modified. Once most of the bees were caught the weight couldn't be held vertical and then I heard a crack from the pole I let it go and landed on my roof. I got them in an empty hive before dark.
#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary
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Recent reporting says thousands of bees swarmed parts of southern Israel, especially Netivot, prompting authorities to tell residents to remain indoors and keep openings shut.
#Israel #BeeSwarm #Nature #Environment #WorldNews #UrbanWildlife -
A view into the hive as it was getting dark tonight. There seems to be enough bees they are hanging below the frames.
I didn't observe any of my hives swarm in the last week since I checked them and the one high population hive stopped bearding after I swapped the supers around, which seemed odd but I doubt they swarmed that same day and took a week to move into the bait hive. Mystery bees or an earlier swarm that came back after outgrowing whatever they found.
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The swarm moving in from start to finish, 20 minutes of video in 20 seconds.
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I looked at the bait hive this afternoon and there were a lot of bees behaving a bit odd there. The bait hive has been quiet for most of the week since I checked some of the hives a week ago. I put a camera up and when I was checking it later there was a swarm moving in! They say a swarm in July is not worth a fly, we'll see. Looking at the hive now you'd think it was just a few scout bees unless you paid attention.
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Swarm update. They flew off around 12:00 yesterday when I wasn't looking at the camera I had pointed at them. Activity at the bait hive was typical for what it has been for a week or more.
Log entry today for the bait hive:
"12:39 Four bees in bait hive. Much less activity, no warring activity, it's as if one camp of scouts got back home last night and exclaimed "Where the fuck did everyone go?!""
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It's a swarmy day.
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In der Zeitschrift „Wirtschaft und Statistik“ von @destatis habe ich ein Making of der #Beeswarm Grafik „Mieten in Deutschland“ (Zensus 2022) beschrieben. Der Aufsatz (pdf) enthält quantitative Analysen zur erreichbaren Genauigkeit der Darstellung in Abhängigkeit von den Kräfte-Parametern als auch der Iterationstiefe der force Simulation https://www.destatis.de/DE/Methoden/WISTA-Wirtschaft-und-Statistik/2025/03/wista-032025.html
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I found the bee ball video!!
In 2020, a swarm of bees landed in the plum tree and got trapped there by bad weather.
It rained constantly so they couldn't up and leave (the Queen can barely fly, and they don't feed while 'moving house')
On day 2 of constant thunderstorms, I rang a local beekeeper, to see if he could help..
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Photos of the cluster in the tree and the hive afterwards. I didn't realize it till I looked at photos and then went and confirmed with binoculars that there were two clusters so it was more bees than I initially thought. They were all joined up 15 minutes before they all took flight and left.
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There was a huge swarm of #bees around this house - the air was filled with a hum I recognise from when it happened in our garden.
Somewhere in the roof eaves is a wild bee nest that is splitting.
The agitated swarm fill the air to protect the queen (she can barely fly).
Once she lands, they will ball up around her, then send out scouts to find a new nest site.
By the time we came back from our hike, noise and bees had gone.
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I put the gopro on the bait hive this afternoon for a few hours and sped through the footage and saw some scout bees. Almost exactly 24 hours after I put it in this spot.
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All those drones, the traffic jam... Swarmed. I heard the dreaded sound when I stepped outside.
Some up in the tree, can't really tell how big of cluster but it's not small. I think a lot of those bearded bees went back in and then I scooped them up into the entrance and they seemed to have gone back in the hive. The swarm is too high up in the tree to do anything about. My swarm catcher socks weren't worth I guess.
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I added some plates to attach the bottom board for moving the nuc hives around and to stack them 2 deep for normal or use as a bait hive. I also added a traditional 'looks like a tree hole' feature to the entrance, put a piece of corrugated plastic sheet under the cover so they can't glue it down, and used some canopy bungee cords to hold down the cover. It's baited up and 5 heavy waxed frames in the top box.
#beekeeping #NucHive #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #diy #bees
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@Pollinators I looked it up to be sure and it's the Lorenzo Langstroth's 1861 book Hive and the Honey Bee, which is the third edition. It was not in the first edition.
Copy of it here:
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I made bee swarm bivouacs. It's an old branch with a black sock attached to piece of plywood. The sock is coated with dirty beeswax and some lemongrass oil added. I put them in the closest trees to the hives. I guess the idea it to make it look like cluster of bees so they gather up there if they leave MY hives, instead of 100 feet up in a tree, so they can be captured. It's mentioned in the 1861 Hive and the Honey Bee book by Lorenzo Langstroth.
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I took the new hive and I divided it vertically to make two 5-frame bait hives. I had a deep sized divider so I just made another one with the ability for the upper one to slot into it. It should work and I can put frames in the lower box too if I want to keep it divided this way for longer.
Now we wait for warmer, drier, less windy weather.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #April8
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I took the new hive and I divided it vertically to make two 5-frame bait hives. I had a deep sized divider so I just made another one with the ability for the upper one to slot into it. It should work and I can put frames in the lower box too if I want to keep it divided this way for longer.
Now we wait for warmer, drier, less windy weather.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #April8
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I took the new hive and I divided it vertically to make two 5-frame bait hives. I had a deep sized divider so I just made another one with the ability for the upper one to slot into it. It should work and I can put frames in the lower box too if I want to keep it divided this way for longer.
Now we wait for warmer, drier, less windy weather.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #April8
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I took the new hive and I divided it vertically to make two 5-frame bait hives. I had a deep sized divider so I just made another one with the ability for the upper one to slot into it. It should work and I can put frames in the lower box too if I want to keep it divided this way for longer.
Now we wait for warmer, drier, less windy weather.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #April8
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I took the new hive and I divided it vertically to make two 5-frame bait hives. I had a deep sized divider so I just made another one with the ability for the upper one to slot into it. It should work and I can put frames in the lower box too if I want to keep it divided this way for longer.
Now we wait for warmer, drier, less windy weather.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #April8
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The bait hive, or swarm trap, is set. Lemongrass oil put on the cotton ball in a little plastic bag and it hangs between the first two frames. I rub propolis on all the top bar sides, and I rub saved comb wax from hive inspections that hasn't been rendered on all the foundations. I don't have extra brood comb to use.
This sits at about eye level behind my hives under a little pine tree.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #April8 #apiary
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The bait hive, or swarm trap, is set. Lemongrass oil put on the cotton ball in a little plastic bag and it hangs between the first two frames. I rub propolis on all the top bar sides, and I rub saved comb wax from hive inspections that hasn't been rendered on all the foundations. I don't have extra brood comb to use.
This sits at about eye level behind my hives under a little pine tree.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #April8 #apiary
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The bait hive, or swarm trap, is set. Lemongrass oil put on the cotton ball in a little plastic bag and it hangs between the first two frames. I rub propolis on all the top bar sides, and I rub saved comb wax from hive inspections that hasn't been rendered on all the foundations. I don't have extra brood comb to use.
This sits at about eye level behind my hives under a little pine tree.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #April8 #apiary
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The bait hive, or swarm trap, is set. Lemongrass oil put on the cotton ball in a little plastic bag and it hangs between the first two frames. I rub propolis on all the top bar sides, and I rub saved comb wax from hive inspections that hasn't been rendered on all the foundations. I don't have extra brood comb to use.
This sits at about eye level behind my hives under a little pine tree.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #April8 #apiary
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The bait hive, or swarm trap, is set. Lemongrass oil put on the cotton ball in a little plastic bag and it hangs between the first two frames. I rub propolis on all the top bar sides, and I rub saved comb wax from hive inspections that hasn't been rendered on all the foundations. I don't have extra brood comb to use.
This sits at about eye level behind my hives under a little pine tree.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #April8 #apiary