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Maybe free bees? if they're not the swarm from 5 days ago which would be unlikely unless they didn't like their first pick of a new home. The bait hive was very active yesterday, then it wasn't at all, then before dark it was really active again and some looking like they'd spend the night. This morning when I looked it was busy again so I put the GoPro up.
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Maybe free bees? if they're not the swarm from 5 days ago which would be unlikely unless they didn't like their first pick of a new home. The bait hive was very active yesterday, then it wasn't at all, then before dark it was really active again and some looking like they'd spend the night. This morning when I looked it was busy again so I put the GoPro up.
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Maybe free bees? if they're not the swarm from 5 days ago which would be unlikely unless they didn't like their first pick of a new home. The bait hive was very active yesterday, then it wasn't at all, then before dark it was really active again and some looking like they'd spend the night. This morning when I looked it was busy again so I put the GoPro up.
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Maybe free bees? if they're not the swarm from 5 days ago which would be unlikely unless they didn't like their first pick of a new home. The bait hive was very active yesterday, then it wasn't at all, then before dark it was really active again and some looking like they'd spend the night. This morning when I looked it was busy again so I put the GoPro up.
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Maybe free bees? if they're not the swarm from 5 days ago which would be unlikely unless they didn't like their first pick of a new home. The bait hive was very active yesterday, then it wasn't at all, then before dark it was really active again and some looking like they'd spend the night. This morning when I looked it was busy again so I put the GoPro up.
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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 bait hive is busy this afternoon. Seems like a little fighting going on so must not be from the same hive. Could be some robbing but there's a lot of coming and going too. There was still some honey in some of the old comb put in here.
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The first scout bee observed at the bait hive. 15:53 local daylight time, 60F/15C, sunny, light breeze.
It was the only bee from 13:30 - 16:30. Weather is turning warmer so maybe there will be more activity in the coming week.
#beekeeping #SwarmSeason #HoneyBee #bees #BaitHive #SwarmTrap #beehive #April17
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I put the swarm trap, bait hive, up today. There's commercial migratory bees in the area so that means it's time to catch someone else's bees, or my own. It's about 330 ft from the apiary, or 100 meters, but also close to where I plan on putting a hive to see how it does in slightly hotter temperatures since it will be above the cooler layer close to the water. It has 6 frames of old smelly comb in it this year.
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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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The bait hive was really active today with scouts...
The two hives that love propolis and have blocked any form of upper venting are quite numerous on the outside of their hives. There's a box of bees on the Center hive and not much less than that on what was the Green nuc which was started as a split 9 weeks ago with laying queen 7 weeks ago and got a honey super last week.
#beekeeping #BaitHive #BeeBearding #bees #apiary #SwarmTrap #June29 #SwarmInJune #SilverSpoon
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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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There has been a lot of bee activity at the bait hive this morning. When I first looked for the swarm up in the tree I thought it was gone but then I spotted it later but it seemed like maybe it was smaller. The branch wasn't bent down as much. Seems sorta like the bee swarm didn't have a plan or maybe they had found a migratory hive that was empty and it moved overnight. They're 50 feet, 15 meters, up in a tree so not much I can do about that.
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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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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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I don't think anything has actually moved into the bait hive. This seems like a scouting party that has been partying at the bait hive all weekend. There's more during the day but a dozen or so have been staying every night.
#beekeeping #bees #apiary #BaitHive #SwarmTrap #MastodonOnly
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The fire drill hive from yesterday isn't bearding today. The moved upper half is figuring out where the welcome sign is after flying to the old location. Both the empty hive and the bait hive have scouts checking things out.
I put a feeder on top of the fire drill hive too, there were bees at the screened inner cover hole.
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There's been a lot of activity in the last hour, and just now I see the lower half of the split is all in flight circling in the space above the hives... Maybe they're just have a bigger cleansing flight today.
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The excitement of seeing a single bee at the bait hive, that is probably the same single bee from yesterday.
There was a second one as I got ready to post this and I see it or another even at the other empty hive. First decently sunny and not windy day so far for a while. Lets hope it's not just my bees.
The darker bees from last week haven't been back so their hives probably got trucked off.
3 or more bees now as I finish typing this. 😃
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Saw a bee go in to the empty hive and waited for it to come out. I see on the video there was another in there too.
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I gave the empty hive a little visual indicator of a hole since I saw a bee checking out all the dark spots in the wood as it was flying around it.
This is a deep box with frames sitting on top of an empty medium super for some space. The hive is on top of the old single hive stand, which is sitting on top of the long hive stand.
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There has been activity at the bait hive this afternoon. It started with just one bee surveying inside and out and then I saw FIVE bees at once. 😀 Steady activity since noon.
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Scout bee on the first day with the bait hive out? 😆
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Setup a second hive and the bait hive today. Did not put the bait hive 15 feet up in the tree to the right of it like last year.
It's early but there are hives out in the orchards around. Saw some near some pears that might be blooming and I can see hives along the apples across the river which is most certainly a couple of weeks early.
I have a camera on scout bee surveillance duty. 🧐 🐝