Beekeeping Swarm Tendency

How can you tell if your hive is preparing to swarm? Let's open up a bee hive and I'll show you what I look for to detect early warning signs of a swarm. Reading your hive and knowing when they might swarm makes beekeeping so much more fun.
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[@wyattearp1015]

Hi David, I met you recently at the Mason Valley Beekeepers conference in Yerington, Nv. I told you that you and your videos are my favorite. Thanks for continuing to post them. I really enjoy them and always learn something new. I'm going into my fifth year of beekeeping this spring 2023. I am one of those baby boomers who started beekeeping as a hobby, and it has become my passion. I also love your porch setup and decor. It's a wonderful spot for coffee!

[@beek]

Hey Wyatt, nice to meet you in Yerington and I'm coming back in 2024 and looking forward to it!! Glad you like my video and video set up. It is constantly a work in progress. Wind is my biggest handicap on filming. I'm trying to move my 20 studio hives to a less windy area, but weather is not good enough yet.

[@mr.msadventures427]

I love your mug!!!

[@beek]

Thank you

[@wpankey57]

It's 04/22 and I just finished David and Sheri's book. I loved it. As a want-a-bee beekeeper I found it so helpful. Do your self a favor and get the book!

[@beek]

Thank you so much, so nice of your.

[@tinaduong2513]

I Really like to watch your video. Good experience!!! Thank you

[@earlblakley4910]

Glad I found your channel. We have quite a bit in common. I never got rid of my vinyl and I have a ham license as well. 73s KB3HAK

[@GLuft3]

Great coffee time, David. I used to be a ham, but let it lapse in 2011. New hobby: bees! My dad was an electrician too! Missed him for 17th Fathers Day now. I was thinking of him as I had a home wiring project today.

[@beek]

Good to hear George. Tonight on my ham I talked to an airline pilot over the gulf all the way from Illinois, then into New York, Virginia, and Canada. It's a blast. I often wired houses with my dad as a teenager, pulling wires through conduit.

[@stevencoulter6146]

I just received my book from amazon yesterday I have started to read it enjoy it 😃

[@beek]

Awesome and Hope you enjoy it.

[@diannemiller4754]

I purchased one of your books for my daughter last year. I need to borrow it to read.

[@christinemcdonald2862]

Just ordered your book off Amazon, just watching your videos in the last couple days has helped so much….new bee keeper in Northern Ontario for spring of 2022….thanks so much keep doing what your doing

[@joeray9264]

Tear jerker on electronics memories of my Dad also. And my 6 set of bose 901s 13" real to reel ackie & kenwood set up

[@dareallyst]

Just got my ham license last month and will be setting up my first hives this month 😀, really enjoying and learning from your content!

[@beek]

Awesome. Ham Radio is a blast. Which ticket?

[@dareallyst]

@@beek General, i wanted to dabble with HF in a NVIS config. I’ve been putting Ham and Beekeeping off for years now due to work, so I’m happy to finally get started in both.

[@viscache1]

I think I might raise queens in the future but for me, taking a frame with forming queen cells and adding it to the nuc works almost every time for me. I do enjoy your videos and continue to learn.

[@zigapavlic]

Love what you are doing much love from Slovenija. I am a new beekeeper and I have 14 AŽ beehives. And I have much to learn. I turn 22 years old in 17. September and I bought land with the beehives. And now I am trying to get as much inf. as I can so I bought your book on a kindle I hope you keep making videos and I will try to attend some off your online classes.

[@kenspiker1112]

Another great video thank you. Just 3 days ago i ordered the video on making Queens. 10 years beekeeping so I'm going to try making my own Queens next year. Thanks for sending the video.

[@beek]

Great to hear Ken. Stay with it during the good times and bad and you'll learn a ton.

[@johnpolcintertiarypaul6369]

I just ordered your book on Amazon. I'm looking forward to my first year of bee keeping! 🐝

[@DougandRachel]

Totally getting that book. This channel has been so helpful. Thank you 🐝

[@beek]

Soooo nice of you to say!

[@gregpeel3110]

Hello David this my second year with bee's there is so much to learn but with your videos they have made it easier thank you : Greg from Teeswater Ontario Canada

[@beesandtractors]

Thanks for another great video! Yours are always so timely and helpful.

[@beek]

Thanks Jeff.

[@foxy2830]

this is my first time commenting on 1 of your videos and pleas do more videos about cutting the caps of and distracting the honey

[@beek]

Check out my video on it at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2HXeaiformoqM0

[@ssboot5663]

Oh wow. I loved the radio stuff as a kid (still do)but had no access..I had wires hanging all over for antennas with no real success in my experiment with what ever I could find to hook to the wire. I soon discovered the wire brought a LOT of sparks into the house to jump across to the window screen during a thunder storm....Would have died for your bedroom full of electronics and a bit of help to go with it! But never got it.....had to settle for a cheap cassette you plugged into the wall and finally into stereo stuff. Oh to go back and do it all over again! Keep up the videos! I've learned a lot! ...Oh, at 10.50. Don't refer to any woman as old if you want to live happily ever after. lol!

[@beek]

Good point :). I love playing around with raspberry pies. I've got some that stop all ads coming into my internet. Oh wow, that is so nice. Little bit of coding with pi-hole, but not bad. They are a $40 computer running linux size of a deck of cards. I've got three running various programs around the place.

[@marianroyal7340]

I like the coffee time. And looking forward to the book!

[@beek]

Well thank you so much, I appreciate it.

[@Cross-Country-Biker]

ZR6IRH South Africa. Thanks for the video....more wonderful info about the miracle of these little guys

[@peterlightbody8443]

Well this is the 2nd coffee break i have had with you, most enjoyable , get to know you better , keep them coming enjoy your videos 😊

[@beek]

More to come!

[@beepasbees]

Great Video David. Always very informative!

[@beek]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@cliffordestep3678]

David I use to have an old tube type stereo back in the day I feel u bor

[@TheNcviking]

Always so informative. Thank you from NC

[@beek]

Thanks for watching!

[@highstandards6226]

Thank you, very informative video!👏👏💞

[@beek]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mikeofborg2]

Very nice, my call sign is W8MLD. My HF Inverted L is down at the moment due to weather. Need to get it back up soon.

[@beek]

I'm using an off center dipole about 40 feet up and love it. Working on putting up a 70 foot tower by the end of the year. Had a clean sweep on the 13 Colonies Contest. That was a hoot. 73

[@rb3265]

Dave, just pre-ordered your book I sure enjoy your online videos

[@beek]

Thank you very much. It is much appreciated.

[@paulawaldrep3760]

I grew up with Fruit trees, chickens and ceramic. Do cows, chickens and bees now. Really miss the ceramic. Will get back to pulling out my kiln one day. Coffee talks are great along with the explanations going through the hive. :)

[@beek]

We are so much more mentally healthy when we have a few hobbies we enjoy.

[@jonshannon4922]

Varroa crawled under the drone pupa on frame 4. Thanks for the great content. I really enjoy it.

[@beek]

Darn varroa mites!

[@desmondtomlin]

D why does the bee build from the top bar up into top deep.

[@highstandards6226]

Thank you!

[@beek]

You're welcome!

[@cindyengland9669]

Good video

[@beek]

Thanks

[@raymondbrown867]

do you clean up bottom of frame with drone cells.?

[@raymondbrown867]

can I pull pollen frames out and put in new frames for queen.

[@gregstickels5706]

What do you do with the drone larvae? Feed them to your chickens.

[@VS-nc6lt]

Enjoyed watching your KZbin on bee swarming. I’m new to bees and KZbin I did not see the links for your article or book. Please advise

[@beek]

Thank you. The links are down below into the description of this video.

[@medic5836]

Six kids. I have six as well. My wife wanted that ratio. 3 and 3. Eleven grands that’s wonderful and a great beekeeper. You are blessed Sir.

[@beek]

Indeed.

[@Jay-qv8hq]

We r kindred spirits man I took electronics in trade school . I loved taking broken stuff and fixing it or using it for some mad scientist project

[@malcomparker7919]

David I Would like to become a one of your team members six please let me know how to do that thank you love your work watch your videos constantly

[@beek]

Thanks, here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/beekeeping-mentor/

[@charliegioe3158]

I just wanna know do you ever clean out the supers completely or do they continuously use it

[@ruham1965]

Is the advice in the book suitable for England

[@beek]

I think so, bees are bees

[@Max-po5sx]

Hey I love coffee time I love a man that respects coffee thank David awesome video

[@tombrown6464]

Yesterday afternoon we had a small swarm show up next to the house. I called a beekeeper to collect them, as she was gearing up to do the capture the swarm took flight. My daughter said to me; See, if you have had a hive box you could have had bees.

[@beek]

Catching swarms is indeed fun.

[@johncolson5705]

Hi from Texas.

[@raymondbrown867]

I have seen bee keepers use powerd sugar.what is the purpose of that??

[@juliebarnett9812]

I had one. 👍🏼

[@judithdiani3964]

I noticed in many of the videos I've seen, you don't seem to have an inner cover. Is your inner cover attached to the outer cover somehow?

[@lynncoffey491]

David, long time podcast listener and channel fan.... but I was curious to know where you got your veil you're wearing in this video. I've been looking for one similar.

[@beek]

Gosh, wish I knew. I love it. I've about warn it out.

[@rickasisco]

Why do you not use an inner cover?

[@beek]

I invited the Winter-Bee-Kind feeding system for winter survival, so those go on the hive before winter in place of the inner cover, so I just got out of the habit of using them.

[@Max-po5sx]

I didn't know your HAM man!!

[@beek]

Just got into it during COVID19 isolation. Glad I did, as it is a hoot.

[@justinsbeehivejournal3754]

Fellow ham here!!! 73 de KF7DLW

[@wadebarnes6720]

If you want the bees to quit building the comb in between the frames underneath your frame rest

[@blainecolbry3192]

Hey just found your YT channel, and am interested in starting bee keeping. Fellow ham here also KE8CTG from MI.

[@beek]

Glad you found my channel. I had fun working the 13 Colonies Contest the last few days. 73

[@highstandards6226]

Wish I'd seen this when we first got our first 4 hives of Russians(notoriously prone to swarming)(REALLY, REALLYreallyPRONE TO SWARMING)PRONE TO SWARMING! Did I mention they tend to swarm? Easily? Like if the wind blew on any given day?

[@beek]

I've heard that about some (not all) Russian bees.

[@randywhitaker6850]

David I caught a swarm yesterday in a swarm box. This morning I saw a Asian hornet flying around the box . I was going to hit it with my hat ,but before I could hit it ,it grabbed a bee and flew away. What can I do?

[@beek]

What state do you live in and are you absolutely sure it was an Asian hornet? Lots of wasps are big and looks a lot like them. Some people see cicada killers and consider them to be Asian Hornets.

[@lisagillespie5773]

Just curious why you don't throw the drone larvae in the yard? I thought maybe birds would like it for a snack.

[@beek]

Good question Lisa, it is because it can attract small hive beetles which will then make their way into the hive.

[@bradgoliphant]

The only concern I have with raising my own queens is that I don't have enough diversity in my apiary nor anywhere near me. The closest apiary or hive near me that I'm aware of is over 10 miles away.

[@beek]

You should be fine!! You'll be surprised at how well they will get mated. Probably many hives around in trees and old barns.

[@bradgoliphant]

@@beek This could be true in the county, but I'm in NYC!

[@alfredcarroll9461]

How does a fertilized Queen lay an unfertilized egg, to produce a drone?

[@beek]

She can chose not to fertilize the egg she is laying.

[@heidibelton4177]

@@beek that is so crazy!!

[@jackiestanley8622]

I too am a ham km5tt love radio and bees

[@beek]

I suppose there is a connection between beekeepers and ham radio operators as we are sorta of a self sufficient type perhaps. It is really a fun hobby.

[@aarondlancaster]

Does empty non-drawn foundation constitute room? 73 de KN4ORB

[@beek]

Hi Aaron. We will have to connect on the air soon. NC an easy hope for me. Undrawn foundation is not an immediate solution. It can help in two weeks, but will not do much if the swarm prep has begun. 73

[@dwightcarter6334]

I miss radio shack...

[@beek]

"Back in the day" we repaired broken electronics. Now we trash them and buy a new one.

[@jerrybaxter2040]

Old call number. W8ARO.wish he was still here

[@jeffereykbecvarsr4913]

K9EZE de AL7QQ Jeff from Iowa also a beekeeper from Iowa. Enjoy your vids. 73’s Jeff

[@beek]

Nice to meet you Jeffery and thank you for your service. I have the utmost respect and admiration for US Army Rangers! I was in Iowa over the weekend. Had a USPSA match in West Liberty. 73

[@theblueshadow9365]

fellow ham

[@beek]

Now I just need a tall tower!

[@desmondtomlin]

I am old I'm fifty eight you years old.

[@a2thenita172]

Jealous of the bed curtain switches

[@beek]

Yup that was in the 60s before we had smart homes.