Swarm Time!! | S3 E11

[@heatherwanderer777]

I love that raw comment... "if we're lucky we'll see them ball into a tree.....but damn it" lmao. Its a cool experience but at the same time...gosh darn it, they weren't supposed to swarm!

[@JH-lz4dh]

The chicken "commentary" sounds so funny

[@TheJDelRey]

A honeybee landed on me by the pool at my apartment and I felt so alive and happy. Emmy made me wanna be a beekeeper. I'm so happy. God save the bees.

[@ClanImprobable]

What a lovely comment!

[@kimshea3178]

Your chickens were cracking me up!

[@emmymadeextras]

😂 Me too!

[@aimpinkpanda96]

I bet your boys learn a ton of cool stuff about bees that I never learned as a kid! I can't wait to teach my daughter how to be kind to nature, she's only 9 months old right now but we'll get there!

[@starbright45]

Maybe she will be a vet or a wildlife doctor

[@dougstucki8253]

In the future, you can bang pans or two shovels together. That will often cause the swarm to take cover in a low area. The thought is that the bees feel the vibrations and take that as thunder, so they go low to take cover. That allows much easier catching of your swarm so you don't lose your bees.

[@nicoleculverhousen5490]

Emmy trying to make a video: Emmys Chickens: 🐓 Squawkkkkkkkkkkkk !! But nooooooo the beeeees!!! 😧🐝

[@milonguerobill]

Wow, this was months ago, loving the beekeeping videos "Where is everyone!? "😺

[@alliechampagne1404]

Somebody just laid an egg, she's "sounding off" for you! Our hens will be three in the spring, so not many eggs anymore, but bless their hearts they're wonderful creatures all the same. I'm finding your apiary videos AMAZING!🐔🐝🌺

[@Pippa1272]

Can’t wait for the next episode. If a queen is piping it’s usually because another queen is in there. You may have had the second queen swarm with a few bees. You can actually have many small swarms like this if you leave too many queen cells. Or like someone else said this could be a mating flight. But usually that looks like a swarm landing rather than taking off.

[@starquilt]

Oh no Emmy! That would freak me out if I saw a bunch of bees flying like that.

[@nthebushes]

You mentioned a piping virgin queen when you were in the hive the day before. Is it possible that this is not a swarm, but instead might be a mating flight?

[@donbeissel2965]

NTheBushes no. The queen does her mating flights alone. She goes to a distant drone congregation area so she doesn’t mate with her drones.

[@mollyvandever9817]

So, what happened?! What happened!? Did you manage to recover your bees? Or is that an episode for another time? Where is everyone?! 🐝🐝🐝

[@emmymadeextras]

I’m working on the next episode now - sorry to keep you hanging! 😔

[@mollyvandever9817]

That's okay. Since you're my favorite KZbinr, I'm willing to wait. 👍

[@T289c]

Bees will almost always swarm between 9 and 10 am in the morning. orientation flights are usually between 3 and 5 pm. Seeing where the cluster went when they swarmed is a good thing, that is where you will put a swarm trap next year since that place will have their smell and it is likely next swarm will go there as well. Usually they swarm out and cluster close by. Then they will find a place for their new home about a mile or so away. They don't like to stay close to where their genetics are.

[@moniecmac]

Awe poor Emmy. You work so hard to keep your bees. I love these videos

[@emmymadeextras]

It’s all good! Just nature’s way of thinning the hive!

[@bharmer22]

So happy for this video. Do you watch vino farms? You two are my favorite beekeepers!

[@jameslocke3069]

It's all good. Swarming is actually a condition of a healthy hive for the most part. There are more bees than the hive can support, the old queen will starve herself for several days to shrink down enough that her wings can support her. Then she and roughly half the hive will gorge on honey and leave. Then in a day or three the virgin queen will leave on a mating flight. With good luck she'll return and the cycle starts again. The downside is honey production slows down until new larva hatch. Meanwhile the old queen and her followers will find some cranny somewhere and will start building comb. One of the first things they do is start raising new queens to replace the old queen.

[@bgishy]

I’m not sure what’s making me more squeamish, the sight of millions of bees filling the sky, or the Blair Witch Project style camera work! 🤪🐝 😝It’s all so exciting and terrifying. Thanks for thinking of grabbing the camera Emmy! You sure know how to keep me on the edge of my seat!

[@donbeissel2965]

bgishy it’s thousands, not millions. You need at least 20 healthy, mature colonies to have one million bees.

[@bgishy]

Yes, I realize that, thank you. I was intentionally exaggerating to be funny. I assumed people would understand that but it’s difficult to hear intent in text sometimes. Bees freak me the heck out but I can’t stop watching Emmy’s videos. 😬

[@deniseherud]

Ya know I’m a city dwelling noob when I’m like, swarm...is that a bad thing, should I be afraid or excited?😂 In my mind I’m seeing a 70’s low budget horror about killer bees swarming😂 I’m really excited about learning about bees and nature stuff...it’s so much more mentally engaging then hearing about the next $300 eye palette you need in order not to be considered passé.💗

[@emmymadeextras]

☺️

[@Realpikakirby]

They want a vacation from the hive :P

[@terrimyrick1530]

Please do videos on your chickens ❤️

[@acgray1972]

YES! THEY ARE SOOO FUNNY!

[@Dreadtheday]

Omg yes!!!

[@hvtketatanka]

Oh no so sorry about your bees. I can't do beekeeping because I'm allergic. I love watching your videos. Where is everyone!?

[@donbeissel2965]

hvtketatanka I just read an article on bee venom allergy. Less than 10% of those who are told they are allergic will ever have a full body anaphylactic reaction. What happens is a person gets a sting, has local swelling, and decides to get tested. Of course they test positive, because their immune system has been exposed to the venom. There are local, regional and systemic reactions. Local is a little swelling st the site. Regional is a limb. Systemic is trouble breathing. Also-hives is not a sign of anaphylaxis. What I am saying is: get more precise testing so you don’t have to live in fear.

[@Youngpoet15]

When you like a video to show support but don’t like that the 🐝 are swarming. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@purplesneakers3343]

dcintron23 same. Some videos just seem like not something you want to say you liked cuz you like the person and the content but the content isn’t happy. So counter intuitive but I try to make sure it’s the first thing I do when I click a Video. I’m gonna have bee nightmares. May go down the KZbin rabbit hole Get swarming bees out of my head lol.

[@sonyapeach]

What happens when they swarm? Does that mean they are leaving to find a new home.?

[@emmymadeextras]

Yes, I'm editing a follow-up to this video now. Stay tuned....

[@JackW42]

“Where is everyone!?” 😺 :P 💚🐝

[@lisesauerjennsen7958]

Wher is every one ?😺 I love your ved videos Greatings from Denmark 🤗

[@loneerv]

1:24 you got stung, didn't you? lol I'm actually disappointed I didn't click on this channel sooner! Stay awesome!

[@alltheday]

Ahhhhhhh! Emmy! Chickens!! Bees!!! My favorites!

[@bgishy]

Oh Emmy!! Don’t leave us hanging up in the top of that 🌳🐝! What happened next? Dang it! I hate “to be continued” episodes with no hint of what’s to come. UGH 😑

[@emmymadeextras]

Sorry!! I’m working on a follow-up! Coming soon. 🙏

[@bgishy]

Oh thank goodness!😅You’re the best Emmy! THANK YOU 🙏 The saga continues! (😬soon I hope🤞)

[@claudiavelez8010]

I know you tried to avoid/prevent the swarming... but I must admit this was amazing to see/experience

[@clotv6199]

NICE the place dear.and you have alots of honey bees.i heard one voice of a kids.is that yourchild.

[@gullreefclub]

Emmy, Joe the “LittleBitsTheSkinnyBeeMan” has a video about calling a swarm back to his bee yard that is worth watching.

[@sunnhyi]

bees are cute

[@toddmorgan7059]

my bee's went to the top of a hemlock tree saying how i got it , i put a ladder on the side lol and climbed it put a rope around the tree branch and shook them didnt work well so i cut the branch it didnt want to fall it kind of just went to the side of the tree . i did get them but it was very hard work but i did end up getting them.

[@purplesneakers3343]

Shouldn’t have picked this video to watch before i decide to go to bed. Haha the chicken is angry!

[@Shugar212]

Do the bees only stay in their own hives??

[@Birdbike719]

Bees doing what bees do. Hopefully they will settle down again.

[@amberwebb975]

O man... I'm sorry girl!

[@RamonaQ]

I feel like the double rainbow guy - What does it meeeeean?!?!?!? Have those bees left? Will they make a house in the treetop, or will they go back to the hive box??

[@mariaraynor]

“Where is everyone?” 😸 ❤️

[@vzmkitty]

So close and yet so far.

[@tammyalspaugh8662]

What does it mean when they do that?

[@Artist1974CH]

It is amazing the county allowed her to have chickens and a bee farm in her neighborhood. There are some other counties in the US that would not tolerate that especially in a subdivision that is under that stupid housing association rules.

[@acgray1972]

Lol someone laid an egg! 🤣

[@ColletteSpagnolo]

Why do they swarm?

[@spudgn]

Mating flight?

[@iAmKeichiPinoyPage]

Wow may Bee farm..

[@test123apt]

My only question is . ... "Where is everyone?" 😺

[@jaredphillips9285]

Oh no!!!

[@Emily-xh8hv]

Where is everyone!? :)

[@brendakrieger7000]

Oh no!🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@jaidenlee4128]

could have called them down by banging two pieces of high-pitched resonating metal together. They would have came down and landed near you.

[@aliciab4676]

So if your bees swarm, can you just recatch them and put them into a seperate hive? When they cluster around a tree, do they just stay there until someone catches them? What makes them leave the tree?

[@ninipanini7760]

But swarms are good? It just means the queen bee has made a new queen and they’re swarming to get a new home. We need more bees in the world you’re helping them reproduce

[@dlsgl407]

Where is everyone!? "😺 !

[@whyme7181]

💞💞💞💞

[@Cereal_Ki11er]

First👍 your the best Emmy 😄🙂

[@FedericoM-1]

Where is everyone?

[@gullreefclub]

@Emmymade I am an arm chair bee keep and having watched you bee vlog series and your trials and tribulations with your hive(s) producing swarm and supersedure cells anyway I don't know if you have watched Little Bits Honey Joe May videos but he has a couple of good videos about how he handles swarm cells in his bee yard kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqWrZ3SHlJt9gqc and kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKjYp4mtlNmcgbM As I said I am not able to raise bees at this time but enjoy watching bee videos and reading about them and thought these videos might be of interest to you (or not). Have a Beeautiful day!

[@dkphillips1654]

Where is everyone? 😺

[@debg1810]

Where is everyone!?

[@Farseli]

How do you feel about the non-native honeybee potentially outcompeting native bees for nectar? There's many threatened and endangered pollinator species in your neck of the woods.

[@ChelCoh]

SQUAWKKKKKKKK

[@b2h316]

Where is everyone?!

[@aidanmccauley3776]

I’m this early and I have nothing to comment and I oop 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝

[@Kristen242008]

Sorry your bees swarmed. Hopefully they won't do that again anytime soon

[@donbeissel2965]

Kristen Long She will have swarms every year of she does what she did this year. You need to split them. Sell the split or re merge it later.

[@GrimKeeper9011]

😢😢😢

[@valeriagag]

😞

[@gaill7908]

I’m sure your neighbors are loving this 😒

[@gullreefclub]

Gail Lurie Years ago I lived in a neighborhood that had gentleman who keep bees and I loved it, besides getting a half pint of honey and a nice piece of comb as a Christmas present the bees did work in mine and my other neighbors yards pollinating or plants. I wish I could keep Bees 🐝 because I find them very interesting and love honey but physical health problems at this point in my life precludes that. FYI unless the bees are Africanized swarming bees tent to pretty gentle and are not inclined to sting you unless you did something to provoke them.

[@donbeissel2965]

How did that shaking bees and removing “cups” work out for ya?

[@veralidainesarrasri4457]

Sometimes shit happens. No need to be an asshole. If you're so great at this, let's see your videos then, or are you just the type to bitch about people doing their thing and try to gloat about your own superiority when in reality, you're not anything special and being an ass doesn't help anyone learn and grow, it just makes them more resistant to asking for advice because of pretentious twits like you.

[@hunkz1985]

Where is everyone!?