SA BeeKeeper

  • Home
  • Printable
  • Honey
    • Honey Uses for health
    • South African Honey Life
    • South America, Ecuador honey
  • Recipes
    • Honey Recipes
    • Baking with honey
    • Dressings and Sauces with honey
    • Meals with honey
    • Snacks and Treats
    • Honey Remedies
    • My Recipe Book
  • Tips and Tricks and Information
    • Bee Wax and Propolis uses
    • Building boxes and Frames
      • South Africa
      • South America Ecuador
    • Catching new warms
    • Ecuador South America
    • Polination
    • Predators and Pests
    • South Africa
  • About The Beekeepers.
  • Picture Gallery
  • Bee Life and information
    • Bumblebee
    • Carpenter Bee
    • Honey Bee
    • Leaf Cutter Bee
    • Mason Bee
      • Blue Mason Bee
      • Red Mason Bee
    • The Stingless Honey Bee
    • Life cycle and habits and duties of the bee
    • South Africa Bee Life
    • South african Flowers for Bees
    • Vilcabamba Ecuador S.America Flowers
    • Vilcabamba Ecuador South America Bee Life

Swarm Rescued

Catching new warms, South Africa Bee Life, Tips and Tricks and Information

Help save the bees! Share this!

  • Share
  • Tweet
  • Email

Swarm Rescued and give information to rescue a small Swarm. With pictures with descriptions of what takes place as its done.

Swarm Rescued

This little swarm was spotted at a workplace, hiding under planks. An empty hive was obtained from
The Beekeeper and the swarm gently moved into the box. Queen guards placed on the entrance,
as the queen will decide whether she wants to stay in the box provided or seek another site.

Info on queen bees 

The box gives them shelter and provides frames with starter wax sheets for them to start building combs.

It will provide them with food and able the queen to lay eggs to expand the brood. 

This particular swarm tried a few times to flee, but came back as the queen was still in the box.

The queen is bigger than the normal work bee so she can’t get out. They are quite fussy about boxes,
maybe they were on their way to a site chosen for food by the scout bees.

The swarm is taken in the evening to a site suitable for them to forage food and to grow their brood. 

We never take from this brood box, as that is their store house.

Supers are placed on top of the box when they have completed all the combs inside and they
are ready to build up.

Swarm

Swarm arrived and hung under planks. Note how they protect the queen bee.

A box with bees flying and a queen guard on to protect queen from escaping. Although the
normal bees can inter and exit easily.

Once the queen bee is safely in the box the rest of the swarm filter in.

Bees filtering into the box, as they will never leave the queen.

Another rescue

One of the rescue was to go and remove a small swarm of bees that found a hiding place in
the water meter boxes.

They can not read the water meter and the swarms get dangerous around houses. That was
an opportunity to obtain a few more swarms.

Beekeeper would open up the water meter lid. Place a catching box near entrance and try
coax the bees into it or catch the queen bee. Then wait till nightfall for all the bees to enter the hive,
as there would always be other bees out foraging food.

Night time is the best time to move a swarm as they would always all be in the hive.

Preparing to move box

The entrance of the box would be sealed and then taken to a place where they can obtain food
and water. One would keep a watch to see how the swarm is progressing and eventually the
swarm would be moved to a brood box.

It’s bigger and has 10 frames in, normally a catching box is smaller and has 4 to 6 frames.
Depending on the beekeepers preference. You need a smaller catching box as the bees also
need to keep themselves warm.(if they are a small swarm)

Checking Catching box 

The Beekeeper checking on a catching box. To see if the swarm has made it their home and
to see if they have build wax combs.

Sometimes they do not stay or you have misplaced the queen bee.

Read about another swarm rescue that was in Ecuador.




Help save the bees! Share this!

  • Share
  • Tweet
  • Email

February 16, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Oh hi there 👋 It’s nice to meet you.

Sign up to receive awesome bee & honey related content in your inbox!

We don’t spam! Read our privacy policy for more info.

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Previous Post: « The Motto of a Beekeeper
Next Post: Honey Drink for Sinus »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Oh hi there 👋
It’s nice to meet you.

Sign up to receive awesome bee & honey related content in your inbox!

We don’t spam! Read our privacy policy for more info.

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Calendar 2021 of Flowers and Bees

A Busy Pollinating Black Bumble Bee

Homemade Solitary Bee Hotels are Necessary

Passion fruit Flower Components Symbolize

Copyright © 2021 · Anchored Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in