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Title: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: Danger Brown on July 17, 2011, 04:37:39 PM

You can see the swarm and watch scouts orienting and visiting two potential locations. See if you can guess which swarm trap they move into.
Bee Swarm Scouting for a New Home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FZ-6mrs1Hw#)

Title: Re: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: Boom Buzz on July 17, 2011, 05:18:38 PM

Nice video Danger! Thanks for sharing.

Very fun I imagine to watch your bees swarm/abscond then take up residence in one of your traps.
Keep us posted on progress with this hive!

John

Title: Re: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: Larry Bees on July 17, 2011, 05:36:23 PM

I enjoyed your video Danger!

Keep us posted on their progress.

Larry

Title: Re: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: CeeGeeBee on July 17, 2011, 05:52:40 PM

Great video! :)

Title: Re: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: AllenF on July 17, 2011, 06:41:23 PM

Good video.

Title: Re: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: bud1 on July 17, 2011, 06:58:49 PM

look in trap, find the queen, clip her and dump them back in your hive. she might leave a coupla more times , just pick her up and put her back in.
put a folower board after about 6-7 frames

Title: Re: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: RangerBrad on July 17, 2011, 07:19:36 PM

Won't queen includers work well to keep a swarm in for 5-6 days then take it off? bRAD

Title: Re: Video of swarm scouting behavior
Post by: Danger Brown on July 18, 2011, 12:07:39 AM

Thanks for the kind words folks! It's nice to have a little feedback. I left them in there for a while. Mostly because I wanted to build a nice hive for them. Will post video of the cutout shortly.

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