How to Prevent Swarming of Bees | Learn Step by Step with Bruce White

Learn how to Prevent Swarming of Bees. Swarming is the natural process of bees increasing in numbers. The aim of this video is to show you how to manage your colonies to control and prevent swarming. Swarming is not desirable as you risk losing up to half the colony bees, and with possible nuisance bee implications. Always be observant and only interchange disease free material and healthy bees between colonies.

Thank you to Bruce White OAM for sharing his vast knowledge.

To learn a lot more about how, when and why bees swarm check out our swarm page https://saveourbees.com.au/swarms/

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Chapters
00:00 begin & opening titles
00:24 intro to swarm prevention & control
00:52 swarming is bees natural means of increasing in numbers
01:15 external signs that bees are likely to swarm
02:03 bees returning exhausted from the field
02:25 indications of overcrowding
03:31 inspecting inside a strong colony in spring
04:03 inspecting the brood box
05:38 observing a dummy queen cell (also known as a play cup)
06:00 look for warm cells that may appear on any frame in the brood box
06:19 bees build 3 types of queen cells A. supercedure (usually 3 on the face of the comb B. emergency (up to 30 on the face of the comb C. swarm (at least 12 on the bottom edge of the brood comb)
06:41 observing pollen,sealed & unsealed brood, dummy cell
07:47 emerging of a newly born worker bee
08:04 presence of drones in August (just before Spring time)
08:29 good example of a colony that may swarm with a lot of capped brood & a young queen
08:53 note the queen is marked with a white dot by the beekeeper for easy identification
09:32 marking the queen with a white Posca" pen"
10:03 reasons to prevent your hives from swarming
10:24 steps to prevent hives from swarming
10:44 expanding the size of the cavity
12:06 making more room in the brood box
13:55 alternating sealed brood frames with empty frames
14:21 placing empty frames in the brood box will give the queen more room to lay eggs & workers more work to do
14:40 re-assembling the hive
15:12 replacing frames of honey in the super with brood frames
16:22 check brood in super for queen cells 5 days after moving above the excluder
16:58 when adding bees to a weak hive, shake new nurse bees in front of hive to avoid fighting
17:37 if possible avoid excess smoke to keep nurse bees on the brood frames to be removed
18:55 move nurse bees into a weak hive to avoid fighting. The nurse bees will mature to become field bees
19:36 reasons for shaking new nurse bees in front of a weak hive
20:00 the demaree method
20:45 when rotating the hive 180 degrees, secure the hive firmly with a strap or Emlock
23:01 placing a new queen bee in your queenless box
24:48 uniting 2 colonies with newspaper to slowly unite colonies
25:48 bees using scent glands to guide field bees returning
26:09 explaining the result of the 180 degree box turn
26:46 this hive is fitted with a beetle jail to trap small hive beetles & is not related to the demaree method
27:25 closing summary with reasons to prevent hives swarming
28:50 end

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