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Secure Hive Box Bottom

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CAPTURING A GIANT HONEY BEE SWARM ON THE FARM!! HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURE A HONEY BEE SWARM!

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  • Hive Box
  • Blue Painter's Tape

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comb and we'll go ahead and we'll knock the bees off end of this box let them settle down into it and this will be their new home most likely they'll take right to it it should be quick easy awesome and I'll show you how to catch a honey bee swarm I know you guys have been wanting to know how to do this I know you beginning beekeepers have really wanted to know how to catch a honey bee swarm something you guys need to know is every time you catch a honey bee swarm it's a different scenario you've got to be able to work in a contingency situation which we have right here this thing is about 10 feet up in the air I'm going to back the gator up under it put my bee suit on and we're going to go ahead and catch this swarm first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take some tape and I'm going to tape my bead boxes together if I had duct tape on the Gator right now which I normally do and don't know where it is but if I had that I would go ahead and tape the bee box to the bottom board and the hive stand but right now I don't have that so I'm just going to take some painters tape and I'm going to run around the whole back side of the hive here and make sure that I secure the bottom board to the hive before I go up

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