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Relocating a Weak Swarm from 'Bee Jail'

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What happens here

The beekeeper moves to a smaller, custom-built hive he affectionately calls 'bee jail,' explaining it was from a swarm found by a subscriber. He opens the hive to check its progress, noting it is a very small and weak swarm. He carefully removes a frame and inspects it. Despite the small number of bees, he is pleased to find small white specs of eggs, confirming the presence of a laying queen. He then transfers the frames from this 'bee jail' hive into a standard green hive, hoping the new space will allow them to thrive. He explains that working with bees during midday, when most foragers are out, minimizes disruption. After transferring, he closes the new hive with its covers.

Goal: The beekeeper addresses a very weak swarm housed in a custom 'bee jail' hive, checking for eggs and transferring it to a standard hive.

Tools and materials

  • Hive Covers
  • Hive Tool
  • Standard Hive Body

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good yeah fairly weak hive so you can see I've got this labeled number two number two you shake those guys down in there again this was a very small swarm so I don't expect it to be a rock star I want to pull out my Center frame here now these bees may be not doing so well looking in here I don't see a very good situation however I do see what I'm looking for and that is eggs little tiny white specks in there you probably cannot see there are eggs in there it look like rice look like little rice Chex so we're gonna set this over in our new hive we're gonna move fairly quickly here this time of day which are about High Noon right now this is when the bees are most likely the least active in other words they're out foraging they're the least active in the hive there'll be the fewest amount of bees in the hive at this time of day that's why we work them at this time of day this is not a strong hive this is what a weak hive looks like very very weak swarm trying to find the Queen here she's an older queen she's a big fat Queen she's right there right there right here big fat one let's get her head down in there well set our new hive down here in place hopefully these bees will do well it's gonna give them some time shake the bees down in there we didn't quite double their apartment size lid on so the bees are out of jail awesome guys awesome I hope this gave you a little bit of insight into beekeeping I hope you guys will take up beekeeping it's very very fun we'll be doing a whole lot more videos this summer on beekeeping we'll get into the hives a little bit more we'll be extracting some honey soon probably about June 15th this one will harvest so we've got yeah another month and a half or so something like that guys I want to thank you a whole lot for coming to the channel today please pound that like button subscribe to the channel and we'll teach you some more

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