“Does your vacuum kill the bees?” 🐝 It’s one of the most common questions I get, and the answer is no. 🐝 In this video, I explain exactly how my custom bee vac works and show you why it’s safe for the bees. I was called out to collect a swarm too far from home to revisit after dark, so I made a judgment call: safely cage the queen and vacuum the rest. 🐝 This isn’t my usual method for swarms, but it’s the perfect opportunity to show how gentle a properly designed bee vac can be. 🐝 Watch as th

Vacuum Bees from Huge Open Air Honeybee Colony | Swarmstead Bees and Gardening

😱 It didn't start well, with a massive slab of honeycomb breaking away and almost squashing hundreds of bees. Luckily, I caught it just in time to break the fall. 🐝 Finding the queen amongst thousands of bees requires a logical and systematic approach when we do beehive removals. 🐝 We can expect to find the queen on the brood comb, but because she generally moves away from the light and the action, occasionally, she will move out of the brood nest. 🐝 Occasionally she will end up getting suck