Swarms – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Swarms – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 How to Trap Bee Swarms https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-trap-bee-swarms-zbwz1906zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-trap-bee-swarms-zbwz1906zsau/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:09:38 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4391 Bees are expensive and you don't want to lose the swarms that come off your hives and hopefully catch others to increase your population. For an investment of about $25 in materials with scrap wood, paint, flashing, and lemon grass oil, I ended up with three additional hives with very little effort.

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-trap-bee-swarms-zbwz1906zsau/feed/ 3 Swarm Essentials Podcast – Catching the Buzz https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/swarm-essentials-zepz2001ztil/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/swarm-essentials-zepz2001ztil/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:48:14 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4748 In this episode, Hilary Kearney of Girl Next Door Honey teaches Charlotte French and Zach Foley  about catching a swarm. She also goes into detail about her business as a beekeeper.     Our Guest Hilary Kearney is a full-time beekeeper in her hometown of San Diego, California. Her business Girl Next Door Honey provides educational opportunities for hundreds […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/all-about-swarm-season-zbwz1905zsau/feed/ 5 How to Make a Swarm Catching Kit https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-make-a-swarm-catching-kit-zbwz1904zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-make-a-swarm-catching-kit-zbwz1904zsau/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2019 01:13:23 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4363 When swarm season comes, you never know when you’ll get the call for bee rescue and there’s no worse feeling than missing the opportunity to catch a swarm because it left before you arrived. That’s why I always keep a swarm catching kit in my car! Read on to find out what to include in your own kit […]

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