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When honeybees swarm, they send out scout bees ahead to find a suitable home, who report back to the main swarm following along behind until a suitable place is found. This is the most passive way of catching a swarm – put up some bait hives in likely places, and cross your fingers. Bait hives need to be checked regularly, so close to your home is best. Steve’s bait hive on the roof of his carport – success! Catching a swarm with a bait hive

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So unlike a package of bees, or a nucleus hive, the chances of these bees starting off in your hive being disease free is very good – no small hive beetle or chalkbrood can come across in a swarm.Īs for how to obtain a swarm, there’s various options…

High likelihood of healthy bees – when you catch a swarm you are obtaining *just* the bees to house in your hive – there’s nothing else in the swarm.

Often you will see ads in local papers by beekeepers offering swarm removal – because they know the value of a free, locally adapted colony

It’s free! – unlike purchasing bees, catching a swarm costs you only preparation time and a fair bit of adrenalin on the day.

By default, you know that these bees thrive in your area, and have managed to avoid major disease or mishap within their previous hive.

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Locally adapted, successful genetics – typically, a swarm is full of healthy bees, and that’s why they have swarmed in the first place.

The advantage of catching a swarm and using that to populate a new hive are multiple…