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A beekeeper finds a swarm clustered on a hive, taps them into a bucket, cages the queen, and transfers the bees into a nucleus box. When they resist entering, he secures the box to the main hive and lets them integrate naturally.
A beekeeper finds a swarm clustered on a hive, taps them into a bucket, cages the queen, and transfers the bees into a nucleus box. When they resist entering, he secures the box to the main hive and lets them integrate naturally.
I found a swarm on the side of my beehive, so I tapped them into this plastic bucket and then set about finding that queen. I picked her up, put her into a cage, keeping her safe, opened up a nuc, and then I placed the queen inside, scraped the bees back in, shook them into the box, tried to get them all to go in. They did not want to play ball, so I strapped the side of the nuc to the side of the beehive, and that worked a treat.
