Beekeeper questions

[tbeak]

Quick question. I have bees in my garden but I don’t know where they hive at. Could I build or buy a bee box and have them naturally move in?

[RedRaider323]

Think you need something to get the queen to move.

[nonamehoff]

I have a couple of hives. You would have to move the queen for the hive to move.

[hog_down]

RedRaider is correct, you will need to grab the queen, and the majority of the rest of the bees will probably follow.

[tbeak]

Ok thanks guys.

[denimdeerslayer]

Nope. Those bees have a home already.

[yanta61]

depending on how big the original hive, you could set up a box and maybe catch a swarm off the original hive.

[tbeak]

Yea I just have seen several this past gardening season hanging out on all the flowers and thought about putting a box up. We have a local beekeeper store by my house and I’m gonna go see if they know of anyone that would like to put a box out.

[BarW]

google the plans for building a hive trap, lots of videos and forums. The traps can be built out of almost any kind of wood. Success is usually about 2 or 3 swarms per 10 traps from my experience, depending on bee density.

[More Liberty]

The hive would have to swarm from their other hive to a honeybee trap. You can attract them to a new hive but they have to want to swarm from their current hive. They might not need to swarm so they won't. I usually trap them in the spring when the majority of honeybee swarms take place. They can swarm in the fall but usually it's during the spring. I have 22 hives.

[Mike Murphey]

I doubt it as Winter is getting close.....the bees need honey to survive during the winter time.....Spring would be better....

[tbeak]

I doubt it as Winter is getting close.....the bees need honey to survive during the winter time.....Spring would be better....

Yea guess I should have clarified. with our cooler temps, yes I’m gloating, I figured it was to late for this year. Was thinking about doing this next year.