World Record Bee Swarms?? Eighty Pounds Of Bees??? The Competition Is Over
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If you're not familiar with the rivalry between myself and Mr. Ed, AKA Jeff Horchoff on YouTube, we have had a swarm catching competition two years in a row now. Last year it was pretty close if I recall correctly but this year he walked the dog on me. He closed out swarm season with somewhere in the neighborhood of 51 swarm catches which may actually be a world record for one person. I finished out with somewhere around twenty or twenty two. The winner of our little competition gets treated to a Taco Bell feast which I will be paying up on in the near future and I'm sure there'll be a video. I thought I might take him straight from Taco Bell to Gamblers Anonymous but I need him in gambling mode for the 2019 season where I'm proposing a double or nothing bet as well as rights to his mother's magic touch. If you didn't know she rides around with him blessing his swarm traps and that's how he pulls the numbers he does. It's a lot like the blessing of the fleet but with bee hives.
Now for everyone who is baffled by the giant world record honey bee swarms you've just seen in this video, let me clarify. These are not actual swarms. They are clusters of lost bees on a commercial bee yard. There are no queens in any of these clusters and this is not the result of any accident or mishandling of the bees or hives. This is an occurrence that happens at many commercial operations around the world when tractor trailer loads of hives are brought in to requeen in the spring or to repopulate dead-outs or for equipment repair and cleaning and so on... The trucks come in loaded with approximately four hundred and fifty hives per truck which are off loaded and placed along the drive so that the workers can access them. The hives only stay there for a short time before being moved out again but during that time field bees go out foraging. Some of these forage bees return to find that their home is gone. Instead of joining established colonies they cluster in the trees with lost bees from other colonies. You can imagine how easily these clusters can build up as thousands of hives circulate through a single work site in just a few weeks. In this video you can see all the broken tree limbs from the incredibly heavy clusters of bees that collect on them.
These clusters are comprised of bees from multiple hives all joined together and getting along in perfect harmony until we shake them down. The drop from the tree limbs sets them off causing them to become defensive hence the need for protection. As you can imagine there is no way to save every single bee so some are killed during this collection however we rescue the bulk of them. With the rehoming method you see here the vast majority of these bees will get to live out full lives in a productive colony with a new Italian queen that has been added to each box prior cutting the limbs or shaking them in the boxes. The bees we miss or can't reach are unable to establish a new colony and will not live nearly as long as the ones we collect.
I know this seems like a lot of bees for a business to lose and it is to most of us but to put things in perspective this yard is part of a business that runs 15,000 individual colonies of pure Italian honey bees and has been in the crop pollination business for over twenty five years. Chances are some of your food was grown with the assistance of this company and their livestock. To give you some idea of the amount of bees and hives that that is, they produce approximately twenty five tanker trucks of honey each year. That number varies depending on several factors. I believe that only approximately a third to a half of their hives come through this particular yard so what you see here really is a drop in the bucket and has no affect on the overall health of their colonies.
Due to the length of this video I anticipate there will be a lot of comments and questions from people who neither watched the entire video nor read this description. If you are so inclined and know the answers feel free to respond to those people on my behalf. Many thanks for your views, your comments and your support of this channel.
You can find more beekeeping information in the new but growing community forum at 628dirtrooster.com as we tackle a bit of Q&A and discuss whatever beekeeping topic you are interested in.
The music is Mountain Peak Flyer 2 and can be found on Epidemic Sound.
@628dirtrooster Check out our store and community forum on our web site at https://628dirtrooster.com/
If you're not familiar with the rivalry between myself and Mr. Ed, AKA Jeff Horchoff on YouTube, we have had a swarm catching competition two years in a row now. Last year it was pretty close if I recall correctly but this year he walked the dog on me. He closed out swarm season with somewhere in the neighborhood of 51 swarm catches which may actually be a world record for one person. I finished out with somewhere around twenty or twenty two. The winner of our little competition gets treated to a Taco Bell feast which I will be paying up on in the near future and I'm sure there'll be a video. I thought I might take him straight from Taco Bell to Gamblers Anonymous but I need him in gambling mode for the 2019 season where I'm proposing a double or nothing bet as well as rights to his mother's magic touch. If you didn't know she rides around with him blessing his swarm traps and that's how he pulls the numbers he does. It's a lot like the blessing of the fleet but with bee hives.
Now for everyone who is baffled by the giant world record honey bee swarms you've just seen in this video, let me clarify. These are not actual swarms. They are clusters of lost bees on a commercial bee yard. There are no queens in any of these clusters and this is not the result of any accident or mishandling of the bees or hives. This is an occurrence that happens at many commercial operations around the world when tractor trailer loads of hives are brought in to requeen in the spring or to repopulate dead-outs or for equipment repair and cleaning and so on... The trucks come in loaded with approximately four hundred and fifty hives per truck which are off loaded and placed along the drive so that the workers can access them. The hives only stay there for a short time before being moved out again but during that time field bees go out foraging. Some of these forage bees return to find that their home is gone. Instead of joining established colonies they cluster in the trees with lost bees from other colonies. You can imagine how easily these clusters can build up as thousands of hives circulate through a single work site in just a few weeks. In this video you can see all the broken tree limbs from the incredibly heavy clusters of bees that collect on them.
These clusters are comprised of bees from multiple hives all joined together and getting along in perfect harmony until we shake them down. The drop from the tree limbs sets them off causing them to become defensive hence the need for protection. As you can imagine there is no way to save every single bee so some are killed during this collection however we rescue the bulk of them. With the rehoming method you see here the vast majority of these bees will get to live out full lives in a productive colony with a new Italian queen that has been added to each box prior cutting the limbs or shaking them in the boxes. The bees we miss or can't reach are unable to establish a new colony and will not live nearly as long as the ones we collect.
I know this seems like a lot of bees for a business to lose and it is to most of us but to put things in perspective this yard is part of a business that runs 15,000 individual colonies of pure Italian honey bees and has been in the crop pollination business for over twenty five years. Chances are some of your food was grown with the assistance of this company and their livestock. To give you some idea of the amount of bees and hives that that is, they produce approximately twenty five tanker trucks of honey each year. That number varies depending on several factors. I believe that only approximately a third to a half of their hives come through this particular yard so what you see here really is a drop in the bucket and has no affect on the overall health of their colonies.
Due to the length of this video I anticipate there will be a lot of comments and questions from people who neither watched the entire video nor read this description. If you are so inclined and know the answers feel free to respond to those people on my behalf. Many thanks for your views, your comments and your support of this channel.
You can find more beekeeping information in the new but growing community forum at 628dirtrooster.com as we tackle a bit of Q&A and discuss whatever beekeeping topic you are interested in.
The music is Mountain Peak Flyer 2 and can be found on Epidemic Sound.
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