Jason’s Plan Bee

06/03/2026

The last several weeks have been insane. The current swarm catch count for 2026 is 65!

05/27/2026

Yesterday Scott and I moved our first hive to the farm. This was a tree that was cut down that had a colony living in it. The bees were found on a branch not to far and were moved to a box. This log will be left here to hopefully attract and re-home another swarm.

05/22/2026

Scott has been hammering the swarms! This one just swarmed and is moving into the box.

05/19/2026

Swarm season has been crazy this year. Scott has been running the the traps and we have caught over 25 so far.
This one showed up yesterday at the farm.

05/07/2026

This is a video of a swarm transfer we did last week. This was a small one and should have been put in a smaller box. There was also a sighting of the queen!

We transferred a small swarm from a bait hive. This probably should have gone into a 5 frame Nuc, unfortunately we did not have one with us at the time.

05/04/2026

Anyone missing a cat?😂😂😂
We saw this guy on the way out to drop off a hive at one of the yards.

05/03/2026

A few days ago we were lucky enough to see another swarm show up. I believe this was number 8 so far this year!

04/27/2026

Yesterday Scott took a video of us doing walk away splits. This will hopefully prevent swarming and also create a new colony if they successfully create a new queen in the split.

Shaking bees down for a walk away split

04/25/2026

Every day is an adventure in the bee yard. What you see here is a swarm leaving one of my hives. About an hour earlier I inspected this hive and found a queen cell. When I touched it the cap came off and a new queen emerged and ran down into the box below. Not knowing exactly what to do in that moment I closed it up and went about my other inspections. Luckily this swarm moved into a swarm trap we have set up a little ways away.

04/10/2026

Update on swarm season 2026. The first swarm came to the catcher last Monday 6April26.
Scott reported another catch yesterday bringing our total to 2 so far! We are off to a good start! Thanks Scott for running the trap line this year!