I catch my first swarm of honey bees
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2020-05-30

It takes 2 attempts but I succeeded!!! I lay down on the ground to watch and found it fascinating to watch the swarm gather in to the hive. Once I caught the Queen bee, worker bees that found where she was, set up a system at the hive entrance to attract the rest of their swarm. They fanned her pheromones out into the surroundings air to call the rest of the swarm to where their Queen bee had settled.


Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring the Cats Shepherd Bodacious and Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog.