This is Phil Chandler. I'm going to show you today how to get a swarm out of a basket that they've been in for nearly two weeks in this case and into a hive with a minimum disturbance, I hope. So this swarm here was caught about two weeks ago just like just under two weeks ago I think and due to a combination of me not being around and inclement weather, I've actually left them in the basket for that period of time. I normally would only leave them in for maybe four or five days up to a week. So they're well settled into this basket. They will have built some comb. I don't exactly know how much comb yet but what I'm going to do is transfer them into this little top bar hive here. It's only a small one because that's what I've got to hand at the moment and they will eventually go into full size hive but this is a simply to show you the process of transferring bees from a basket into a top bar hive. And so the first thing we're going to have to do is move this basket aside. You'll see that the bees are well used to coming in and out of that entrance. They know exactly where that entrance is. And so we need to place the entrance to the new hive as close as we can to that point so that the bees that are coming in from foraging can find their way home straight away. And we'll go through the whole sequence from beginning to end and you'll see how easy it is I hope. And of course the bees don't understand what's happened yet. The flying bees are going to come back to this point here. Okay so this hive is now in place. There's entrance holes pretty much where the hole in the basket was. So the bees understand now that this is going to be home and all I've got to do now is to get the colony into that position to that basket. To do that I'm going to use a couple of top bars. I've lifted the entire colony out of the basket using two top bars at the end and now I'm going to place them carefully in their new box. It looks quite carefully enough as it turns out because I've allowed a couple of the bars to slip. There we go. Now then. Just going to close up the gap here. There's quite a few bees in the basket which I'm now going to tip into the hive. There's a piece of comb here that was in the hive that I put into the basket which has obviously come with drifts slightly but that doesn't matter. Here's the rest of the bees that were in the basket and they're now going to go. Now I'm going to put the hive here. Now you can see there's a bit of a traffic cue forming at the front here because suddenly their hive has changed shape. The hive looks a little different to what it did when they left so they're just figuring out what's happened in the meantime. Now that's about it, that's job done. You can see bees now are finding around the entrance here indicating to their playing friends. This is home. This is okay. It's where they should be. In a matter of probably a matter of 10 minutes or so there will be no unusual activity around the hive. The bees will have settled in and they're going about their lives as they were before. Now of course this is a small hive. I wouldn't leave them in here indefinitely but for the time being this is their home. So a nice easy way of getting bees from a swarming state into a basket and then into a hive with minimum disturbance. Now I'm going to put the hive in here and I'm going to put the hive in here. Now I'm going to put the hive in here and I'm going to put the hive in here. Now I'm going to put the hive in here and I'm going to put the hive in here. So this is just a few minutes after the transfer and you can see there's the bees are coming back to the hive and they're mostly finding their way straight away. So this is just a few minutes after the transfer and you can see there's the bees are coming back to the hive and they're mostly finding their way straight into the entrance. The entrance is one of two grouping together in the corner there but they'll figure it out quite quickly. And because there was only a single hole in the basket and there's actually three holes in this hive I'm actually going to close two of these holes because the weather's still pretty cool for the time of year and although there's a lot of foraging activity going on I don't want to risk this hive not being able to defend itself properly against things like wasps. So I'm just going to close up two of those entrances but that should be fine though.