[IAmTheWaterbug]

Scouts already, at 8:30!!! They just started showing up yesterday:

Swarm Cam at Painted Peacock Manor

This camera is observing a "bait hive" or "swarm trap" in my backyard, hoping to entice a swarm of feral bees to move in.I have another BeeCam rotating amon...

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[AR1]

Scouts already, at 8:30!!! They just started showing up yesterday:

Swarm Cam at Painted Peacock Manor

This camera is observing a "bait hive" or "swarm trap" in my backyard, hoping to entice a swarm of feral bees to move in.I have another BeeCam rotating amon...

www.youtube.com

Man it's hard waiting for spring! Nice video. Looking forward to seeing the results, hopefully in a day or two max!

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

Stream was down. Now it's back up.

 

[Dan the bee guy]

I haven't been on bee source for a while, ya I remember watch one of your streams a few years ago

 

[AR1]

Ah heck. Now I'm addicted. Got it running in a side bar constantly. Lots more bees now, too.

Thanks, made my day.

 

[AR1]

Turned my volume up too, so I can listen to the bees.

 

[elmer_fud]

looks nice. You are way ahead of us, we don't see swarms until tax day around here.

no welcome sign on the inside this year ;-)

 

[elmer_fud]

lots of activity today

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

The scouts are scouting!!!

Sorry the live stream is so unreliable. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it.

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

Here's the exterior view. That seems more reliable than the 2-up:

Live Swarm Trap Exterior Camera at Painted Peacock Manor

This camera is looking at a "swarm trap," or "bait hive" in my unused chicken coop, where I catch at least 1 swarm of feral bees every year.There is another ...

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[ursa_minor]

This is soooo cool, what a lovely way for me to spend a coffee break in -24C winter weather. Watching a live stream of bees, thanks.

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

This is soooo cool, what a lovely way for me to spend a coffee break in -24C winter weather. Watching a live stream of bees, thanks.

Here are my 3 established hives:

BeeCam from Painted Peacock Manor

Live BeeCam, monitoring my established hives in Palos Verdes, 90274.I have another camera monitoring a "bait hive" or "swarm trap," here:https://www.youtube....

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[IAmTheWaterbug]

Interesting note--I watched some of the bees taking out trash while they were inspecting. So they treat it like they own it even before they've decided to move in!

 

[G3farms]

Could you put a thermometer at this hive location?

Would be helpful to know when it is warm enough for the bees to be flying.

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

Could you put a thermometer at this hive location?

Would be helpful to know when it is warm enough for the bees to be flying.

Instead of a thermometer I'm just pulling data from openweather.org, but I have it overlaid on the video now. The livestream also is a lot more reliable now that I've switched the cameras from h.264 to h.265. Later, after the swarm moves in and I swap in the box with the Raspberry Pi attached for the time lapse, I'll also be able to read the temp/humidity sensor and overlay that data as well.

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

If one were looking only at the outside camera today, you might think the swarm has already moved in!! But nope; still just scouts. Lots of scouts, but just scouts:

Swarm Cam at Painted Peacock Manor

This camera is observing a "bait hive" or "swarm trap" in my backyard, hoping to entice a swarm of feral bees to move in.I have another BeeCam rotating amon...

www.youtube.com

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

 

[elmer_fud]

They are playing mind games with us ;-)

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

They're here!!!!!! edit: Here's the permalink to the move-in event:

 

[RayMarler]

Good view. I would worry though, about them drawing wild comb where there are no frames, since it's the entrance side of the hive box. I think it would be better to have the empty space on the side away from the entrance. But I see why you did it this way, it's a great view! Time will tell how it works out, but for now it's just Awesome!