Here's what you need:
1. A large cardboard box with a tight-fitting lid.
2. Your smoker with plenty of burlap and/or straw.
3. A queen cage with a sugar plug and a wire.
4. Duct tape.
5. Your veil and gloves if you're a chicken.
6. A spare brood box with foundation and hopefully some drawn comb.
Put the large box under the bees.
Smoke the bees.
Poke through the swarm gently to find the queen.
Cage the queen.
Put the queen in the large box.
Scoop the bees into the box.
Let it sit a little while for strays to come to the queen.
Close the box.
Take the box to your beehive. Install the queen's box between two frames. Dump the bees in, and leave the large box out front.
Congratulations! You now have free bees!
Its neat to watch someone who knows what they are
doing capture a big swarm
My momma was mowing earlier in the summer and didn`t
notice a Rose of Sharon had a swarm and hit it
The Cub Cadet sat out in the front yard for a coupla
hrs covered in bees before they departed
I don’t think you need to cage the queen. I caught a swarm this spring and dumped them on a sheet in front of an empty brood box. After a few minutes they all walked up the sheet into the hive entrance. First swarm I ever caught and they’ve been doing Ok so far. It is a little late in the year for a swarm, must be a great year for the bees in Sweden!
Sounds like a textbook example of Francis Bacon’s truism that nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. I suspect that any brute-force attempt to remove them would not end well.
Finding the queen and caging her are not steps that are included in my swarm collections. Take an empty deep (brood chamber) and scoop the bees in or whatever maneuver best collects the balled bees. Have never lost a queen. Most of the time I even skip the cardboard box.