How to Put a Swarm of Wild Bees into a Horizontal Hive

I, Bernie Harberts, did not use generative AI to write or illustrate this article. Spell check and grammar check, yes. AI, no.

Feel like gettin’ a natural buzz? Let’s go put a wild bee swarm I caught into my horizontal bee hive (see video below). No cuts, no fades, no special effects. Just a man, two dogs, a cup of cowboy coffee, 8,000 wild bees and 18 minutes of morning, mountain holler bliss. Enjoy!
VIEWER ADVISORY: Contains graphic content (a worker dies in my hand at 13:00)

PS: Thanks Jesse and Angela of Happy Valley Filling Station fame for letting me hang the swarm box on your property so I could catch this swarm. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard from Hayden Hatfield and Whitney how Julia and I snuck up on them last night under the cover of darkness to haul the swarm trap out of that big-ass oak tree in your back yard….

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