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It takes a lot of knowledge to make bees do what you want them to. Sounds like a great idea. I had a few swarms this year that were irretrievable by any way I could see. That trick would have worked.

Bees in a swarm are generally docile as they do not have a home to defend. If they have been hanging on a limb for a while in nasty weather they can be hostile. If you get suited up good they generally can't sting you so you just don't bother with smoke when you are hiving a swarm.

I have tried to hive swarms and have had an awful time. They end up leaving or queenless. Last year I had a hive. They made it through the winter and were collecting pollen. It was such a nasty hive I didn't open them to check. When they seemed to be slow I did check and they were...

I had a tree that had a colony up about 30 feet in a Red Oak. The tree blew over. I cut the 2 foot diameter section out chained to my loader and stood it up on the ground. They survived, died out, repopulated, died out, and repopulated again in the last few years. You would wonder where the...