🔵A Bad Queen CAN Kill A Hive!

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@boscodog4358 2 года назад

Do a video of your nuc requeening.. procedure.

@beekeeper_in_Raqqa 2 года назад

Thank you so much

@Bee_Cathy 22 дня назад

Kamon I need to introduce a new queen this week to a colony. I recall from one of your videos when dispatching a queen do you pinch her into the wax and let her pheromones stay in the hive. Thanks for your help. First year bee wrangler.

@scottfortune9016 2 года назад

Oh Kamon, I want to see you add the new queen and frames of brood!!

@livingadamman7994 2 года назад

Thanks Kamon, looking forward to the beetle trap video, beetles have never been so bad as they are in my area (Australia) right now, thinking it's been the wetter humid conditions over last few years. Nasty things eh

@theheritagehousesc 2 года назад

Yes. For us too. This year they have been horrible

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Should be out in a couple of days!

@livingadamman7994 2 года назад

@@kamonreynolds Awesome. One trick I found on badly infested colonies is to put lid down as a tray, put super on top of to seal, then smoke the box of bees heavily. The beetles and some bees drop into lid over 30 seconds, then take off super and start squishing beetles. You can even walk away with the lid and deal with it elsewhere. I've killed 50-100 beetles at a time manually this way. Chux poly propaline dish cloths are good, and beetle barns. Beetle bases are too expensive but are very convenient.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 года назад

As you repair that colony, will you pull that colony from the treatment trials?

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

I will either one have to requeen without adding brood immediately. Or wait till the end of the month to plug a nuc in after all the data is in. By then it may be too late but yeah, Won't be adding any brood until we take the final wash

@rodneymiddleton9624 2 года назад

First!

@TheKelleyBean 2 года назад

I would LOVE to see how you requeen using a nuc! Do you newspaper combine? Cage the queen? or just plug them in? Please make a video of this!

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

10-4!

@kennybirdwell 2 года назад

Was going to ask the same question. Was wondering if you waited a day after removing the old queen before adding the new one.

@srae1503 2 года назад

I wonder if the queen just shut down because of the OA treatments and will now ramp back up, especially with some feed.

@dennissitter2242 2 года назад

Wish that I was able to make that call that fast. I tend to put the hive tool test off way too long. Thanks for sharing.

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Lots of practice and I still don't always requeen when I should but I am getting a lot better about it!

@JosiahGarber 2 года назад

How do you determine whether this is caused by high mites or a poor queen?

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Alcohol wash is the best and fastest way. It will get another wash in a week

@heavymechanic2 Год назад

I been told I have too many bees based upon the state guidelines LOL! Even with a small bee yard and several mating NUCs, I'm not scaling back due to my investment in equipment. Having support nucs has saved a few colonies after either losing a queen or one that shut down and became mean.. It seems to me that when the neighbor uses Glyphosate, a month later some of my queens stop laying, I read some research that supports that theory.

@rebeccahoffman5914 2 года назад

Hoping to hear an update on your treatments of oxalic acid. I heard the same comments with the queen with the formic pro .I am wondering if this reason in excess amounts of material of treatments. But, how much is to much at the level of strength of the queen?🤔

@trulylynn9941 Год назад

I love how you share your knowledge without asking people to pay for it. We older people don't have a lot of money left living on a fixed income. You are my favorite bee keeper! BTW David Burns ain't got nothing on you son.

@georgehardee5470 2 года назад

I've seen several videos of people using peppermint candies in the corners of their hives to eliminate hive beetles. Would love to see you do an experiment with that and get your opinion.

@TheBguenth Год назад

so I had a hive to swarm and I caught it and found the old marked queen, put her and the swarm in a new hive and it's been a week and no eggs, nothing! I think I should pinch her and requeen. Meanwhile, in the old hive, I can't figure it out... 2 days ago there were half the bees then yesterday, it looked like they were swarming when actually there were so many more bees that I had to add another deep. I can't find any evidence of a new queen (no queen cells anywhere) so I don't know if they have one at all. No eggs etc. I'm thinking I need to add a queen to that one, too. Help!

@donbearden1953 2 года назад

Kamon & Laurel, good video! How do store the extra brood comb that you’ve managed to get drawn out? If it’s got a little honey, what do you do with it then? Thanks! RTR!

@CentralKyBees 2 года назад

Hey kamon, I actually ran into this same situation today. I dethroned the queen and wondered how long I should wait before introducing the new one. I have a 3 frame nuc with a healthy mated queen to replace her. A day or 2?

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

You can wait a few days but you will need to go into the queenless colony and make sure they aren't making queen cells. If they're are crush them then introduce your nuc. Sometimes they let the virgins emerge and then they kill your nice laying queen!

@CentralKyBees 2 года назад

@@kamonreynolds yes sir, thanks!

@scotthenderson4376 Год назад

I wish I'd seen this way earlier. I have a few hives that were booming all summer and 1 lagged behind and now its cold the boomers are iffy and the lager is booming

@rusticlifefarm6264 Год назад

Did the other test OA colonies also have an issue like this one? And was this one of your own mated queens or from somewhere else? I'm mostly interested in the OA part

@TinyTrailFarm 2 года назад

Another great video. Thanks KR and Laurel!!!!

@justinmills8084 2 года назад

How long have you done beekeeping and how many hives ?

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

300 hives 20 years

@justinmills8084 2 года назад

I have thought beekeeping for five years where I live and get asked for RU-vid channels for good information. Thanks

@TinyTrailFarm 2 года назад

Requeen! A usurpation seems unlikely!

@zetectic7968 2 года назад

Does this hive have an excess of drone brood? Better to replace the queen now than wait too long has to be a better strategy.

@graemediesel2936 2 года назад

I noticed on a couple of colonies this summer that getting plugged up with bee bread was one of the first signs of a failing queen. The field bees were doing a good job bringing in the pollen but the queen was not able to increase her laying to take advantage of the flow.

@Fred-ff6bv 2 года назад

goldenrod is blooming in ozark missouri.

@nancynolton6079 2 года назад

Waiting for that hive beetle video!

@catchemalive 2 года назад

Kamon, just wanted you to know I did 3 rounds (1 per week) of 33grams Apiguard in all 4 colonies I have. Just did and alcohol wash and every one washed a zero!!!!! Thanks so much for all your help.

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Wow that is fantastic! Good on you for putting the labor in! Hopefully this fall flow will be generous!

@bethkellogg6502 2 года назад

50.2 Sub’s congrats!!!! Love everything you do.

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Thank you Beth! Thanks for bee-ing with us! 🐝

@LawsonsCreekApiary 2 года назад

Good catch, that Queen needs to go!

@brucesbees 2 года назад

Interesting stuff Kamon.

@troysilver6853 2 года назад

Old comb maybe

@paulawaldrep5286 2 года назад

Great identification of a problem! Please make a video of the results of injecting the new Q.💝

@wayne8873 2 года назад

If there is low protein and carbohydrates and big numbers in bees in the colony, are we seeing selective cannibalising of the brood to re-absorb some of the energy back into to colony causing spotty patterns to form? And would the spotty pattern from cannibalism then trigger the colony to enter into an emergency state causing superseder queen cells to be created? What did the queen’s conditioning look like? Love all of your videos mate. From fellow beekeepers in tropical north Australia.

@daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms 2 года назад

I’m a hobbiest bee keeper so I have not tried graphing or banking queens. I am not sure if I am set up for it. I will be going to the Joplin Missouri event to see you. I will try to speak with you for advise if you have the time. I would probably go to the Arkansas event but I can’t figure out when where or how much. Thanks for your videos. Special thanks to your wife for the filming it is excellent as always

@NoName-du1qf 2 года назад

Just got done treating hives with oxalic acid vapor ( treatment schedule apiguard two weeks shuts queen down oxalic acid vapor five days times three after the two weeks gives queen time to resume laying) noticed even though I close the screened bottom boards they still leak much more than the solid bottom boards is there a study that compared kill percentage with oxalic acid vapor solid vs screened if not need one enjoy your channel

@alanwiebelhaus8750 2 года назад

Kamon when do you expect they’ll start laying winter bees

@Drewjober 2 года назад

Nice video do you treat any hives with formic pro in August or September? Are your temps below 90? I’m near Buffalo NY and it’s below 85 and have good results with it the past 3 years

@sweetharlanhoneybees5877 2 года назад

I was able to get the majority of our colonies requeened this year by taking your advice you gave me on doing so by plugging in those nucs and also used my very own grafted queens. I'm seeing awesome bricks of brood now! Thank you Kamon

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Awesome! The more you dial those queens and mites in, the more your back is going to hate you from all that honey!

@sweetharlanhoneybees5877 2 года назад

@@kamonreynolds My back and I have enough arguments as it is so idk what the future holds lol.

@davidpennington4477 2 года назад

Great video, that is a queen problem

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Yessir and we are going to fix it!

@hoopnfarm 2 года назад

I love watching your videos. I’m learning so much of what to expect from keeping bees in Tennessee. We are hoping to move that way in the next two years. I’m going to have a hard time leaving my bees here 😆❤️

@catchemalive 2 года назад

Kamon, what part of summer is it normal to see the size of a colony get smaller?? I thought it was totally normal to see them get smaller in the fall simply because the Queen was backing off laying for just enough bees to stay alive thru winter?? Should they still be laying hard light spring and early summer?? Thanks for all the help

@lambbrookfarm4528 2 года назад

Great info as usual, Thanks Kamon

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Thanks for saying so Lamb Brook Farm!

@aremedyproject9569 2 года назад

Those honey arms of yours! 💪🏼 🐝👍

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Beekeeping will work you out for sure!

@brushyhoney3490 2 года назад

How long can we expect the flow to last?

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Who knows 4 weeks maybe if we are lucky. Last year we got nothing! Be prepared for it all!

@firstdawn5465 2 года назад

did not see a pollen patty on that colony. Any reason why not?

@kamonreynolds 2 года назад

Pollen flow yay!

@NYGRLINTN 2 года назад

I live in north eastern TN. The pollen that my girls are bringing in now is CRAZY! Some of the baskets are so huge they have to waddle through the entrance 🤣🤣.

@theheritagehousesc 2 года назад

We just got rid of a queen ourselves. We waited long enough

@JimLaddie 2 года назад

Excellent video. You're a team.

@hughcourchesne4351 2 года назад

Great to have a plan to keep your hive healthy

@tjjastrem127 2 года назад

Id wonder about the back to back 5 treatments affecting her laying as well as the food stores. I would be interested to see if she rebounded with some feed and the pull back on treatments