I just did this almost two weeks ago. I’m going to wait a few more days before I go back in to see if I have a new queen. Hopefully they’re good to go! I’d love a follow up video on what to look for during the next inspection and all of that!
Decrease the size of the hive. Yes, the viral loads on that hive maybe so high that it is just doomed. Adding healthy capped brood may help, but it also needs a smaller hive for the size of the colony. My management consideration #1 is hive size to colony size. Or maybe put it in a double nuc instead of a 10 frame single. You will see small colonies bounce back quicker when put into smaller hives. Just a thought.
That’s so not true I had a hive that had bad mite issues with 2 frames of bees coming out of winter I treated it and added work force and not its built back strong
@@BackBeeBrokenBeekeeping Yes. A frame of capped brood is 2-3 frames of bee coverage when emerged. Bees prefer to be wall to wall in a box for many reasons. I am not sure the value of any of the sick bees or brood from the original hive. A split is usually 2 frames of brood, 2 frames of food and a blank into a deep nuc box.
oh my goodness, this is so helpful! thank you so much! Throwing an idea out there, playlist for what can go wrong with a hive :) thanks again David and Pat!
I have also added frames with no fighting from resource hives, but just to be sure I try and locate the incoming frame away from the queen by a few frames. That way if there is some fighting it is unlikely that you lose the queen.
Nice video DAVID. The weather is beginning to change with tropical storm Burel on the way. Honey extraction tomorrow while it rains. HAVE A GREAT DAY 👍
Great video, Question-- do you keep your resource hive in that plastic nuc box in the summer? I was afraid they would get to hot or robbed out if I left it on the vent side. Curious what you do there!
That was Fascinating David! 🥰 Thank You for the Clip! Love your Apiary Cart. 💞 You have me Wondering if I need a Resource Nuc. 🤔 I have two Strong Colonies and want to keep it at two. 🥰 Thnx 4 your great experience with Bees. 🐝
It is tough and I have found it is a snowball effect, meaning the rebound is terribly slow as a new generation of bees take 21 days to join the work force.
Agreed, i think on my next inspection like you i will introduce a frame of brood from one of my other hives, im one of them that worry they will fight… you say they don’t eh ?
Hey david been watching your videos for a while now. Taught me a lot of tricks to look for in these kind of situations. I actually had a problem with one of my hive splits this spring they went queenless for too long and i had laying workers develop. I thankfully got to them in time. I shook all of the bees out of the hive about 100yrds away reduced them to a single deep and added 2 frames of capped brood and one with just eggs. Just checked on them monday and found a virgin queen running around. Wonder if you have any videos about those situations. Thanks for the vids and best of wishes.
One note, your method of getting rid of a laying worker is actually passed down and is incorrect. Studies have show that laying workers are foragers, and if you shake them out 100 yards away they just fly back to the hive.
@@beek Well i guess i got lucky then, but i made sure the brood pheromone helped suppress the laying workers. If i didn't see a queen in this last inspection i was going to combine them with another strong hive. Luckily i found one, thanks for the response.
When dearth kicks in do bees stop leaving the hive to forage and just hang around? Just wondered if you could tell by watching the activity at the entrance.
But how is the colony that you took the frames away from , any better than the hive was because it had a low population problem ? Isn’t the donor hive , now in a worse population situation ? I don’t understand .
Dave I have a question I recently recovered a seams I placed them into a Warre. I use Langston hives I noticed today that the Warre hive is doing well any suggestions.
What if the queen is dead? I have a collapsing hive and added a frameof valued brood from a health one, but I don't see the queen. Maybe she died and that is the cause. I have had treated for mites several times? Can I just buy a queen and pop her in this late in the season? Can it bounce back off the hive only has 1000 bees or so left?
Mine are drowning from sugar water. For some reason the jar loses vacuum and dumps all the feed out in a few hours. I've replaced lids, same result, replaced the jar, same result. It's turning into a nightmare
How are they thinking of switching from wooden an poly to them for here in West Scotland loch lomand where its very wet and damp most of the year 🏴
