Great video! Recently had an odd situation with my queen with a newly installed package and this video answered a TON of questions! I’m brand new to beekeeping and started with 2 hives, these types of videos help out a lot and I appreciate you taking the time to share all of your knowledge!
Going through your videos as I have time, I have always had an "ugly" yard because I love bees. I sowed Dutch clover when we bought our farm in anticipation of getting bees. Finally got a nuc this year. Love you content.
It's my understanding that packages are prone to supercedure because of the lack of brood pheremone present early into the install. By the time the queen has laid enough to generate enough pheremone, the supercedure cells are already built.
As you held her to mark her, I was thinking, “I wonder if he’s ever been stung by a queen?” I don’t care to mark queens like you did because the first time I attempted that she stung me twice. No thank you. I bought a queen marking tool and learned to use it.
Hello David, i watched this video start to finish, I loved, many things to learn about queen bee and replacement, just wonder what happened to the baby queen in that queen cup/cell? Do the working bees destroy it or the adult queen? I saw fingers touching the cell, don't you think that has no effect of the bees turn to abandoning it? Thanks 👍
Good video Will u answer my question I have done many splits with the splits making there own queen cells the queens emerge and go out to mate but a lot are not making it back bird food or dragon fly food how many times do u try to make a queen with that split before u combine the hives back together again. I live in Virginia Thanks
How is the stump with the bees doing? Did they end up moving along to somewhere else? Did you relocate them? Love your videos! Keep up with the good content!
i just brought a swarm in a trap home. there were bees on the outside. i have put most of the swarm inside the hive but several bees will not go inside but stay in the trap. i think i saw a small queen. it had a reddish tail compared to the rest of them. im wondering if it is a virgin queen. i didn't know what to do so i put the whole box in an empty hive with frames and gave them sugar water. do you have any ideas this is the second day since i put them in the hive
You are such a magnificent resource! Am wondering since there has been so much rain, (possibly meaning to the bees, more potential for an increased abundance of upcoming nectar with your clover going gangbusters on and on), while they are in such small quarters, if they may be preparing or practicing to get a jump on swarming to be ready to go to larger living quarters.
JoAnn Bees are OK without a Queen for about x3* Weeks : When you can either.... 1) Keep the Colony going "Queen-Faked" by adding a tiny Vial of 'Artifical Queen Phremone' from Bee Stores... to keep them Calm and Happy with that Vial ! ... Until you can source a Queen! (And or add a Virgin,** even adding a Hive made "Peanut"** :Queen Cell... (a Queen in the Making,) from another Hive**, a local Beekeeper**, a Beekeeper Club** Even an SoS Ad placed on Gumtree... (Live Queens can be Posted ! A Peanut will need Collecting and keeping it Warm... so to ensure it Matures and Hatches. 👀 (Bit like incubating Bird Eggs. Temp is a little lower than Chick's etc....) 2) Order a Queen and Install her, Caged, then via a Slow Release... 3) Unite the Queenless Colony over a Queened Colony, using Newspaper to 'United slowly as they chew Paper away.' No Bees fighting each other. 4) * After about x3 Weeks the Work Force will start to die of old age, over work : bringing in Honey etc ! In Spring to Summer Bees live for about x6 Weeks... but as a Hive (Queen) lays eggs every day of her life, x1000s of Bees are born, work, die in this time frame. So... no Queen, no Eggs, no Babies, no sign of replacement Population (!) So you need to do one of the above pronto ! Hope this helps. 😎
