Checking the bees - First Beekeeping inspection of the year (good and bad news) 

Yes please no more moldy frames for the bees

Yeah i heard that queens dont like to lay eggs in totally black (old) combs. So i would recommend scrapping that old ones for wax and let the bees build fresh combs.

I have heard the opposite. In the spring queen likes darker comb and in the middle of the season she is more comfortable with lighter colored comb. But yes you should rotate old moldy frames out so that the bees dont winter on the exact same frames they did last year(helps keeping the diseases out).@@michalferdinandkubinec488

@@michalferdinandkubinec488 How old is too old for comb? I've had my bees for 3 years(this is the third year), do I need to start replacing comb?

@@samwhite7308 it depends on how quickly your comb changes color. For my hives it usually takes 4 to 5 years before it changes color. You should be good for this year. Just check the comb once a year. When it is as black as Alex's then it is a problem. You can change 2 combs a year. No need to change all of them at once.

Agree100%

This is exactly what I would of done. The colony was too small for a standard brood box to keep brood warm. Put them in nuq and feed syrup. I suspect she would lay in a week. We have all made mistakes. It's how we learn, christ I've made worse, lol.

I also thought like "this queen is just one year old, shouldn't have stopped laying because of old age either" but then i saw the queen with the pink marking? How's your colour coding in the UK on queens?

@@OkararuI think it was meant to be red but just a shade closer to pink

i am no beekeeper but i too would have guessed that it may be to cold for that second colony and thats why she was not laying eggs and thinks its still winter and i would have waited another week before getting rid of her

@@TheFlow2006 Queen bee stops laying eggs if its too hot or too cold she just doesn't lay randomly, Poor Queen!

I was thinking that maybe she would lay later. I'm glad you confirmed it.

I also didn't notice much, if any, food stores in Alex's broodless hive. Low feed stores and food being eaten faster than it's coming in are yet more reasons a queen might halt laying. Also she looked darker than Alex's other queens so I suspect she may have more of the Carniolan breed in her and they winter on smaller clusters than the lighter Italian breed.

Glad to see you’re growing your apiary. I’m sure you’ll have lots of success! Joe from Georgia USA,just about 20 miles from Atlanta airport.

Yeah I thought was lacking food and pollen so might have stopped laying to preserve stores and nothing to feed young, a pollen patty ?

I do not see any honey in that hive. No food no eggs I guess

@@MyCroatianHomestead partially true but he offered some fondant. Pollen is their source of protein. So if no pollen flow, queen stops laying even with surplus honey. Another thing is I think he should switch to liquid feeding(not sure tho depends on weather).

At this point i would have just moved 1 or 2 of those brood heavy frames from his NUC into the hive, pinched the queen and waited for them to make a new one.

@@arsenic0 That would work but I think(from his old videos) Alex wants to get some honey from those hives this year. Allowing a queen to emerge naturally and waiting her to start laying eggs takes too much time :) Season already started for him. Just shaking a few frames from the stronger one into the weak hive and keeping the queen was the way I would go...

And thats not the way to merge two hives. They will kill each other. You cannot stack one over the other like this. The bees that come back, and dont find the hive cannot enter in the other ones, the guard bees will kill them. Whats the point of killing a queen without replacing it. I dont understand what youre doing. I sugest asking for help with the local beekeepers or taking some classes. The beekeeping it's not a business. They are familly and depend on you to take care of them.

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I was thinking the same.

I was thinking the same 👌🏽

47 seconds ago 💀💀

I am so relieved! I am thinking about doing a course on beekeeping. But I saw this, and thought that there is no way I could kill my Queen.

Far too early for most of the manipulations in this video. It's quite sad because with the amount of followers he has means a lot of people are going to follow his bad practise. Especially judging by the amount of positive comments on such poor practice. He needs to learn his craft before posting videos. We all have to learn but don't run before you can walk

Yes, what a lovely young person trying to do nice things in a not-so-nice (sometimes) world. It's refreshing.

The paper is thin enough that when they chew through the newspaper, the pheromones have mixed between the hives and bees are harmonised on the same communication and don't kill each other. Sadly nothing to do with ink.

Exactly what I was going to say, Alex next time put your pink dot not laying queen with a frame or two into that nuc you just freed ; then take a frame with a few fresh eggs from a stronger hive into your “eggless” and now queenless hive. Old queen gets a second chance in the nuc and rest of the hive will requeen!

But love your work Alex!

At this time of year? In March? Set back a stronger colony in vital time of growth. The last place to learn beekeeping is youtube. Ridiculous advice

@@simbobcrafts4843 very sound advice they literally have all season to build.

Would also depend on the climate (where in the world) you live, but yes, give brood from the strong to the weak, I agree with Mike, sorry! And as often with bees more then one solution to the problem…

No food no brood ........ she could have stopped due to no food in the hive !! 😮😮😮 do a bit of homework on bbka website will help you a lot (feed your bee's if you have a wet spring !!! 😢

And save some money. It's a very expensive hobby. I started last year.

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Worker bees can lay eggs?!

​@@voldemort8894Yep, but only drones will emerge. They do it when they stay without a queen for 40 days, and it is hard to introduse a new queen as they think that they are in control of the hive.. You have to add one frame with eggs for 3-4 days in a row so that they get back to "worker" mode and then add a new queen.