Their queen died and then they murdered the new one Now what? 

Mother Nature is a beautiful thing, but sometimes it is so hard to understand. So sad what happened. Love what you do and thanks for sharing.♥️👍🏼🙏

the sound of the bees is very calming and peaceful to me, thanks for adding it to the end. thank you for all that you do.

Thanks 🙂

Jeff, I wonder if you would have done better with leaving the queen right hive in their spot. Taken the cut out and put it in a 10 frame on a bottom board with its frames that you banded together. After you dumped them in their 10 frame you could have put newspaper over the queen right hive and then stuck the queen less 10 frame on top.

They do that sometimes. When it's early enough in the year, I will give them a frame of fresh eggs from another hive and let them make a new queen. Where I live, you can do that up until early July. This late in the year, I just combine them with another hive or - when it's not a very strong hive - I just let the hive die (and I harvest any honey and wax). I learned through the years, sometimes a hive is a lost cause and it's not worth trying to save them. I do use the "newspaper method" when I have to combine a lot of bees.

Yes, very sad thing when the original queen died and then the merging queen gets attacked. I can't wait to see if the bee's make a new queen cell!! God Bless.

It’s only rained a 1/2” here in my area of Texas over 3 months. Grass is dead and trees have shed most of their leaves. I lost my entire pecan crop because of no rainfall. I’ll be watering trees most of the day today. I lost about 20 young trees this year.

Another great Mr. Ed Bee video

I wonder if they were making any queen cells as the reason they killed her? Thanks Jeff!

I find that colonies will blame their queen if there are poor crops or lack of stores, kill her and replace her. I wonder if part of the issue was that they were upset about the cutout (of course!), got into the new hive and saw minimal stores, and killed her because they were unhappy? Bees can be fickle critters! Of course there is always that hindsight and "what if's", that's what makes beekeeping so so so interesting!

Cool Video Mr Ed thanks for sharing

And this is why i never buy queens anymore. Let them raise their own queens via brood. Not worth the headache and money feeding a colony all the queens.

I’ve had honeybees here in Alaska for about 40 years. This is my worst year ever in Alaska the fire weed did not even bloom. I know what you mean, as far as when you have bees and lose some of them especially the queens.

Hi mr Ed. What a session that was. Its like purphy's law.

27 deg here double screen splits. ???. And what was mite count.???.

What is the name of the tall green feathery weed by your shop?

Take them to your bee yard and take the brood and charge some other hives

Mike always does a newspaper combine…

What kind of bee vac you use

They loved her too death

Most dramatic thing I’ve ever seen

🌹🌹❤️❤️🦘🐨

You need to to improves your foley artist game ;)

When will the funeral for the QUEEN BEEEE! 😱😁😝🤣🤪👍👍🇺🇲

Blimey, that was a rollercoaster ride! What a shame for both Queens. I hope those girls crack on with an emergency cell now, and I look forward to you keeping us updated on how they get on.

Most of the balling I witnessed come with the bees stinging the bee. Even 1 sting is enough to kill a queen... Have it happen to me a couple times before. I merge colonies a couple times per year because for a couple of years I have been breeding purebred Buckfast bees. Small boxes that return from the islands stand no chance next to my large hives, So I merge asap to make them bigger. The best result I get is when I use an arrest frame, only 1 queen being replaced from 16 total so far and counting. How my method looks like: You take an old frame, remove the wiring from it and wax. You staple iron mesh over to cover 1 side. Repeat this for another frame, you now have 2 sides. Remove the ears. Place a 3rd frame in the middle and staple some iron mesh again on the outside frames at the bottom side. Now you have to frames together, you have the arrest frame. You can remove the frame from the middle. You can staple some iron mesh over the top on 1 frame to make a lock out of it. Take out an hatching frame out of a hive. Knock off all the bees and ensure 100% it is free from bees. Place this hatching frame in the middle of the arrest frame and after this is done catch your queen, place her on the hatching frame. Make sure no robber bees in the meantime landed on your hatching frame. Close up the frame and place it for 1 week in a hive with young bees. From the moment you place the bees in, start heavy feeding of 1:1 sirup. After 1 week the queen is laying up all the hatched-out cells and she gets take care of by the young bees. After a week there is enough feromone for her to get accepted. Only had once where the queen was no laying after a week, decided to release her and she was killed. Other option is: If you have a small hive and want to merge the queenright small hive with a larger hive: Put a newspaper between both hives. Feed heavy with sugar water. For some reason, bees get more relaxed if you feed them

That was a really fascinating video. Very sad to have lost both queens and hope that the colony gets sorted soon. Always compulsive viewing. God bless and thank you Mr. Ed.

Is Yappy writing everyone's titles now?

Maybe I missed it...? But why cage the queen from the merged colony? Newspaper merge with the cutout bees on top for a slow introduction. Thoughts?

Man the life of a bee !!! I have a colony that lost its queen for whatever reason so I introduced one that I had grafted and waited the 3 days before releasing her and they rejected her also …so today I will try again .. maybe I’ll load them up with some sugar water and see if that helps ..thanks again for the great videos mr Ed !!!

Hi Jeff. It's September today !! It's 57F here in Montreal right now at 7:40am. Is there a fear those bees might swarm out of that box at some point, or do you think they will stay?? I guess, if they haven't already wanted to "Bug Out" they would have, right? I know Mr. Green Jeans over at Fall Line Ridge lost some of his queens, and he ordered a few "Queens" to add back to his queen-less hives. He did not have a store of queen cells to bank on. Hope it works out.

Thank goodness God didn’t make cows pollinators huh?

I saw a beekeeper merge two colonies by place newspaper between the two boxes and it worked out.

The derth is a hard time to get bees to accept a new queen. The best results I've had is using a push in cage. I try to Place it over emerging brood with some empty cells for her to lay in, and some honey. I leave her under the cage for at least 7 to 10 days. My success rate is usually greater than 90%. Enjoyed the video and God bless.

Interesting. The only experience I have with merging bees together is by using the newspaper method. It always worked for me and never lost a queen. I never had my queen in a cage either. Her girls could protect her while the other bees slowly merged together. The did merge well from what you did.

Awww…too bad about losing the queens 😕 Hope the girls will make a new one. Blessings, my friend 🙏💕😊

no wonder them girls were HOT, feeding them 89 octane unleaded like that, lol! Smoking! Great job Mr. Ed. I had a hive last week that started pumping out swarms; they lost their queen (2 year old), instead of replacing they went nuts. 6 frames queen of cells, ugh

Next time try a "PUSH" cage with emerging brood inside the cage

Jeff I had a hive that wouldn't accept a mated or virgin queen.the nuc I tried to introduce with quen they kill queen and made a cell. It wa time because the hold process took about a month and half to 2 mo ths hope allgoes well with yours.thank you for the video

Mr Ed, I watch most of your videos.... only, I tend to binge watch and it might be months before I watch them (I'm up in Canada, so they aren't really relevant) and you get so many comments, I don't want to repeat something someone has already said. I fell into Randy's videos a few years back and... he wasn't wearing a suit! I started watching him, as I'd love to have a beehive... but like you, I'd be suited up and more... but he's got me convinced, that with the right queen, and slow, careful movements ( no squished bees), I wouldn't have to. He's the one that turned me on to you. I love the friendly banter between the both of you. This video topped my feed so I watched it immediately. It was that bold yellow jacket that landed right in the middle of the bucket that drove me to comment. I've heard you say you've killed nests but I've not seen a video of one being taken out so I haven't thought you destroyed many... that's alright as I'm tuning in for the bees! It's just that yellow jackets are so 'in your face' this time of year and my new service dog hates everything with wings! She's going to get stung if she snaps her jaws on one of them! I've had to drag her away from several as she is determined to save me from them... I have to love her for it... but...

Dutchsince recommended and I had a friend who was a Master Bee Keeper! So fascinating out here in Area outside of Portland Oregon… love the whole bee life cycle - sad to hear the challenges you take on with a positive realistic attitude to make things right 👏👍🕊🌞☮️🔑✨ so interesting and helps to understand Mother Nature’s way thanks again Jeff!

Mr Jeff, I'm not sure, but I don't think your gas cans are made of food grade plastic. I small watering can for plants may be better. They have some that have a long slim beak. An old tea pot may even do better.

Well I am old and don't understand why you opened that box after just installing the bees . Robin

I don’t know if thing about bees. I do have a great interest in lots of curiosity, type questions. One item interested to know is why the conventional way of merging bees without a queen with bees who have a queen doesn’t work. Is there some rationale for inventing a method that isn’t generally used? Sure would like to hear some of your decision making thoughts on how and why. Thanks for any edification!

Just a wee note on the beginning where your bees are working hard to clean up the equipment you used to steal honey from them... I'd be tempted to hover over it with a pair of scissors to snip those bold yellow jackets to bits! They are rearing their queens now .... help your bees out... cut back on their numbers any way you can...

Professor Ed, I loved the video. Please do a follow up or at least tell us how the colony faired. TY, peace.

Can you give them some comb with developing queens in them, will they take those.

Noooooo "trade off", the lesser of the eeeeeeevils! 😱😁👍👍🇺🇲

When you feed the honey back to the bees is it straight honey or do you dilute it at all? Absolutely loving the content!! thank you and God bless!!

Good morning, Mr. Ed, This was another entertaining video. Mr. Ed, we can't wait till next friday! Its September to day and is gonna be a beautiful one ! You have a wonderful week with Ms. Queen bee Mona

🐞What is the concentration of your sugar water. Thanks. 🐞

Fascinating video. I accidentally stumbled upon beekeeping RU-vid yesterday and after watching way too many beekeeping videos, I am officially a certified RU-vid-trained beekeeping expert. This means I know nothing about beekeeping so I'll ask. Would smoking the bees ease the introduction of a new queen or the acceptance of new hive members? If smoke eases the aggression caused by hive disturbances like hive removal or honey removal, why wouldn't it ease this aggression?

I'm wondering why you didn't put newspaper in between the 2 hives and let them chew through the paper to settle in..

Mr Ed, I think results like this is why Mike always says “this is not a how to video”! I don’t think Mike wants anyone to have bad results because of what he does if it doesn’t work for any of his viewers. I’m hate that you lost your queens! I’ve had one hive that lost 2 queens lately myself. Hopefully, your colony will make another queen and it gets mated successfully. Thanks for the video!

If you're able to frame up the uncapped brood the same day are you able to salvage it?

you can hear them being angry...they don't sound happy

You should try a pastry knife when you cut the comb!

I was gonna say till I saw the captions. I've never seen an acceptance like that.

It’s always an adventure. Thanks for the video. Take care and God bless.

Tryin to rev up that hive? Is it premium or regular ? 🤣

Does anyone know if there ia a follow up to these girls? Did they make a new queen? This waa very fascinating to watch. I could feel his disappointment when the 2nd queen died.

A single sheet of newspaper between the two colonies works fine. However, the queenless one needs to be queenless for at least several days, to allow the scent to dissipate. So you can box up the framed brood from the cutout, toss the buckets back in and let it rest next to you donar. Then combine them. It's pretty much a walk away for a full day, then open and find the paper chewed thru and all is fine. Works every time. Gives each time to sniff the other.

right at 20 minutes you can hear the tone of the bees change

Y'all been doing it a whole lot longer than I have so y'all know better not first-year or my second year biggest hive I ever had some reason it went I put the eggs didn't make a queen I made another queen cell put Queen cells hatched out did not work so I shook them out. So that's what I do now if I have a queenless 1

man thats some high octane sugar water right there!lol

So nice to get to go to daily Mass so close by!! 😊

Sorry about your queens Mr Ed . How many miles to the gallon do they get😂

Brood makes good chicken feed.

Can't watch that with the sound way down, that gas can threw me & I had to pause and go back with the sound way up! lol

We need a update on this one

Put them in an empty box, with several layers of paper towels on top and then put a weak hive on top. Give them time to acclimate and join together as a functioning hive. That is what I would do, your thoughts? Oh Jeff, ask the DirtRooster what I told him about my queen with a green dot and the green anole.😊😊

I had an experience like that, turned out their was a virgin Queen in there, they had killed the new Queen I had introduced

Nature knows better sometimes

Dang it, I hate when that happens.

A murder mystery at the Abbey!!! Thank you Jeff.

any reason they kill her?

"The name of the rose" mystery.

Mr.Ed, Mother Nature at work! Don't worry BEE HAPPY !! 🐝🐝🐝

Hi Jeff, I would think that just putting the new hive on top but separated by a screened board with it's own entrance for a few days should allow the bees to get used to the queen's pheromones, then swap the screen for a sheet of newspaper.

Please god hope she’s ok god bless

The bees choose their queen That’s why there is no assumption 😮

That makes me sick shame

I never thought of using rubber bands. I'm going to have to try that.

I remember seeing on television how a special kind of queen bee cage with a door made out of sugar blocking passage between the queen and the colony is used such that all the bees are so busy trying to execute her that they have to eat away at the sugar door, and it takes two weeks to break through, which is enough time for the bees to adjust to her pheromones.

I am like world famous Mike Berry; here’s how I direct mix colonies. I make sure the colony with the queen is kept in a block with their queen in the center of the block of bees. It has been my experience that the bees will protect their queen from the bees being added until their odors have had a chance to mix or change or whatever they do. That has always worked for me but having said that, it may not the next time I try it!!

thanks Jeff

I'm confused? I thought it was you who had the video on using newspaper to separate two colonies being introduced to each other - the queenless set up with enough food & water to stay alive while acclimating to the new hive? Maybe this is an old video? Maybe someone else? Whichever... This was really distressing to watch, knowing what you were risking would happen, and that it didn't have to happen. Here's me, screaming louder than in a horror movie, "Noooooo! Don't do it! Do. Not. Open. That. Doooooooooor!"😱

Thank you, Mr. Ed. Great video. Very informative

Very sad about the loss of both Queens Mr. Ed! Perhaps more so of the Queen of the cutout that you two wroked so hard to finish. This is a video of why I so enjoy following you and a couple other bee farmers. Great explanation of your thoughts and procedures. Of course I am looking forward to a follow up for a Queen to emerge or be replaced. Hope you have an awesomely enjoyable weekend! -Bob...

I’m surprised that none of you have heard about the newspaper way of integration of two different colonies of bees 🐝 into one hive this is done by using four separate pages of newspaper to place between two boxes of bees almost like a queen separation from the main brood box and you leave it in place for up to two weeks by this time the bees in the upper colony will have excepted the bottom colony and the paper can be removed of course you will need to feed the upper colony when doing this but it’s a good way of not loosing your queens?

Sorry I wouldn’t merg

mui bien papa

I sure wish my husband and I were able to travel and come meet you and Mona and tour the bee house and the Abby. My husband was raised Catholic, but I am Baptist...and he found God with my spiritual dad who was a Baptist minister and in the church I went to with them and the one I ended up going with a friend to in our neighborhood. I loved it when my husband started wanting to go to church when he saw the positive change it made in me. And the first time the Holy Spirit moved him in church was so amazing! He thought those of us in the little congregation felt the Spirit move and we would be like a wind had blown through and tears and joy all around...freaked him out! He wanted it bad, and he got it! Grabbed my hand and was just in awe with tears streaming down his face. He went to the alter to pray with me that day and on his own even. I miss our church and the church family I had. Our church fell apart when our pastor got arrested...still can't believe what happened with that. Never before or after felt such a strong presence of God moving in a pastor. But he was human with a thorn that cost him dearly. I hope his time in prison helped others come to know Jesus. I too am a sinner and can't throw stones at anyone. Blessings to you and yours~

Thank you Jeff

Paint a drone and fake it

I was distracted for a moment, and when I looked back Jeff was pouring gasoline into the hive. lol

Hi, Mr. Ed. Love your devotion. This video made me think of alternative ways to introduce that last queen. Maybe, and just maybe, the queen-right colony could have been made queenless first, so they started emergency cells while the cut-out bees were dumped into a separate box with the caged queen. I'm guessing that the cut-out bees were already queenless long enough to want a queen, and maybe they would have eventually accepted the caged queen. If that happened, the cutout bees would be queen-right, while the former queen-right colony is still rearing queen cells. It would be possible then to knock down the queen cells, and after a queenless period, paper unite the two colonies. Just a thought.

I bet it was more than 100 degrees inside that closet! Cheers Jeff!

I live in Louisiana how far from the interstate do you live I'm a truck driver whenever I go through there I like have some fresh honey. I would like to buy some from you fresh honey. If he sell it

Hi Mr Ed I had to put back getting my bees till the 19 September as they want to lop the trees or cut some of the trees next door so I’m waiting which is good for me as I’m waiting on half box and frames