They sent us DEAD bees, but... 

During the night, winter and cold days bees usually go into hibernation mode so they completely slow down and they look dead but they are in fact alive pretty cool

"Can you say bee?" "OW" Yep, that's pretty accurate, lol.

"Look I got a bee!" *turns to show camera, bee flies away* "Ah!" Adorable.

Me watching this in a 7 story apartment located in the middle of the city: ah yes this is the life i want

I find the bees social behavior immensely interesting. Thanks for explaining the dynamics of adding and introducing new hives, the queens, and rescuing near a dead colony. Great explanations.

So happy to see that the queen we sent ya is happy and laying! Happy to be able to send you one! - Mia from Lassen Queen Bees

5:14 This moment!

Mine was all dead....I had about 30 workers and a queen. I had caught a swarm, and they were drawing comb, so I kept the bees and queen in an incubator and fed them honey from last year's hive. Took 18 days until I could put the queen and her workers, she had 4 left at that point ....into a nuc, and add a couple bars of brood that was due to hatch. I'm Happy to say I now have 2 thriving hives. Queen started laying on mother's day. Congrats on yours as well

5:17 "look dad I got a bee" "wha? ohh!"

The queen probably destroyed the queen cell when she got back.

“Can you say bee?” “Ow. Ow.” Yep. Sounded right to me.

I figured she was still there. The workers actively attacked/destroyed that cell. Good indication that they had an active queen. I've made the same mistake. Dropped a new queen cage in and they smothered it. Keep it up! Love the bee videos. Picking up 3 bee packages tomorrow for my 5th year with hives.

What an amazing little community bees have !

Oh my gosh your son in the bee suit is too cute! Its such a gamble getting sent live animals. We would love bees but we are surrounded by conventional farms that spray so I just don't think it will ever work out

I was on edge the whole video, waiting to see if the bees survived. I thought I was gonna cry if they didn't make it. This channel is so wholesome yet educational at the same time. Definitely gave me a new perspective of bees.

Glad the Queen made it and weird she disappeared like that. I learn new things every time I watch your videos.

I remember in undergrad zoology learning that bees can go into a hibernation state in the cold, and then as it warms up their metabolism kicks back up. I saw it with my own eyes in the lab too working with bees. The bees looked dead. But bringing them back out into the warm room and they’re ‘lol not’. What an amazing evolutionary adaptation. They’re survivors!

How good it feels to watch this 27secs after posting 😂. Good job 👍.

Yeah, the Queen cell being destroyed made me think that they already had one. Planting some different flowers around the area might be nice for them.

This channel is like a good book. You don't ever want it to end!

I want to get into bees so bad. We purchased a little homestead of 3.5 acres last February and then the world went to hell in a hand basket. I took a bee keepers course the week before our state shut down and have yet to get back into it. Instead, we have been working on growing our chicken flock and planting a small orchard. I’m hoping to get started spring 2022. I’m hesitant on how many hives I want to under take. Our neighbor has three and I’m thinking about just keeping one hive. My worry with just one is, not having available resources to rob between hives if things start to go south. It was interesting to see how you were able to save these bees and had everything, even a new queen cell ready in your other hive. It makes me re think only having one hive, as we definitely have room for way more than one in our orchard space.

You guys inspired me to get my own hive started! It's only been a few weeks but everyone is doing great. Thank you for your inspiration

Well hey there early crew, big love to White House on the hill family!

I truly appreciate your style. You often tell a complete story about a segment of farm life. Your editing and music add immensely to the story's grip on the viewer. I was spellbound start to finish. I'm looking forward to every chapter and topic. Well done, storytelling family.

Guineas always reminded me of the Skexis in the Dark Crystal. My grandfather had them at his barn and they would fight a rescued Gamecock rooster he had. They are persistent and never give up.

I might also add to make sure the comb is right side up. The mouth of each cell is higher than the bottom or rear of the cell. The bees do it this way to minimize the contents from running out.

For the future, when bees pull apart a queen cell you put in a hive, its because there is already another queen in the hive. Also if you give a supposed queenless hive a frame of bees that are young enough to become an emergency queen and the bees don't do make a queen, that also is a sign that they have a queen already. The only other thing it could be is a laying worker, but that is extremely rare and you will see only drones being laid and often multiple eggs being deposited in the cells instead of just 1 since they cannot do their job proper like a queen can.

he said "the BEEP hive" i thought he was swearing

I grew up on a farm but I was still pretty sheltered because my mom knew I couldn't handle certain things and watching this makes my love my mom so much more knowing how much she really protected me from hurt and sadness. I've never known just how much sadness can occur from having your own farm life. I love it but boy the sadness really stings.

Yeah weather has been strange lately we were having our vegetable garden growing here in Washington PNW with weather in the eighties and yesterday was a ridiculously cold night with some plant casualties 🙃 I am happy though to see the amazing perseverance of these bees 🙏🏻 awesome video

super cool to see them thrive

Loving all the intro and transition cards!! Playing short frames of the vlog clips timed to the music makes for a very pleasant experience! Really enjoying the videos and seeing the evolution of your editing style

God bless you for taking care of these beautiful animals ! In days of mass insect extinction from pesticides and the varroa mite they need our help.

CONGRATULATIONS on the new bee hive! I'm so happy everything worked out well.

Wow! That was an amazing lesson you gave us on bee keeping! Hopefully, more people will propagate bees and in turn help our planet.

That is crazy to see them actually sucking up the sugar water mix.

I’m sitting here watching this having a panic attack because I’m extremely allergic to bees but I like to watch because it’s an awesome family doing what makes them happy. I love it.

Love that you guys are doing bees too. Keep up the good work

There wasn’t anything in the queen cell

For some reasons I watched a lot of bee videos recently but your channel/videos just touches me differently. Thank you! I started to like bees better...

Love to see how everything was done to help these bees. They are so crucial.

When the kid said the "BLEEP" hive I thought he said a bad word so they bleeped it out 😆

That certainly explains why the new hive destroyed the donated queen egg,they knew they still had their beautiful queen. I live in a town and watching you guys makes even me want to keep bees 🐝 You have a wonderful little bee-keeper in the making helping his daddy out with the bees,what a beautiful little lad. So relieved they made it,seeing all those dead bees had me freaked. Can’t wait to watch more,methinks a binge is coming on!

I just got mine 6 days ago and man I was lucky compared to everyone in my beekeeping group my bees survived! I wish you a very fun beekeeping!

Love the bee stories! I would love to have enough space for bees.

Best wishes from Poland. We love bees, too.

hi you guys are so good at keeping animals i saw you on my recommendation so i watched it and i am inspired of you guys also you are very good keepers and i just subbed:D also you don’t get many nice people like you :( at least you treat your animals good and keep them healthy have a good life and stay safe:D

This is so interesting! Can't wait to see what hive they're going into. Really cool!!! 💛🐝

5:45 I got jump scared and spilled my cup of water lmao

That's pretty heart warming. Glad the hive survived in the end, and that you had a job for he queen you ordered during the original's disappearance. That reminds me a bit of something that happened to me this summer, on a totally different scale: I worked on an apricot selling stand and we had a storm rolling in. Cold winds, rain, a truly terrible weather. While making sure I wasn't getting the boxes wet, I saw a bee had landed on the stand's counter. I took her in, so she wouldn't be as subjected to the wind, and tried to both give her a bit of food and as much warmth as I could muster (mostly body warmth coming out from my hands). As she wasn't back to health when the time came to close the stand, I took her home in a makeshift box, and was glad to see her more active by the evening. The next day was still cold and windy, and the bee less active than the previous evening, but by the mid afternoon, sun came through and I placed the bee with a bit of watered honey on a sunny spot. She quickly became more active, and eventually took flight a few hours later. That was pretty insignificant in the regard of the loss of a single bee to a hive, but it made me happy to help the little fellow.

You got a bunch of though bees. So happy they made it. ☮️-Kirsten

The only channel I turn up the volume for. It's the beautiful music you choose with your sweet content. Thank you for sharing your lives with us. ,❤️. Go bees, go.

Fred Dunn has received bees like this before and he said he put them in the house in a dark room, hive closed up and given resources of course, for a few days to let them recover. I’m so glad your bees made it!

I really appreciate how much effort you put into these videos!!

Glad the new hive worked out, an interesting journey. Take care, Bill

I am so glad you were able to save some of those bees.

The audio editing is insanely smooth

You have all my respect for the work you put with bees. I wish more people understand the importance of bees...

5:08 long live the queen

It’s fascinating learning about your bees! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

I used to have chameleons. They loved to eat dubia roaches. I got a batch in that was supposed to be picked up at the post office but instead was delivered to the house in the freezing cold. I thought they were all dead. About 45 minutes later they started moving again. Good thing I had them in a bucket. Lol. Out of 2000 roaches I only lost 12. I was still angry at the company for not marking the package to be held at the post office. I am so impressed on the amount of hives you have. Good job! Later I would love to buy some honey and beeswax from you if possible. 😊

Thank you for the education!

Bees are so fascinating

You should have put the queen swarm cell cell behind a hive separator double screen with her own nurses until about 3-6 day after she hatches before directly introducing the queen.

I used to be very scared of bees but thanks to you I really love bees now!❤

hope they'll survive

So glad you did the recap with the bees, it was getting slightly confusing towards the end! With the dead queen bee coming back from out of nowhere.

I’m glad it all worked out. You are really great with bees.

TO WATCH YOU SHOW THEM EATING WAS SO EMOTIONAL FOR ME TO SEE.... NOT MUCH WILL GRIP ME LIKE THIS BUT SEING STUFF IN THE WILD MAKE A BE LINE TO MY HEART OF HEARTS... THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL BEES WHEN THEY ARE SO STRESSED AN TRYING TO LIVE... ITS SO WONDERFUL TO WATCH BLESSINGS & BE HOPE FILLED FRANKI

So the queen cell you crushed is actually probably just a queen cup. They will make practice cups pretty regularly through the year. Check them for eggs. If there are no eggs, they'll take them apart all by themselves. If they are requeening a recently introduced queen, it usually means she is poorly mated, or something else is wrong with her. I'd let them replace the queen, especially in packages it can be common if the supplier was short on time or they had a long winter and rather than do the right thing and wait and confirm they are mated, they just ship the bees.

If you ever want to raise ringneck doves let us know we aren’t far here in Marion Iowa :)! Keep up the amazing videos :)!! 🐝

" look I got a bee.... AH! " lol

I love your videos about the bees. I don’t know why I find them so relaxing and give me warm fuzzies. Maybe because they are warm and fuzzy? 🐝

Glad they made it after all.

Thank you for sharing your journey of "all things farming" with us. I appreciate that you share your successes, joy, sadness and failures. It keeps things "real" and in perspective. YAY FOR THE BEES!!!!! :)

Omg. The little one with the bees! 🐝 hes so cute! Reminds me of my little boy 👦

I joined 1440, thanks for the heads up about them!!

Nice a Bubbles update! Team Bubbles! 🙌🏻

I used to have some chickens and guineafowl in together as well. When there were several guineas, the male was mean to all the birds except for one female guinea. But when all the guineas took off and all that was left was the one male, he actually was very protective of the hens, body-slamming and chasing off the roosters when they got too crazy, and even chasing off the bigger chickens when they were bothering new baby chicks. It was very strange.

5:15 SOOO CUTE 🥺

So much human drama for simple bees just trying to do what they do to get along. 😊

You guys have been a good inspiration for me to start researching into developing a hive Thank you! Hope to see plenty of updates on all the hives

That was a roller coaster ... full of chaos !

So glad that ended up working out!

Love yall and congrats on the baby

Omg I love you. My rescue chicken died erlyer and I really needed some inspiration to keep going thanks. Seeing your positivity always helps

I hope the bees make it. God bless

I've never been one to feel so emotional about bees. But I'm glad things are ok!

Alaska keeper here 🥰 For these cold days I have insulation frames on either end of my hive. I make them out of foam insulation. i also use Bubble Reflective Foil Insulation on days colder than 40F just a single wrap around the hive.. It's especially good for those new packages that don't have the numbers to help stay warm. And could help reduce casualties if this ever happens again. You will have to take out 2 brood frames but they can be taken out as soon as warm weather shows up.

Bees are really amazing creatures

Great news, well done guys 👍

QUESTION: If the bees died from cold, couldnt you rig something like a heating pad under the floor, set on low and controlled by a thermocouple, so it would only kick on when temps got too low ?

Im looking forward for the aviary, I would love for you to get some parrots. Senegal parrots or macaws

Came from RU-vid's recommendation after watching an ant keeping channel, seeing how differently queens are treated within the ant and bee Kingdom is super fascinating!!

So much going on at the White House on the Hill !!

Oh gosh this is the cutest bee vid so far 😊 "dad look I got a bee!" *turns to show camera while bee flies off* "Oh" *confused*

Awww ! That's such a great exemple of hope ! ❤ your videos are Amazing ! I hope we could watch you daily ! It would be incredible ☆ !

I feel so bad for the poor bees. They make honey for us, and sometimes they sting us, but be grateful. They only sting when you mess or hurt them

White house on a hill: It’s been a year since you made this video, so perhaps you already have this figured out-just in case though: if you’re going to hold any bee by the body, you’re actually covering up the breathing holes that are along the sides of the body. Those are called spiracles. As long as your fingers are on the sides of those little bodies, you’re actively preventing them from breathing. It was really smart of you to take advantage of that moment when they were already slowed down to mark the queen, but you just need to hold them differently. You can pick them up and sort of hold them by the legs on one side, or better yet, ask a local beekeeper to show you how to do it safely. It’ll make a huge difference for the times when it takes a little longer to get something done when you have to handle any of your beloved insects.Your hive will thank you.❤️

Wow! I might have made the mistake of thinking they were a goner!!!