What the Hell is That!? Strangest Beehive Inspection EVER! Aussiebeekeeping 1-6-23

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In today's video, I take you on a journey as I discover some strange looking queen cells in my beehive. I quickly make a split to avoid swarming, but things take a turn when I attempt to mark the queen bee. Watch as I almost lose her and see how I handle the situation. Stick around to the end to see how everything turns out. Thanks for watching!"
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@deeleigh1626 Год назад

The patience this takes. I don't think I am built for such a trade for no less than 12 different reasons.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Yes. It can be a little stressful.

@alistairparsons3534 Год назад

We had a queen fly off on us after marking her last spring. I had just opened the cage to let her run back onto the frame and she took off instead. 😳 did a couple of loops and then just flew off. I held a frame of brood up over the box for about a minute and then saw her dot walking around on the frame again so I quickly put it back in and shut the lid!

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Awesome. Your heart would have been racing!

@williamdrum9899 Год назад

What happens if there's no queen, do they all die?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Yes. Slowly.

@nuzuk Год назад

I know I am lucky but every queen I’ve seen fly off returns.

@noname-mu6kn Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping thought the bees will make a new queen

@ferniclestix 5 дней назад

really enjoyed your vid and channel, thanks :D great to have on one screen while I work :D

@aussiebeekeeping 4 дня назад

Thanks

@ferniclestix 4 дня назад

@@aussiebeekeeping also cinematic intro on this one. i love that you put in the effort, does not go unappreciated :D

@aussiebeekeeping 4 дня назад

Aww. Thankyou

@jeffreyyoung4104 Год назад

I was worried you may have injured the queen with the plunger. What luck finding her so quickly again!

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I’m a good guesser. :)

@TrickyTrev01 Год назад

Great video again 👍. Always enjoy your content and information. As always thanks for sharing, your in for an awesome season 👍🐝🍯

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thanks Trev.

@JR-kk6ce Год назад

You sure have a good eye for photography and filming. That first shot of the old fence and barbed wire is simply beautiful.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thank you. It means a lot.

@SchoolforHackers Год назад

Agreed. This is a magical video. Glad I found this channel.

@robinjitsingh3733 Год назад

I would also keep a bee hive 🐝 your videos are great 👍

@stacyfrazierbauer8811 Год назад

Dag those are big hives!

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

😀

@LANEZZ-jv5ok 7 месяцев назад

Were you whistling " The Girl From Ipanema "? 😆

@emilandrusko8597 Год назад

could your issue be the queen excluder you have above the lower box?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Not sure. Never had any issue before

@axe4770 Год назад

I’ve seen people use some sort of a flat circular cage with spikes at the bottom and when they see the queen they just stick it directly on the comb where the queen is walking around and then mark it, seem way easier to me that way. Without having the hustle to hold the plunger

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I’m planning on getting one of those but trying to find the perfect brass one isn’t easy.

@emilycarter2492 Год назад

I loved the human reaction of “oh shi…” uh oh, uh oh… it makes the watcher realize that beekeepers are human and handle the patience needed better than everyone else. I’d have lost my composure and would have sworn a blue streak after throwing that poorly designed plunger.

@juliagoolia72 Год назад

I wonder how many bees get squished during every inspection

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Lots

@sarahgreen8409 Год назад

How many bees get squished when u have to change these thanks

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Maybe 100

@sarahgreen8409 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping then u need to come up with a better way to do it, don’t we have a shortage of bees and need all we have? so use ur imagination and come up with a solution then everyone will remember who u r.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I don’t care about squashing a few bees here and there. So I’ll reserve my imagination for what I think is important.

@evelynlouise2399 Год назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣all those bees with that white marker on them

@yazdhenab. Год назад

Youv'e painted all the bees except the queen! xD

@Dbsabzbzb Год назад

Nice vid, it’s been over 50 years since I did my beekeeping, and I do miss it, they are fascinating, I remember being able to tell if a colony was queenless by the different sound they made when opened, sort of a lower roar...

@aussiebeekeeping 11 месяцев назад

The sounds and the smells are just as important as you know. :)

@danvk3ndg104 Год назад

First time viewer, now subscribed. Enjoyed the video, which part of Australia are you in?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thanks. Southern Vic. In the Otway Forrest near Gellibrand.

@danvk3ndg104 Год назад

@aussiebeekeeping very nice. I'm on a flow here too in Gippsland but very hit and miss with reports of some beeks near the coast having to feed bees.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Nice. Yes plenty of feeding right across Vic. Love Gippsland. Was in Fish Creek in early Dec

@robertking2567 Год назад

same here awesome should get these youths to learn skills like farming, beekeeping, growing edible plants, and so on, I believe if the powers that be used these dying skills to teach them new skills, but also as a polite first-time punishment

@Jaydaydesign Год назад

You might need to physically sight the queen. Those eggs might be infertile from laying workers in the absence of the queen or if the queen is older or unwell .It is not common but does happen

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I realize this. There is a pretty solid brood pattern of solid eggs in other frames. She is also a 2 week old queen

@splaws-fk8sw Год назад

this was pretty dramatic. I gasped outloud

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

@mountainchild97 7 месяцев назад

If you're not careful, they will attack

@justhearmeout3959 Год назад

That feeling when you know from the comments what happened and are compulsively yelling at him horror movie style 😅

@shaynestarkey2193 Год назад

What location do you keep your bee in? How old is the current queen? When putting brood frames up into supers above the QX I always check back in 5 days for any emergency queen cells due to the brood being that much further away from the queens pheromones and they think they have no queen. That frame would be great to make a split with as it comes with ready made queens.😂 It’s hard marking queens. Great video.

@tomasjosefvela1 Год назад

I was watching this a bit earlier when it crapped out on me and COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED, I thought I broke your channel so i quickly went to your channel watched a different video and commented... looks like i fixed it. Your welcome... lol

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Lol. Ignore the fact I deleted it, re edited it and uploaded it all again. :) Thankyou 😂😂

@tomasjosefvela1 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping WOW, that was so worth it, I've never seen it done that way but it's pretty brilliant and the suspense was amazing, all the ups and downs!!! now you can see her and now we have too! Great video sir, thanks for sharing.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thank you very much.

@ashleengray9170 Год назад

Look for the queen then and if not kill the thers but leave just one

@robertking2567 Год назад

I completed a course on bees and beekeeping and learned a hell of a lot, I have never been one for pesticides and herbicides, companion planting, and what a weed to humans is food for bees and other beneficial insects. awesome When I go to Spain the quality of the fruit vegetables flowers herbs, reason being is simply organic, Monsanto free, and no herbicides or pesticides, they also encourage beneficial insects and cats especially, food is fresher, tastes better, and non-hydroponically grown or GM seeds, I LOVE BEES, BEEN AROUND FOR a LONG TIME, NOT ME BEES HAVE. HUMANS DESTROY WHATEVER THEY TOUCH, IF THEY CAN NOT EAT POO OR DESTROY IT, THEY THROW IT AWAY...

@qtoobyoutoob4040 Год назад

How many bees get smushed every time you withdraw/replace the frames?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Do you want me to count them?

@qtoobyoutoob4040 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping 🤣 I just thought over time you might have an overall approximation, mate, been long thinking about putting a hive together but I guess I’ve been overthinking the details….just thought I’d inquire. Thx for the reply btw

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

There’s a lot of different opinions on the topic. Some beekeepers spend an hour going through a hive, brushing off every bee and shooing away every bee. It’s total personal preference. In my world I simply don’t have the luxury of time when it comes to my bees as it would take two days to go through my hives. It’s good to overthink the details. I did that prior to committing to get bees and what that did was give me more information for when I did. My suggestion would be to do beekeeping the way you want and trust your knowledge. Hope it goes well.

@qtoobyoutoob4040 Год назад

Well then, Sir, I certainly appreciate you’re taking the time to reply to my query at all, all things considered! I’m somewhat anxious about being able to commit to the long term and getting over the 3 yr hump where it goes from a “dating” scenario to a “marriage” landscape, warts n’all! Cheers!

@Brixli Год назад

Leather gloves are simply not ideal for beekeeping. 1. you have no feeling in the fingers and 2. the gloves can not be disinfected. I only work with latex gloves like a doctor.

@clownphabetstrongwoman7305 Год назад

I thought Australian bees jump around and are venomous.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

lol

@BC-kx5zb Год назад

Just a bit too hasty. Oh well.

@Tj-ot4jp Год назад

Why didn't you just walk away from the hive to mark her?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

If I had of. She would have fallen on the ground.

@Tj-ot4jp Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping I wasn't criticizing, I'm talking about the 2nd time, it would have been so much easier without the other bee's, great job on finding her again though.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

It may have looked difficult but for me it wasn’t frustrating or hard. I’m pretty patient.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Yeah I know. I’m just doing my best.

@markarnill3437 Год назад

😂😂😂

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

These are my favorite comments as they make absolutely no sense.

@timrussell5078 Год назад

Why worry about one other bee and take a chance of losing the queen

@808darwin Год назад

I didn't follow the logic of that split at all...

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

It wasn’t a split.

@jenniferboudreau9366 Год назад

I have no idea what’s going on and there’s no clear instruction other than some oooh and ahhh

@patrickbodenham6879 6 месяцев назад

man up lose the gloves and do it by hand Aussie man

@aussiebeekeeping 6 месяцев назад

I see what you did there. You used the threat of De masculinization to force me to do something that I already know doesn’t work. Well done.

@patrickbodenham6879 6 месяцев назад

That wasn't the kind of Aussie response I'd expected, this guy is aware we have an audience. Personally I shit my britches every time a bee lands on me but I know if I were a real man I'd be doing this shit in a mankini. Know what's good for you.

@aussiebeekeeping 6 месяцев назад

Undressing as we speak

@patrickbodenham6879 6 месяцев назад

@@aussiebeekeeping you deleted what I wrote but left what you wrote so now I now like a bigot rather than an Aussie. This is social media I suppose

@aussiebeekeeping 6 месяцев назад

I don’t delete comments

@heather8311984 Год назад

How you kept so calm after she got loose. So frustrating, but you’re just like, “whelp, that’s beekeeping for ya.” 😅

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Nothing I can do about it so I suppose no reason to stress

@JohnElvisDuff Год назад

Feel of you, what a fright, swore out loud, well done for sticking in there. The joys of bee keeping.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

😀

@Joseph-Colin-EXP Год назад

I saw similar 'scratched' capping on a lot of my brood last year. It turned out I had 30/100 count varroa. No joke. Maybe not the same as your issue but it shocked me how fast and how bad it got.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I’m thinking the may have re used these cells. But 100% considered disease or mites. Did a sugar shake 1 month ago and still none in Victoria as yet.

@crabmansteve6844 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping That's so refreshing to hear. They're awful. Here in the Southern US we get to contend with literally every single thing that destroys hives. Varroa, SHB, wax moths, all manner of fungi and virus, the ever present threat of Africanized trying to take hold.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

And hurricanes.

@fredshoney6458 Год назад

Putting brood over a queen excluder draws nurse bees up, but if there are eggs they act like they would above a double screen board (vivaldi board) and think they are queenless. The queens mandibular pheromone has to be transferred through touch, and with queen excluders that are not wire, they can still block bee traffic once the nurse bees are in place above the excluder. I swap brood boxes after the winter, (May in Ontario Canada) putting the box with the bees and brood at the bottom, and moving the box with the empty frames to the top. One year I just put the queen on a frame of brood in the bottom box under an excluder, and left the balance of the hive on top to hatch out, thinking as the queen filled the bottom box, the hatching brood would move down to cover that brood, and the bees would fill the emptying top box with nectar. BUT the bees in the top box thought they were queenless and raised supercedure cells.

@ddeboy002 Год назад

first thing I saw was hyper bees. They aren't calm. Yeah-I'd be splitting that hive. One gets that one queen cell and the other will hopefully make another queen if it doesn't have one.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Check out part two. You’re right on the money.

@2listening1 Год назад

If you get a white dot on a worker or drone by accident, do they start laying eggs? Just kidding 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝💛👍

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

🤣🤣🤣

@ccreutzig Год назад

You can get plunger marking cages that have a safe stop. (I don't think I can put links in comments or I would show examples.) Some even have queen excluder-like tops where the workers can get out.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Yes. I have one. With a sliding door. Made of clear planting and yellow plastic. Unfortunately they are poorly made and don’t close bough to capture the queen in my opinion.

@ccreutzig Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping I have one that looks almost the same as yours, except the plunger doesn't have that spindly rod, it's full width and has a lip that stops the plunger from squashing the queen. I can literally put that thing down on its base and she'll be fine.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

The one I have has a lip on it as well to stop the plunger squishing your majesty. The lip isn’t is the right spot so either she can still move or if I try to push it just that little bit farther it leaves no room for her.

@paulcarlson368 Год назад

Yet another great video mate, that was awesome, thank you 👍👍

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thankyou

@mikedawson9414 Год назад

asuming your trying to reduce your brood nest down to a single box and draw the bees thru the exluder to get them used to it. I would expect quen cells to be the result of that due to the reduction of queen pheramone above the exluder. Because im looking to make honey from a limited number of hives I would have used a diiferent aproach by checking downstairs for queen cells,eggs and larva. If there are no queen cells downstairs its safe to say not trying to swarm, eggs and larva show the queen is in the bottom box. I would have put the exluder back on with the second box on top, nocked the queen cells off lid on job done this aproach keeps the power in the hive.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Previously this hive was a triple box with 18 frames of brood. Which would indicated for me that the queens pheromone permeate through the whole hive. The risk is that if these cells are swarm cells and I knock them down they could potentially leave me without a queen should the original queen decide to leave. I left this hive with a box on top and an excluder. I’m happy with my process.

@ozarkshomesteadandfarm Год назад

I hate marking queens, I almost drowned mine in paint as it dripped from my pen and got on her head!

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Me too. This plunger thing has been the best thing for me to use. I had one with the sliding door but nearly killed a queen. I have one Italian queen I cannot video anymore as she’s almost all white. 😂😂 How is the weather treating you there?

@ozarkshomesteadandfarm Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping have you seen the queen holder that pushes in the comb? You trap her on the comb and mark through a screen, same principle but she stays on the frame.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I have not. I’ve see one that pushes in that Richard Noel uses to create a brood break but not one to mark through. Sounds easy.

@thenaturalhuman9568 Год назад

Oh no!

@tasmedic 10 месяцев назад

I'm glad you didn't cut the part where the queen made a break for it. When you've half a dozen things to think about at the same time, and you're wearing hide gloves, it's just a matter of time before something goes awry! I've done similar, but luckily for me she was fat and just flopped to the ground, where I managed to get a second bite of the cherry. If you've got a flier, then you're in big trouble! If I were in your shoes, I'd 3d print myself a replacement end to that marking tube, with holes just large enough for the general population to get out. Then, I suppose it's just a matter of waiting until she's on her own, or maybe, just maybe a bit of smoke to get the attendants to leave the room, if they're a bit too attracted to her.

@aussiebeekeeping 10 месяцев назад

Good idea. Just today I was practicing picking up a gentle queen in the hope one day I can throw that marking tube in the bin. Appreciate your advise. :)

@OlimjonSagdullayev-ko2pn Год назад

Дилфуза10

@roger5322 Год назад

I've always just grabbed the queen by the legs gently and held her while I marked her. Never had a problem but I also don't use a suit or gloves or smoke.

@doonthepan1290 Год назад

looks like they are telling you to back off. nature works in mysterious ways, the signs are before your eyes , reading them is the relationship of understanding the meaning /representation. . NJOY.

@DonaldRogersBaldEagle Год назад

Just mark her already friend, a couple other girls wont make an issue if you keep them cozy.

@HoneyBeeCrafts Год назад

Unfortunately I saw him accidentally mark 4 other bees lol.

@lisaotoole3082 Год назад

What about when the hive split on its own? Maybe putting space between the brood and queen has made them think the space won’t support a larger hive, such as in the wild if the bottom of the hive has fallen off.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

There is never a time a beehive splits in two itself. If you mean when they swarm that’s an issue that needs to be stopped.

@wisecoconut5 Год назад

Lisa O'Toole, I don't know anything about bee keeping in boxes. But you and I are thinking alike. The wild hive on my property was in a constrained space. The hive split every spring and hive remained healthy and active for msny years.

@aoki6332 Год назад

@@wisecoconut5 there just swarming pretty normal its not about constrained space just natural reproduction

@mostfaelmasry249 Год назад

Nice work mate , love your channel 🙂

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thankyou.

@bones7208 Год назад

Camera work is great very informative thank you so funny the Queen, I would have popped a vain on my forehead

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed. 😀

@bones7208 Год назад

@aussiebeekeeping you responded, awesome. I'm a newby from Geelong. Keep it coming mate, will be watching! 👍

@skitzochik Год назад

but your can isnt smoking them, theres no smoke

@goodguy845 Год назад

If you didn't stand directly over the open hive frames when trying to separate the workers from the queen inside the marking tube, it might be easier to keep new workers from flying back in. Ya think???

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

If I didn’t stand directly over the hive the queen would have ended up on the ground. I think.

@qtoobyoutoob4040 Год назад

😆😂🤣

@jamisonbrooks Год назад

With the amount of drone brood I seen looked like there getting ready to swarm.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I agree but it’s strange when I took 5 splits off them in the last 8 weeks and they had plenty of room.

@jamisonbrooks Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping some times they just fell like swarming

@LaughingInTiny Год назад

They're probably having arguments about the decor. If one set is firmly in the rustic farmhouse camp and you have an art deco group with a midcentury modern standing aesthetic, it won't be long till they each want their own hive. Teenagers... amirite??

@bladeflapUH60 Год назад

I’ve had plenty of those oh oh moments myself.

@claybleasdale8971 Год назад

If the Queen can't touch the frames she lays on the workers will make queen cells. I use a similar technique to prevent swarming here on the mid north coast. I go back through the frames I moved up above the Queen excluder 7 days later and destroy all Queen cells.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I’m not convinced of that. Spoken to a lot of American bee keepers that flip boxes in spring and don’t get queen cells. If there is a box between the queen and brood yes. But it’s odd directly above.

@claybleasdale8971 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping fair enough I get it every yr in 90% of boxes I move frames in. Might be my area or or something

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Yeah. I tried using the flipping boxes technique a while ago and got laughed at in the comments by a few beekeepers. So I’m a bit gun shy of saying it works. 🤣🤣

@claybleasdale8971 Год назад

I found with keeping bees what works for one dosnt work for the next. Just do what works I reckon

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

100%. That’s what makes it so difficult.

@athelee 10 месяцев назад

Thanks heaps for posting this video, the first I have seen of using the plunger to mark the queen. As a sheep wrangler who drafts by myself a lot, I too do a lot of "cutting". Bravo to you.

@aussiebeekeeping 10 месяцев назад

Haha. Thankyou.

@markarnill3437 Год назад

Maybe you should practice picking up queen by her wings wou make things a lot better

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Yeah this hive is too hot to handle.

@peterlightbody8443 Год назад

Very good photography at the start .

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thankyou.

@theresavandever1387 Год назад

Sorry but I've just got to say it, I saw that coming when you dropped the Queen. Just a wee bit over confident when letting the others out. I'm not trying to be mean, I just seen it coming.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

You actually didn’t have to say it, but I liked that fact that while you recognized it was mean you said you weren’t even trying.

@OccasusRaven Год назад

5:35 "Careful with these guys" There is no guys, there is only girls😑😑😒😒

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

There are both guys and girls.

@BIGG..G 11 месяцев назад

Why didn’t you not just step away from the hive for a sec to mark her ,,,now you have 6 marked bees 😂

@aussiebeekeeping 11 месяцев назад

Does it really matter if I mark other bees?

@tomahawkmissile241 Год назад

good jolly on that queen quite a jingle i heard it across the lake and turned on youtube to watch.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Haha

@yamer_hammer 10 месяцев назад

9:40 girl from IPENEMAMEA SPOTTED (sounds like you were referencing the version from Rainforest 1966 specifically!)

@aussiebeekeeping 10 месяцев назад

Haha. Thats my fathers influence. It’s sounds like you know your version. 🤣

@yamer_hammer 10 месяцев назад

@@aussiebeekeeping I am sorta obsessed with Walter Wanderley, his album "Brazil's Greatest Hits" is super good, I'd recommend checking it out of you like Funky Bossa Nova

@JustBees 5 месяцев назад

Looks like king cells. I had a laying worker hive try to make a queen out of drones. Obviously that doesn’t work. It was fascinating to watch that hive progress.

@beehivefarming 8 месяцев назад

Nice

@JUSTICEK 10 месяцев назад

You really aren't a very good beekeeper.

@aussiebeekeeping 10 месяцев назад

You really aren’t a very good person.

@billybobjones4317 Год назад

Nothing funner then d'uh oh! :) when Beekeeping.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

😀

@nicholasforrester8587 Год назад

What happens if the queen is killed? Will the hive produce another?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Yes. If they have day old eggs available they will.

@nicholasforrester8587 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping thanks 😊

@branmcg9844 Год назад

Aussie great job 🙄🙄

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thankyou.

@CrackNeedle Год назад

Who whistles walk like an Egyptian?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

The song is called “the Girl From Ipanema” haha

@qtoobyoutoob4040 Год назад

🤣 laughed until I cried

@Paul-044 3 месяца назад

Brilliant well played mate. Now I see why they say it's hard to be a bee keeper. The stress and headache. That comes with the job.

@alexandresartini1854 2 месяца назад

Belas paisagens e belo trabalho, parabéns! Saudações do Brasil!

@brandonrobertson6488 Год назад

What’s the song called in the intro of the vid if you don’t mind me asking?

@harleydicken226 Год назад

Also I have one of those marking devices and I mark them with multiple bees in the tube

@LANEZZ-jv5ok 7 месяцев назад

You just marked a bunch of workers 😂😂

@ashleengray9170 Год назад

Also dot your queen for easy reconditioned

@renatacantore3684 Год назад

Thank you for taking us in this strangely captivating journey.🐝🐝🐝

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@mehran_esfandyari1 Год назад

🐝🐝🐝♥️

@rodneymayfield3352 Год назад

what is that blob showing above the bees center of frame top right of video at 4:12

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

That’s just a queen cup.

@RichSoundsGM Год назад

Get ready for swarms!!

@globglore4429 Год назад

The sad part is thst they end up removing the dot on her, I end up using a small sticker on the inside to mark what year I have the queen/ installed hive, then I get a new queen and start the process over with a new sticker of the year, those markers are a waste unfortunately

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

The marks I use last at least three years and by that time she’s done. It you mark the box but not the queen how do you know if you have your original queen? The hive could have swarmed three times and you wouldn’t know.

@shonya2475 Год назад

I know nothing about beekeeping but I did see article where they said sometimes the bees will kick out a queen and get a new one themselves is it possible that that has happened like when they kick out Males they don't need anymore. I don't know if that goes for a specific type of bee

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

I found the queen and put her in another hive in this video. I haven’t heard of bees kicking out a queen. They do kill them if they have been replaced though.

@harleydicken226 Год назад

Could you have just moved the bottom box elsewhere, took the second box with the cells put it in the first position and just let all the field bees come back into that box with the cells and, hey presto, a split?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Those cells were in a condition I had never seen. So the potential was that they were not viable cells. This the manipulation.

@kathyb2562 Год назад

Whst does goodness gracious mean?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Like oh my god.

@kathyb2562 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping I guess I meant what caused him to say that...oh well.🤷

@skullphantom705 Год назад

Not sure why the algorithm brought me here if I'm terrified of bees and know no beekeepers, but now I'm intrigued. What is swarming in this context? I tried to look for an explanation in the comments but to no avail.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thanks for the view. Swarming is when a hive decides that it is too large for their home. Half the hive leaves with the old queen and the other half left behind creates a new queen. It their way of spreading their genetics as well.

@skullphantom705 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping I see, thanks for explaining it so quickly. I think I'll stick around and watch the rest of the videos.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

@@skullphantom705 Wonderful.

@mostfaelmasry249 Год назад

Did you get any honey this year ?

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

None so far. Hopefully in the Autumn flow

@mostfaelmasry249 Год назад

@@aussiebeekeeping hopefully :)

@dbpearce0946 Год назад

Im not sure this keeper knows what he is doing!!!

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

Thanks for your kind comment.

@beebop9808 Год назад

I would have torn the cells out and let them go on. I've seen them do that more than once when there's eggs young enough above an excluder. Seems to make them feel separated from the queen.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

You could have lost your queen to a swarm letting them go. That would be irresponsible in my eyes.

@beebop9808 Год назад

Different words maybe. "Let them carry on" instead of go on. If the bees are trying to swarm from a single box with a few bees in a super, it's time to be squishing a queen.

@ziree22 Год назад

The first thing I see is that you're not that gentle to the bees , you don't lookout for bees don't get squashed when built up the hive. Do you really care for bees ? 🐝🤕☠

@snoopypeanut8938 Год назад

Lol... you gotta love bee keeping! I can't mark queens like that. I need to catch her with my bare fingers to mark her!

@thechariotcard Год назад

Why would they get squashed? Are you not a beekeeper that understands these little insects Feed the world feed you take care of you and account for your success in this life? Why would a beekeeper with such an understanding squash any bee?

@dickdastardly5534 Год назад

Bee’s have to be my favourite species of insects their work ethic is totally committed to the purpose of the hive. I would like to learn to keep bees when I retire.

@aussiebeekeeping Год назад

It’s a relaxing hobby