Beekeeping | Why Did They Start To Swarm BUT Then Go Back In???
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2022
- Beekeeping soon teaches you that bees do not always follow the books we read. This hive started to swarm then went back in. Why? Let's open it up and find out why. If my videos are helping you, please leave a THANKS/TIP.
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The music and slow close up of the bees was a nice added feature to this video!
Aloha David.
Oh yes , bees like to nail as where we sweat and watch bands are that place.
Hardly use a veil anymore, so bare arms as well. veil is nearby 'if' needed but mostly gathers dust of non-use.
We only used Deep supers in our bee yards and the busiest 2 yards, I only kept a single brood box and a single honey box. These hives filled their honey box completely every 2 weeks with 60 pounds of honey, all year long. I tested whether or not it would be trouble to have 9 or even 8 drawn frames in these honey supers... no trouble at all. Just carefully spaced frames from 10 down to 9 and then from 9 down to 8. Same output of honey each harvest.
David, you always do a wonderful job showing and explaining what you are doing. Thank you.
Thanks David. Didn't know the piping sound of virgin queens! Good to know for future reference.
Yes, I've heard mated queens in battery boxes make the same sound.
Try wrapping hive base with landscape cloth to tangle up beetles
thanks for sharing. I fed my hive over winter with Hive Alive fondant and they came thru very strong. I had a similar experience as you. I split my hive 35 days ago and the split is thriving. One week after the split the original hive swarmed again. However, within an hour all the bess returned. I put 3 frames of bees into the split hive to reduce crowding. Now, I am anxiously waiting to see if the original hive has a laying queen. I plan to inspect tomorrow to see if there are signs of a laying queen. Hoping for the best.
GREAT VIDEO DAVID 👍. This past Tuesday (May 17) I added a second deep with drawn comb to a hive that had filled up the base deep in 10 days. Plenty of pollen and nectar this spring season. Bending with the knees is the secret!
So fascinating seeing the bees up close. Thanks for the excellent photography David.
Hi David Burns congrats on your success love your videos making some myself
Thanks for the tip on how to keep your smoker going Dave ,it made all the difference, and my split hive is up and running, thanks.
Wow! What a bunch of bees. I’m gonna have to listen for the piping sound. I’ll be getting WBK from you also. You can not discount video evidence of the difference in your population compared to others I have see. Great job! I’m learning every video you make! Thank you David! Can’t wait for the next coffee time. I just installed our 3rd NUC. Also we just transferred a langstroth into a layens and Filmed it. So we now have 2 langstroth and 1 layens. Have a blessed day and THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!!!!!!
That is so true. The video evidence of my hives during the winter, consuming and growing with the Winter Bee Kinds, and then seeing the rapid spring build up. The queen's genetics have a lot to do with it too. I'm raising more queens using these queens as breeder queens.
This has to be one of the best videos I’ve seen of yours lately. Everything is always informative but the flow of the music and video and the amount of information was just so well put together. Also I love that you recorded adding in the cameras in the frame to see what it typically looks like as a keeper who records different angles. You have a pretty nice set up. I have two canons I put into retirement once the phones became very close quality to my outdated camera however at least they won’t overheat. I just need a good microphone. Any suggestions? Thanks so much for the effort you put into the editing and making of quality videos.
Just found you. Thank you so much for your time and heart to promote bee keeping.
Hi David. I think you should put a peppermint candy in the corners on top of the frames to get rid of the hive beetles. It works here in Indiana so I think it will work for you to.
Thanks for your video's.
I am not convinced at all that this will work. Also the colony communicates via pheromones and I'm not sure the negative reaction or interference this could have on pheromones. I'll dive into the scientific studies and see the results.
Great video. Thanks.
Great video. What if you do not have any drawn comb for a split? How many frames would you move over
Great video David. Your apiary is bursting with bees!
Similar thing happened to me this week. Found a swarm from a previously split hive while mowing and caught them in a nuc box. Next day they left the nuc before I could move it and appear to have gone back to the original hive. Population booming and I can only assume it was due to your winter bee kind I used over winter. Might need to do like you and split again.
i think that "can you use too much smoke" on the bees comes from all the misinformation out there about that topic by "professional beekeepers" on the internet and their yt channels. Just google that and then you will see what they say. IDK how much smoke it takes to drive all the bees out of a beehive into the grass, including the queen, or how much smoke it takes to make the bees consume all of their honey and abscond ... but I have never hit that level and I generally use a lot of smoke lol
This may be a dumb question, but do you have to buy a colonies for every hive or just a queen for each hive in that location?
I am new to beekeeping and my hive just made it threw thier first winter with 2 deeps. I really want to split them so I can have 2 hives this year and have watched loads of videos on how to but not sure when is a good time. I just oppened them up a few weeks ago and was surprised to see a lot of dead Mites and not as many bees as I hoped(almost none in the bottom deep). I treated for the Mites and the bees are starting to increase in number now but not sure how many bees is enough to split or what are some signals that it's a good time to do it.
You are having a great year.
I'm going to breed from the colonies that did so well producing fast coming out of winter and use those all through they year and through the winter again. It's a great stock!!!!!!!
Awesome video. Very informative and helpful.
Thank Mike, always great to hear from you.
Thanks for the gmrs information.
Yes, it's cool, because you can get your GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) for $35 and your WHOLE family can use them under one license. No age restriction except for the applicant. So it is great if you take your kids to the park or hiking etc.
Thanks I really appreciate your videos David. I am trying to go through them all currently. There are quite a few so yes you may have mentioned it prior but I have yet to come across it so I will ask. What is your opinion on Liquid Smoke/B go?
I showed my son a swarm 2 weeks ago from our hive. I told him it’s not something you get to witness everyday. I’ve seen the one swarm in my life at 58. He’s up to 3 swarms in the last 2 weeks at 29. Go figure. My hive keeps swarming even though I’ve split it 3 times. The smoker lesson using burlap and extending the legs on the bottom plate inside the smoker is working for me.
would be nice to see something on that order. We had a week of warm but now it's back to thirty in the morning. N.W. Wis. is not a lot of fun sometimes. But they are feeding well.
Have you yet considered transitioning from the Langstroth hive, to the deep Layens horizontal hive?
Thank you David for all of your videos! They've been so helpful. I have a question that I would appreciate it if you are able to answer. I am a brand new beekeeper and started two hives about 3 weeks ago using two nucs I bought from a local apiary. I've inspected the hives a couple of times so far. They both seem to be progressing well in terms of brood, eggs and drawing out empty frames. Today, I noticed a capped queen cup at the bottom of one of the frames that I think it's a swarm cell. There are still about 2 frames in an 8 frame box that are pretty open. It also has an upper brood box that is largely empty. I don't understand the presence of this queen cell that seems like a swarm cell. Also what should I do about this situation? Make a split, crush it or ignore it? Thanks in advance!
Great video
I was told that I should buy a certain type of queen but have had good luck just moving queen cells into splits. Is one better than the other? My goal is to expand to 200 hives to leave for my homesteading daughter, husband and grandchildren.
I just caught my 5th swarm today....I went from 3 hives to 8 hives since April 29th 🙃 and it's gonna be hard to say, "it's time to stop" if any more show up 😂
is not it good to have new colonies?Are the swarm from the same hive. Are they carniolen bees.
Thank you, David! Rookie question - - can you use a frame of drawn comb that has capped honey from another hive when making a split?
oops. Just saw the answer around 11:11. 🙂
May 17th was my twin’s 1st birthday!
I'm a pretty new beekeeper and hardly smoke at all, mostly just to move bees away from areas to not squish them. I see you use your smoker often but I wouldn't call it "a lot". I was told in the beginning to smoke straight into the front enterance before starting into a hive. I think David's "a lot" is probably just normal.
DAVE HELP! I just went outside and it was like the locust plaque! My bees swarmed. They are in a tree near by and the original hive is still good, but there are what looks like several Queen cells. There is honey and brood as well. Should I just leave it or should I split it again? I also plan to capture the swarm. I have an extra box. Should put it on the original hive for extra room? Also will that swarm enter a nuke if I place it near? Sorry for all the questions!
Ugh never mind! I missed my opportunity. The swarm in the tree was gone by the time I could grab them. 😞
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Nice video!
awesome T.J.!!!
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Mine did that once too.
Like I said in my video, I think they follow a virgin queen out and then realize, where did she go. She flies about 1.5 miles away pretty fast to mate.
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Are you talkin about a CB radio? NYC thank you David
No sir. Very different from CB. CB radios can only transmit up to 4 watts by law. With GMRS the FCC allows up to 50 watts of power. CB frequencies are affected by solar and other interference but GMRS is UHF. CB requires a longer length antenna but GRMS is shorter. GMRS is wide band FM Modulation and has privacy codes and use repeaters if you want to talk around the country. Not affected by solar cycles. Licenses is only $35 for the whole family and radios are inexpensive. I bought two for $70.
Sorry off topic question. What brand/model is your GMRS? Thinking about getting a couple for me n hubby.
For the handhelds, I use the Midland GXT, they are 5 watts on some channels. Remember you can listen without a license, but before you talk, you need to get your GMRS call sign from the FCC. All done online, $35, takes about 24 hours.
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@@beek Thank you so much for reply. Will definitely check em out. And, look into license. Thank you again
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Surprised you have not given the peppermint candy a try for SHB. Its been working good for me in S C .after all the other items I bought for the beetles who would have thought 2.35 bag of candy does the trick
There are many beekeepers who have given accounts of how this hard candy with additives have killed their hives, and how it has made a mess inside the hives as bees eat it, so I just need to see a control scientific study before I give it the checkered flag.
It does work !!! I did it on a weak colonie in March that I counted 60 beetles in then , went through same one 2 weeks ago an couldn't find a beetle ! An now that colonie is in their 3rd super 👍
Only two supers on super strong hive? That hive shold have now 5 full supers.
Hey Dave try peppermint candy for your beetle. It seems to work for me.
I hate 😡 beetles so much, I cannot bring myself to give them candy!! 🤣
@@beek I have heard so many keepers say it repels the beetles and the bees will actually eat it.
The Beatles look like what we found in our chicken house back in the day they were trouble back then also
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If you don't know it's all good. I'll keep subscribing because I like the content. Thanks
Once you subscribe you should not have to subscribe again. The invite to subscribe is for everyone to see.
@@beek yes that's what I thought but for some reason it keeps dropping my subscription. I have been a subscriber for over a year and just recently it keeps dropping your channel. It started when you offered that give away earlier this month or late April. Haven't gotten a notification since that initial video and I have to hit subscribe every new video.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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Why there is a Queen cell in super
Why did u not put back the two QE’s
Because as I said in the video, a deep and a super is the brood nest area.
You did not talk about the swarm that went back in the box???
I did, I said I felt they followed a virgin queen out as she went on a mating flight.
You did not talk about the swarm that went back in the box!!!!,!
Don't you sell beetle traps ?
Do you find wearing a black shirt aggravates the bees?
I teach in my online classes that wearing a bright shirt is the safest color. There is a reason bee suits are white, but no, when I wear dark shirts my bees treat me no differently. They do not like my black watch though.
@@beek Thank you that video was very interesting.
Can you open up your Hive too much
I envy your ability to not use gloves