Beekeeping SWARM CONTROL & How To Save Queen Cells
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Whoa, you made it all the way down here! Thank you ♥️ Love you
I had forgotten how big the Queen's are ❤ The bee's are Soo Beautiful ❣️❣️
I love your "this is fun stuff Woo! " thats how i feel everytime i open a hive😂😂🎉..also thanks to you i caught a queen walking thru a swarm and picked her right up..it was an amazing moment. Ty for all you do!🐝✨️
This is impressive. Thanks for publishing (although I think that it will lead to ME being stung, at some future point).
Love this video ! Please continue what you do next with the harvested queen cups. Thanks again for all your knowledge. :)
Thanks, I appreciate your kind comments. Helps balance the criticisms.
thank you so much David! I learned a lot from you
My pleasure!
SUPER DUPER PLUS VIDEO, David, your videos just keep getting better and educational! I'm doing my hive tomorrow hopefully I will have at least another hive when inspection is done. That will make two hives for the season which will make a lot of honey.
I appreciate your vedios very educative.
Thank you so much. I appreciate your encouragement.
4:20 ive had that exact situation happen and its no fun.. since then I've taken to using a charcoal briquette in my smoker.. it really helps to keep the fire going.. i torch the briquette and put it in first, burlap and some hickory chainsaw shavings on top, just give the smoker a little shake and then some puffs and away you go.
I think its a treat to see a queen hatch in person..
Wow,thanks totally connect with your video and 😅love it trying to get all the information on bee keeping about to start soon like a virgin queen bee 😂❤lol
Hello David and Sheri. I see your using the White Marker for marking queens this year. The chart I follow says Green. Have they changed colors? Thank you both for all your hard work to make raising bees easier on us. I especially love the coffee time.
Sorry, I glanced too quickly at the chart. It's green!
I'm glad you asked, I was so confused when I got to that part of the video!
Will You Raise Good Bees? white yellow red green blue 1-5 6-0
The queen's coming out pretty soon.
David, just wanted you to know we find you awesome and have thoroughly enjoyed your online courses and encouragement in these videos. We need to get you down for our Bee club in West Monroe, LA.
You are such a great teacher, David. Great video.
Thank you David this video definitely was inspired. You could not have had more perfect timing for me. I'm spitting my two very full winterd hives tomorrow the 5th of May . I have two days of warm weather than right back to cold rainy weather. Keep it up ( we) I appreciate all your help.
They also make a sound which sounds almost like a new born kitten. It's amazing!
Thank you 🐝🍯🐝
Hi David, I just cut some swarm cells out myself and marked a few queens too! Great video!
Nice video and I’m learning so much from you, been reading and watching TH-cam videos on bee keeping for 3 years and joined Hive for Heroes to have a mentor and will be getting my first nuc later this month
Great video David. a picture, in this case a video is worth a thousands words. You can read about this but this video is a great tool.
Great video! Very informative thank you. Good luck to those queens. Looking forward to finding out how they do.
Very good video. 👍
Thank you 👍 I appreciate your comment so much.
Amazing video. Maybe your best ever!
Hi David, I am a customer and took a couple of your classes. I watched your video about using a Snelgrove board for swarm control but cannot find the follow-up video you said you were going to make.I have checked your videos for days with no luck. Not sure how to proceed after your initial instructions.. Thanks for your help, really appreciate all the knowledge you share. God Bless! JoAnne Jerina
I really enjoyed that video. Very educational.
Hi. I love your videos. How long can the queen cells be out of the hive once you cut them out. Do they have to stay a certain temp while your working the hive?
Why will you not use a queen excluder if you have undrawn frames in the super? Wont the workerbees draw out the frames?
Great video David alot to take in 😊 you make it look so easy 👍 Are you going to sell any of them queens 😊 I know a guy in NJ oh me that would take one lol. Thanks for the video I really enjoyed this one 😊
I say "fixin" all the time!
Me too 😜
Hey David! Good stuff :)
Hi David, I have a really bad tempered Hive and i am going to get rid of the Queen. my question is if when i get rid of the queen, can i introduce a frame with a not fully capped queen cell at the same time? I will be greatful for any advice. Regards
really informative video dave .
Thanks
Awesome video David!
Great video!
That was brilliant. Thanks
Thanks
Great video David
Thanks
Amazing footage & information
Thanks David
Thanks!
Wow, thank you so much!!
Excellent content
Much appreciated
That was so cool
Thanks
My sister called me over last weekend to capture a swarm in her tree and I couldn't figure out what happened. Maybe you can share your experience.
She obtained a 5 frame nuc in late April. She has been feeding them weekly sugar water. She apparently never checked the hive for a queen or eggs when she moved them to a full box.
I attempted to capture the swarm by shaking them off the branch they were on and got 95% of them into a new box with fully drawn frames. Then we waited for the rest to follow and move over. Only they didn't. Bees were fanning both in the box and in the branch. In twenty minutes most moved back to the branch. So I transferred them back again and brushed the branch clean. 10% just refused to leave and stayed in the air to land back on the branch seconds later. Each time I transferred them I inspected the branch and saw no sign of a queen. So if there was one I presume she was in the middle of the swarm and ended up in the box. I had to leave, but later my sister had to transfer them back to the box again, and this time she put a pollen patty in and closed the entrance for the night.
I also inspected the presumed source hive from her nuc. What I found I don't understand though. The bees have been in there a month. She has been feeding them. But they had hardly drawn out more frames beyond the initial 5 from the nuc. She had 14 empty frames on this hive (shouldn't have added another super yet). In the drawn frames I couldn't find a queen or a single egg/larva. Several supercede cells a couple open. Very much like this video. Though a bit more drone cells mixed with them.
I am confused by this situation. Why did they swarm in the first place? Too cold? The extra space, wind and she had the entrance fully open except the entrance feeder.
If the queen had failed, then the supercedure cells would have been emergency ones and on the frame sides. Does a queen stop laying once the supercedure cells are made? I haven't observed this. The frames not being more drawn out is confusing, particularly with all the extra feeding. I would guess 2-3 lbs of bees were in the tree, and 2 were still in the hive. Where did all those bees come from if there were no eggs and little drawn out frames?
Any thoughts that might shed light on this situation?
Wow
David, Thank you for another great video, a picture is worth a thousand words. Curious however about the white paint for marking the queens. If white is for 2024 I have been using the wrong color?
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Hi Dave,
I have been dealing with swarms and doing splits the last few days. I actually caught a virgin queen emerging yesterday and still have cells to inspect today. Many of them have been killed I assume, because the cells were open at the side and the hole es were huge.
I agree that virgin queens do look a bit smaller.
Question for you.
I can't seem to find the existing queen but I know she's there because there is young larvae. How can I go about doing more splits wit these new virgin queens if I still can't find the queen?
The reason I ask is I've tried one already and accidentally shook the queen into the split but did replace her back to her colony only to catch her in a swarm three days later. Hahahaha
I appreciate your question. You should ask this question on my livestream this Thursday, 7pm CT. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live
White? is there 2 different color codes? The one I found online says 2024 should be Green. White is for years ending in a 1 or a 6. But the 2 queens I got in my packages this year were dotted white also.
Dr. Zawislak included the international color code for queens in our book that we wrote several years ago. I got mixed up. 2024 should be green. Years ending in 1 or 6- White, 2 or 7 Yellow, 3 or 8 red, 4 or 9 Green, 5 or 0 Blue. An easy way to remember this is: Won't You Raise Good Bees. The letter of each word in that sentence is the color starting with 1. I taught this a few months ago in Nevada when I spoke at their state convention. I just goofed in the video.
@@beek Great Video I saved it under favorites!
David if you did not need any of those queens what would you do with them but you just put them in a separate box altogether thank you Charlie PA
Yes the virgin queens would need to be placed in mating boxes.
@@beek thank you great video. Amazing how she just comes out like that just great.
David, I thought this year was green not white?
Another great video :) I have one question though. Are you marking the queens white because they are virgins? When I look up the queen colors by year the information says years ending in 4 are green. I'm about to mark my own queens soon and want to check if I'm looking at the wrong information. Thanks
Yup, I got mixed up...It's green. I'll have to repaint her.
With what type or brand of markers do you brand your queens ?
If you look at the video you can make out part of the label on the pen David is using. Looks like the brand is POSCA . This is the brand that I also use.
Not sure. What every brand Better Bee, Dadant or Mann Lake sells
Am totally new to this been thinking about that also am planning to start I was thinking highliters 😂😂❤
What's the difference between swarm cells and queen cells?
I need to learn about beekeeping in the tropics. Help a guy out. Wear do I look?
I live in an urban area and I only have space for a single hive. Can allowing a swarm to proceed be a good thing in some cases so the hive doesn't get too crowded? How long will it take for a hive to recover after a swarm?
This is a great question for our livestream this Thursday. It would help everyone. Thursday, 7pm CT. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to carry a swarm cell from one apiary to another ie getting it from another beekeeper within 3 miles of the apiary. Should it be accompanied by a frame of bees or it can survive without, lets say for an hour without the nurse bees. thank you
Only move it by itself after day 13 from the egg. Otherwise, only on a frame with bees.
Thank you David for the reply, and kind regards
Ive always understood that, if they have capped swarm cells, the hive has probably already swarmed. And yet, you have several emerged queens, and capped cells, but the hive hasn't swarmed. How is that?
You are correct, but this is the second time I have caught the queen inside while the new queens are about to or have just emerged. I often think it's the weather. They cannot get the swarm out due to weather.
Thanks! That makes sense. The weather has been crazy!
Was it a mark queen or was it a queen that you took by mistake?
That was a virgin you pick up
Hello
What do you mean by swarm cells?
When a hive reproduces and makes another hives, they raise a queen that will take over because the older queen leaves with half the colony to start a new hive somewhere else. Those new queens they raise are called swarm cells. Though there are multiple swarm cells, queens will fight it out until only one is left.
I'm confused, thought this year's queens were marked green?
This video is fantastic!!!!
Dr. Zawislak included the international color code for queens in our book that we wrote several years ago. I got mixed up. 2024 should be green. Years ending in 1 or 6- White, 2 or 7 Yellow, 3 or 8 red, 4 or 9 Green, 5 or 0 Blue. An easy way to remember this is: Will You Raise Good Bees. The letter of each word in that sentence is the color starting with 1. I taught this a few months ago in Nevada when I spoke at their state convention.
Never heard that before and love that trick. Thanks for sharing ☺️
Isn't this year's color green?
Yes, and I made a new video where I correct that and explain the queen color system: th-cam.com/video/BmHJr0RszKk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sI67vOdFWjk9P5nQ
I thought this years color was green?
No green frames. Do you just teach us to use them? Why?
I don’t always use them on colonies that show low mite counts and on colonies where I’m testing mites on a breeder queens performance to see how they might control mites completely on their own.
Why did you use white?
Yup, I got mixed up...It's green. I'll have to repaint her.
@beek was about to mark ours green and thought we got it wrong
@beek grabbing the hatching Virgin Queen was awesome
As I was watching this video I noticed that you was using a plastic bottom board, and wondering how you close the entrance down to keep hive beetles from entering and the bees can enter. I have several plastic bottom boards and have started using the guardian entrance?
If bees can get in, beetles can get in.
Why are the bees so docile?
They like me 😃
Sometimes u just can't catch that queen
Virgin queens are difficult to catch.
So you put a white dot on the queen so this video is 3 years old.
Just made the video. Yup, I got mixed up...It's green. I'll have to repaint her.
Ok Debbie downer😂