Queenless Hive, How to know without opening the beehive and how to fix it
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- It happens every spring and to every beekeeper, a queenless hive of bees.
In this video i will try to show you how to know a hive is queenless, without even opening the hive! Afterwards we have a check up if our suspicion is true and we will fix the honeybee colony by adding a queenright honey bee colony.
If after this beekeeping for beginners video there are any questions left, leave them in the comments and i am happy to answer any questions and maybe even make a video about it.
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Chapters:
00:00 Honeybees and Orchids welcome
00:10 Pollen at the beehive entrance
00:40 Listen to the sound inside the hive
00:46 Queenright honey bee colony
01:44 Queenless honeybee colony
02:00 Queenless hive inspection
02:56 Fixing the problem
05:00 Job done
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Small Kieler mating nuc colony:
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Hello friend, nice sharing and another great content, stay connected..
Thanks
I received a nuc colony this spring that turned out to be queenless with no available brood other than a small patch of capped brood and the bees were bringing in pollen.
The bees never got excited when I disturbed the hive.
So your methods of observing from outside the hive isn't necessarily reliable.
I did not know they were queenless until I had gone into the hive and inspected every frame and the inside of the Box itself
So I figured just in case I missed her I would put a frame of young brood from another colony into the hive to see if they would start drawing out Queen cells and sure enough they did.
Have there been a queen they would not have drawn out Queen cells.
True, it isn't a 100% failsafe method, you don't know if there is a dronelaying queen or maybe laying workers and as you mentioned sometimes they just don't show a reaction. It is always necessary to check up on the hive and know for sure, but if they give a reaction you can be almost sure they are queenless.
Thanks for you story and taking the time to write a comment, i really appreciate it.
Have a very nice day and happy buzzing 🐝🐝🐝
Very interesting, I actually kinda like to knock a little even before a little smoke, some might say I shouldn't but works for me plus I like to hear that surge in buzz ya are mentioning. 🙂 Didn't know I was following an old beekeeping technique. Ty for sharing your time, Blessed Days...
Nothing wrong with letting the bees know you are coming for a visit 😁
Especially when it is a little surge followed by a content hummm 😊
Thank you for watching, have a very nice day and happy buzzing 🐝🐝🐝
i wondered how you would join the colonies. I didn't guess you'd turn the mini nuc upside down and put an empty box around it. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, it works like a charm. And the brood that is upside down still emerge like there is no difference(they even lay new brood in the upside down cells if you keep the box on top for longer)
@@aBeekeepersLife That’s brilliant. Thank you
Very cool, and very interesting. I'm getting ready to order a special honey from a company here the bees make from waterlily nectar... I have to try it!
Oh wow, there must be a lot of waterlilies in the neighbourhood then. I can imagine you'd really want to try that honey 😁 I would too 😊
Let me know how it tastes, my gut feeling tells me a subtile sweet and light honey, but let me know 😊
Have a nice day Todd
@@aBeekeepersLife They're a big waterlily grower for water gardens here called Tricker waterlilys one of the oldest in America.
Oh wow, that is cool 😁
That is a very interesting technique👏👌
Thank you and have a nice day Fernanda
Do you have videos talking about what different humming sounds mean? Like loud humming, low humming, roaring? Some people say you can tell things from this too but I don't know. I need more practice.
Hi Noah, only video i made about the sounds the bees make is the one you just watched. It is the most obvious change in sound they make.
You will learn fast enough to tell if a hive is happy when you open up hives, if they make a content happy humming sound or not. Try to make a guess before going through the hive and evaluate if your guess was right after, you will learn, it just takes practice 😁
Have a very nice day Noah, and if you got any more questions feel free to ask them and i am happy to reply and try to give you an answer 😊
Boa tarde🌺🌺🌺🌺
Thank you and bom dia to you 😁🌸🐝🐜
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Zolang mijn engels beter is dan die van onze premier zal het best goed komen 🤣
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