No Good Queen Goes

In this video I find out that the queen is only laying drawn eggs. She is a queen for last year. This is what I had to do to try to salvage the colony at this point.
#beekeeper #beekeeping #honeybees

[@nancynolton6079]

Don't you just love those drone laying queens?! Had one last year that messed up three boxes of wax foundation comb. Laid it up good and me thinking I had a good laying queen until the next inspection when I found all that capped drone brood.

[@josephrawls]

Yeah they can make a frame look ugly pretty fast.

[@russellkoopman3004]

It happens Joey. To bad you didn't have a frame with some swarm cells ready to cap. No honey from that hive this year. Oh well you can't win them all. Have a great day.

[@lambbrookfarm4528]

Weeding out the weakies 😢 Mug up from central New Hampshire where it is 34° and looking like a blue sky day. Temps are predicted to rise to the upper 50s, I wouldn't be surprised to see the low 60s. I will be in the bees today. Thanks for sharing, have a great day!

[@gallowaylights]

That is a long wait... Georgia is months earlier 😢

[@josephrawls]

Im glad you are now able to go in the hives. Have a fun day.

[@rodneymiddleton9624]

I’m surprised you don’t have any resource nucs to fix issues like this. I run about 10 resource nucs. Thanks Joey!!

[@josephrawls]

I guess this nuc was. lol All my resource hives are in the main yard. I had this nuc and a couple more on the truck so they worked just as well.

[@matthunt4512]

Good video my friend, I really enjoy all your videos

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@gallowaylights]

00:08:25 Those broods came from another strong hive with little food?

[@josephrawls]

No, the broods came for other hives that had too much brood. At that time of the year I pull all but four broods out all my double deeps and make nucs with what gets pulled. The hive that I leaned to food frames on, notice the lid upside down, is the one that I said could use the food. They were not starving but just had the room for the two extra honeys. Good question. Thanks

[@HaasBuzzHomestead9909]

That’s interesting Joey .. I might have to do that to one of mine.

[@josephrawls]

I have seen it happen a few times over the years.

[@mattkissmyasstyrants8676]

Very educational, Thanks for sharing man, i need all the knowledge I can get.

[@josephrawls]

Im glad I could help. Thanks for watching.

[@donbearden1953]

Joey, that happens to everybody at some time. Glad you caught it fairly quick.

[@josephrawls]

Yeah it was about to get messy. Thanks.

[@dorr221]

I missed why she was a bad queen. Not laying or laying just drones?

[@andrewlee4722]

She is laying drones on worker cells, an extremely spotty pattern. This suggests that she was not well mated and ran out of sperm, laying just unfertilized eggs now.

[@josephrawls]

She went sterile at some point and was only laying drone eggs.

[@josephrawls]

She went sterile and was only laying drone eggs.

[@KajunHomestead]

Good find and fix.

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@EfrataHoneyBees]

frames as frisbees 😃... Bees🐝 do throw issues. Glad you had solutions. Bee 🐝Blessed!!!

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@chicken6946]

She's not a bad queen.bees are going to do what bees do.people listen to other people that have no idea what they're doing.to bad a lot of people dont do some kind of research of their own,but quick to listen to the quote on quote professional bee keepers which there is no such thing as a professional bee keeper.some queen make drones for other colonies of bees which has the different pheromones.simple minded people think killing a queen is going to help them when all they have to do sometimesnis just move her to a new box and let her do her thing.but llet the quote on quote professional bee keepers do what they hear

[@josephrawls]

Thanks for watching.