What A Huge Bee Mess!!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2023
- In this video I re-home a colony that has taken residence underneath a hive. This was a swarm that decided to make this location their permanent home. A mated queen had been laying for some time as there was a lot of drawn comb with both open and capped brood. The colony was able to be successfully relocated and is doing very well in their new home.
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Fascinating!!
Thank you so much!
I learn so much when someone like you shares confusing questions with us.
Thank you.
I LOVE bee's.
Wow, thank you!!!
This was great to watch...I learned loads. Jason is a perfect comedy sidekick 🤣😂 Love your set up!
Wow! Thank you kindly! 🙂
Indded, I would not hire him as a videographer.
That could have been a good use for a bee vac, and maybe a white sheet to put on the ground under the lower hive mess in case they fall off so you can find the queen easier vs in the dirt. definitely an exciting and extra part of your day. :)
Best thing to do is slow down a little and move the new hive really close to the bees are, put the queen in the new box, and the worker bees will follow the queen’s scent into the box, then you can lift stubborn ones by hand.
I had the same thing this year. Virgin queen went to the bee bar in the sky to get mated. Guess she had too much to drink and when she came home she couldn’t find the entrance and ended up on the bottom. They can out and built comb on the bottom.
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Looks like you made a few Nucs. Never seen that before either Also never seen such glowing bee suits before not to mention the pristine hives. Well done
New bee suits normally don’t arrive with dirt and grime all over them. 🤷🏼♂️ And pristine hives is a matter of time and effort. Glad you like them.
Just an observation or two. When you were scraping the 4 x 4’s with the bees on there, you should’ve left them alone. They will clean up any spills of honey left behind and bring the bag to the hive and store it for you. There’s no need to try and clean up honey. They will make a piece of water dry if you leave them alone and let them do their work. It may take an hour and a half or two, but it will all be gone when you come back. With the behind is the wax they don’t want which you can scrape and then heat up with a low flame torch and wipe away clean.
What other thing. Using a rubber bands to keep the comb in place is good. There’s no need to come back and mess with them again. The next time you see those rubber bands will be in front of the hive at the opening where they drag it out and put it in the garbage can. if you let them do all the work in the finite if you take care of the big stuff. It’s a great relationship when you learn with the can actually do for you.
If you want to easily find the queen split your boxes and just listen. The box with out the queen will go very loud, The box that stays quite is the one with the Queen in. Hope this helps in future, you only have to wait a few minutes for the reaction to start.
To stop that happening just have some empty brood boxes around with just starter strips Hide them in the bushes all around your yard in random places and you will never loose a swarm either. . What happens is if bees want to stop in your area and cant find any where, they will build what we call temporary comb until they find some where else. Queens will mate multiple times far more then what is written about them in the outdated books that beed revising. Seen it so many times over the last 23 years or so.
Good tips. And I’m aware of the queenless roar but what happens when there are queens in both? 😁 I believe that is what happened here. Good idea on the empty brood boxes also! Swarms love old comb and hive bodies!
I found another 2 cents. You have done a great job on this hive. I see 2 fixes that could be done. 1st the hive is soon to swarm again. Setup a new bottom board on your stand off to side move the deep body with Q cells to that location, make splits then add the supers. Next the hanging swarm. This maybe hard for you but poke a hole threw the screen so the bees can pass. Add a deep body with a frame of open brood with 2 drawn empty frames on either side. These should be be over the hole. That should get you started. Ps the hole can be patched at a later date if the bees don't do it them selves.
Good tip. Thanks for watching!
Get a bed sheet under this mess, set a box of combs next to and behind the hive, start grabbing bees to put in the comb box. Don't worry about any wax hanging under the hive bottom board. This will take a bit of effort to sort. Put the comb of wax into another super and move the whole thing 4 or 5 miles away for a bit of time, then return. Use this colony as is or to suppliment other colonies. You may have a young queen.
Lots of options to deal with this mess. Thanks for watching.
I hear piping. Im thinking underneath is a mated queen left with swarm. Didnt go far. I agree new box for the bees underneath. Leave those inside alone.
No matter how messy that was, the bees will clean everything up and settle down in a day or two.
After I removed the colony under the hive, yes, I agree.
With the rubberbands, top to bottom (vertical), just make them an X pattern, in other words not exactly vertical. They can cris cross each other too, if you want. The bees should chew thru the bands & remove them, otherwise let them bee 😂
Nice tidy beehives and beekeeper. No way does my suit look that clean ever 🤣🤣
🤣🤣 Well I do wash the suit a few times a season. I swear by OxiClean. Just let the suit soak for awhile. If anything, it takes care of the awful smell from all that summer time sweating. 😂 Thanks for watching!
They have a mind of their own. I had a mess like that once. I got a huge hive from it but it was an awful mess. I had a Queen, brood and honey.
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Do your Rubber Bands Corner to Corner, rather than all around Frame : that way you can add that Comb onto a CrissCross of X Bands. Then apply more CrissCrossed Bands on top of said Comb. Simples. 😎
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Happy Beekeeping 2023
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CrissCross Rubber Bands How do you Do That ? . . . You say ?🤔
Go from over one lower Corner (hook Band) then stretch it to the top End Frame Rest (hook Band over it.) Do same with other x Corner to other Top End.
Each Frame will have
"x4" Rubber Bands 'X' with x2 per Side.
So much easier to lay Comb Down, then over Secure it too, than feed soft melting Wax and drippy Honey (through) a tangle of all around Taught (snapping) Bands ! 😂
Thanks for the tip!
I was about to give the same tip, makes framing comb a lot easier.
Yeah that makes sense, thanks for that tip M M B.
@M M B . Well said.
@Bees in the weeds; Good job on finding the queen.
One key thing to remember is always make your work/jobs as easy and efficient as possible.
Before you lifted the screened bottom board you should have realized that the comb would tear away and had the Lid under it to catch falling bees/comb.
Knowing you were going to try and frame comb - have 2 -3 frames with rubber bands in place before you start, sitting on top the frames of the new hive. Any bees that drop off as you are framing comb are right where you want them..
When you were cutting the comb out from between the 4x4's, One piece at a time and frame as you go. This way you could have saved most of the brood and gave them a good starting point. Rather than knock the strangler bees onto the ground - place a piece of framed comb on the Lid and knock them onto it. Something for them to grab on to that is easy for you to place in the hive.
Thank for sharing your new experience… I’m not a 🐝 pro., but a few things I may would done. 1) both hive already have 2Queens feromonds through the screen bottom., make a hive with 2 Queens. They did it naturally why mess it up. That way you keep everything in one place. That would save the “B & 4” that u😢… about the 3 Q-cells.. I’ll make a 10Fr Deep a hotel by splitting it 3 equal frames, let them hatch 🐣 there. May be 3 new hive or if the bottom one don’t have a Qn you have 2 extra in case something goes wrong? On those 4x4 you left a bunch of nurse bees 🐝… brush them off and uses as you like but don’t leave them there.. By the way that may be an old Queens that may swarm on you and came back, she have more bee out that it was in the hive. Thanks for the video keep the good work.
Great bee removal video. Other than running out of room during removal, you really can ask for a better find. Great access, great room to work and very calm bees. Heck they practically had thier own top bar hive already going for you. I've only ever done swarms for fear of having to get into some major cut outs and dealing with fun home owners.
Thank you very much! It was chaotic but a fun rescue! 😎
Easy! A few rubber bands, an open frame and confidence 😂
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Hi. I would Vacuum them up into a DIY Bee Vac.
Easily made using a Nuc, a Hose into the Entrance to suck up the Bees. And another Hose into the Nuc Roof and back to the Vac Unit. . . That way Bees dont get 'bashed to much in that Suction Hose. 👍
Also have x3 Frames of Comb 'nailed' still (drill holes in Frame Ends and Drop a Nail thru to a Smaller Hole on Frame Rest.) That way Bees on Frames eg in Transit don't Roll all about in that Vac Box. Come Temporary Nuc. You grow it on into a x5, x5 Double Deep Nuc over Nuc, then into a Hive Deep x10 with a Super etc.
Hope this helps. 😎
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Here in Scotland 🏴 I did this recently. Nice and easy Bee Transfer. And a Nuc is easily converted into a Bee Vac when its a Screened Nuc Roof with an added Dummy Roof with Blocker Board in that Screened area. That way you have the Hose in without stuffing up your regular Nuc Roof. Best of both world's ! 🙃
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Any Comb left in situ, get a sharp Knife and cut that Comb off carefully.
You can then store it in a lidded Tote. On arrival to Home, Bee Yard etc, you can add this Comb with Rubber Bands around Bee Frames back to the Bees to fully draw it out (and repair those gappy areas of smaller comb parts.)
That way you will aid the Queen to lay Brood and the Bees to store incoming Pollen and Nectar. 😉
Yep! Had that same thing happen to me last week!
I had something similar happen last April, this year. I was installing multiple packages, two of them at one apiary and one at another 1/2 mile away. I installed the first package in a 10 frame deep, with the queen in a queen cage. Everything seemed to go well. A few minutes later I installed the second package about 10 feet away, in another 10 frame deep, screened bottom board.
I went to the store for about 45 minutes. When I got back, all but about ten worker bees from the first hive were hanging under the screened bottom board of second hive.
At this point I had a hive with six pounds of bees and an extra mated queen.
My solution was to take the third hive to the other apiary, and dump half of the bees in one hive and half in another, each getting a mated queen in a cage. Both are strong hives. The hive with six pounds of bees had all sorts of problems and eventually absconded. But before it did, it swarmed, and I caught the swarm passively in a swarm trap with swarm commander. So I came out even, lol.
Glad that you popped up on my play list while watching Jeff Horchoff Bees' channel. Been watching him for years now. He's a wealth of knowledge if you haven't watched him yet I highly suggest him to you to learn from. Definitely need to invest in a bee vac to make life easier for you! You are off to a good start, but it could all work smoother as you learn from others and your own experiences. New sub here, as I look forward to you growing in knowledge and support. Are you going to attend the beekeeper's conference coming up? I hope you can make it and meet and hear Jeff (Mr. Ed), talk and get to meet others in the beekeeping community. Never stop and keep on learning!
Yes, a bee vac is on the list of future investments and would have definitely helped. 🙂 I’ve not watched much of Jeff’s channel but I have heard from him. I will be sure to check him out. I’m just getting started with the hobby and will be going into my fourth winter coming up. I’m glad you are here and thanks for watching!
Maybe some bees know we want to take care of them. Maybe they were like, let’s just go outside, he’ll make us a box.
Very interesting.
Answer to your question. YES, a newly mating queen will make multiple flights. Including laying up to 50 eggs and going out to mate again. I have seen it a number of times in mating nucs which I track diligently. Once there is a palm sized patch of eggs, then no she does not go out anymore … until she is spurred to swarm.
Thanks!!
Agree but not just newly mated queens I have filmed a queen the other day who emerged on the 8th April Mating flights on 17th April to 23rd April 2023 she was laying all through May and well into this month but just the other day went out on another mating flight, There are still people who try to tell me its anatomically impossible even when I show them the evidence. So from the 17th April to June 15th is a long time 3 full frames of eggs brood and capped brood. then another mating flight. Bees do not follow rules in books they just do what bees do.
@@NATURALBEEKEEPERSCOLLECTIVE maybe some Queens are just nymphomaniacs. Lol
@@mattkissmyasstyrants8676 You are probably on the money there haha
@@NATURALBEEKEEPERSCOLLECTIVEIn order to fly again, each time, she would have to be starved and slimmed down each time and the workers would have to cooperate, if she already started laying, which means she is mature, what triggers her to another mating flight, and each time once again she has to be slimmed down and loses a week or two each time. You have her on camera leaving each time?
I would have caged her for 3 days incase she absconds. And a frame of brood from another hive helps.
never seen this before very cool !
Well as luck would have it, it happened again yesterday. 🤦🏼♂️ Be on the lookout for that video. I will post it soon. Thanks for watching!
I recommend you to throw the playlists on your TH-cam channel.
I’ve thought about it but not really sure how to group which videos together so it would work well. 🤷🏼♂️
that’s wild!!! ❤
Use a bee vac to remove them like how Yappy Beeman does. Then relocate them.
Yes, I should probably invest in one.
Be a nice time to have a bee vacuum.
You got that right! 😆
sometimes you just need to take a breath and the time to assess a situation. The bees weren't going anywhere. Good job but could have gone a whole lot better. No reason you couldn't have framed up the brood comb. Also put the honey comb on the blocks next to the new hive so they could have it close by to retrieve. Nice set up!! Seems you were not very excited about a ready made hive with a mated queen, though. I'm gonna watch you because I think you are going to make great strides in the next year or two, but, dude, only if you remain calm.
Thanks for watching.
This is why you should have a bee vac
Agreed! 😁 I have my eye on the Everything Bee Vac.
Hope you do a follow up to tell us how it went with these hives ;>)
To my knowledge A mated Queen Could only leave again if the hive had rejected her, it was feeding her otherwise should be too heavy to fly
And the Texas bee lady never Where's a bee suit ,she's amazing!!
Hate to break it to you but she’s a fraud. I won’t go into all the before the camera is rolling work they obviously do. Alleged “cut outs” where the boards are already pre-cut. 🤣🤣 I’m not mad, good for her marketing and making money off the uninformed. But do some research and you’ll see what I mean. If you don’t think I scoop bees bare handed, watch a video I uploaded awhile ago. But I don’t paint a false picture. Cheers!
Oh noo im sorry Cheryl but shes got you fooled im afraid! shame she doesnt tell (or show) her subscribers what she has todo before she starts to record her videos to be able to do what she does thats the right thing todo but she doesnt
@@beesintheweedsYes exactly!
What does that have to do with this amazing video? And-grammar!
Man that was intense!!!! Ha ha ha!
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I don’t get why did he not sit the new hive box on the ground in front the hanging hive and once he found the queen the bees would have just marched right in. I don’t get !
They would not have left the brood on all that comb. There was open brood and capped brood all over that comb. The bees would not have left that even if the queen was gone. Plus, finding the queen in that huge ball of bees on your back, upside down would be next to impossible. The only way was to relocate/remove the comb. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, that would have worked great for a brand new swarm. It's a little different once they've set up house and are raising brood. Extraction, as in a hive removal, was the only option. You did exactly what needed to be done.
@@Pegasus209 Precisely
@@beesintheweeds exactly
That would of been to easy and he couldn’t of nagged about the big mess the whole video.. what a hot mess.. 😂
Put brood comb beside swarm ,climb onto ,put in nuc box
Just looks like another day of ‘saving the beees’
Not likely that a queen will return to the air to get remated after she is laying. Anything is possible, I suppose but never have I heard of such. A very weird situation you are in, my friend. Why not make this hive a double queen colony. If you have a decent flow you will see something awesome with honey storage.
Thought about using the snelgrove but ultimately landed on splitting. They both turned out awesome and each colony is doing very well. 😎👍🏼
well to help you out.. before you put comb in frames you put rubber bands on frames first. and you make sure comb is installed right way not just put it on frames. you need to know what is up and what is down. Also after you found queen a few frames should be missing in box so you can take and shake bees into box either from comb or screen board even handfuls. set queen inside on frame and oh yea they will go in like water down a drain. and it is imperative you zip your PPE shut before getting into bees.
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Well done! It's those catastrophes in beekeeping that are ror where where I learn. Thanks for sharing yours. What is what you close your hive with on top of the inner cover but before the telescoper in the corner is it a lift of some sort for aeration?
Hello! It was just a marker I used to use to keep a number tab on the hives. I don't use them anymore. And I agree, we all learn from these catastrophes! lol Thanks for watching!
This is wild. Do you know of a good place to order a honey storage bucket? Like the 5gal ones?
Hi Aran. I picked mine up from the Tractor Supply store. They are BPA free and food grade. You could also look online at Dadant or Mann Lake or Rossman’s. Thanks for watching!
The easiest way to separate the lower brood box with a queen separator.. then put 2 or 3 honey boxes, then put another queen separator.. then a clean box for the underside bees in the top brood box... if there is no queen in the bottom brood box you will know in 5 or five days..
If it turns out that you have 2 queens you now have a double queen box ..
If you have either 1 or 2 queens you still need to pluck the queen cells .. either rehive them or destroy them to avoid swarming..
There was no need to separate. There was no colony in the box (they had absconded). Single deep. Swarm located under the deep.
Everything I have seen about putting comb in frames, they go in the same way up as it was when you cut it out. You fave some sideways, some upside down, some upright!
You are correct. I was in a hurry and didn’t pay as much attention to the orientation as I should have. The bees will fix it however and in fact they had when I checked the hive again a few weeks later. Thanks for watching!
When a queen mates and then starts laying eggs, she doesn't leave again on another mating flight. Next time she leaves is to swarm@beesintheweeds
Just a quick question. When you are putting the comb into the frame, the part that was attached to the screen that would be considered the top?. That part should be at the top of the frame? My understanding is that the cells on the comb are angled slightly and that if they are the wrong way round the bees will not use those comb?
You are correct on the orientation, especially as it pertains to honey storage so the nectar doesn’t just run out. It’s less important for brood. This comb was all brood and zero food (nectar, honey, pollen, etc). The orientation didn’t matter as much. And honestly I only placed the brood in the hive as a means to keep the bees inside. They naturally won’t want to abandon the brood. They will fix and adjust whatever comb is necessary. Thanks for watching!
Dude, I would set the new hive with the queen over on the block where the bees underneath the fram and she the queen would call the rest of the bees into the new hive!
Can be tricky with screen open bottom boards. Thanks for watching!
Oh dude your camera work😵💫
A happy life is learning how to positively reframe your perspective. This "work" doesn't have to be a chore let alone a tragedy. Look at it as an adventure! It's a chance to be with your bees and learn, and do what you love. Peace.
Yeah. I get excited when I get to do “work” for my bees
Really good vid, definitely an unusual situation. Curious about what that coin like object was you put onto the top cover board @37:51 and 44:38 ?
Those are markers. I use them to number my hives so I can keep track of what is going on with each. I use an app that keeps all my notes. Some beeks write notes directly on the outer covers. amzn.to/42LPorZ
@@beesintheweeds ahh cool, great idea. Thanks man.
Newbee here. When you placed the inner cover on the Super you placed a small object in the corner of it and then put your top cover on. What was the small object?
Great observation! I used to place markers in my hives to keep track of which number they are. I no longer do this. It was just a little, round plastic chip with a number on it.
It seems like a windy day could knock these boxes right over , is that so? Also have you ever been robbed by Bears wanting the honey? Thank you for sharing !
Nah, those cinder blocks I place on top are very heavy. And I have a natural wind break with the woods behind the hives. But of course anything is possible. A strong enough wind could blow them over but we’ve had very windy days here and they’ve never budged an inch. And we do not have bears in this part of Kentucky. Thanks for watching!
Jason Get the rubber band boards ready. Help out.
Haha
I did have this happen to me. Not good
When you inspected the first hive I noticed 3 eggs in a cell.
This video was very frustrating to watch.
Your hives are beautiful.
I’m sorry you found the video frustrating. All the best to you and your bees.
Well it looks like you are going to get to
Lay down on the job on this one . A queen when she get back from her mating flight it usually takes a while before she starts to lay eggs . You need look in that colony to see if you have any queen cells or any torn down queen cells. It sounds like she swarmed she was the primary swarm an yes if those other cell hatch out you you could have more swarms to go out .
Hi Kathy, I posted an update video so you can see how it all worked out. Thanks for watching. 🙂
Perhaps a case for not using sbb? I'm guessing the new queen could smell her home hive through the screen and became confused on her return flight. I'm gradually replacing all of my sbb with solids as are most beeks I know. Disadvantages far outweigh advantages. I've become a believer in the condensing hive theory.
There's certainly an argument to be made in this case. However, I have seen better mite control in SBB's than Solids (mites fall out of the hive with grooming activity in SBB's but can crawl back up in solids). Plus in the hotter months, my colonies rarely if ever beard while my solid beek friends hives do. This puts added stress on the colonies to properly thermoregulate the hive. As with almost everything in beekeeping, there are pros and cons to every method. I am happy to hear solids are working well for you. I will be using my first solid this coming spring as I now own one thanks to MayBee Hives. You can find that video here th-cam.com/video/QJ9aXC1MJJc/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for watching!
Hi, just a beginner but did notice pairs of eggs in cells at 13:10 into the video. From what I've read, this could most likely be a laying worker which might explain the lack of a queen in the brood box. Still, qreat video, picked up on your unzipped hood 5mins before you mentioned it so was very engaging.
Haha, awesome. Thanks for watching!
Who makes that work stand you are using with the boxes on it?
Me! 😊
I am only a beginner so I am just trying to figure things out. Is it possible that as you have an entrance reducer on the hive that the lack of ventilation is causing the hive to do that?
No. There is plenty of ventilation as I use screen bottom boards. This is not bearding activity like you are probably thinking. This was a swarm that decided to take up its new residence UNDER the hive. Drawn comb everywhere. Mated queen laying. Open and capped brood. Etc. Bearding activity is where the bees cluster out front because the hive is too hot. They make what looks like a beard on the hive hence the name. There’s no queen or brood or drawn comb in a “beard”. Hope this helps!
@@beesintheweeds Yes it does thank you!
Did you paint the pictures on your hive boxes or are they decals you glued on?
They are decals.
Where did your mate get his yellow bee jacket? I'm looking for something like that.
I’ll ask him and let you know!
He got it from Hill Co.
I had one with a cut wing and she moved under the box they made a swarm sale and I didn't see it
First question, do you have a hole in your screen to bottom board? That would be the most logical
Nope. There was no hole.
Those were not queen cups but actually capped queen cells.
Correct. I misspoke. 😁
Should put the hive on the ground behind her that way you would have got all your Bees change board bees coming back well go to the smell on it. She might go back to it .
Thanks for the tip.
A bee vac would probably help
Agree! I need to get one!
37:26 just an idea for next time place a baking dish underneath and then smoke the swarm so they drop into the dish being able to move the bees 1 time
Do the colored boxes represent something?
No. They are painted different colors in an effort to help virgin queens successfully return to the correct hive from their mating flights. Same reason for the stickers. If a queen returns to the wrong hive, she is killed.
I love the video. I’m semi interested in bee keeping. My grandson in highly allergic to almost everything. I thinking if I give him honey from a hive on our property, it will help him. There is more to keeping bees than I realized.
Thank you so much for the kind words. Yes, there is a lot to beekeeping but it is a ton of fun while challenging at the same time. I really enjoy it and recommend anyone interested to give it a go. Cheers!
Gil, the bees have helped me a lot with improvements to my health by eating the honey and bee venom therapy. Years ago, I was taking bee pollen based vitamins and learned about the benefit of bee products.. You may buy a jar of honey from a local producer before getting into beekeeping because your grandson may not tolerate the bees on your land.. The proteins in the honey will tell you if your grandson will have a reaction to the bees, its one of the best super-foods and has a balancing effect unlike modern medicine. Mushrooms are another beneficial supplement.
Gil, before we started bee keeping we went to our doctor and asked to order a blood test to see if we were allergic to honey bees. Neither of us were and we are in our 7th year keeping bees. I suggest it to everyone before buying bees. You might considering putting your bees some place away from your home. Maybe a local farmer! You won’t regret it.
I have the same issue right now. But my situation is built on the bottom of a solid board. I've done building extractions before, but never had this happen.
The bees left over will beg their way in the hive on top
On top of that I have a colony in my bee shed. Instead of making it easy on me and go in empty hive boxes, this swarm decided to build their comb on the inside of the door.
The colony under the outside hive will go into a Langstroth.
The colony in the shed is going into a Layen's hive.
Our nectar flows are over now, and it's not going to be easy to get the outside job done.
As for marking your queen. Why don't you just hold her and mark her. It's easier and faster
Best of luck! Let me know how it turns out.
❤great job that was quite a chore . 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you!! 😊
Queens do make multiple flights, hang your comb the exact way it came off the bottom board cells have a slight angle to them,
Leave the cells if you can't find the queen, she was probably the one on the bottom board.
Best of luck 👍
I’m thinking the bees 🐝 swarmed because you’re using a queen excluder. Maybe you should try one Hive without a queen excluder in it and see what happens.
Oh I have. Queen excluders is a hotly debated topic amongst beeks. Haha. They certainly have their pros and cons. ALL hives want to swarm. Every single one. That’s what God programmed them to do. We can certainly have an impact on swarming behavior as beeks, but ultimately the bees will do what bees do. 🙂 Thanks for watching!
Why do you guys insist on putting this QE flush to the edges of the deep box. Pull it back about an inch or place it 90 degrees to leave a gap on both the front and back. This allows drones a way to move around in the hive without clogging the QE gaps, restricting the bees and honey being stored above. The queen will seldom discover that the excluder is offset. Trust me, I did this for many years with no problem
Interesting technique. Thanks for sharing.
You are too experienced in keeping bees. I should learn more from you in the future.
I actually just saw a video yesterday from David Burns, and he stated that sometimes a mated queen will go on a 2nd mating flight.
Learning what I have, why didn't you shake them in a box while searching then grab the comb without bees on it and see if bees would then navigate to box if queen is in there.
There was no good way to shake them. They were wedged inbetween the 4 x 4’s.
@@beesintheweedsNo I meant off the comb you were scraping to save. Just wondering. ❤
Helps to put the rubber bands on the end of the frame B4 you try to put comb in...............Z
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You should of put a tarp underneath the Bee's before removing them, instead now you have to try and get them off the ground
I agree. Lesson learned.
Look I am new to beekeeping, let me ask a question . Could the cluster on the bottom of the hive be the OLD QUEEN getting ready to leave?
Unlikely, especially since my old queen was marked yellow. This queen looked new, young, and vibrant (not old tattered wings etc.) The brood pattern on the comb they drew also suggested a newer queen. There’s no way of knowing 100% but that is my best guess. Thanks for watching!
@@beesintheweeds Thanks appreciated.
She missed the landing and the bees passed eggs through the screen. I had that happen to me last year,all I did was leave the queen cells do another split and add/shake extra bees and move brood frames to equalize both colonies. It all worked out.
I went back and inspected the deep body and there was also a mated queen in there! Two mated queens, one in the hive and one under the hive. 🤦🏼♂️ haha As shown, I just moved the cluster to a new deep and the original I left alone and is doing fine. Thanks for watching! 👍🏼
Hi ,bees cannot hold eggs or Cary them
@@adhamalmashtoub354 you believe what you want, I'll believe what I know and have seen before
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You could have a laying worker... You need to check your frames to see if there is only drone brood. If this is the case its a laying worker.
It turned out to be two mated queens. Both colonies are doing well. 😊 Be sure to check out my recent laying worker video. Thanks for watching!
Next time out a to cover under that cluster to catch what falls
Agree
Mee too it would been much more simple to put box in front and smoke them in .
Jason is a butcher,handling is rough . I may be wrong but not good .
Thanks for watching.
Seems to me you take the hive off the bottom and put the bottom on top of an empty box on top of the box that you are going to use and then knock them off the bottom replace with a top and if there is cone you work the cone as it fits the day
There ended up being two mated queens so I essentially performed a split. Both colonies are queenright and doing well!
What bench is that??
Are you referring to the hive stand?
@@beesintheweeds the bench that's like metal and collapsible.
@@jbnnm657 Oh, that is a Gorilla bench. Very handy!
Why are u putting a super on top when you have a new brood box they gotta fill those bottom frames 1st.
Because we were in the middle of a heavy flow. Bees can fill frames and supers with nectar in nothing flat when there is a flow going on. Plus that super already had some food in it so the bees could use it if needed.
No Queen but there is eggs is because you have a worker bee laying eggs .
That is incorrect.
Why do you place the camera so far away from what your doing. It would be nice if it were closer so we could see better what your doing.
I’m a one man crew. I don’t have a cameraman or camerawoman. I either hold the camera myself and lose the ability to use my hands, or I place the camera in a tripod to show the entire shot but the camera stays far away. Not sure what I could do better. 🤷🏼♂️
What's bee bread?
Bee bread is a yellowish, brownish food combination consisting of honey and pollen that worker bees use to feed larvae.
The queen usually goes on more than 1 mating flight.
Correct. But the question I have is does she start to lay in between flights? I thought once she started to lay, she stayed. With that question aside, this colony had two mated queens. One in the box, and one below. I’ve marked both of them red for 2023.
@@beesintheweeds It takes several days before she will start to lay eggs after mating. She will undergo hormone changes and heavy feeding that stimulates egg production. Queens will normally mate 10 to 20 times with each mating flight returning to be cleaned up before mating again. Ive personally seen a queen leave a hive at least a handful of times over the course of a few hours.
@@Tonnsfabrication Right. But have you ever heard of a queen laying in between flights? I’m trying to explain how there will eggs in the upper box (normal eggs, not laying worker) and a mated queen under the screen that had been laying for over a week at least (lots of capped brood). I found the queen below and marked her but did not initially find a queen above. I came back a few days later and did find a queen in the box and marked her. Was it one of those queen cups that hatched and got mated? I don’t know. But I still haven’t heard a reason why the box originally had eggs in a frame.
@@beesintheweeds Possibly more than one queen ? I've heard stories of rouge queens attracting several pounds of workers mid flight and bringing them all home with her, or going off to make a home. It's not common but two queens have been known to share the same box.
@@Tonnsfabrication For sure!
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Did you have any Queens with cut wings
I have not clipped any of my queen’s wings yet but it’s an interesting form of swarm control. Thanks for watching!
You could (and in my opinion should) have framed that comb attached to the original location, you already had an empty frame and rubber bands,
I ended up framing half of the comb as shown in the video. Unfortunately some of the comb was damaged upon removal. On the bright side the colony is doing well in their new location and the queen has them back on track.
If you keep the entrance reduced for the winter in a spring/summer all the bees are going to move out. Just like that. My friend is no other case than enlarging the entrance. Please do this exercise: cover your nose and mouth. Can you breathe? I don’t think so.
What do bees do in the wild in a tree with just a little hole for an entrance? 😊
Your old queen is under the bottom board with a swarm of bees; she is waiting for one of those queen cells you saw to hatch, the virgin will take off to be mated , then the old queen under the bottom board will take off with her swarm.
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Move the new hive to the comb.......not the comb to the new hive.........lol............Watch the Texas Bee girl for how to do it...........Z
This doesn’t make sense.
He could have carefully dug a hole under them for the box ?
That would not be very practical as the ground is very hard. 🙂