SPOT THE QUEEN BEE EVERY TIME: Secret to Finding the Queen EVERY Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
- These are my best tips to finding the queen bee. Students who haven't seen the queen all year, watch this video and finally see their queen. These are tricks I've learned in the 12 years of keeping bees and a few tips taught to me by my former boss, a fourth-generation beekeeper and owner of a commercial apiary.
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS ⏰
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - Queen spotting tip #1 - spend no more than 5 seconds at first look of each frame
02:02 - Tip #2 - Let your eye gravitate to what looks different from the rest, don't look at each individual bee
02:30 - Tip #3 - Don't use too much smoke
02:45 - Tip #4 - Look at the frames still in the hive
03:20 - Tip #5 - Mark your queen your first few years
03:55 - Try spotting the queen in the video
04:25 - Extra tips
06:26 - Try to spot the queen on the frame
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If you're concerned you'll never find the queen, the best way to start is to look for her when your hive is small, in the early Spring. There aren't a lot of frames she can be on, so it is considerably easier. When you do see her, take a mental note of her coloring. Better yet, when you purchase a nuc or package of bees, order her with a marking so she's super easy to find.
Although it's not necessary to find the queen when inspecting your hive, for the first few months, I recommend trying to find her. This will help refine your queen spotting skills. Once you have an easy time finding her, you can stop trying to find her every time you open the hive.
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As a relatively new bee keeper, this was just where I'm at! You kept it simple. thank you! DM
Great! I'm so glad you found it helpful :)
I am a very new beekeeper and I was having trouble spotting the queen I watched this video 😊 I went out the next day and checked both hives..found both queens right away🎉 thank you so so much 😂
Nice!
Unless she’s wearing a crown and holding a sceptre I don’t think I will ever get the hang of queen spotting! That’s why I have to rely on signs that she’s been there recently.
That works too :) Do you get a queen with a paint dot on her back? That helps a lot.
Yes a marking made on the queen makes it easier to find her.
Except when the bees clean the mark off her :(
very nice video! thanks for sharing.
ALOHA and thanks for your videos! nice to see some banana trees in the background!
Hah! Yes there's a ton of banana trees by those hives.
I like your videos on reading a hive. I get most of my information from Alaska beekeepers, but wanted to find some practical help in reading the frames. I found your two videos, queen spotting and reading of frame to be very helpful very well done thank you.
Thank you!
Thank you, this was great.
Also, I am a newbie beekeeper.
subscribed!
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful.
Great video!!!
Thank you!!
Awesome Larissa great information 👍🐝🍯TrickyTrev 🇦🇺
You missed out that you should always hold the frame over the brood box in case the queen falls off!
Here in the UK most of us mark our queens, if your you get a swarm, it helps identify where they have come from, also most manoeuvres often rely on placing the queen. Also if inspecting the brood you can often stop as soon as you see her.
I'm not a big fan of marking the queen. I think it prevents beekeepers from learning how to spot the queen without a mark which is an important skill to learn since queens aren't born with a dot on their back. So if you get a swarm and the queen is marked, how does that help you? I know it tells you they came from a hive that was being taken care of by a beekeeper and her age, but what do you do with that information as the beekeeper? I know some people pinch queens by a certain age, but I just don't have the heart to pinch a queen unless she's not too fertile anymore.
Now I disagree about stopping your inspection once you see the queen because a queen spotting doesn't tell you that you have a healthy queen and a queen in the hive that's not laying is no good. I stop checking the brood once I see eggs, larvae and pupae in a healthy laying pattern. That tells me everything is good and there's a queen somewhere doing a good job.
Thank u for explained the queen bee
Cool running,it was just nice.l hope you live a long and happy life.
Your videos are so helpful. thank you!
Your beekeeping videos are my favorite. I am about to start beekeeping but I have a bad hip from a motorbike accident - do you think I can become a professional apiarist or would a disability bee a problem?
Thank you for information ❤
Very good video...this is my experience also. At least that is until I went to Vietnam and find out that honey bees here are darker than European bees...like people, their darker skin are designed to handle more intense sunlight in Asia...so it is like looking for black a diamond in the black sand.
The darker queens are harder to spot, especially if you have dark, older comb. But, I had a student who was legally blind and she was really good at spotting the queen. She said the queen bees moved differently, which they do.
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple Wow...then I googled the term, and after reading the definition of "legally blind" I realized I was legally blind - lol (since then I had laser surgeries so I could play volleyball again).
Do you think honey bees can tell the difference between people/faces? My experience is they do but don't have the time to confirm it but I thought maybe you know...
Thanks again for your great video because I was sure queen bees purposely try to hide...so I found your video and you answered my question - Thx!
Nice video !
I can spot a queen everytime on a video but in my hive I hardly ever find her hmm
If the quuen be don't like sunshine can i look for her in night?
I am 11 and I have 2 queens they never fight they actually eggs the same time
Love your videos and I would love to watch more of them especially since I'm a new beekeeper here on the big island but your videos are too quiet to listen to on my TV even though I have external speakers... I regret I'm going to have to watch other videos
Something must be wrong with your settings. I was watching this video, oblivious of the fact my girlfriend had been talking to me for five minutes straight.
Try using the captions instead
Hey am from Jamaica how can I have a large beehive
Your bees are so calm that you can handle them with no gloves why are they so calm mine are buzzing all around, clinging to my suit
The temper of your bees is dependent on a few things:
• Your level of calm around the bees (bees are not a fan of strong smells and the breathe of mammals so if you're sweating more or breathing faster, it can affect them)
• Their environment - if they're in a spot where they're being bothered by a loud noise or attacks from wasps and other bees or a strong smell or a lot of vibration from construction nearby, these all affect their temper
• Their genetics - genetics play a big part in how aggressive they are
• How happy and healthy they are - bees who are busy gathering nectar and not sick from mites and viruses will not care too much about the beekeeper coming around (assuming they are not Africanized bees).
That being said, I get stung. I usually get stung about 5-7 times over the course of a day inspecting 25-ish hives. It happens and it doesn't bother me too much anymore.
I admire your bravery not wearing a suit! Even in other videos you have a veil but no suit. I can only get so far into my hives (usually the second brood box) before my bees get irritated, even with the smoker.
I'm off to see if you have a video on keeping a smoker lit. I can start it but I never get through an entire hive before it peters out! I've tried numerous fuels... Pine needles, burlap, pellets, etc.
I do have a video about keeping a smoker lit. You do have to keep billowing it. If you leave it sitting too long, it will go out. If your problem is that the fuel is burning too fast then try to stuff that smoker with as much fuel as you can or get a bigger smoker so you can fit more fuel inside. I use the bark from the ohia trees that are near the beehives. It works well but so does burlap (it just burns a little too hot for my liking). How long do you spend with your hives open? Ideally, an inspection should be 20 minutes or so. I had to train myself to speed up my inspections. You don't have to look at every frame. You just need to get a feel for how the hive is doing. I used to set a timer to remind myself how much time I was spending in each hive. Once the bees start to get annoyed with you, they're telling you you're taking too long and its time to close up shop!
I call it "finding Waldo"
Where's Waldo!
Feels like it sometimes :)
BS I hace been keeping bees for 20 years. I still do not see her "every time".