Making Nucleus Colonies

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  • Paul Kelly, research and apiary manager, and Wendy, an accomplished beekeeper and volunteer at the HBRC, teaches us how to make nucleus colonies.
    Filmed and edited by Wissarut Sukhaket.
    A descriptive transcript is available here: hbrc.ca/beekeeping-videos/mak...
    Frequently asked questions: hbrc.ca/faq/
    For more videos, check out the University of Guelph's HBRC TH-cam channel at this link: @University of Guelph Honey Bee Research Centre

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  • @dcsblessedbees
    @dcsblessedbees ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I have missed your videos. I understand they have to do with specific projects being from a University, as a new beekeeper I wanted to say thanks.👍

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You are very welcome. We produce videos as we have time in between our other tasks.

  • @saintjohncoleman8602
    @saintjohncoleman8602 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is timely in that I’m planning my splits for next spring! Thanks for resuming the video production.

  • @carldaniels4827
    @carldaniels4827 ปีที่แล้ว

    awesome video!
    to the point!
    informative!

  • @cliveharrison733
    @cliveharrison733 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    V nice, just finishing up feeding my colonys here in the uk, unseasonably warm weather here. Looking forward to the next season.

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Clive
      Up and downs in the weather was the trend here all year. We'll take the nice warm fall days when we can get them! Today was one of those. I hope you and your bees winter well Clive.

  • @robhi3518
    @robhi3518 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am new to bee keeping , thanks for the content, learned a lot. Greetings Rob

  • @martynspooner5822
    @martynspooner5822 ปีที่แล้ว

    When you think about how they build the hives whoever worked it all out had good knowledge of how bees live. I find it really impressive, there are some clever people out there.

  • @watsonrk1
    @watsonrk1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perfect timing!

  • @somebodyyoumayknowgg6025
    @somebodyyoumayknowgg6025 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please keep posting videos I’ve been subscribed for a long time waiting for more videos .

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We film videos as we can and when we have help with the right skills. Glad you look forward to them. We've done something like 80 now so maybe you haven't seen them all!

  • @mallorywinske8887
    @mallorywinske8887 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video thank you!

  • @souficoufi5763
    @souficoufi5763 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the video.

  • @thanosrevenisios
    @thanosrevenisios ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice videos....i'm beekeeper from Greece

  • @baciubogdan1612
    @baciubogdan1612 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best regards from Romania 🇷🇴

  • @kennylecroy9706
    @kennylecroy9706 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you didn't want to sale the nuc,what would you do just to epand your own yard?

  • @baciubogdan1612
    @baciubogdan1612 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice presentation

  • @JessicaBrunskill
    @JessicaBrunskill ปีที่แล้ว

    I really like your video's they are the best

  • @charlestanner6093
    @charlestanner6093 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @texasfriendlybeekeepers8210
    @texasfriendlybeekeepers8210 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video Paul where do you buy the hood that your helpers are wearing. ...thanks!!

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks TFB.
      All our beekeeping suppliers in Canada sell them. I'd think they would be available in Texas too.

  • @lisandro777
    @lisandro777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow’ I m a 40 years old my full first year with my bees and I got stung with black pj, and both of you in shorts 😮

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh boy, black pj's. You are daring bees to sting you with those on! :)
      We work in light colored clothes. We have nice bees but do still get some stings. Beekeepers need some stings to stave off developing a worse reaction!

    • @lisandro777
      @lisandro777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre That is true.more time I gotten stung the less reaction I get.

  • @aaronparis4714
    @aaronparis4714 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hey Paul I’m in Nova Scotia would you say running doubles is better than running singles ? I know both can be done but what would you run I keep my bees outside in poly hives

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      We use singles exclusively. We have two videos outlining why and all our videos show the use of singles in our operation.

  • @jham66
    @jham66 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you worried if the queen cell doesn’t take and the hive make their own queen? Reason I ask is that walk away splits seem to be in the process of being made an illegal practice here in Queensland, Australia. The thought is that walk away splits are more likely to be aggressive and more likely to swarm. I personally have not found this to be true, but wonder if you have experienced this?

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi Justin
      Thanks for the great question.
      Most times the queen cells we introduce take and we get a mated queen. The emergency reared cells don't make the best queens but we don't get very many of them and we requeen these colonies when possible.
      I agree that walk away splits are a bad idea. You might find our video 'Why Buy Queens' interesting.

    • @jham66
      @jham66 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok, thanks for the reply. I will head to that clip now!

  • @ivansince91
    @ivansince91 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much. What is the best time of the season to make up a nuc?

    • @mmb_MeAndMyBees
      @mmb_MeAndMyBees ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When you can Raise Queens. Aka you have Warm Weather, Spring* to late Summer * Eggs, good number of Bees (making that Royal Jelly) and of Course you need : 'Drones*' (boy Bees) to Mate those New Virgin Queens ! If you don't have the above*...Splits or Nucs won't be possible.
      Unless you buy in Mated Queens (expensive) and goes against what Paul is teaching here... Raise your own Queens !😉
      🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
      Happy Beekeeping 2022
      🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
      Here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Nucs can be made from May to say early August. (A Nuc needs at least x6 to x8 Weeks to build up.
      So if you do it to late in Autumn, you might get poor Mating of that new Queen, or the Colony is not strong enough to survive a cold Winter (!)
      You might be in a Sunny Warm place.... So your heads up on Nuc making.
      😎

    • @ivansince91
      @ivansince91 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mmb_MeAndMyBees Wow that's really good and fun response. 😁 Thank you!

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Our pleasure.
      We make up nucs during the time of year that bees naturally swarm. For us that is mid May to early June.

    • @ivansince91
      @ivansince91 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre Thank you again.🙏

  • @kitersrefuge7353
    @kitersrefuge7353 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there not like a Summer "camp" we can pay for, and come to Canada eh (haha), and get hands on experience at your Guelph university with the bees, and have some fun, and go back home with a certficate or something? it would be really good as an experience and to come back home and start the bee keeping? I would easily pay for such a Summer hiatos. Learn beekeeping, experience Canada eh, and return home with some good memories.

  • @bamabeesqueens
    @bamabeesqueens ปีที่แล้ว

    Went to link did not see it.

  • @nasserhaddar7611
    @nasserhaddar7611 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanm you for the time and nice informations.
    The qustion is why you don't you introduce a matted queen? to avoiding 27 days delay and not to go to the possibilty of other problems?
    I am a beginner beekeeping.
    Thank you in advance.
    Nasser

    • @josephvogel7234
      @josephvogel7234 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is a fourth option and the most common for a beginner and small-scale beekeeper. The idea of self-sufficiency is to breed your own queens. They have successfully harvested the queen cells that they have grafted and put them directly into a hive that needs a queen and is perfect for use as a mating colony. This could have been done as a separate operation by creating a mating NUCs, but it would delay the split another two weeks into the season. It would also require the use of additional resources and the end result would be the same.

    • @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre
      @UoGHoneyBeeResearchCentre  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We make up these nucs earlier in the year than when we can produce mated queens

  • @sergepajcin1255
    @sergepajcin1255 ปีที่แล้ว

    have vsh queen the best layer 3 years old who ever told you every year you need to replace is a lie leave good ones always

  • @baciubogdan1612
    @baciubogdan1612 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not very different from us