Fixing A Drone Laying Queen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2022
- In this video were fixing a drone laying queen in a beehive. Now when you see only drone brood in your hive its important to work out what is the problem. Is it a drone laying queen or a drone laying worker? One we can fix the other we cant. As beekeepers its crucial that you know what the difference is. Beginner beekeeper or bee farmer this is something you will eventually see.
If we don't fix a drone laying queen in a hive then that beehive will die out. The hive need a fresh supply of worker bees to maintain the hive. Without this they die.
In this video I show you how to fix a drone laying queen. Hope you find the video useful.
Great to see I'm not alone in using a super frame in a brood chamber if short.
Have just discovered a drone laying Queen, video came at the right time.
Glad you found the video useful. Hope they make a new queen and all will be well. 👍🏻😊
I done the exact same a few weeks ago. Drone laying Queen. I gave them a frame of eggs and brood. Checked one week later and they started bringing on a queen cell, then they tore it down for some reason. Checked them again a week later and they're bringing on another queen cell (hopefully they don't tear this one down!)
The bees now what their doing! Better than us humans most of the time! 😄
Thanks, that's a great guide 😀
Edit, just realised you're a couple of minutes down the road, I'm working down here at the moment 😀
😄👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for this video. I'm a beginner since August with only 1 hive. My queen has failed and I bought nuc that was bursting at the seams and 2 days ago my original hive got a frame of eggs and larvae. I was going to go in tomorrow and knock down all but one queen cell, but after watching your video I'm not sure. Like your hive, the colony has gotten smaller and they're nearly all winter bees. I suppose the older bees just wouldn't want to swarm. I think like you, I'll let nature take its course. Thank you.
Glad you found the video useful 😊👍🏻
Thanks for this video! Really interesting and informative. 😊
Thank you Alex 😊👍🏻
Great video highlighting how you sometimes have to think on your feet. Would you check the frame of eggs you put in in a week’s time to make sure you knocked down all but one of the newly started queen cells. Otherwise you could end up with multiple queens and possible caste swarms with virgin queens.
In most cases you will do that. But in this case because they don’t want to swarm there is no need.
I thought you needed to find the old queen and remove her first. I had a situation last year with a drone layer, gave 2 x frames of eggs/larva without finding the queen, no Q'cells raised due to her pheromones being present. Just a thought.
This hive was producing queen cells to replace her already. Bees don’t want a sterile queen.
But there’s nothing wrong with taking the queen out first. You can do it that way too.
Really useful, I need to tuck that one away in my head for when it happens.
Hopefully won’t happen for a long time! 😄
@@gwenyngruffydd had a DLQ last year that was raised in a split. Couldn’t find the queen so was advised by mentor to shake out.
All depends on the stage of the hive….the older they are the more likely they are to fail. Catch it early enough and giving them a frame of brood and eggs can fix the problem. But there needs to be a fair amount of bees in the hive for it to work
Great video and thanks for sharing. I had a few hives last year end up with dronelaying queens by the end of the summer, bad year for queens.
Yes your right, it was a very bad year. Hopefully a better year this year.
Hi, why did you not take down the queen cells in the left hand hive, because they would not be viable queen cells ?
Their probably not viable but their not going to swarm. Just leaving nature take care of it.
If you knocked all the queen cells down, gave it a week to knock any new queen cells down would they still kill a newly introduced queen. ?
Very good chance they will. The bees are old.
But you can never be certain. To much of a risk with a £40 queen
I was inspecting one of my hives today and found the queen for the first time! I tried to capture her in the queen capture, just to see if I could do it..she went in..but flew out before I could close the lid. Should I be worried? I hope she didn't fly off or land in one of the supers I had laying to the side.
She probably fell back into the main box. Check for day old eggs in next week’s inspection. Hopefully it will be full of eggs. If she’s not there check the supers for eggs.
What would you do with a drone laying worker at this time of the year
Shake them all out. You could try this method but normally when you have a drone laying worker the hive has dwindled to nothing and the bees will be very old.
Hi. Do you run all your supers on 11 frames or 9/10 when drawn out?
11 mainly, sometimes 12……occasionally 10 when I steal frames from the boxes! Lol
11 for me 😊👍🏻
Silly question, could you not of used the Queen excluder that you took off the dud queen hive and put it on the hive that needs the super? haha You said you cannot give them a super as no queen excluder You are worse then me lol That hive was packed full. Is there a follow up vid? I hope it all went well. If you have a queen that is suddenly laying drones just leave her if the hive was good because you will flood the area with good genes from good drones.
Lessens the chance of aggressive genes getting in from colonies you do not know about that could be bad.
Unfortunately in this case it didn’t work. Nothing is fail proof.
@@gwenyngruffydd Sorry to hear it never worked.
Sometimes it does though. Weather plays a huge part in it
Hi what's your opinion on breeding 8 month old ewes (ewe lambs )
I’d probably wait another 2 months. I have done that in the past and lambing is a pain! Lots of prolapse
@@gwenyngruffydd okay is it okay to lamb at the end of may
Yes, plenty of grass about! 😊
April time is the norm though
@@gwenyngruffydd would they prolapse at 9 month old