I did a hive inspection today after a week and a half. The queen was gone and there were 7 almost ready to hatch queen cells! I used old nuc boxes and now have 5 potential new colonies. Fingers crossed. Thanks Dave for all the videos
When he does get stung, he is a boss!! Bee lands on sleeve @2:02 and immediately stings him @2:08 he pulls it off, you can still see the stinger in the sleeve and he's just adjusting the sleeve like NBD. I would be a huge baby every time i got stung.
Lol yeah I'm so impressed. The timing was perfect too. He'd just finished saying "get to the point where you can go without gloves". I always feel an immediate, compelling urge to sprint to an area without bees the moment one enters my airspace. Would still love to have a hive at some point in my life though.
Great idea. I'm going to try it. I still don't know how you go without a bee suit though. I use full protection because they instantly go for my face and hands.
My late husband and I used to keep bees in New York State. We harvested the honey once a year, calling it wildflower honey. I found this video very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
My Father was stung 25 times while on a tractor and the Doctor said, “You’ll never suffer heart attacks after that many stings”. Strange way to find out how you’re not going to die.🇦🇺🐝
I want to thank you Dave for helping me thru this first year of bee keeping ; and if they survive the winter into the spring I figure you taught me well.i want to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous new year.i hope to try make some splits in the spring.
Getting set up in one week when we get back from vacation! Found a local mentor online through a local club. I've been binge watching your videos over a week now. Grateful to you for sharing your expertise so freely. Now, I only hope my bees are as calm as yours! Mentor says he keep his in a T shirt and maybe a hood, so I'm hoping for good stock there. Don't have a bee in my yard yet but I'm all over this! Thanks again!!
when you inspect hives and see queen cells with royal jelly in the cell do you remove the mother queen with couple capped brood frames and extra nurse bees and put them in new nuc.....and then you just let the old box raise the new queen?. Or can you just pinch the cells to stop them from swarming?
Thanks for explaining how a box cutter (utility knife) works 5:10 . I have been doing it wrong for years and thought I should look up a BEE video so I could learn how to use it. lol Good video bro, just busting your ball for making me laugh... ;)
thanks-this the first demo I've seen by an expert of doing a split this way. last year, we did a split this way intuitively, since we had a few queen cells. this year, that split is bigger, healthier and more vigorous than the original hive, probably due to them having a younger queen.
You are a terrific guy. I have watched so many of your videos and every one of them is so good and informative. Thank you for your help and demonstration. I'd be using gloves to protect myself. I wonder where you learned all this. So good.
Hey I have a question. I went without gloves and the second time I was in the hive I got stung on my right thumb and my left middle finger. my hands swelled up for 3 days. if I continue to not use gloves I've heard you can build up an immunity and they won't swell up as much. Does anyone have experience with this.
I think it just depends, everybody is different. I watch DirtRooster as well, and he takes stings all the time. I was never allergic until I got swarmed, after that it's emergency room time for me if I get stung. LOL, my Mom wanted to start beekeeping, but decided against it since I live right next door to her--I told her not to let that stop her but she eventually gave up the idea.
I have an irrational fear of bees and whenever I see one coming I have a complete anxiety attack I freak out scream run throw things if necessary to get out of the area but for some reason watching your videos lately have started helping with my anxiety seeing you so confident and having a comfortable relationship with them
Shufei thanks a lot yes I do realise what u mean but it can be hard for some people to understand. An irrational fear is something very strange for example I. Know somebody who has an irrational fear of broken clothing hangers even tho I know how I should react and i know bees mean no harm my brain simply just cannot accept these facts because I have developed an irrational fear
A bee flew down my shirt yesterday and I panicked big time trying to get it out and it stung me. It hurt so bad. Now here I am watching this guy and I feel like I can try to be calm if it happens again.
There are two ways your mind lessens the fear of being stung (which is the real fear, not simply "bees"). Both are a form of self-soothing. The first is by creating an irrational fear which says: all bees will always sting all the time. This irrational fear keeps you far away from bees, which your mind believes means you have less chance of being stung. This soothes your mind's fear of being stung. The second way is by embracing the truth about bees, which is that bees rarely sting. This also soothes your mind's fear of being stung. Either the irrational fear or embracing reality results in calming the real fear of being stung. Sadly, it is much more likely that our mind will perform irrational-fear-support than embrace the reality about bees, because it is very easy for your mind to support an irrational fear (with erroneous, obsessive thoughts) while it requires effort to embrace the reality about bees. Embracing the reality requires you to learn the truth about bees through study, or through observation of actual bee behavior (which is what you're doing when you watch this video). There is also another reason why irrational fears sometimes trump reality and that is… chance. There is a chance that - for no apparent reason - a bee will sting you. That chance does exist (however remote). Unfortunately our mind cannot do the math (or doesn’t want to do the math) on the actual chance that walking down the street, minding our own business, we could be stung. So, our mind greatly exaggerates the likelihood that we will randomly get stung, and this results in the irrational fear being the safer option (in our mind) than embracing the reality about bees. Most irrational fears have some kind of foundation in trauma. If that trauma isn’t very powerful (to the person who experienced it) then self-soothing exercises (like watching cool bee videos) can be very effective at lessening irrational fears. However, significant trauma (significant to the person) often creates deep and lasting scars that can have a powerful affect on our everyday lives. In this case, self-soothing exercises will rarely have much of an affect in reducing those fears. Instead, the trauma itself has to be addressed to create an opportunity for us to experience freedom. The good news is that there have been great strides in the treatment for trauma, particularly in the last 10-15 years. EMDR Therapy and other methods have been clinically proven to reduce anxiety and distress created by traumatic memories in patients. So, if you have significant issues revolving around irrational fears in your life this really is the time to seek help from a therapist trained in trauma reduction treatments. If you’d like to start learning about these new treatments and the theory behind the impact of trauma on the human mind, google it. Pia Mellody and Laurel Parnell are big names in the field. Do a google on their names to get the ball rolling. Also, there are great videos here which compare post-traumatic reactions of animals experiencing stressful events with that of humans. One of the important lessons is that after experiencing trauma (particularly physical trauma, like a car wreck) a person needs to be able to "shake off" the trauma (literally). However, all of our emergency medical personnel are trained to immobilize victims of car wrecks and other similar kinds of trauma, which actually prevents the natural post-traumatic reaction that is instrumental in expelling fear, anxiety and other potentially long-lasting, negative and pathological after effects. View post-traumatic reaction in a polar bear, here: th-cam.com/video/eT4060GeodI/w-d-xo.html, and here: th-cam.com/video/nmJDkzDMllc/w-d-xo.html. The second compares post-traumatic reaction in animals with the negative effects of trauma in humans.
I got a walk away split from a friend 2 weeks ago. Checked it out and now there is like 5 queen cells ready to hatch within the next week. Can I take one of those queen cells and out them in a separate box with a frame of bees? The new box would have all drawn out comb and lots of honey
I tried it not sure if it worked didn't see a queen. Last check but hoping I missed her. In the other hive I found her sister only through a picture I took. I hope to mark her this week
I use wax foundation. can I cut a queen sell from my frame? Also I noticed you do not use wax foundation. Does it take longer for the bees to draw out come if you do not use wax foundation?
Hello buddy. I'm starting a new hive now. How do you recommend I start my hives? 3 frames in each hive, 5 frames in each hive or 10 frames in each hive and place a second floor; I'm not interested in honey production this year just to increase the population as much as possible. I will give them syrup and pollen. Thanks again for the help buddy
Depends if your getting a 1) Nuc, or 2) a Package of Bees with Queen in her cage. And the time of year eg Spring, early Summer. 😉 If 1) Put those Nuc bees in your own Nuc Timber or Poly Hive (if they came in a Correx travel Nuc.) They will settle in, watch after about a week, to see if population is getting to crowded. Then either upgrade to a regular Bee Hive Brood Box, with extra eg X5 frames of foundation, so Queen 'n Co. have room to expand. Or look for Queen in Nuc on frame, keep her safe on that frame, and put to side in Nuc, place another frame of bees next to it. Remove say x2 frames of Capped Brood, and a frame of freshly laid eggs, plus Bees, to another Nuc... You have made a Split (!) So you have a second Hive. And by reducing crowding, you have stopped the original Nuc from a pending Swarm. Or 2) Place those x5 Nuc frames into your regular Hive Brood Box, eg x10 frame type. "In the same order of position they were in !" Then add a couple of frames of foundation, and, something that can be a dummy board, barrier wall ! (eg piece of plywood same size as box width x depth.) And in remaining space after this temporary barrier, store those 'spare' frames. *Bees like being warm and cosy, so by restricting their space to eg x6, or x7 frames, they like their new 'Strange but Empty Home' more. Because they can heat up the living area, arrange their cell structures (furniture !) Think of an Apartment, to that of a Mansion (with a huge empty attic space or West Wing with no heating but massive draughts !) Again, over a week or so, add another frame of foundation, before that dummy board. Do this so they can expand gradually, but don't swarm ! Fact: Say within a month the 'Nuc or Package population' will now be filling that Box ! Tip : Add space, and or removing bees will prevent swarming in a bee hive, whatever the type or the number of stacked boxes. Good Luck... 🐝 * If you block their entrance with some green grass. (They are trapped in there, until grass wilts etc.) Bees get used to their new surroundings, and will gradually fly in and out. 🐝 *Applies to all installations of bees. 🤗
Do you have any suggestions for cutting queen cells when you have 2 joined together? or when they are so close together that someone might not be sure if they can be separated? Thanks.
Dave I have a question about transferring a NUC. Just got it yesterday here in Michigan, it’s about 48 outside supposed to hit 60. Will it chill the brood if I love them today, because they told me not to let them sit to long because the NUC is packed out pretty good. I have the front flap open so they’re getting orientated. Thanks for any advise.
I have a question in that is thought queens were made when they fed them some kind of jelly. However you're showing cells being put in to be hives. So my question is how our Queen bees made
How long does a new hive take to start making new queens? Do they make queen cells constantly or just when the hive is near full and planning to swarm?
I live in Australia and have one hive and would like to perform a split. I want to follow your example and take several frames from my existing hive into a new Nuc. At times its hard to find the queen and I wonder what will happen if the frames moved to the Nuc also has my queen on them. Will the existing hive make a new queen ?
I did exactly what you are wondering, my queen hitchhiked a frame into the new nuc and my original hive ended up queenless. The strong hive had re-queened within three weeks and the nuc had a nice healthy queen. if you think about it, its a lot like a swarm, the queen leaves the hive with a bunch of bees.
I have 2 hives with 2 deep brood boxes on each hive when would be a good time to consider doing splits as we are rolling into the second year of my hives ??? Thanks and I love watching your videos.
Loved the video. However, from a safety perspective, I'd highly recommend that you (or anyone) at least wear some head covering when doing this. That way, if you get stung/swarmed in your head while cutting, your natural instincts will be to swat the bee away. And, if you do so with the knife in your hand... Well, I guess it speaks for itself from there on out. Nonetheless, I think the video and details are first class. As a new and upcoming hobby beekeeper, I greatly appreciate your insight and instruction. I'm subscribing today... Thanks!!!
This is my first year having bees. I am interested in splitting my hive but i don't know when i could do it,is it early or should i wait untill next spring? Thanks
When the queen hatches doesn't she need drones to be able to lay eggs?, so the workers in the new hive will automatically raise drones while they raise the new queen?
why do they create so many queen cells? what are the different reasons the bees start making new queens? and can the workers eggs be turned into queens? really enjoy watching your videos, one of these days I'd like to try my hand at having bees.
There is no difference between "worker" eggs and "queen" eggs, the difference is in the feeding of the larvae by the nursing bees, which depends on the size of the cell.
@@apveening I think i was asking if the eggs that the workers have (like when you have a "Laying worker") could produce a queen. I now know they can not because they have no way to fertilize their eggs so all they can lay is drones.
Hello my name is Bodie Miller from south Carolina I am a new bee keeper I have two hives one hive with a hive top feeder and I am having a big problem with black ants getting in the feeder and drowning in the sugar water. And I have to keep diping them out. What can I do or what am I doing wrong. Thank you Bodie
Depending on your stand. I use four cinder blocks and two landscaping poles I buy aluminum use and throw out pans line the inside wall with bearing/axle grease and put them upside down on the cinder blocks. If your stand has legs use old coffee or paint cans put the feet into them and add some old engine oil or the like.
This past Saturday I was doing my inspecting and in one hive I found 5 queen cells, but only 1 was viable. I did cut it out to place in another hive, but want to ask a question. During the cut out, I cut far away, but during removal some of the capping broke off exposing the large queen larve. I went forward with placing it on a frame in another hive, and will check in a couple of more days just to see where it is at. My question, is there a good chance the queen cup is okay, even though at the cut point a small portion broke off exposing the larve?
QUESTION: What happens when one section [one strip of hive with bees] is put with a different bee hive? Will they attack each other or will the bees accept the other workers? Will new sections accept other queen cells from different hives? Thanks.
Guppy Gal Presouz They can, and do - but only if they have eggs or very young larvae. Something left by the old queen when she swarmed. (Although most queens about to swarm make sure to leave a number of queen cells with Queens about to emerge into the old colony.) I think what you are thinking of is most commonly called a supersedure - when the queen dies or is failing, and the colony uses existing young to make a new queen.
Hi Dave, thanks for all your videos! You really help us "newbees" out. I noticed on this split you made, you did not put any brood in. So it is possible if there are foreger bees and a queen cell, that a queen can start laying within 10 days? In removing a frame from the hive, one queen cell got ruptured/opened. Do you know if the worker bees could salvage/reclose that queen cell, or will that potential queen cell be no good and die? Thanks again!!
I like the fact that you go so casual while making these videos... Tripod stumbling... Priceless. Keep up the good work
I did a hive inspection today after a week and a half. The queen was gone and there were 7 almost ready to hatch queen cells! I used old nuc boxes and now have 5 potential new colonies. Fingers crossed. Thanks Dave for all the videos
When he does get stung, he is a boss!!
Bee lands on sleeve @2:02 and immediately stings him @2:08 he pulls it off, you can still see the stinger in the sleeve and he's just adjusting the sleeve like NBD. I would be a huge baby every time i got stung.
I just wear gloves, usually the bees won’t try to sting you through the leather, but it does make it harder to handle more precise jobs.
Oof I’m a huge baby when I’m stung to 😂😂😂😂
Lol yeah I'm so impressed. The timing was perfect too. He'd just finished saying "get to the point where you can go without gloves". I always feel an immediate, compelling urge to sprint to an area without bees the moment one enters my airspace. Would still love to have a hive at some point in my life though.
He acts so casual when hes getting stung lol
CNC Scottie his muscles are like insulation I’m sure
When you’re a bee keeper I’m sure getting stung is casual
I mean those are not muscles, he just swole
SOMETHING YOU DO GET USED TOO, EMBRACE IT
Please keep doing the "no-editing" style; I love that! Thank you for these great videos! :)
David, have you ever considered a head cam? POV?
Great idea. I'm going to try it. I still don't know how you go without a bee suit though. I use full protection because they instantly go for my face and hands.
Sounds like you need a new queen. Try for one of the varieties that are calmer and chill.
Impaler bees has a big sense of smelling like dogs little by little will memorize your odor
My late husband and I used to keep bees in New York State. We harvested the honey once a year, calling it wildflower honey. I found this video very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
We are going to attempt a split or two. Watching your video gives my wife and myself the confidence to try it out. Great video guy thanks.
My Father was stung 25 times while on a tractor and the Doctor said, “You’ll never suffer heart attacks after that many stings”. Strange way to find out how you’re not going to die.🇦🇺🐝
I was stung several times (10+) and I have had two heart attacks......
@@allanmanley6340 I guess your heart didn't get the memo, I've been stung, "keep on pumping"
The cleanest looking Farmer, I’ve ever seen.🐝
I want to thank you Dave for helping me thru this first year of bee keeping ; and if they survive the winter into the spring I figure you taught me well.i want to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous new year.i hope to try make some splits in the spring.
Did they survive ??
@@donnahenderson8951 yes they did and I am picking up three more 3# packages tomorrow 😁
Thanks Dave you’re a true trooper especially handling those bees without any protection LOL man go for it
Thank You for taking the time to educate us. Bees are the bees knees. So interesting and you make it fun! Thank You and Gods Speed in All you Do🇺🇸👍
Getting set up in one week when we get back from vacation! Found a local mentor online through a local club. I've been binge watching your videos over a week now. Grateful to you for sharing your expertise so freely. Now, I only hope my bees are as calm as yours! Mentor says he keep his in a T shirt and maybe a hood, so I'm hoping for good stock there. Don't have a bee in my yard yet but I'm all over this! Thanks again!!
nice! if you burn the knife with a lighter it cuts better
YO this guys is CRAZY
when you inspect hives and see queen cells with royal jelly in the cell do you remove the mother queen with couple capped brood frames and extra nurse bees and put them in new nuc.....and then you just let the old box raise the new queen?. Or can you just pinch the cells to stop them from swarming?
Thanks for explaining how a box cutter (utility knife) works 5:10 . I have been doing it wrong for years and thought I should look up a BEE video so I could learn how to use it.
lol Good video bro, just busting your ball for making me laugh... ;)
You should try a go pro camera !
thanks-this the first demo I've seen by an expert of doing a split this way. last year, we did a split this way intuitively, since we had a few queen cells. this year, that split is bigger, healthier and more vigorous than the original hive, probably due to them having a younger queen.
Great channel! You’ve taught me so much through your videos about bees and beekeeping.
You are a terrific guy. I have watched so many of your videos and every one of them is so good and informative. Thank you for your help and demonstration. I'd be using gloves to protect myself. I wonder where you learned all this. So good.
Hey I have a question. I went without gloves and the second time I was in the hive I got stung on my right thumb and my left middle finger. my hands swelled up for 3 days. if I continue to not use gloves I've heard you can build up an immunity and they won't swell up as much. Does anyone have experience with this.
I took it as a message that they were giving me the middle finger. hahah
I think it just depends, everybody is different. I watch DirtRooster as well, and he takes stings all the time. I was never allergic until I got swarmed, after that it's emergency room time for me if I get stung. LOL, my Mom wanted to start beekeeping, but decided against it since I live right next door to her--I told her not to let that stop her but she eventually gave up the idea.
I have an irrational fear of bees and whenever I see one coming I have a complete anxiety attack I freak out scream run throw things if necessary to get out of the area but for some reason watching your videos lately have started helping with my anxiety seeing you so confident and having a comfortable relationship with them
Shufei thanks a lot yes I do realise what u mean but it can be hard for some people to understand. An irrational fear is something very strange for example I. Know somebody who has an irrational fear of broken clothing hangers even tho I know how I should react and i know bees mean no harm my brain simply just cannot accept these facts because I have developed an irrational fear
A bee flew down my shirt yesterday and I panicked big time trying to get it out and it stung me. It hurt so bad. Now here I am watching this guy and I feel like I can try to be calm if it happens again.
There are two ways your mind lessens the fear of being stung (which is the real fear, not simply "bees"). Both are a form of self-soothing. The first is by creating an irrational fear which says: all bees will always sting all the time. This irrational fear keeps you far away from bees, which your mind believes means you have less chance of being stung. This soothes your mind's fear of being stung. The second way is by embracing the truth about bees, which is that bees rarely sting. This also soothes your mind's fear of being stung.
Either the irrational fear or embracing reality results in calming the real fear of being stung. Sadly, it is much more likely that our mind will perform irrational-fear-support than embrace the reality about bees, because it is very easy for your mind to support an irrational fear (with erroneous, obsessive thoughts) while it requires effort to embrace the reality about bees. Embracing the reality requires you to learn the truth about bees through study, or through observation of actual bee behavior (which is what you're doing when you watch this video).
There is also another reason why irrational fears sometimes trump reality and that is… chance. There is a chance that - for no apparent reason - a bee will sting you. That chance does exist (however remote). Unfortunately our mind cannot do the math (or doesn’t want to do the math) on the actual chance that walking down the street, minding our own business, we could be stung. So, our mind greatly exaggerates the likelihood that we will randomly get stung, and this results in the irrational fear being the safer option (in our mind) than embracing the reality about bees.
Most irrational fears have some kind of foundation in trauma. If that trauma isn’t very powerful (to the person who experienced it) then self-soothing exercises (like watching cool bee videos) can be very effective at lessening irrational fears. However, significant trauma (significant to the person) often creates deep and lasting scars that can have a powerful affect on our everyday lives. In this case, self-soothing exercises will rarely have much of an affect in reducing those fears. Instead, the trauma itself has to be addressed to create an opportunity for us to experience freedom. The good news is that there have been great strides in the treatment for trauma, particularly in the last 10-15 years. EMDR Therapy and other methods have been clinically proven to reduce anxiety and distress created by traumatic memories in patients. So, if you have significant issues revolving around irrational fears in your life this really is the time to seek help from a therapist trained in trauma reduction treatments.
If you’d like to start learning about these new treatments and the theory behind the impact of trauma on the human mind, google it. Pia Mellody and Laurel Parnell are big names in the field. Do a google on their names to get the ball rolling. Also, there are great videos here which compare post-traumatic reactions of animals experiencing stressful events with that of humans. One of the important lessons is that after experiencing trauma (particularly physical trauma, like a car wreck) a person needs to be able to "shake off" the trauma (literally). However, all of our emergency medical personnel are trained to immobilize victims of car wrecks and other similar kinds of trauma, which actually prevents the natural post-traumatic reaction that is instrumental in expelling fear, anxiety and other potentially long-lasting, negative and pathological after effects. View post-traumatic reaction in a polar bear, here: th-cam.com/video/eT4060GeodI/w-d-xo.html, and here: th-cam.com/video/nmJDkzDMllc/w-d-xo.html. The second compares post-traumatic reaction in animals with the negative effects of trauma in humans.
Dallasdeckard Well said! Thank you! 😊 Are u a psychologist?
Then you are going to faint if a wasp approaches you 😂
But tbh i feel u lololol
you got a stinger in your sleeve it looks like
Do you have a house full of Benadryl?
Love your videos, I'm going out with a lady from Georgia, my hair is pretty much gone
Thanks. Your split video is easy to understand for someone just getting into beekeeping.
Hi David
Great videos. One question, this nuc did you have a frame with brood in it? I didn't pick that up.
Thanks.
I thought swarm cells grew on the bottom of the frames.... Why are these in the middle of the frame?
Cells at the bottom are swarm cells and the ones on the facing are supersedure cells.
@@JoseAntonio-pb7nd as a bee keeping I agree and second your comment lol
Yeah!!! Im so excited that so many are again interested in bees...
Dave's bees and queen 's are great, the post office sucks but super happy with t
How far must you move the original box to do this to keep the bees from just going back home? Thanks in advance
Using foundation frames, can you cut out the queen cell in the same way?
Really calm bees! Nice.
How did I get here?
This is about the 3rd or 4th video I've watched...
Keefe Guadeloupe SAME LOL
Same🤣 now I'm interested in bees
Pink Diamonds same😂😂
it was recommended to me and I've just watched about 3 hours of bee keeping
It's addicting somehow🤔
I got a walk away split from a friend 2 weeks ago.
Checked it out and now there is like 5 queen cells ready to hatch within the next week.
Can I take one of those queen cells and out them in a separate box with a frame of bees? The new box would have all drawn out comb and lots of honey
yes you can
I tried it not sure if it worked didn't see a queen. Last check but hoping I missed her. In the other hive I found her sister only through a picture I took. I hope to mark her this week
why am I so obsessed with this lmao
Great video. Keep it simple. Good demonstration. What time of day is best? Early morning? March?
Wait but if u put a queen cell with some bees, but no open brood inside the new hive, do u have to put a drone inside the new hive?
Thank you
After a couple days, the queen will take flight and mate with up to 25 drones to supply her with enough sperm for her life.
I use wax foundation. can I cut a queen sell from my frame? Also I noticed you do not use wax foundation. Does it take longer for the bees to draw out come if you do not use wax foundation?
Hello buddy. I'm starting a new hive now. How do you recommend I start my hives? 3 frames in each hive, 5 frames in each hive or 10 frames in each hive and place a second floor; I'm not interested in honey production this year just to increase the population as much as possible. I will give them syrup and pollen. Thanks again for the help buddy
Depends if your getting a
1) Nuc, or 2) a Package of Bees with Queen in her cage. And the time of year eg Spring, early Summer. 😉
If 1) Put those Nuc bees in your own Nuc Timber or Poly Hive (if they came in a Correx travel Nuc.) They will settle in, watch after about a week, to see if population is getting to crowded. Then either upgrade to a regular Bee Hive Brood Box, with extra eg X5 frames of foundation, so Queen 'n Co. have room to expand. Or
look for Queen in Nuc on frame, keep her safe on that frame, and put to side in Nuc, place another frame of bees next to it. Remove say x2 frames of Capped Brood, and a frame of freshly laid eggs, plus Bees, to another Nuc... You have made a Split (!) So you have a second Hive. And by reducing crowding, you have stopped the original Nuc from a pending Swarm.
Or 2) Place those x5 Nuc frames into your regular Hive Brood Box, eg x10 frame type. "In the same order of position they were in !" Then add a couple of frames of foundation, and, something that can be a dummy board, barrier wall ! (eg piece of plywood same size as box width x depth.) And in remaining space after this temporary barrier, store those 'spare' frames.
*Bees like being warm and cosy, so by restricting their space to eg x6, or x7 frames, they like their new 'Strange but Empty Home' more. Because they can heat up the living area, arrange their cell structures (furniture !) Think of an Apartment, to that of a Mansion (with a huge empty attic space or West Wing with no heating but massive draughts !)
Again, over a week or so, add another frame of foundation, before that dummy board. Do this so they can expand gradually, but don't swarm !
Fact:
Say within a month the 'Nuc or Package population' will now be filling that Box !
Tip :
Add space, and or removing bees will prevent swarming in a bee hive, whatever the type or the number of stacked boxes.
Good Luck... 🐝
* If you block their entrance with some green grass. (They are trapped in there, until grass wilts etc.)
Bees get used to their new surroundings, and will gradually fly in and out. 🐝
*Applies to all installations of bees. 🤗
you were being sarcastic about the box cutter though . . . weren't ya?
A head mounted Gopro cam would work awesome for you
I love watching you gently disperse them!
Do you have any suggestions for cutting queen cells when you have 2 joined together? or when they are so close together that someone might not be sure if they can be separated? Thanks.
Very cool but what about the drone ,how does the queen get fertilized.
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
so no new brood or eggs? how far do you move the old box?
Dave i love your videos
Do the workers tear out a queen cell after the queen hatches?
Excellent lesson skills
Dave I have a question about transferring a NUC. Just got it yesterday here in Michigan, it’s about 48 outside supposed to hit 60. Will it chill the brood if I love them today, because they told me not to let them sit to long because the NUC is packed out pretty good. I have the front flap open so they’re getting orientated. Thanks for any advise.
So good for the bee breed you have. I wonder if this method can be used for African bees.
Awesome, informative videos! Thanks for making them! Planning on getting back into bee keeping, and these have been really
helpful.
Good video! At 2:02 that bee popped ya on the arm!
Barnyard Bees I feel your pain bro! You held your composure way better than I do!!!! Great video!
that bee stung you?
Dude didn't even flinch. You can tell he's used to it.
So, did that bee die?
Yea you can see the stinger on your shirt@@davidhaught84
Omg, I'm stuck on your videos and I dont know why . Lol great video 💙🐝💙
David, thank you for your time and your videos. Very helpful.
I have a question in that is thought queens were made when they fed them some kind of jelly. However you're showing cells being put in to be hives. So my question is how our Queen bees made
Those queen cells had already larvae with royale jelly to feed them, I assume.
How long does a new hive take to start making new queens? Do they make queen cells constantly or just when the hive is near full and planning to swarm?
Hello, why bees get foul brood, AFB OR EFP, WHAT CAUSES IT? AND WHAT THE TREATEMENT?
So the first frame into the nuc box, empty?
I live in Australia and have one hive and would like to perform a split. I want to follow your example and take several frames from my existing hive into a new Nuc. At times its hard to find the queen and I wonder what will happen if the frames moved to the Nuc also has my queen on them. Will the existing hive make a new queen ?
I did exactly what you are wondering, my queen hitchhiked a frame into the new nuc and my original hive ended up queenless. The strong hive had re-queened within three weeks and the nuc had a nice healthy queen. if you think about it, its a lot like a swarm, the queen leaves the hive with a bunch of bees.
Will it work on plastic foundation?
So helpful. Thankyou much!
I have 2 hives with 2 deep brood boxes on each hive when would be a good time to consider doing splits as we are rolling into the second year of my hives ??? Thanks and I love watching your videos.
Why do some people use the suit & some people not?
Barnyard Bees - that’s so incredible. I’d love to do this, especially since the honeybee population is lowering.
Loved the video. However, from a safety perspective, I'd highly recommend that you (or anyone) at least wear some head covering when doing this. That way, if you get stung/swarmed in your head while cutting, your natural instincts will be to swat the bee away. And, if you do so with the knife in your hand... Well, I guess it speaks for itself from there on out. Nonetheless, I think the video and details are first class. As a new and upcoming hobby beekeeper, I greatly appreciate your insight and instruction. I'm subscribing today... Thanks!!!
Is it such a thing as a king bee
This is my first year having bees. I am interested in splitting my hive but i don't know when i could do it,is it early or should i wait untill next spring? Thanks
I’m now obsessed with beer videos
When the queen hatches doesn't she need drones to be able to lay eggs?, so the workers in the new hive will automatically raise drones while they raise the new queen?
Thanks man I love your videos. You should get a go pro and strap it to your forehead.
why do they create so many queen cells? what are the different reasons the bees start making new queens? and can the workers eggs be turned into queens? really enjoy watching your videos, one of these days I'd like to try my hand at having bees.
There is no difference between "worker" eggs and "queen" eggs, the difference is in the feeding of the larvae by the nursing bees, which depends on the size of the cell.
@@apveening I think i was asking if the eggs that the workers have (like when you have a "Laying worker") could produce a queen. I now know they can not because they have no way to fertilize their eggs so all they can lay is drones.
@@tomasjosefvela1 Now I understand your question.
Hello my name is Bodie Miller from south Carolina I am a new bee keeper I have two hives one hive with a hive top feeder and I am having a big problem with black ants getting in the feeder and drowning in the sugar water. And I have to keep diping them out. What can I do or what am I doing wrong. Thank you Bodie
Depending on your stand.
I use four cinder blocks and two landscaping poles I buy aluminum use and throw out pans line the inside wall with bearing/axle grease and put them upside down on the cinder blocks.
If your stand has legs use old coffee or paint cans put the feet into them and add some old engine oil or the like.
This is the info I was looking for thanks
You helped me a lot with this video! Thank you!
This past Saturday I was doing my inspecting and in one hive I found 5 queen cells, but only 1 was viable. I did cut it out to place in another hive, but want to ask a question.
During the cut out, I cut far away, but during removal some of the capping broke off exposing the large queen larve. I went forward with placing it on a frame in another hive, and will check in a couple of more days just to see where it is at.
My question, is there a good chance the queen cup is okay, even though at the cut point a small portion broke off exposing the larve?
How do they not get stung by bees?? I still do not get it!
Ever see a friendly dog? How about a not-so-friendly dog? Same idea.
Warm climate really helps
Bees usually doesnt sting if bc they know they will die
If you make a bigger queen cell will you get a bigger queen?
I learn something new thanks
Is it that you spray some thing on your body to prevent skin i am from jamaican and I don't believe you cud that whit my bees
Good video... What type of these quiet bees, plz?
I never thought I would be so interested 🙄❤
wow bees really are cool and cute
Love how docile your bees are, what race primarily are you working....
QUESTION:
What happens when one section [one strip of hive with bees] is put with a different bee hive? Will they attack each other or will the bees accept the other workers? Will new sections accept other queen cells from different hives?
Thanks.
Nice to see you sir 😊
Actually this guy is good voice and good explanation. I hope he can get morw sub
Thanks, it’s a great video with so much useful information.
I have a car, helicopter and even private jet! But i cannot afford quality tripod! 😂
What shocked me is he started to explain what an exacto knife is and how it works..... wow... Can you also tell me what water is and how it works???
Why am I watching this I’m addicted now. But for some reason I thought that a Bee 🐝 colony can actually make their own queen
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They can, and do - but only if they have eggs or very young larvae. Something left by the old queen when she swarmed. (Although most queens about to swarm make sure to leave a number of queen cells with Queens about to emerge into the old colony.) I think what you are thinking of is most commonly called a supersedure - when the queen dies or is failing, and the colony uses existing young to make a new queen.
What would happen if you switched a frame of bees from another bee colony
Hi Dave, thanks for all your videos! You really help us "newbees" out. I noticed on this split you made, you did not put any brood in. So it is possible if there are foreger bees and a queen cell, that a queen can start laying within 10 days? In removing a frame from the hive, one queen cell got ruptured/opened. Do you know if the worker bees could salvage/reclose that queen cell, or will that potential queen cell be no good and die? Thanks again!!
Is there any reason not to rubberband the cell onto a frame?
How would you get it off a plastic foundation frame
Thank you Sir, from Amman-Jordan,,
Thank you! This cleared up a lot of confusion for me.
So can someone tell me, is the only man made thing on that frame the actual frame? do they make the honeycombs too?
Yes