Hi. I love your videos. They are very informative. So I have 4 hives in total. 3 of which are queenless. The one hive which has a queen just started laying a few days ago. So I took its only frame of young brood and placed it in the hive which had been queenless for some weeks now. Hopefully. They make queen cells out of that frame and I can go in and take these queen cells and place in the other 2 queenless hives. How long after placing that frame in the queenless hive must I go back to remove the supercedure cells? And when will they hatch? Time is of essence to me now as its been many weeks the have have no new bee production.
you can buy a net from a local sporting goods store that you can put around your head... it probably helps to wear a baseball cap on your head before you put it on though. a painter's vest will suffice for the suit although idk how much they run. a good pair of gloves will do as well. you only go suitless when you're comfortable with the bees but you always risk the chance of being stung regardless of having a suit or not
Hey Don - I use plastic frames (end of my first year, so I'm still new) and I was wondering if you had ever had success cutting out a queen cell off of that? Is there room enough to get behind without damaging the cell? If you have ever done it, what did you use? Thanks!
Hi -- I love your videos -- this one however the sound didn't come over -- my speakers are turned all the way up -- but I can't hear you... Many Thanks!!
So to delay queen cells just add more room (supers) , I have a small city lot, to stop swarming do I allow the queen cells to be eaten?? add more supers?? Know its against nature but I can only work one hive , sadly I know, hope theres a way to do this...
You could do some Splits, and Sell them*... Put your £$€ into next season's equipment... 👍 Or you could Multi stack Nuc Boxes on top of each other, that way you still have the same "footprint" of x1 Hive" but your Bees are in multi 1/2 Boxes (eg Langstroth Deep = 10 Frames, Nuc = 6 Frames.) By having multiple smaller Colonies, you have a back up 'insurance' to raise your own replacement Queens (!) And, by multi stacking these Hives facing entrances different ways... They are like a Street, of apartments, where they can all benefit from the raising heat from the one below !!! By stacking up, and having several side by side, they are protected more, (if your in a cold winter, best to insulate around the outer ones a bit more. 😉) If you have to many busting hive(s) re population (that might Swarm on you.) Take out frames of Honey, extract it, and add these wet frames/foundation back to the bees . They will be to busy building Wax etc, than make more bees ! Or... Make Nucs as above... If your desperate to keep Bee population to a "Hives" worth... Put a x1 frame, at a time or so within a double bag, tie it. Freeze it... Bees n all... As a last resort ! * 😱 This will "Kill the volume of population" (and pending new bees, and larvae and eggs !!!) Then at times of protein need, thaw out frame, put back into Hive(s) and they will clean them all up. Win/win situation. You solve your space problem, and they get nutrition and pre drawn Comb to clean up and use... When you do want quality Bee production. 😬 Freezer Camp is last resort ! I would offer up Bees to Local Bee Associations : For Newbies. Gardens or Parks Maybe at a School (Science Class.) 😉💪👍🐝🐝🐝🐝
Hello, sir! I'm 14 and I'm new at beekeeping. You approach the bees without protection.. can I do that also or it came with time and experience?? And if i can please tell me the way.. because i need to save money to make my supers for spring Thanks!
wow one day i will bee making colony fast! i see why you cut your own lumber now, woot some one could make a lumber yard rich fast! I bet you do go threw 200 boxes a day
Lucky I was exposed to you !!!
Very instructive!
And most of all I liked your saying: If something is not broken do not fix it!
Amos from Israel
I still love these old videos Don. Fun to watch on a wet afternoon building bee frames
It's good to see you making more videos!! I thought the season finished for beekeeping- regards
Hi. I love your videos. They are very informative. So I have 4 hives in total. 3 of which are queenless. The one hive which has a queen just started laying a few days ago. So I took its only frame of young brood and placed it in the hive which had been queenless for some weeks now. Hopefully. They make queen cells out of that frame and I can go in and take these queen cells and place in the other 2 queenless hives. How long after placing that frame in the queenless hive must I go back to remove the supercedure cells? And when will they hatch? Time is of essence to me now as its been many weeks the have have no new bee production.
you can buy a net from a local sporting goods store that you can put around your head... it probably helps to wear a baseball cap on your head before you put it on though. a painter's vest will suffice for the suit although idk how much they run. a good pair of gloves will do as well. you only go suitless when you're comfortable with the bees but you always risk the chance of being stung regardless of having a suit or not
Hey Don - I use plastic frames (end of my first year, so I'm still new) and I was wondering if you had ever had success cutting out a queen cell off of that? Is there room enough to get behind without damaging the cell? If you have ever done it, what did you use? Thanks!
Don how did you get so many queen's out if this much, sand what time in the season can this occur? Can it happen in the fall?
Hey Don. How do you go about "crowding" your hive so you get queen cells?
Hi -- I love your videos -- this one however the sound didn't come over -- my speakers are turned all the way up -- but I can't hear you... Many Thanks!!
as you pick up the larva you will get some royal jelly it will hold it in.
Don
I don't use plastic it would be hard to cut cells.
Don
So to delay queen cells just add more room (supers) , I have a small city lot, to stop swarming do I allow the queen cells to be eaten?? add more supers?? Know its against nature but I can only work one hive , sadly I know, hope theres a way to do this...
You could do some Splits, and Sell them*...
Put your £$€ into next season's equipment... 👍
Or you could Multi stack Nuc Boxes on top of each other,
that way you still have the same "footprint" of x1 Hive" but your Bees are in multi 1/2 Boxes (eg Langstroth Deep = 10 Frames, Nuc = 6 Frames.)
By having multiple smaller Colonies, you have a back up 'insurance' to raise your own replacement Queens (!) And, by multi stacking these Hives facing entrances different ways... They are like a Street, of apartments, where they can all benefit from the raising heat from the one below !!! By stacking up, and having several side by side, they are protected more, (if your in a cold winter, best to insulate around the outer ones a bit more. 😉)
If you have to many busting hive(s) re population (that might Swarm on you.) Take out frames of Honey, extract it, and add these wet frames/foundation back to the bees . They will be to busy building Wax etc, than make more bees !
Or...
Make Nucs as above...
If your desperate to keep Bee population to a "Hives" worth... Put a x1 frame, at a time or so within a double bag, tie it. Freeze it... Bees n all... As a last resort ! * 😱
This will "Kill the volume of population" (and pending new bees, and larvae and eggs !!!)
Then at times of protein need, thaw out frame, put back into Hive(s) and they will clean them all up. Win/win situation. You solve your space problem, and they get nutrition and pre drawn Comb to clean up and use... When you do want quality Bee production.
😬 Freezer Camp is last resort !
I would offer up Bees to Local Bee Associations : For Newbies. Gardens or Parks Maybe at a School (Science Class.) 😉💪👍🐝🐝🐝🐝
my season stops when I sell out of queens======lol
Don
well I am a beekeeper not a film producer==lol
Don
what is a nuke
you can add supers but there going to make cells and split its nature let them do there thing.
Don
all the videos have dates on them===lol
Don
Hello, sir! I'm 14 and I'm new at beekeeping. You approach the bees without protection.. can I do that also or it came with time and experience?? And if i can please tell me the way.. because i need to save money to make my supers for spring
Thanks!
Andreas Smems troll. Go away.
wow one day i will bee making colony fast! i see why you cut your own lumber now, woot some one could make a lumber yard rich fast! I bet you do go threw 200 boxes a day
Well the sounds works Ok for me.. But the picture was blurry.. But always love you videos.
I would appreciate when you start your youtube if you can start by today is such date the month and year.tnx.