Queenless Hive (After Honey Harvest)
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2022
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It's good to see you back in the real world. Getting back to normal life is often the best therapy.
Thanks
I harvested a queen this year. Two weeks later after they were robbed, found E Cells all in the dead out. So I must've took her by chance. Wow, that was a good colony...still hurts. Hard to fume bees off of brood I have found. Year before last found a queen who went thru the extractor and flowed out into the strainer!! Returned her to a hive who was queenless...LOL!! I thought she was from the one that I took this year, ironically enough. Queen on the veil?? Never seen that before. Every beekeeper has a story, right? Thanks for sharing Nathan!! Great explanations and video!! Great to see your video pop again!!
Thanks Mike. There’s always that ONE hive that has to be difficult. Oh well, we’re managing on the percentages. Overall I’ve had a blessed season. Congrats on your harvest this year. You’re getting big time!
Glad to see posting videos Nathan. Life throws us a lot of stuff and I also find working my colonies very therapeutic. 👍👍
Thanks!
Missed you and so glad to see you in the bee yard.
Thanks Russ
Glad to see you back. So sorry for your loss.....stay strong. Can't wait to see any progress on the new honey house.
Thanks Peter!
Been missing your video but knew you probably had a lot on you. Pray for you my fellow beekeeper 🐝
Thanks Randall, I appreciate it.
Glad to see you back in the beeyard Nathan, we missed seeing your videos and continued prayers coming your way!
Thanks!
Good to see you Nathan, you have been missed and in my prayers. I know all to well what you have been going through. God bless you.
I really appreciate that.
Glad to see you back in the yard.
Thanks Tim!
Welcome back Nathan. Missed you
I appreciate it
Hey Nath. So nice to hear your voice again mate and to see you.
Reading the comments I was saddened to learn about your mothers passing.
I may be wrong but it sounded like this video seemed a little difficult to produce.
I am very grateful for the massive effort you put in producing these post especially this one.
Your videos have created an amazing community one which you should be reminded that you can lean on when you need mate.
You and your family always have a home to stay if you’re ever in tropical North Queensland.
Wayne, good to hear from you as always. Thanks mate.
Glad to see you back !!! You’ve been in thoughts and prayers. 🙏🏼
I appreciate it!
Nathan! It made my day to see you back at it! Welcome back!
Thanks!
We've missed you; welcome back.
Thanks Zelma!
Glad to see the video man! Won't be long we will all be getting the girls ready for winter!
Time is now, winter is coming
@@DuckRiverHoney absolutely I do my second round of apigaurd this week then a couple blasts of OAV to clean up then wait for the fall flow and watch them build the winter bees. I managed to take 7 colonies to 53 and now I'm sitting on 46 very healthy and strong colonies. Would love for most of them to make it through winter. Next year should be a fantastic year for sure!
7 to 46 is a big jump, impressive. Lot of work.
Good to see you back Nathan!
Thanks!
Happy to see your video. Hope harvest was good for you.
Thanks Randall, I can’t complain on the harvest. Pulled the rest of my supers in today, curious to see how it weighs out. Now I have to figure out how to sell 3X as much honey as I had last year 😅
Glad to see you back. Be well.
Thanks Barry
@@DuckRiverHoney Also, Bee well. ;)
That queen must have really wanted out of there. I'm glad to see you back! I've been thinking of you these past several weeks and wishing you the best.
Thanks James, I’m starting to feel motivated again.
Good to see you back!
I appreciate it Peter!
Glad to see another video! Thanks for sharing! Been hoping you hadn’t been sick with all this Covid going around!
No nothing like that. My Mom passed suddenly in June and to be honest I haven’t felt very motivated to make videos.
@@DuckRiverHoney Nathan we knew that and we are so sorry. We have been praying for your family and the family of the child that passed and were so sorry that you’ve had such a tough time. We were just praying that y’all hadn’t been sick on top of everything else.
No we’ve been ok, just normal stuff with the kids. They’re always coming down with something, but they get over it quick.
@@DuckRiverHoney right! And then school starts and seems like the first few months they catch everything!!
Finding a queen on your veil makes you back step for sure. Glad to see you back at the bees. Enjoy your quality videos. Thanks and take care.
Thanks!
Welcome back Nathan. How about this heat. Thanks for the video like always
Thanks Dave, I can do without the humidity…😀
Good to see you again, my bees are always therapeutic when my heart is troubled.
God gave me strength 20 years ago when I suddenly lost my Mom to put one foot in front of the other, and there is no doubt with your faith in him, he will get you through this. God Bless you and your family! Keep looking up!
Thanks so much Rhonda.
We missed ya!
Thanks!
It's good to see ya in ya bees Nathan, you have been in my Prayers. Look at that a once in your life time experience already. I found out real quick I can learn a lot just watching the entrances. Ty for sharing your time Nathan, Blessed Days...
I appreciate it!
Same thing earlier in the year i was checking for queen cells and when i came in the house felt a bee in my shirt and pulled it up and it was a new hatched queen. I need 1 so everything worked out fine. I was fixing to grab it in my shirt so I would not be stung so glad I didn't . Glad you back and see you on the next one. ❤️🐝
Thanks Michael, those young queens are flighty and difficult to figure sometimes.
Glad to see you back! I have two hives that swarmed and I think have failed to requeen. This gives me motivation to go out and look, haha.
Tis the season for queenless hives! I think I’ve found 3 at this point.
No eggs = queen “cups”, “cells” are charged
I just had to deal with the same thing. I found a large hive queenless with a saging population. Unfortunately I had a doctor's appointment the next day. By the time I got back to that hive, it had already been robbed out. Fortunately I had 5 nucleus colonies that were ready to be moved into a full sized 10 frame and I was able to divy up the 4 deeps boxes of frames that still have a good bit of bee bread among the 5 nucs. This follows along with an old German Beekeeping saying...........scheiße passiert! 😉
Shrinkage this time of year is something I expect.
had a weird thing,caught swarm ,saw eggs ,went to combine them w queenless nuc,high summer heat,got robbed, and or abscond, a few dead bees newspaper wasnt chewed,i was oretty bummed,had abunch of beetles too,too many things at once,they gone
I had a swarm I caught that just never got started. Figure the queen was a virgin and never came back from mating flights.
I can tell that something is not 100% with you. I don't need to know. Just know you and your family is in my prayers.
Thanks Matt. My Mom passed in June.
@@DuckRiverHoney just know that you are a bob benie to some of us and we will be here whenever you are ready to get back to it. Don't feel obligated to put out videos. I'm sure most of us will stay.
Thanks Matt
Always appreciate your videos, very informative. Just one question, I see you still have hive beetle landing pads on front of hives, the theory of bees can hover and dont need landing entrance and eliminating hive beetle landing has made a tremendous difference helping reduce beetles. I've cut off all landing pads and made 100% improvement. You might test that yourself . Thanks again
Thanks, that’s interesting. My yard in full sun has very few beetles. Yard in shade has a TON.
10/4, I think my favorite of all the methods I've tried to control them, is the Mason jar trap I saw someone else recommend. Drill a hole in back corner of bottom board to fit a Mason jar lid. Drill a dozen 5.3mm holes in lid and attach from bottom side. Paint jar black to block sunlight then put a little diatomaceous earth in bottom of jar. Since trying that method I've caught probably 100 in that one and ain't seen any in hive. Cheapest and easiest method yet. And yes your right, shaded ones are the ones affected.
Nathan, just wondering why you don't like to start of with queen excluders?
I prefer to give the queen as much room as she wants. Putting an excluder on early I think can turn them toward swarming. Lots of opinions on this, and mine may be no better than anyone else’s.
@@DuckRiverHoney oh ok, we don't have much trouble with swarming so I understand