This is my third year as a beekeeper with a few hives really strong . I now have the confidence to make splits or help a non Queen Right hive. Thank you!
Watching your videos Kaylee is very entertaining. You deserve your own show. There is too much garbage in reality TV. This is good wholesome entertainment.
Your bees look great. I had a queenless hive on Feb. 2 this year and used the same process, it worked like a charm and that hive is now my strongest. I thought it might be too early but there were plenty of drones then. I think almost every other hive swarmed so they are not as strong now. Great photography, you showed the process so well.
If there's any doubt that a hive is queenright I always give it a frame of young brood, mark the frame with a T for test and write the date on their cover. Queenlessness is the most common cause of hive failure during spring/summer.
Funny you say that because I think the younger generation of beekeepers are mostly females. At least in my experience (I'm a female younger beekeeper, too).
Hi I'm amaze and intrigue with what you do with this beautiful creatures. My grandfather was beekeeper. And with me watching your videos. I'm going get my hands dirty and do something old.✌🇲🇽
When all else fails, go buy a queen bee. Its amazing what we can do and buy here in America in 2022. Either way, i love the videos and your instructions. Very well done and thorough. Keep rockin it steady.
I like the way you explain, easy to understand very practicall and relaxing at the same time, we depend more from this magnificent and humble insect than most people think.
Some of the Queen cells show definite signs of being emergency cells. Short and stubby. The first 2 are what I consider to be worth keeping. In my experience, they are the best ones to keep. I would break the poorer ones down. You still have 2 good queen's on the way. I have kept bees for about 35 years, but am still learning. You definitely have the skill set needed. I live in Central Queensland, Australia, so I don't have to worry about snow or bears, just cane toads and bee birds. Keep the videos coming.
@@KingFisheR00011 Cane toads were introduced to Queensland cane fields to eat the beetles that damaged the sugar cane by eating the plant's roots. However, the toads found easier food elsewhere. Most of the beehives are up on stands to keep them away from the toads. At night if you look, you will see toads under the stands picking off any bee that falls. Just another example of an outstanding failure on behalf of the scientific community. Being poisonous, the native wildlife has no protection from these pests.
Wow, I dropped in here for lunch wanting to inform my curiosity and found a new channel I really like. I will be retiring in a few years and am looking forward to a bit of gardening and beekeeping. I look forward to learning more... Subbed!
@@ginkamikaze2 actually thats not right. Unfertilized eggs become drones. All workers are fed royal jelly for a short time, however, queens are exclusively fed royal jelly.
Thank u for this video! I needed it. I'm second year beek and my original hive almost swarmed. Packed full of bees and lots of drone cells. This makes me feel so much better that I did do the right thing. Hopefully will have a new queen for the 2 splits I made in a week! Fingers crossed and thanks!
One of my split hives saved one of dads hives... I had about seven queen cups all on different frames, we put a frame that had 3 queen cups and put in dads queenless hives and now it seems to be doing excellent. My split is also doing good :)
You are right from egg to queen 16 days. Than add the following with good weather. The queen bee emerges from the hive after 3 to 5 days of her complete development and mates with the males (drones). The flight of the queen bee and the drones outside the hive for mating is called mating flight. After 2 to 3 days of mating, the queen starts laying eggs. That's 24 days without a rain delay before she starts laying
Great videos. I caught a swarm last October (spring in Australia) and became an instant beekeeper, so I'm trying to learn as much as I can in my first year to be ready to split my one hive. Thanks so much.
Hi Kaylee, nice job on doing the Queen-right test. Test one thing maybe thou, when you put any frame into any box for any reason & you would like to know which frame that was in the near or far future, place a thumb-tack on that frame. Best is brass colored tacks & its important that you place them on the top bars on your side of the staple or nails which fix the side bars to the top bar. On the "Ears" of the top bar. By the way, when your done with the reason "why" you did it in the first place, then don`t forget to remove them! Now you can carry them with you in your "bee tackle-box" when you go to the bees, or guess what, there thumb tacks, you could have a few of them stuck on the outside of the brood- super- boxes of every hive, the lids or the bottom boards. I also use these tacks to re-strech my loose frame wires after melting old frames before I re-foundate them. Channel follower, Skip
excellent video thanks for sharing ,raising your own queens sure helps out and at this time of year its extra cash also, good luck in your adventure its worth it!!!
This is great info for those of you who have small operation...this is exactly what i did and i still have two of the queens...i still do it if i get cells in those hives with great queens....if a really good Queen is getting old and the colony is trying to supercede her i will use as many of the cells as i can until i feel she's had enough...then ill leave the rest of the cells in the colony and let bees be bees. Great video.
Thanks for sharing an informative video. I also use the brick-code on my Langstroth hives. My AZ hives in my bee house all have dry erase white boards on the back of the door, so no need for bricks ;)
Great idea, I hope it works to perfection. Not sure I would have left those three lower cells. I would have preferred to just go with the two superceedure cells that looked really healthy and let them decide who would be queen of the hive. That is just me.
I watch a lot of beekeeping videos and yours is one of the best I have watched in a long time. I'm an ex-beekeeper as I had to give up though being allergic to the stings.
Bummer you’re allergic to the sting😟 I Love honey but am a bit allergic to it - I have Graves Disease and funny if I get stung working my hives I actually feel a Lot better for a few days after🤗 🤷🏻♀️
@@tamararobinson2069 I had to rewatch the video to remember what I'd commented on lol. I love honey too but I'm type 2 diabetic now so I avoid all sweet things.
Thank you for all the videos you take the time to post for others enjoyment. If this question has been asked in the past or I am overlooking the information I apologize in advance. Why did you purchase the bee suits you have worn during your latest videos? Thank You
@@TheHoneystead Thank you for reading through my mistake. My question should have read "Where did you purchase" and not "Why did you purchase". I appreciate the quick reply though.
Hey no problem! I wanted a suit that wasn’t white and was fully vented, because I am not a fan of the heat. I looked for a few months for a company that wasn’t crazy expensive and have been pleased with my purchase:)
I want to start. I live in Pennsylvania. I want to learn what I need to do for the winter and keep it to 1 to 3 hives. And what to do when it gets over populated.
No, she will go on a mating flight and mate with as many as 15-20 different drones. This allows genetic diversity. If she lays a fertilized egg and the genes line up with the same genetic code, it will only produce a drone.
Learned that little math addition numbering game for age and hatching of bees...3 (eggs) 5 (larvae) 8 (queen hatch) 5 (worker bee hatch) 3 (drone hatch) - I heard a little saying with that but can’t remember anything else...
I'm doing something different this year with the bees. I haven't used smoke at all. I have been using water in a fine mist. Because it is so warm I'm not worried about chilling them. I haven't been stung at all either. Have you or any of the crew here tried just using water in lieu of the smoke? For me (disclaimer) it has made it easier to check on the interior of the hive. I think the smoke sets off alarms and gets them angry.
Hello Mrs. Honeystead, I always love your videos. I am a wanna beekeeper and I am still learning after two years of UA-cam and Woking with my local county beekeepers association. I have a request for you, could you or would you be willing to add the phrase you use at the end of this video to your T-shirt or to a new T-Shirt? I would certainly buy it as many others would too. The phrase was "Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty and learn something old!" I'd put it on a t-shirt myself but I heard it from you and rightfully you should make any profit off of it. Manny the Yup Yup Man
I'm from suriname... south America... Our honey bees are very/more aggressive, and I've noticed a huge drop in honey production is it the same for you guys?
I did a couple walk away splits and one of them has made a queen so far still waiting on the second one to do the same. Great video and keep up the good work.
To know what frame with eggs I placed in I mark it with my hive tool. On the 13th day after placing in the eggs I open the cups after 4PM. I let 2-3 queens walk in and take the others for other hives as backup. You can do this till September then the drone slaughter starts. You can recognize this by bees carrying out drones and killing the persistent drones. I had a laying worker last year, it took 2 months for them to accept eggs and raising a queen cup.
Hi I saw that Japanese honey bees have developed a method to deal with the Asian murder hornet by vibrating and cooking them to death. Now that the hornets are in USA, is there any way you could bring in frames of Japanese honeybee brood or will they not be accepted? Great work preserving the bees and the tradition.
Hi Good day, I admire you honing the nobles craft of Beekeeping, In my view you did two thing's wrong, (1)Always hold you're developing queen ceĺl FRAMES upright, (2)Always cull and keep the the most desirable cells/cell, In this case you had about 5 cells, Always select the best of them, leave no more than 2, Reasons are an inferior queen may emerge and destroy a what I considered a quality queen. I'm hoping a little sense is in all of this, thank you.
Another beautiful video. I just love watching you work in your hives!!!! What is the plastic thing between the two frames in your first hive you inspected? xxoo
Maybe it's too late but you could take some of those queen cells and put 2 in a Nuc to raise some extra queens for sale or use, you have the room and I think the Nuc's but do you have the time and timing?
One thing I do know about which queen cell to keep and which to toss, is to always keep the ones that are twice a long. Science has proved the longer cells produced better queens. Cut out th others.
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Hy.You are soo much beautiful and gorgeous female beekeeper ever. I love you with my heart.
How happy I am to hear your beautiful beekeeping videos as I too have a number of colonies of stingless bees and Indian bees
You are so beautiful and love the GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY AND LEARN SOMETHING OLD. I just came across your channel and can't stop watching.
I absolutely adore learning Beekeeping from you. ❤️fr🇨🇦
Hello you are looking great today thank you for shareing your beauty and wisdom
This is my third year as a beekeeper with a few hives really strong . I now have the confidence to make splits or help a non Queen Right hive. Thank you!
Watching your videos Kaylee is very entertaining. You deserve your own show. There is too much garbage in reality TV. This is good wholesome entertainment.
Love your videos...This one is very informative and will help with what I have going on in a couple of my hives....Thank You!
Thanks for sharing,,🐝safe
Necessity is the Mother of invention...QueenMother, you got this! Looking forward to the outcome.
That drone stuck in his recliner saying “i would have mead wench!
So nice to see your cute set up
Your bees look great. I had a queenless hive on Feb. 2 this year and used the same process, it worked like a charm and that hive is now my strongest. I thought it might be too early but there were plenty of drones then. I think almost every other hive swarmed so they are not as strong now. Great photography, you showed the process so well.
Hello The Honeystead just started with Bees and a few videos... very nice channel
Why of why, instead of enjoying watching the bees in your videos, I kept enjoying watching your smile and beautiful face 😍😍😍
If there's any doubt that a hive is queenright I always give it a frame of young brood, mark the frame with a T for test and write the date on their cover. Queenlessness is the most common cause of hive failure during spring/summer.
Nice to see you interested in bees because mostly men used to engage in beekeeping so its fun to watch you because me too am interested in bee
Funny you say that because I think the younger generation of beekeepers are mostly females. At least in my experience (I'm a female younger beekeeper, too).
@@paxsekogeqwerist4958 ohh thats nice. But ladies here they don't even know the difference between comb and honey. I also am a beekeeper
Good one
Glad the girls made queen cells for you! Looks like those hives will be back on track really soon.
Hi I'm amaze and intrigue with what you do with this beautiful creatures. My grandfather was beekeeper. And with me watching your videos. I'm going get my hands dirty and do something old.✌🇲🇽
Hello! New subscriber :) 💕 love watching your videos and learning more about bees 🐝
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When all else fails, go buy a queen bee. Its amazing what we can do and buy here in America in 2022. Either way, i love the videos and your instructions. Very well done and thorough. Keep rockin it steady.
I like the way you explain, easy to understand very practicall and relaxing at the same time, we depend more from this magnificent and humble insect than most people think.
Some of the Queen cells show definite signs of being emergency cells. Short and stubby. The first 2 are what I consider to be worth keeping. In my experience, they are the best ones to keep. I would break the poorer ones down. You still have 2 good queen's on the way. I have kept bees for about 35 years, but am still learning. You definitely have the skill set needed. I live in Central Queensland, Australia, so I don't have to worry about snow or bears, just cane toads and bee birds. Keep the videos coming.
Cane toads? Do they eat beees too? We have no such bastards here in Russia. 😊
@@KingFisheR00011 Cane toads were introduced to Queensland cane fields to eat the beetles that damaged the sugar cane by eating the plant's roots. However, the toads found easier food elsewhere. Most of the beehives are up on stands to keep them away from the toads. At night if you look, you will see toads under the stands picking off any bee that falls. Just another example of an outstanding failure on behalf of the scientific community. Being poisonous, the native wildlife has no protection from these pests.
hello friend, glad to know the way of beekeeping that you live. I'm also a beekeeper, but your way is very professional
Had to do this for one of mine too. Thankfully just the one
I would like to a video of how these rescue hives turned out. We have to know!
They are all there in my hives and thriving ;)
Wow, I dropped in here for lunch wanting to inform my curiosity and found a new channel I really like. I will be retiring in a few years and am looking forward to a bit of gardening and beekeeping. I look forward to learning more... Subbed!
Yay!!!!!!! Congratulations and I hope you do become a beekeeper!
Great video, thanks for sharing :)
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Very interesting. I use bricks to mark my seeded garden beds lol
Bricks? Luxury! What I would give for some bricks! In my day we had to use lumps of coal, fashioned to look like bricks! 😄
Did that lil drone emerge? I know he was trying his little heart out, he was so close!!
He did :)
@@TheHoneystead The thing that decides what comes out of an egg isn't time, it's what the nurses feed the egg... it's all in the food ^^
@@ginkamikaze2 actually thats not right. Unfertilized eggs become drones. All workers are fed royal jelly for a short time, however, queens are exclusively fed royal jelly.
Sometimes I feel like a queenless drone in a colony 😁 I'm really enjoying your videos, very informative.
I would give anything to live this life with you. everything in my dreams is available.
Oh my goodness you float my boat?
Thank you Honey Girl. Very interesting. God Bless.
Honey girl is the right name
Great job !
I pray we get a swarm soon. Bee activity is rather low in our area and we want to bring them back
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Thank u for this video! I needed it. I'm second year beek and my original hive almost swarmed. Packed full of bees and lots of drone cells. This makes me feel so much better that I did do the right thing. Hopefully will have a new queen for the 2 splits I made in a week! Fingers crossed and thanks!
I loved how she put that... When the first queen emerges she will go around and take care of the other queens. Lol.
In the game of thrones, you win or you die.
Oh you mean MURDER the other queens. Bees gonna buzz.
The best would be to save all those queens and make splits instead of letting them being killed.
That's the way to start making queens.
One of my split hives saved one of dads hives... I had about seven queen cups all on different frames, we put a frame that had 3 queen cups and put in dads queenless hives and now it seems to be doing excellent. My split is also doing good :)
Enjoy your videos! You obviously love your bees...something that's missing in a lot of the bee keeping videos I've watched on UA-cam.
You are right from egg to queen 16 days. Than add the following with good weather.
The queen bee emerges from the hive after 3 to 5 days of her complete development and mates with the males (drones).
The flight of the queen bee and the drones outside the hive for mating is called mating flight.
After 2 to 3 days of mating, the queen starts laying eggs.
That's 24 days without a rain delay before she starts laying
The brick, what an idea!
Great videos. I caught a swarm last October (spring in Australia) and became an instant beekeeper, so I'm trying to learn as much as I can in my first year to be ready to split my one hive. Thanks so much.
I did this last year and it worked - Just feels ummm maybe more “natural” to let Mother Nature do her thing.💚
Very interesting how the know what to do!! lol, and they don't have a I-pad or youTube!! lol
Hi Kaylee, nice job on doing the Queen-right test. Test one thing maybe thou, when you put any frame into any box for any reason & you would like to know which frame that was in the near or far future, place a thumb-tack on that frame. Best is brass colored tacks & its important that you place them on the top bars on your side of the staple or nails which fix the side bars to the top bar. On the "Ears" of the top bar. By the way, when your done with the reason "why" you did it in the first place, then don`t forget to remove them! Now you can carry them with you in your "bee tackle-box" when you go to the bees, or guess what, there thumb tacks, you could have a few of them stuck on the outside of the brood- super- boxes of every hive, the lids or the bottom boards. I also use these tacks to re-strech my loose frame wires after melting old frames before I re-foundate them. Channel follower, Skip
excellent video thanks for sharing ,raising your own queens sure helps out and at this time of year its extra cash also, good luck in your adventure its worth it!!!
Excellent explanation on the points given. We are wanting to raise bees and look for all tips. Thank you.
Great as always. Was wondering if your expanding your garden with everything going on? Saw the new high tunnel.
i just did a small split with a queen cup 7days ago ill check in 7more days see whats going on hopefull she comes back mated
This is great info for those of you who have small operation...this is exactly what i did and i still have two of the queens...i still do it if i get cells in those hives with great queens....if a really good Queen is getting old and the colony is trying to supercede her i will use as many of the cells as i can until i feel she's had enough...then ill leave the rest of the cells in the colony and let bees be bees. Great video.
Thanks for sharing an informative video. I also use the brick-code on my Langstroth hives.
My AZ hives in my bee house all have dry erase white boards on the back of the door, so no need for bricks ;)
Great idea, I hope it works to perfection. Not sure I would have left those three lower cells. I would have preferred to just go with the two superceedure cells that looked really healthy and let them decide who would be queen of the hive. That is just me.
These were swarm cells from another hive. Not a supersedure cell situation;)
@@TheHoneystead I like Swarm Cells waaayyyy better , good job Kaylee..boom lol
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great job saving another hive. have a great day.
I watch a lot of beekeeping videos and yours is one of the best I have watched in a long time. I'm an ex-beekeeper as I had to give up though being allergic to the stings.
Bummer you’re allergic to the sting😟 I Love honey but am a bit allergic to it - I have Graves Disease and funny if I get stung working my hives I actually feel a Lot better for a few days after🤗 🤷🏻♀️
@@tamararobinson2069 I had to rewatch the video to remember what I'd commented on lol. I love honey too but I'm type 2 diabetic now so I avoid all sweet things.
@@backyardmechanic921 Bummer😕
Schöne Grüße aus Bayern sehr schön gemacht das video 👍👍👍👍
You should always check for laying workers before adding brood/eggs. The best tipoff is multiple egs per cell.
beautiful flowers and busy ladies
Good girl 👧 😌
Thank you for all the videos you take the time to post for others enjoyment. If this question has been asked in the past or I am overlooking the information I apologize in advance. Why did you purchase the bee suits you have worn during your latest videos? Thank You
Hey there! Thank you 😊 I got my bee suit from Massive Bee Store :)
@@TheHoneystead Thank you for reading through my mistake. My question should have read "Where did you purchase" and not "Why did you purchase". I appreciate the quick reply though.
Hey no problem! I wanted a suit that wasn’t white and was fully vented, because I am not a fan of the heat. I looked for a few months for a company that wasn’t crazy expensive and have been pleased with my purchase:)
Great content!
You are one gorgeous queen bee! 😉
I want to start. I live in Pennsylvania. I want to learn what I need to do for the winter and keep it to 1 to 3 hives. And what to do when it gets over populated.
I just watched because you are sooooooooo adorable...lol.
Hi I'm very happy with this mining full videos
You probably get excellent pollination
WOW! How amazing..does the queen not mate with a drone from her own colony?
No, she will go on a mating flight and mate with as many as 15-20 different drones. This allows genetic diversity.
If she lays a fertilized egg and the genes line up with the same genetic code, it will only produce a drone.
Learned that little math addition numbering game for age and hatching of bees...3 (eggs) 5 (larvae) 8 (queen hatch) 5 (worker bee hatch) 3 (drone hatch) - I heard a little saying with that but can’t remember anything else...
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Great video! I look forward to your queen rearing videos.
Thanks...learning alot.
Good luck on raising queens. I know you will succeed with that
I'm doing something different this year with the bees. I haven't used smoke at all. I have been using water in a fine mist. Because it is so warm I'm not worried about chilling them. I haven't been stung at all either. Have you or any of the crew here tried just using water in lieu of the smoke? For me (disclaimer) it has made it easier to check on the interior of the hive. I think the smoke sets off alarms and gets them angry.
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I'm anxious to start grafting queens, so really looking forward see how it goes with you.
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prettiest bee keeper..😂
Hello Mrs. Honeystead, I always love your videos. I am a wanna beekeeper and I am still learning after two years of UA-cam and Woking with my local county beekeepers association. I have a request for you, could you or would you be willing to add the phrase you use at the end of this video to your T-shirt or to a new T-Shirt? I would certainly buy it as many others would too. The phrase was "Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty and learn something old!" I'd put it on a t-shirt myself but I heard it from you and rightfully you should make any profit off of it. Manny the Yup Yup Man
I noticed something from your videos wich differs from me and my family beekeeping
I'm from suriname... south America... Our honey bees are very/more aggressive, and I've noticed a huge drop in honey production is it the same for you guys?
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I did a couple walk away splits and one of them has made a queen so far still waiting on the second one to do the same. Great video and keep up the good work.
To know what frame with eggs I placed in I mark it with my hive tool. On the 13th day after placing in the eggs I open the cups after 4PM. I let 2-3 queens walk in and take the others for other hives as backup.
You can do this till September then the drone slaughter starts. You can recognize this by bees carrying out drones and killing the persistent drones. I had a laying worker last year, it took 2 months for them to accept eggs and raising a queen cup.
That’s KGB training with the brick 😂😂😎
Hi I saw that Japanese honey bees have developed a method to deal with the Asian murder hornet by vibrating and cooking them to death. Now that the hornets are in USA, is there any way you could bring in frames of Japanese honeybee brood or will they not be accepted? Great work preserving the bees and the tradition.
Hiiiiiii
how many bees get squashed when talking the box apart and putting it back together ?
Hi Good day,
I admire you honing the nobles craft of Beekeeping,
In my view you did two thing's wrong,
(1)Always hold you're developing queen ceĺl FRAMES upright,
(2)Always cull and keep the the most desirable cells/cell,
In this case you had about 5 cells,
Always select the best of them, leave no more than 2,
Reasons are an inferior queen may emerge and destroy a what I considered a quality queen.
I'm hoping a little sense is in all of this, thank you.
Well done !
Another beautiful video. I just love watching you work in your hives!!!! What is the plastic thing between the two frames in your first hive you inspected? xxoo
That is a hive beetle trap :)
That is what I thought but it looks very different from the kind I have. Do you like it and think it works well?
I have a few different styles. Add a little mineral oil in it and it works well.
@@TheHoneystead thanks so much!!
Maybe it's too late but you could take some of those queen cells and put 2 in a Nuc to raise some extra queens for sale or use, you have the room and I think the Nuc's but do you have the time and timing?
You’re as beautiful as your bees!
I like that bee suit. Maker?
Massive Bee Store :)
www.amazon.com/dp/B078R4D54W/ref=dp_prsubs_1
@@TheHoneystead very good. Thank you. I appreciate the fast reply.
One thing I do know about which queen cell to keep and which to toss, is to always keep the ones that are twice a long. Science has proved the longer cells produced better queens. Cut out th others.
Nice video. Where did you buy your bee suite?