Queen Transplant #2 - The Gimp
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2014
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I found a gimpy queen and moved her to try and get more use out of her before she was killed by her colony. - Навчання та стиль
I like that you said, "They know better than I do." I see so many beekeepers who obsess over mashing every queen cell they see. Seems to make sense to let the colony re-queen if they feel the need.
Love your videos man, never been interested in beekeeping but cant get enough of your content, keep up the good work!
Thanks Garrett
I totally agree. Greeting from the Netherlands
I keep telling him he needs his own tv show
Learning loads from your work. Thanks again mr rooster, you are fast becoming my goto for any bee keeping questions
learn so much from yours and others time consuming videos we appreciate it sooo very much
thax in advance
Paula in MT
I know you posted this a long time ago, so I apoligize if you already know or have seen this. Netflix just added a show, Hive Alive. In the second episode at about minute 16:45 they're talking about a worker "trembling" sending a message to the other workers that they need more nectar receivers. Maybe that's what your worker girl is twerking about at the end of your video?? Thanks for all the time you take to film and edit your videos, they're fun to watch!!
You have great videos! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks David.
Shame, hope her majesty prospers for a while.
Got to give them as many chances as possible. :)
Yeah you definitely, are the bee man and you take such care. Keep doing a great job we appreciate what you do!
Thanks for the kind words Mr. Tomm
I've been thinking of starting beekeeping so i really enjoy all the info
Good stuff. Q: what triggers the hive to go against a living Queen, even one with a slight limp? Is there a class/type/number of (special / 'decider' / anarchist (lol)) bee(s) that get together and decide it's time for a change? The Q in the vid was by all accounts a good layer, and therefore, surely, a good Queen.
Most interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Could be that they get worried it might be something genetic and the bees go paranoid with the thought that from now on all babies will have a useless leg which surely will bring down production.
Love to watch the informative videos! love bees! Just get so very nervous watching you handle them as Im from South Africa... try that stuff with our bees and you are sooooooooo ded.
I'm glad you let nature take it's course. It just sounds painful what her ladies maids do to her. But, it's what's good for the colony as a whole. Thank you. Happy Beekeeping.
Yeah and they know best. Seems like once they've decided to give her her walking papers there's not much you can do to save her.
Lots of cool stuff. Enjoyed watching.
Buckrun11 Have a great weekend
I hope she turns out doing really well in that new hive!
Good stuff, pictures are worth a thousand words, and well, video is just so much better. Thanks
rchopp I need some videoing lessons. I had to edit all kinds of stuff that wasn't in frame. lol
Its amazing how these small creatures work together. If they find the queen isnt work with the group. And all of them make the agreement she has to go. Its crazy. I could litterly watch these little girls work all day. Actual human woman 2 have trouble coming to a agreement. Muchless thousands of them coming together on one agreement
Nice vid man! i´m a beekeeper from Portugal, and in here we don´t find videos with this quality. Thanks
Thanks for joining in.
628DirtRooster I love your vids
Jennifer Reese Thanks Jennifer.
628DirtRooster this morning when you tooled me that all I need to do is waer good gear it made my day
Great video, thanks!
WestonWood Thanks man
Good move. Hopefully she'll help that hive recover before they off her.
Pop's Shack Fingers crossed
Hello all,
Being quite new in beekeeping, I was wondering if someone could answer this question:
I am told that the bees are the ones "deciding" when to build queen cells. If this is the case, does the queen willingly lay in these cells ?
Thanks for your answers.
Best
No suit or hood... you're a brave man.
What do you do if you have a laying worker hive? How do you handle it?
I really enjoy all of the vidios I have learned a lot if I wasent allergic to bees I would love to start a colony of my own thanks
Mark Thompson Thanks for watching Mark.
Poor thing. Hope she integrates well with the new hive.
***** She seems to be OK for now.
what does the sugar treatment do to the beetles
Did they kill that queen shortly after you introduced her? They do that little wiggle when a predator wasp enters the hive and it’s a signal to wait for attack. Just curious if that’s what did indeed happen.
Can uou show us that process PLEASE!!!
Do the workers keep the queen away from the emergency cells so she doesn't know about them? Seems like she'd figure out she was in danger and attack those cells.
They don't. I guess the queens just accept their fate.
Doesn’t the queen herself lay into the emergency cell? I don’t know what those are yet, have to learn
If a queen acted selfishly like that, it would make a weaker hive, which ironically would make her dna less likely to carry on. So evolution works to prevent that. It doesn’t actually “work” of course, but that behavior gets not passed on as successfully
Good video.
I realize that was over a year ago, but do you remember how the hive and queen did?
Thanks.
Queen gimps-a-lot went back to work for about a week and then the hive was queenless again. That colony ended up absconding weeks later.
Strange how they accepted her so easy
then killed her. Seems like they'd make a queen with her eggs instead. Oh well.
Crazy bees
Is the queen still alive mr. Rooster?
1:20 That calls for a smokin! :-O
Yes sir it does.
hope the queen prospered
Explains why I kicked my ex girlfriend out after she bruised her elbow. BEGONE!
+Joey G Cold! LOL
Rogue Nation se0
That’s funny
That’s so sad. She still has 5 good legs to stand on. She doesn’t seem to be impeded at all. They didn’t knock me off when I broke my back. I still hobble around. When I get sick of my wheelchair. Need to make wheels for her. Maybe out of a 3 car wreck of matchbox cars.
She'll leave tire tracks on the combs. :)
Can you take honey with brood also on comb?
If it's just a little
The queen flew away ,and no one noticed!
Not even close
What type of pen do you use to make notes on the cover?
I just use the Uni Posca water base pens that I mark the queens with. It holds up really well in the weather and is easier to see than black Sharpie.
the queen bee was just twerking
What's you reason for smoking your sting in beginning of the video?
It helps cover any alarm pheromone that was left when she stung me.
Have you ever been stung by a queen? If so did it hurt more than a regular honey bee sting?
+Penfold8 I've never been stung by a queen.
***** LOL
Is the entire communications system powered by genetic programming?
No
that wiggle intrigues me. why would they wiggle like that?
I've seen it before but have no clue what it means.
What does that mean when you say queen cell chewed out?
Queens emerge from the bottom of a cell. If there is a hole in the side of the cell it means the cell has been chewed to access the queen and kill her.
How does pesticides sprayed onto planted fields near your property affect your decision to keep bees there?
+teknonut1946 We don't have crops around us but I would want to know when and what they were spraying. The crops may not be anything the bees are attracted to.
+628DirtRooster After watching your videos and others I've decided to give it a try. To the n. w. and the s.e. of my 3 acre residential property are maybe 1-200 acres of fields that are usually planted in soy or corn. With out tracking down the owners of the big coop farm operation to find out what they are spraying. I'm not an expert but I'm sure corn and soy are tended by bees for pollination. Should I give up hope or is there a distance to how far the bees will travel to seek pollen and nectar. If so I could set my hives up far enough away to not be contaminated by the spray. I have a spot maybe 2-3 miles away I could set the hives, would that be far enough?
teknonut1946 They travel that far sometimes to forage but if they find something (food source) closer to the hive they won't bypass it to get to a field of soy beans. You may be safe like that. Or you could keep them at your place and just relocate during the times the crops are being sprayed. Also I'm not sure at what point these crops are sprayed but the bees will only be attracted to them when there are blooms on them.
Thanks for the useful information. I'm not going to get too big, nothing like the operation your doing. I might even want to try the Japanese method for smaller upright hives.
8:00 After watching this again, they sure started pouring out from the top there! Why were they set off? lol
I'm not sure but when they did that it made me think they were queenless since a queen right hive doesn't typically act like that.
Again I love how bees & wasps have animal like instincts. Their behaviors fascinate me! lol! They have queens, yes, but youre their KING! :-)
Didn't he put a puff of smoke through the entrance? Is that why they poured up.
what is the clear/white stuff???
+Anais Hinchliffe If you're talking about what is on the frame at the 47 second mark. It is wax cappings over honey.
that is getting every little bit out. the major problem is virgin queens making it back to the right hive, with predators everywhere, and bad dca's in your area. I think yours are good, mine not so much. I just hope my queen takes with a laying worker.
Missing a frame bottom
Why did you remove their frame of honey instead of moving it to the edge of the brood? Surely they will need that for the winter? Maybe you don't have winter there!
Our winters are so bad we have to wear long pants. LOL We really have pretty mild winters but the reason I took it out is that we will have a honey flow here again in a couple of weeks from golden rod and that will get them most of the way through winter. Our winters are so mild that the bees fly a lot and we still end up having to feed them some to get through to spring.
628DirtRooster I have to leave 15kg (33lbs) of honey in each hive to see the bees through the winter. I only take any surplus out when I do the spring visit and later use that to give new colonies some stores to start them off. I would normally only feed over-wintered colonies in a real emergency, in March or April. It is at that moment, when the colony is growing really fast, that they risk running out of stores, - especially if the weather is bad.
Constant Gardener Last winter was one of the coldest I can remember. I'm hoping for another like it.
Did you ever find out what that waggle dance means?
Old dance...called "The 81".
LOL
It's a message to other workers for a need of the hive, more nectar receivers, or perhaps even more pollen.
I am happy and yet there is no Africanized bees here we are in Oregon my sisters in Washington I wish you didn't have to fight like you have to go through
No Africanized bees here thankfully.
Some one told me if you use liquid smoke on your hands and arms the bees want sting ya. I haven't tried it i keep for getting about it Where going to have to use a screen bottom board with a oil pan Good blogging
426 SUPER BEE I've heard that too but never tried it. Let me know the results if you try it.
will do waiting on some cooler mornings or cooler weather
I use a thin XXL wind breaker in the summer time got bands around the sleeves and a draw string at the waist even to hot to use it.I just have to try the bees to see what mode there in.some time i can work them all day long and some time i can't even get around them
sorry the liquid smoke don't work! he hee they like it
@@426superbee4 I love the fact that you came back with an update 3 years later, that's some commitment to a promise lol
@@Fudgeey it don't work what does work is critters mosquitoes spray
I heard a kitten moewing in the background 😍😍😍😍.
Most interesting
Thanks John
Did anyone see the queen? I did
I wish I could be key but I can't don't have planned I don't have to ability to do it or the help my sister to be keeper inches up in Washington I hope you can successful thank you very much for letting me watch.
Thanks so much for watching Mrs. Gloria.
So how bad does it hurt to get stung? Obviously you must be used to it by now lol. I've never been stung.
Keara Loresch It's not bad and it only hurts for a minute or two. The itching is worse than the sting.
Thank you, that eased my fear a little. I really enjoy your videos! Thank you for being so entertaining as well as educational
Keara Loresch Thank you for taking the time to watch.
+628DirtRooster Very true! I started this year and only got stung once while taking a video of my hive. I had a little bump on my head and it itched some but it went down after a week.
Scott K. In a couple of years the swelling will only last a day or two if you get stung a few times a month.
Good call on beetle infestation, I just put a little honey on my stings, cuts, scrapes.....works great. I'm more like the guy on My Big Fat Greek Wedding with windex..I use it on everything !..!
LOL Windex might work too.
Randy it’s a bee coup
did she survive
It's been so long I can't remember how long she lasted but she didn't finish out the year.
628DirtRooster i just started bee keeping with my dad we are new.
this bees been in the hive for 3 to 4 weeks how soon or how often do you recommend we open the to check on them or if you have a video will help alot
Every couple of weeks during spring and summer.
628DirtRooster what im i lookimf for
Making sure your giving them enough space to grow so you don't cause them to swarm. Feed them.
It's like the next election for queen
They run a clean campaign too.
did i detect a little smoker vengeance there ? lol
+Smokeydabee Charles Coleman ;)
They saying he's messing with us again dammit
Mother nature loves to throw ya curve balls bro....
She should help to get that hive population back up some.
Take care
well maybe her offspring will be a good layer too
@16:25 It looks like shes twerking. Just sayin.
She got that beat from the club stuck in her head.
@@628DirtRooster oh, bee-have... The new queen showed up, and they was all "party over here!"
Sorority chicks be like that sometimes...
Also noted @3:28 you found a roach. That explains a few things. I swear I heard one of them say they were just holding it for a friend. Kids these days...