🔵Fixing our queenless and broodless package!
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Here we show and tell you all that we did to rebalancing a queenless and broodless colony.
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Give her all the Ice Cream she wants. The best asset we have are the spouses that support our beekeeping endeavors. Thank you for posting.
Thanks Kamon, you continue to have great videos that are truly informative and useful. And the humor, oh my!
I'm a first year beekeeper and I sure wish Id had this information a couple months ago and 100 bucks later. I had a hive go queen-less. I bought a new queen from the guy I bought the nucs from. Set her on the hive and all looked good. I left her in the cage and checked back a few days later. She was out and still in the box. I let do her thing for another week. Checked back on to see if there was eggs and no queen. Then I tried to put a frame of fresh eggs and young larva in the box hoping they would fix themselves. Queen cells made and a couple weeks later a new queen. A couple more weeks go by and no queen again. By now this hive was super hot. I couldn't get close to it without being attacked. I never thought about how old the bees were at this time. Probably all guard bees. So now I robbed a couple more frames out of another hive and stuck in another purchased queen. same thing again. At some point these queens laid eggs. The colony kept growing but with help from the extra frames and queens laying for their short time in the box. They just hate the queens. Last week I split them into 3 different boxes. I robbed some more frames of brood from other hives. I stuck a new queen in all 3 boxes. All 3 boxes seemed to be fine with them. The original box kept their queen and she looks fine for now. She is laying up a storm. The other 2 let the queens lay eggs for a few days by the look of things then killed them. Now the hives are full of queen cells. Ive decided to let nature take its coarse. It is what it is at this point. I guess their really hell bent on making their own. All my other hives are doing great. This one has been a pain right from the start. Thanks you for your videos and the knowledge you share. I have learned a lot this year. Still so much to learn.
If you introduce new queens, check for queen cells and if there are any get rid of them or they more likely kill the new queen. After a few more days check again for queen cells and get rid of them again. By now any larvae should be old enough so the bees can not make their own queens any longer.
If you keep the queens longer in the cages will help. The older the bees and the longer they have no Queen the less they will accept a new queen.
They more likely will readily accept a queen cell that is ready to hatch that virgin queen.
Thanks for explaining all the WHY'S and HOW'S!!!
That is what makes your Chanel BEST! Closeups of your tutorial is what we need to see since we can't all be in your back yard!! :)
Thanks Paula! Glad they help!
Speaking of ice cream, if bees like sugar syrup, imagine what they'd do with an ice cream cone! (unfortunately, if I headed out to my hive with a cone in hand, it'd be gone by the time I reached the bees...sorry girls!)
Thanks for the help with techniques and suggestions.
Thanks for the info and a casual laugh Kamon, really enjoy your videos. Very practical stuff for the folks kicking off.
Thanks for sharing! I love ice cream too!
We have found queens lay up new comb fastest. The will be filling cells with eggs as the workers are pulling out the wax. As soon as they get the cell deep enough it will get an egg. She is usually on the newer comb when you look for her
Kamon I have a double deep that I installed a queen in last Sunday. I have it separated from the bottom with a queen excluder because the queen breeder suggested I didn’t wait long enough from what I thought was a failed supercedure. Low an behold I have a laying queen in both boxes. How long before I should split the boxes, I feel there may not be enough nurse bees separated? Thanks for your advice.
Well, I have some splits I am making that are 2 frames of brood and 2 shakes of bees with some frame of food. As long as they have great bee coverage, a good queen and you feeding them if they need it they should grow well. As long as you have enough of a season left before winter.
I have one hive that's a double deep I can't keep queens in. They keep killing them. They will let them out of queen cage she lays fora while then kill her and try to raise their own.
If you are constantly raising queens. Do you end up having some that dont have a home to go to? If so what do you do with them?
Would love to see your wife get into a hive, does she get involved in the day to day things of bee keeping with you as well?
Very. She just hates getting in front of a camera or talkin in front of people. Believe me I have tried.
@@kamonreynolds Gotcha
Do you have Goldenrod blooming in the background? I have a beautiful patch of golden rod iv been babying 😁
Last time I had a queen run like that, she was dead the next day. She would stop running and they would ball her till she got away. Does the running mean she's scared or am I the only one to have or see that? Thanks for the videos.
Hey thank you kamon
Thanks !!
Thanks.
I've heard that if you transfer anything but capped bees that the other colony will consume the eggs. Have you had that experience?
Not at all. I think it would depend more if the colony was being fed good enough. If they feel short on fats and protein they will consume any eggs and larvae whether it is theirs or some given to them.
Stephen Biggers I have seen that only when they are in need of protein and in their own hive.
can you use mini marshmallow ƒor queen candy???
You only gave half of the recipe for queen candy.... one cup of honey and I assume powdered sugar but how much???
whoops 1 cup of honey or syrup to 2 lbs powdered sugar. Warm the honey up a bit first or it will be harder to mix in.
@@kamonreynolds Thank you - I have JZ-BZ cages and cannot use them without the "fondant" "queencandy" plug. Thank you again!
Dang... wish I'd seen this 2 weeks ago. Cost me 35 bucks to learn okay lesson.
Kamon, trying to learn here...but shaking bees from one hive into another....is there a risk that the bees you shook into the hive will kill the queen? As far as they know she is foreign.
He just switched frames. Bees stayed in the original hive.
@@jbtransport64 still would be helpful to answer hyfy question.
Young nurse bees are not aggressive/defensive, will not fight workers or attack queen. Plus, the shaken bees immediately disperse and do not travel as a pack, so a single, older bee that might sense queenly foreignness will be outnumbered by bees protecting the queen.
@@BlessedBeJESUSCHRIST two ways to combine bees. 1st- cage queen and combine bees. If the bees are of the older nature then expect fighting and death. 2nd- Use news paper to slowly introduce bees.
@@paulchristu996 Thanks for the response. Ive had a hive that I transfered into a new hive and some of the bees returned to a new hive and ended up balling and killing the queen in that hive.
How can you tell a worker from a nurse bee?
In general...nurse bees are smaller because they're younger. You have to look at 100 million bees and then you start to notice hives that are full of young nurse bees in spring compared to late summer. They're cuter and more cuddly.
Who is Cathline?
7 year old daughter/ princess bee
@@kamonreynolds Nice, just do notklnow the whole squad yet. Thanks for the videos.
Sir are you requirement a beekeeper ?
Is that poison ivy next to you?