The EASIEST way to make new queens and EXPAND your Apiary!
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2022
- A lot of us small time beekeepers, lets say anyone with 20 or fewer hives, want to maintain our hive numbers, grow, and maybe even make a little extra money selling extra bees. The secret is raising queens, but getting started in queen rearing can be a little complicated and you sometimes need extra equipment. The easy method? It's free! You don't need any equipment , besides what your probably already have as a beekeeper, and did I mention it is easy? Raise new queens that have been proven to survive in your local area!!
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Another way to do it is to move the queen to a nuc this does two things. first it gives the bees the impression that they have already swarmed. second the mother hive has more resources with which to make a queen this usually results in healthier queens.
Yes I do both methods. A swarm mimic split is great if I only want to do 1 hive into 2, but I have this one monster hive that I have already made 4 nuc splits from in March! Will probably split it again! Bees are awesome, as long as you can understand the biology and let it work for you and not against you!
Thats actually a good idea Paul
I have that and I got a new healthy queen.
I think it's really great. What you're doing with your students. You may or may not know this in making queens. In this way, and you plan to make splits, you need to add drone foundation to your house to have enough drones. To mate with the queens or the queens won't have a good brood pattern.
I hope this is helpful
As always, great video. Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge.
Thanks James! Appreciate that! What I love about beekeeping, is there is always something new to learn!
Hello from north central Florida.
Ok I'm giving it a try tomorrow 😀
Liked, subscribed and here’s my comment 😊 I have the same observation hive and am excited to get bees in it this year! Thanks for the refresher.
It is awesome having the observation hive, especially since I run a high school beekeeping club. Timid students can still interact and see the bees with no sting risk!
Thank so much... IAM a new bee keeper. Four frame nuc is best for me..
i put queen cell cages over the cells so they dont get killed then use them in defferent hives
Quick way to make splits from multiple hives at a time is to shake all the donor frames back into original box then place donor frames above original hive with a queen excluder between them and lid on top
all the nurse bees will migrate up through the excluder and cover the brood; wait an hour come back and take that top box away . Queen will be safe below excluder
Is it true that when making new nuc you have to move nuc at least a mile from hive bees taken from or they will just return to their original hive.
I’d like to know this too please. -maybe you close the nuc up to stop the small
population just returning to the mother hive? It doesn’t look as though you’ve moved the nuc miles away or you would have said.
The foragers will return to the old location, but you mostly need nurse bees to raise and care for new queen, and nurse bees stay wherever you put them. As long as there are plenty of pollen/nectar stores you'll be fine until the nurse bees become foragers and start collecting stores, and they will orient to the new location once they become foragers.
Are those medium frames in your nuc?
Could bee! If I run out of deep frames I don’t hesitate to through a medium in. Most hives will just add comb and turn it into a deep
they call these walk away splits and yes a very good way to make splits but can be risky
Yes they can be, but it almost always works! You usually get at least 4 queen cells or more per nuc. The key is give the queenless nuc eggs or very young larva on every frame!
@@WhistleThicket when you do this do you close the entrance so the bees stay in the box or do you let them fly out freely and go back to the original hive if they want ill be doing this next spring with my hives so i want to make sure im doing it right
I’d like know this too please -close the nuc up? I guess that’s why you’ve got the feeder on?
Hello sir
Just look at it
Emergency cells aren't the greatest quality queens because they are started from a larva. So you lose several days of proper development and diet. A swarm cell would be far better as it starts from a laid egg and immediately starts from day one with a proper diet and development. You can easily make swarm cells by making an over populated colony and had a queen excluder above and below so the queen can't leave. And then remove frames with swarm cells when they are developed and replace it with drawn comb. And just keep swapping frames as swarm cells are developed.
Yes there’s lots of ways to make queens for sure. No real verified science saying this way is less superior queens. Folks say that, but not really true.
They are vastly inferior queens , anecdotal evidence from un told numbers of beekeeper who have all seen it first hand know the truth. anything older than a 3 day old egg will make a much lower quality queen. Doesn't take verified science BS to find the truth. naturally a queen will lay a egg directly into the queen cell. essentially starting the queen process the second it is laid. nutrition plays a major role in proper hormonal development , its a no brainer,
I think you should have picked a day without the wind. The wind irritates the bees when you open up the hive. I see they are agitated because they are all over your beesuit. I am a beekeeper myself and i never have them on my suit like that. I think actually you were too late to do the splits.
Nope! Made 4 hives from this one. Sure bees don’t love wind, but wasn’t that windy, and I’m a busy man with a family, 2 kids, and 4 jobs. Get a life!
Did he ever get to the EASIEST way to make a new queen? I watched through 6 minutes, but I never got past the talking part.