We had a queen fly off on us after marking her last spring. I had just opened the cage to let her run back onto the frame and she took off instead. 😳 did a couple of loops and then just flew off. I held a frame of brood up over the box for about a minute and then saw her dot walking around on the frame again so I quickly put it back in and shut the lid!
Nice vid, it’s been over 50 years since I did my beekeeping, and I do miss it, they are fascinating, I remember being able to tell if a colony was queenless by the different sound they made when opened, sort of a lower roar...
Thanks heaps for posting this video, the first I have seen of using the plunger to mark the queen. As a sheep wrangler who drafts by myself a lot, I too do a lot of "cutting". Bravo to you.
Looks like king cells. I had a laying worker hive try to make a queen out of drones. Obviously that doesn’t work. It was fascinating to watch that hive progress.
My dad was a large commercial beekeeper in the southeast United States 45 years ago, and if I remember correctly anytime you move eggs and larvae above a queen excluder there is a possibility that the nurse bees will draw out queen cells. It is possible for the hive to actually have two queens as long as they don't get to each other. When using methods like the Demaree method of swarm prevention it is customary to check for queen cells in the upper brood until the larvae are too developed to be transferred to the queen cells.
I'm glad you didn't cut the part where the queen made a break for it. When you've half a dozen things to think about at the same time, and you're wearing hide gloves, it's just a matter of time before something goes awry! I've done similar, but luckily for me she was fat and just flopped to the ground, where I managed to get a second bite of the cherry. If you've got a flier, then you're in big trouble! If I were in your shoes, I'd 3d print myself a replacement end to that marking tube, with holes just large enough for the general population to get out. Then, I suppose it's just a matter of waiting until she's on her own, or maybe, just maybe a bit of smoke to get the attendants to leave the room, if they're a bit too attracted to her.
Good idea. Just today I was practicing picking up a gentle queen in the hope one day I can throw that marking tube in the bin. Appreciate your advise. :)
Putting brood over a queen excluder draws nurse bees up, but if there are eggs they act like they would above a double screen board (vivaldi board) and think they are queenless. The queens mandibular pheromone has to be transferred through touch, and with queen excluders that are not wire, they can still block bee traffic once the nurse bees are in place above the excluder. I swap brood boxes after the winter, (May in Ontario Canada) putting the box with the bees and brood at the bottom, and moving the box with the empty frames to the top. One year I just put the queen on a frame of brood in the bottom box under an excluder, and left the balance of the hive on top to hatch out, thinking as the queen filled the bottom box, the hatching brood would move down to cover that brood, and the bees would fill the emptying top box with nectar. BUT the bees in the top box thought they were queenless and raised supercedure cells.
I loved the human reaction of “oh shi…” uh oh, uh oh… it makes the watcher realize that beekeepers are human and handle the patience needed better than everyone else. I’d have lost my composure and would have sworn a blue streak after throwing that poorly designed plunger.
first thing I saw was hyper bees. They aren't calm. Yeah-I'd be splitting that hive. One gets that one queen cell and the other will hopefully make another queen if it doesn't have one.
I was watching this a bit earlier when it crapped out on me and COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED, I thought I broke your channel so i quickly went to your channel watched a different video and commented... looks like i fixed it. Your welcome... lol
@@aussiebeekeeping WOW, that was so worth it, I've never seen it done that way but it's pretty brilliant and the suspense was amazing, all the ups and downs!!! now you can see her and now we have too! Great video sir, thanks for sharing.
Me too. This plunger thing has been the best thing for me to use. I had one with the sliding door but nearly killed a queen. I have one Italian queen I cannot video anymore as she’s almost all white. 😂😂 How is the weather treating you there?
@@aussiebeekeeping have you seen the queen holder that pushes in the comb? You trap her on the comb and mark through a screen, same principle but she stays on the frame.
I saw similar 'scratched' capping on a lot of my brood last year. It turned out I had 30/100 count varroa. No joke. Maybe not the same as your issue but it shocked me how fast and how bad it got.
@@aussiebeekeeping That's so refreshing to hear. They're awful. Here in the Southern US we get to contend with literally every single thing that destroys hives. Varroa, SHB, wax moths, all manner of fungi and virus, the ever present threat of Africanized trying to take hold.
You can get plunger marking cages that have a safe stop. (I don't think I can put links in comments or I would show examples.) Some even have queen excluder-like tops where the workers can get out.
Yes. I have one. With a sliding door. Made of clear planting and yellow plastic. Unfortunately they are poorly made and don’t close bough to capture the queen in my opinion.
@@aussiebeekeeping I have one that looks almost the same as yours, except the plunger doesn't have that spindly rod, it's full width and has a lip that stops the plunger from squashing the queen. I can literally put that thing down on its base and she'll be fine.
The one I have has a lip on it as well to stop the plunger squishing your majesty. The lip isn’t is the right spot so either she can still move or if I try to push it just that little bit farther it leaves no room for her.
I’ve seen people use some sort of a flat circular cage with spikes at the bottom and when they see the queen they just stick it directly on the comb where the queen is walking around and then mark it, seem way easier to me that way. Without having the hustle to hold the plunger
They're probably having arguments about the decor. If one set is firmly in the rustic farmhouse camp and you have an art deco group with a midcentury modern standing aesthetic, it won't be long till they each want their own hive. Teenagers... amirite??
asuming your trying to reduce your brood nest down to a single box and draw the bees thru the exluder to get them used to it. I would expect quen cells to be the result of that due to the reduction of queen pheramone above the exluder. Because im looking to make honey from a limited number of hives I would have used a diiferent aproach by checking downstairs for queen cells,eggs and larva. If there are no queen cells downstairs its safe to say not trying to swarm, eggs and larva show the queen is in the bottom box. I would have put the exluder back on with the second box on top, nocked the queen cells off lid on job done this aproach keeps the power in the hive.
Previously this hive was a triple box with 18 frames of brood. Which would indicated for me that the queens pheromone permeate through the whole hive. The risk is that if these cells are swarm cells and I knock them down they could potentially leave me without a queen should the original queen decide to leave. I left this hive with a box on top and an excluder. I’m happy with my process.
What about when the hive split on its own? Maybe putting space between the brood and queen has made them think the space won’t support a larger hive, such as in the wild if the bottom of the hive has fallen off.
Lisa O'Toole, I don't know anything about bee keeping in boxes. But you and I are thinking alike. The wild hive on my property was in a constrained space. The hive split every spring and hive remained healthy and active for msny years.
If the Queen can't touch the frames she lays on the workers will make queen cells. I use a similar technique to prevent swarming here on the mid north coast. I go back through the frames I moved up above the Queen excluder 7 days later and destroy all Queen cells.
I’m not convinced of that. Spoken to a lot of American bee keepers that flip boxes in spring and don’t get queen cells. If there is a box between the queen and brood yes. But it’s odd directly above.
Yeah. I tried using the flipping boxes technique a while ago and got laughed at in the comments by a few beekeepers. So I’m a bit gun shy of saying it works. 🤣🤣
@@aussiebeekeeping I am sorta obsessed with Walter Wanderley, his album "Brazil's Greatest Hits" is super good, I'd recommend checking it out of you like Funky Bossa Nova
You might need to physically sight the queen. Those eggs might be infertile from laying workers in the absence of the queen or if the queen is older or unwell .It is not common but does happen
I've always just grabbed the queen by the legs gently and held her while I marked her. Never had a problem but I also don't use a suit or gloves or smoke.
If you didn't stand directly over the open hive frames when trying to separate the workers from the queen inside the marking tube, it might be easier to keep new workers from flying back in. Ya think???
I completed a course on bees and beekeeping and learned a hell of a lot, I have never been one for pesticides and herbicides, companion planting, and what a weed to humans is food for bees and other beneficial insects. awesome When I go to Spain the quality of the fruit vegetables flowers herbs, reason being is simply organic, Monsanto free, and no herbicides or pesticides, they also encourage beneficial insects and cats especially, food is fresher, tastes better, and non-hydroponically grown or GM seeds, I LOVE BEES, BEEN AROUND FOR a LONG TIME, NOT ME BEES HAVE. HUMANS DESTROY WHATEVER THEY TOUCH, IF THEY CAN NOT EAT POO OR DESTROY IT, THEY THROW IT AWAY...
The sad part is thst they end up removing the dot on her, I end up using a small sticker on the inside to mark what year I have the queen/ installed hive, then I get a new queen and start the process over with a new sticker of the year, those markers are a waste unfortunately
The marks I use last at least three years and by that time she’s done. It you mark the box but not the queen how do you know if you have your original queen? The hive could have swarmed three times and you wouldn’t know.
same here awesome should get these youths to learn skills like farming, beekeeping, growing edible plants, and so on, I believe if the powers that be used these dying skills to teach them new skills, but also as a polite first-time punishment
@@aussiebeekeeping then u need to come up with a better way to do it, don’t we have a shortage of bees and need all we have? so use ur imagination and come up with a solution then everyone will remember who u r.
Leather gloves are simply not ideal for beekeeping. 1. you have no feeling in the fingers and 2. the gloves can not be disinfected. I only work with latex gloves like a doctor.
What location do you keep your bee in? How old is the current queen? When putting brood frames up into supers above the QX I always check back in 5 days for any emergency queen cells due to the brood being that much further away from the queens pheromones and they think they have no queen. That frame would be great to make a split with as it comes with ready made queens.😂 It’s hard marking queens. Great video.
Not sure why the algorithm brought me here if I'm terrified of bees and know no beekeepers, but now I'm intrigued. What is swarming in this context? I tried to look for an explanation in the comments but to no avail.
Thanks for the view. Swarming is when a hive decides that it is too large for their home. Half the hive leaves with the old queen and the other half left behind creates a new queen. It their way of spreading their genetics as well.
I know nothing about beekeeping but I did see article where they said sometimes the bees will kick out a queen and get a new one themselves is it possible that that has happened like when they kick out Males they don't need anymore. I don't know if that goes for a specific type of bee
I found the queen and put her in another hive in this video. I haven’t heard of bees kicking out a queen. They do kill them if they have been replaced though.
looks like they are telling you to back off. nature works in mysterious ways, the signs are before your eyes , reading them is the relationship of understanding the meaning /representation. . NJOY.
Could you have just moved the bottom box elsewhere, took the second box with the cells put it in the first position and just let all the field bees come back into that box with the cells and, hey presto, a split?
@@aussiebeekeeping I wasn't criticizing, I'm talking about the 2nd time, it would have been so much easier without the other bee's, great job on finding her again though.
I would have torn the cells out and let them go on. I've seen them do that more than once when there's eggs young enough above an excluder. Seems to make them feel separated from the queen.
Different words maybe. "Let them carry on" instead of go on. If the bees are trying to swarm from a single box with a few bees in a super, it's time to be squishing a queen.
Sorry but I've just got to say it, I saw that coming when you dropped the Queen. Just a wee bit over confident when letting the others out. I'm not trying to be mean, I just seen it coming.
Why would they get squashed? Are you not a beekeeper that understands these little insects Feed the world feed you take care of you and account for your success in this life? Why would a beekeeper with such an understanding squash any bee?
That wasn't the kind of Aussie response I'd expected, this guy is aware we have an audience. Personally I shit my britches every time a bee lands on me but I know if I were a real man I'd be doing this shit in a mankini. Know what's good for you.
The first thing I see is that you're not that gentle to the bees , you don't lookout for bees don't get squashed when built up the hive. Do you really care for bees ? 🐝🤕☠
The patience this takes. I don't think I am built for such a trade for no less than 12 different reasons.
Yes. It can be a little stressful.
We had a queen fly off on us after marking her last spring. I had just opened the cage to let her run back onto the frame and she took off instead. 😳 did a couple of loops and then just flew off. I held a frame of brood up over the box for about a minute and then saw her dot walking around on the frame again so I quickly put it back in and shut the lid!
Awesome. Your heart would have been racing!
What happens if there's no queen, do they all die?
Yes. Slowly.
I know I am lucky but every queen I’ve seen fly off returns.
@@aussiebeekeeping thought the bees will make a new queen
Nice vid, it’s been over 50 years since I did my beekeeping, and I do miss it, they are fascinating, I remember being able to tell if a colony was queenless by the different sound they made when opened, sort of a lower roar...
The sounds and the smells are just as important as you know. :)
Nothing funner then d'uh oh! :) when Beekeeping.
😀
How you kept so calm after she got loose. So frustrating, but you’re just like, “whelp, that’s beekeeping for ya.” 😅
Nothing I can do about it so I suppose no reason to stress
really enjoyed your vid and channel, thanks :D great to have on one screen while I work :D
Thanks
@@aussiebeekeeping also cinematic intro on this one. i love that you put in the effort, does not go unappreciated :D
Aww. Thankyou
Feel of you, what a fright, swore out loud, well done for sticking in there. The joys of bee keeping.
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I was worried you may have injured the queen with the plunger. What luck finding her so quickly again!
I’m a good guesser. :)
Thanks heaps for posting this video, the first I have seen of using the plunger to mark the queen. As a sheep wrangler who drafts by myself a lot, I too do a lot of "cutting". Bravo to you.
Haha. Thankyou.
good jolly on that queen quite a jingle i heard it across the lake and turned on youtube to watch.
Haha
Looks like king cells. I had a laying worker hive try to make a queen out of drones. Obviously that doesn’t work. It was fascinating to watch that hive progress.
You sure have a good eye for photography and filming. That first shot of the old fence and barbed wire is simply beautiful.
Thank you. It means a lot.
Agreed. This is a magical video. Glad I found this channel.
Yet another great video mate, that was awesome, thank you 👍👍
Thankyou
My dad was a large commercial beekeeper in the southeast United States 45 years ago, and if I remember correctly anytime you move eggs and larvae above a queen excluder there is a possibility that the nurse bees will draw out queen cells. It is possible for the hive to actually have two queens as long as they don't get to each other. When using methods like the Demaree method of swarm prevention it is customary to check for queen cells in the upper brood until the larvae are too developed to be transferred to the queen cells.
Brilliant well played mate. Now I see why they say it's hard to be a bee keeper. The stress and headache. That comes with the job.
Very good photography at the start .
Thankyou.
Nice
Camera work is great very informative thank you so funny the Queen, I would have popped a vain on my forehead
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed. 😀
@aussiebeekeeping you responded, awesome. I'm a newby from Geelong. Keep it coming mate, will be watching! 👍
Belas paisagens e belo trabalho, parabéns! Saudações do Brasil!
I would also keep a bee hive 🐝 your videos are great 👍
I'm glad you didn't cut the part where the queen made a break for it. When you've half a dozen things to think about at the same time, and you're wearing hide gloves, it's just a matter of time before something goes awry!
I've done similar, but luckily for me she was fat and just flopped to the ground, where I managed to get a second bite of the cherry. If you've got a flier, then you're in big trouble!
If I were in your shoes, I'd 3d print myself a replacement end to that marking tube, with holes just large enough for the general population to get out. Then, I suppose it's just a matter of waiting until she's on her own, or maybe, just maybe a bit of smoke to get the attendants to leave the room, if they're a bit too attracted to her.
Good idea.
Just today I was practicing picking up a gentle queen in the hope one day I can throw that marking tube in the bin.
Appreciate your advise. :)
Putting brood over a queen excluder draws nurse bees up, but if there are eggs they act like they would above a double screen board (vivaldi board) and think they are queenless. The queens mandibular pheromone has to be transferred through touch, and with queen excluders that are not wire, they can still block bee traffic once the nurse bees are in place above the excluder.
I swap brood boxes after the winter, (May in Ontario Canada) putting the box with the bees and brood at the bottom, and moving the box with the empty frames to the top.
One year I just put the queen on a frame of brood in the bottom box under an excluder, and left the balance of the hive on top to hatch out, thinking as the queen filled the bottom box, the hatching brood would move down to cover that brood, and the bees would fill the emptying top box with nectar.
BUT the bees in the top box thought they were queenless and raised supercedure cells.
Dag those are big hives!
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I loved the human reaction of “oh shi…” uh oh, uh oh… it makes the watcher realize that beekeepers are human and handle the patience needed better than everyone else. I’d have lost my composure and would have sworn a blue streak after throwing that poorly designed plunger.
I’ve had plenty of those oh oh moments myself.
Great video again 👍. Always enjoy your content and information. As always thanks for sharing, your in for an awesome season 👍🐝🍯
Thanks Trev.
Thank you for taking us in this strangely captivating journey.🐝🐝🐝
Glad you enjoyed it
I wonder how many bees get squished during every inspection
Lots
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣all those bees with that white marker on them
first thing I saw was hyper bees. They aren't calm. Yeah-I'd be splitting that hive. One gets that one queen cell and the other will hopefully make another queen if it doesn't have one.
Check out part two. You’re right on the money.
I was watching this a bit earlier when it crapped out on me and COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED, I thought I broke your channel so i quickly went to your channel watched a different video and commented... looks like i fixed it. Your welcome... lol
Lol. Ignore the fact I deleted it, re edited it and uploaded it all again. :) Thankyou 😂😂
@@aussiebeekeeping WOW, that was so worth it, I've never seen it done that way but it's pretty brilliant and the suspense was amazing, all the ups and downs!!! now you can see her and now we have too! Great video sir, thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much.
You just marked a bunch of workers 😂😂
I hate marking queens, I almost drowned mine in paint as it dripped from my pen and got on her head!
Me too. This plunger thing has been the best thing for me to use. I had one with the sliding door but nearly killed a queen.
I have one Italian queen I cannot video anymore as she’s almost all white. 😂😂
How is the weather treating you there?
@@aussiebeekeeping have you seen the queen holder that pushes in the comb? You trap her on the comb and mark through a screen, same principle but she stays on the frame.
I have not. I’ve see one that pushes in that Richard Noel uses to create a brood break but not one to mark through. Sounds easy.
Oh no!
Nice work mate , love your channel 🙂
Thankyou.
I saw similar 'scratched' capping on a lot of my brood last year. It turned out I had 30/100 count varroa. No joke. Maybe not the same as your issue but it shocked me how fast and how bad it got.
I’m thinking the may have re used these cells. But 100% considered disease or mites. Did a sugar shake 1 month ago and still none in Victoria as yet.
@@aussiebeekeeping That's so refreshing to hear. They're awful.
Here in the Southern US we get to contend with literally every single thing that destroys hives. Varroa, SHB, wax moths, all manner of fungi and virus, the ever present threat of Africanized trying to take hold.
And hurricanes.
Youv'e painted all the bees except the queen! xD
You can get plunger marking cages that have a safe stop. (I don't think I can put links in comments or I would show examples.) Some even have queen excluder-like tops where the workers can get out.
Yes. I have one. With a sliding door. Made of clear planting and yellow plastic. Unfortunately they are poorly made and don’t close bough to capture the queen in my opinion.
@@aussiebeekeeping I have one that looks almost the same as yours, except the plunger doesn't have that spindly rod, it's full width and has a lip that stops the plunger from squashing the queen. I can literally put that thing down on its base and she'll be fine.
The one I have has a lip on it as well to stop the plunger squishing your majesty. The lip isn’t is the right spot so either she can still move or if I try to push it just that little bit farther it leaves no room for her.
I’ve seen people use some sort of a flat circular cage with spikes at the bottom and when they see the queen they just stick it directly on the comb where the queen is walking around and then mark it, seem way easier to me that way. Without having the hustle to hold the plunger
I’m planning on getting one of those but trying to find the perfect brass one isn’t easy.
this was pretty dramatic. I gasped outloud
:)
With the amount of drone brood I seen looked like there getting ready to swarm.
I agree but it’s strange when I took 5 splits off them in the last 8 weeks and they had plenty of room.
@@aussiebeekeeping some times they just fell like swarming
They're probably having arguments about the decor. If one set is firmly in the rustic farmhouse camp and you have an art deco group with a midcentury modern standing aesthetic, it won't be long till they each want their own hive.
Teenagers... amirite??
asuming your trying to reduce your brood nest down to a single box and draw the bees thru the exluder to get them used to it. I would expect quen cells to be the result of that due to the reduction of queen pheramone above the exluder. Because im looking to make honey from a limited number of hives I would have used a diiferent aproach by checking downstairs for queen cells,eggs and larva. If there are no queen cells downstairs its safe to say not trying to swarm, eggs and larva show the queen is in the bottom box. I would have put the exluder back on with the second box on top, nocked the queen cells off lid on job done this aproach keeps the power in the hive.
Previously this hive was a triple box with 18 frames of brood. Which would indicated for me that the queens pheromone permeate through the whole hive.
The risk is that if these cells are swarm cells and I knock them down they could potentially leave me without a queen should the original queen decide to leave.
I left this hive with a box on top and an excluder.
I’m happy with my process.
That feeling when you know from the comments what happened and are compulsively yelling at him horror movie style 😅
What about when the hive split on its own? Maybe putting space between the brood and queen has made them think the space won’t support a larger hive, such as in the wild if the bottom of the hive has fallen off.
There is never a time a beehive splits in two itself. If you mean when they swarm that’s an issue that needs to be stopped.
Lisa O'Toole, I don't know anything about bee keeping in boxes. But you and I are thinking alike. The wild hive on my property was in a constrained space. The hive split every spring and hive remained healthy and active for msny years.
@@wisecoconut5 there just swarming pretty normal its not about constrained space just natural reproduction
If the Queen can't touch the frames she lays on the workers will make queen cells. I use a similar technique to prevent swarming here on the mid north coast. I go back through the frames I moved up above the Queen excluder 7 days later and destroy all Queen cells.
I’m not convinced of that. Spoken to a lot of American bee keepers that flip boxes in spring and don’t get queen cells. If there is a box between the queen and brood yes. But it’s odd directly above.
@@aussiebeekeeping fair enough I get it every yr in 90% of boxes I move frames in. Might be my area or or something
Yeah. I tried using the flipping boxes technique a while ago and got laughed at in the comments by a few beekeepers. So I’m a bit gun shy of saying it works. 🤣🤣
I found with keeping bees what works for one dosnt work for the next. Just do what works I reckon
100%. That’s what makes it so difficult.
If you get a white dot on a worker or drone by accident, do they start laying eggs? Just kidding 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝💛👍
🤣🤣🤣
9:40 girl from IPENEMAMEA SPOTTED (sounds like you were referencing the version from Rainforest 1966 specifically!)
Haha. Thats my fathers influence.
It’s sounds like you know your version. 🤣
@@aussiebeekeeping I am sorta obsessed with Walter Wanderley, his album "Brazil's Greatest Hits" is super good, I'd recommend checking it out of you like Funky Bossa Nova
You might need to physically sight the queen. Those eggs might be infertile from laying workers in the absence of the queen or if the queen is older or unwell .It is not common but does happen
I realize this. There is a pretty solid brood pattern of solid eggs in other frames. She is also a 2 week old queen
I've always just grabbed the queen by the legs gently and held her while I marked her. Never had a problem but I also don't use a suit or gloves or smoke.
If you didn't stand directly over the open hive frames when trying to separate the workers from the queen inside the marking tube, it might be easier to keep new workers from flying back in. Ya think???
If I didn’t stand directly over the hive the queen would have ended up on the ground. I think.
Were you whistling " The Girl From Ipanema "? 😆
Also dot your queen for easy reconditioned
I completed a course on bees and beekeeping and learned a hell of a lot, I have never been one for pesticides and herbicides, companion planting, and what a weed to humans is food for bees and other beneficial insects. awesome
When I go to Spain the quality of the fruit vegetables flowers herbs, reason being is simply organic, Monsanto free, and no herbicides or pesticides, they also encourage beneficial insects and cats especially, food is fresher, tastes better, and non-hydroponically grown or GM seeds, I LOVE BEES, BEEN AROUND FOR a LONG TIME, NOT ME BEES HAVE. HUMANS DESTROY WHATEVER THEY TOUCH, IF THEY CAN NOT EAT POO OR DESTROY IT, THEY THROW IT AWAY...
could your issue be the queen excluder you have above the lower box?
Not sure. Never had any issue before
Unfortunately I saw him accidentally mark 4 other bees lol.
Also I have one of those marking devices and I mark them with multiple bees in the tube
Just mark her already friend, a couple other girls wont make an issue if you keep them cozy.
If you're not careful, they will attack
The sad part is thst they end up removing the dot on her, I end up using a small sticker on the inside to mark what year I have the queen/ installed hive, then I get a new queen and start the process over with a new sticker of the year, those markers are a waste unfortunately
The marks I use last at least three years and by that time she’s done.
It you mark the box but not the queen how do you know if you have your original queen? The hive could have swarmed three times and you wouldn’t know.
First time viewer, now subscribed. Enjoyed the video, which part of Australia are you in?
Thanks.
Southern Vic. In the Otway Forrest near Gellibrand.
@aussiebeekeeping very nice. I'm on a flow here too in Gippsland but very hit and miss with reports of some beeks near the coast having to feed bees.
Nice. Yes plenty of feeding right across Vic.
Love Gippsland. Was in Fish Creek in early Dec
same here awesome should get these youths to learn skills like farming, beekeeping, growing edible plants, and so on, I believe if the powers that be used these dying skills to teach them new skills, but also as a polite first-time punishment
Maybe you should practice picking up queen by her wings wou make things a lot better
Yeah this hive is too hot to handle.
Look for the queen then and if not kill the thers but leave just one
Get ready for swarms!!
How many bees get squished when u have to change these thanks
Maybe 100
@@aussiebeekeeping then u need to come up with a better way to do it, don’t we have a shortage of bees and need all we have? so use ur imagination and come up with a solution then everyone will remember who u r.
I don’t care about squashing a few bees here and there. So I’ll reserve my imagination for what I think is important.
Who whistles walk like an Egyptian?
The song is called “the Girl From Ipanema” haha
Leather gloves are simply not ideal for beekeeping. 1. you have no feeling in the fingers and 2. the gloves can not be disinfected.
I only work with latex gloves like a doctor.
What location do you keep your bee in? How old is the current queen? When putting brood frames up into supers above the QX I always check back in 5 days for any emergency queen cells due to the brood being that much further away from the queens pheromones and they think they have no queen. That frame would be great to make a split with as it comes with ready made queens.😂 It’s hard marking queens. Great video.
Not sure why the algorithm brought me here if I'm terrified of bees and know no beekeepers, but now I'm intrigued. What is swarming in this context? I tried to look for an explanation in the comments but to no avail.
Thanks for the view.
Swarming is when a hive decides that it is too large for their home. Half the hive leaves with the old queen and the other half left behind creates a new queen. It their way of spreading their genetics as well.
@@aussiebeekeeping I see, thanks for explaining it so quickly. I think I'll stick around and watch the rest of the videos.
@@skullphantom705 Wonderful.
What happens if the queen is killed? Will the hive produce another?
Yes. If they have day old eggs available they will.
@@aussiebeekeeping thanks 😊
I know nothing about beekeeping but I did see article where they said sometimes the bees will kick out a queen and get a new one themselves is it possible that that has happened like when they kick out Males they don't need anymore. I don't know if that goes for a specific type of bee
I found the queen and put her in another hive in this video.
I haven’t heard of bees kicking out a queen. They do kill them if they have been replaced though.
What’s the song called in the intro of the vid if you don’t mind me asking?
what is that blob showing above the bees center of frame top right of video at 4:12
That’s just a queen cup.
Just a bit too hasty. Oh well.
Whst does goodness gracious mean?
Like oh my god.
@@aussiebeekeeping I guess I meant what caused him to say that...oh well.🤷
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Did you get any honey this year ?
None so far. Hopefully in the Autumn flow
@@aussiebeekeeping hopefully :)
looks like they are telling you to back off. nature works in mysterious ways, the signs are before your eyes , reading them is the relationship of understanding the meaning /representation. . NJOY.
I thought Australian bees jump around and are venomous.
lol
Why didn’t you not just step away from the hive for a sec to mark her ,,,now you have 6 marked bees 😂
Does it really matter if I mark other bees?
Aussie great job 🙄🙄
Thankyou.
Could you have just moved the bottom box elsewhere, took the second box with the cells put it in the first position and just let all the field bees come back into that box with the cells and, hey presto, a split?
Those cells were in a condition I had never seen. So the potential was that they were not viable cells. This the manipulation.
Why didn't you just walk away from the hive to mark her?
If I had of. She would have fallen on the ground.
@@aussiebeekeeping I wasn't criticizing, I'm talking about the 2nd time, it would have been so much easier without the other bee's, great job on finding her again though.
It may have looked difficult but for me it wasn’t frustrating or hard. I’m pretty patient.
Yeah I know. I’m just doing my best.
but your can isnt smoking them, theres no smoke
Lol... you gotta love bee keeping! I can't mark queens like that. I need to catch her with my bare fingers to mark her!
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These are my favorite comments as they make absolutely no sense.
I would have torn the cells out and let them go on. I've seen them do that more than once when there's eggs young enough above an excluder. Seems to make them feel separated from the queen.
You could have lost your queen to a swarm letting them go. That would be irresponsible in my eyes.
Different words maybe. "Let them carry on" instead of go on. If the bees are trying to swarm from a single box with a few bees in a super, it's time to be squishing a queen.
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Why worry about one other bee and take a chance of losing the queen
I didn't follow the logic of that split at all...
It wasn’t a split.
Im not sure this keeper knows what he is doing!!!
Thanks for your kind comment.
Sorry but I've just got to say it, I saw that coming when you dropped the Queen. Just a wee bit over confident when letting the others out. I'm not trying to be mean, I just seen it coming.
You actually didn’t have to say it, but I liked that fact that while you recognized it was mean you said you weren’t even trying.
Why would they get squashed? Are you not a beekeeper that understands these little insects Feed the world feed you take care of you and account for your success in this life? Why would a beekeeper with such an understanding squash any bee?
5:35 "Careful with these guys" There is no guys, there is only girls😑😑😒😒
There are both guys and girls.
man up lose the gloves and do it by hand Aussie man
I see what you did there. You used the threat of De masculinization to force me to do something that I already know doesn’t work. Well done.
That wasn't the kind of Aussie response I'd expected, this guy is aware we have an audience. Personally I shit my britches every time a bee lands on me but I know if I were a real man I'd be doing this shit in a mankini. Know what's good for you.
Undressing as we speak
@@aussiebeekeeping you deleted what I wrote but left what you wrote so now I now like a bigot rather than an Aussie. This is social media I suppose
I don’t delete comments
You really aren't a very good beekeeper.
You really aren’t a very good person.
The first thing I see is that you're not that gentle to the bees , you don't lookout for bees don't get squashed when built up the hive. Do you really care for bees ? 🐝🤕☠
💋❤️ how do you make a queen from an egg?
I have no idea what’s going on and there’s no clear instruction other than some oooh and ahhh