I watched this last year and I'm watching it again as a refresher now the Frost out here is building off. This remains the clearest swarm prevention video I've ever seen and touches up on the basics as well just in case your mind gets lazy over winter and forgets that one important detail that could have made your life easier. I don't think we have the same bee species, nor do we have the same climate as we're in vastly different parts of the world, but the basics are still very much the same. There isn't a better video as an introduction or refresher on the topic of swarm control on UA-cam than this.
Thanks for the great feedback. Bruce is a very knowledgable beekeeper and very generous with his time. We are in Sydney, Australia where most of the honey bees found in apiaries are Apis Melifera and decedants from mainly Italian Queens. What part of the world are you? Ansd what type of honey bees do you have?
Wow, amazing seeing you do this. It's shows how you are a great bee 🐝 keeper. But I have a question, sir, what is wrong with your left hand it looks very different than your right hand. I see this on Frame 3:55. 🤔Please, if possible, explain. Thank you for letting me post a comment.😊😊
The best one on this specific subject of preventing swarming i have seen so far. I am a new beek from Goa, India and i keep Apis Cerena bees. Thanks Bruce for your generosity in putting this video and information out for us newbies. Thanks again and God bless
One of my hives built comb on the under surface of the inner cover. They filled the comb with honey. I removed some of this comb for comb honey. The hive was not crowded, they weren't trying to swarm. Good informative video.
I found this video extremely informative and helpful. Best I’ve seen on UA-cam. I am getting two full hives this May,I am completely new to beekeeping and trying to learn all I can before my bees arrive
Hi Bruce, thank you for this information. I don't have a bee hive but I have been following bee keepers like yourself so I can lean as much as I can about bee's. I have hit the Subscribe button. All I can do is help to save our bee's any way possible. Cheers ....
Thank you for sharing your ideas, love watching your video, all the amazing tips on the signs, and ways to prevent bee swarms, ive always noticed the signs but never knew🤔 until i watched these.....thanks again for the knowledge and your awesome skills!!
Awesome information! Thank you for this method of swarm prevention. I am on my first hive of bees I acquired at Christmas this year as a nuc and I’ve bumbled my way through winter. I’m not big on joining a club but I live in the Shellharbour region and I’m considering it.
Благодаря! Спасибо! Danke sehr! In all languages I speak, I am saying huge THANK YOU! So easy to understand! So perfektly described. Just perfekt! I wish you all the health you need. God bless you!
Thanks for the great feedback. Bruce is a well known bee keeper in Australia and in some parts of the world. Thank you for watching, God bless you and your bees too.
Great work Bruce, Save Our Bees & Illawarra Beekeepers! I'm following this to the TEE!! (no queen cells first inspection, second brood inspection this coming Friday, three weeks later)
Best video ever created on UA-cam about swarming, and prevention, well done Sir. I used the padgen method on one hive today and demaree last week on one that had potential to build cells in the next two weeks. Another hive I used the method of moving up brood and providing laying space. Gotta try them all 😂.
Thanks for the great video. Is there a reason why, where you have made the new high entrance that the opening doesn't have say, a ledhe or some type of platform right along the new front so as to give the bees a better landing platform when they return?
Hi Lewis. Thanks for the very positive feedback. The presenter, Bruce White, is arguably the most experienced and knowledgeable beekeeper and technical apicilture specialist in Australia. The more I watch from Bruce, the more I learn.
Great video, the first one I found of yours. So much to learn and pay attention to! I'm hoping to have my house and start a hive next spring, 2023. Getting a jump start on learning. From Vermont, USA.
Thank you for the video Bruce, as a new keeper I appreciate you sharing your expertise, question: if bees recognize their own by pheromones, won't the bees know that the new hundreds of nurse bees dropped at their door belong to a different hive?
The 'original' Bees will touch and meet the walking in 'Nurse' Bees, in doing so they will pass their own "Queens Phremones" onto them, and through the bees "given to the hive" to boost their population, they will become one Hive. (Or a Hive over a Hive, in this Video... 👍) (The Nurse Bees soon forget their (own lower box Maj's 👑 phremones...) Nurse Bees practically do everything, so are to busy getting made to do Chores, as they join the Colony... Feed, Wash, Clean, Warm the Brood etc etc. So probably to knackered to think our Queen was.... ??? (!) 🤭 Hope this helps. 😏 Happy Beekeeping 2021. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Really interesting- I hadn't heard of the demaree method! Can you put another queen excluder on top and stack honey supers on with two colonies like that?
Yes you can! Hi and thanks for your question. Bruce has answered your question live in our latest stream video. Look for our March 2021 towards the end of the video for he answer
An excellent presentation, well done! Full of useful information and techniques from an experienced beekeeper. Love the text boxes that reinforce the message, and the encouragement to join the local club.
Hi Calvin. Thanks for the great rap. Bruce is a very knowledgeable beekeeper and arguably the best in the country. This like many of the other videos we have done with Bruce happen off the cuff, no script at all. Bruces' willingness to share his skills is a great asset and we hope to share more content here. Happy beekeeping.
@@SaveOurBees Can you thank Bruce for me please. I am a member of a Ballarat bee club and it was recommended to me, and I will certainly pass on the recommendation.
Hi Stephen. Depending on the time of year, the entrance should be about 80% or so of the brood box width. Enough room so the bees are not queing up to much to get in or out and providing enough ventilation. In cold months, if your hive is not strong reducing the entrance can help prvent cold winds rushing in, and a narrower entrance leaves less work for the bees to guard against intruders. The landing bourd should ideally be as wide as the brood box with maybe 5cm or so deep. i hope that makes sense. Good luck.
Thank you sir! I've been a beekeeper for about 40 days (yes, days). I've been worried about how to manage my hives as I know nothing. You've helped me tremendously by explaining things the way you do. But... being in Tennessee in the US, it seems so strange to hear you refer to August as spring. Where in the world are you? Never mind. I read your 'about' page: Australia.
I have a bunch of drone cells but had no queen cells. but a friend helping me got several frames of brood from a regular super. I added a brood super with just imprinted wax sheets in the frame. I still plan to split the hive soon. the Temps have been 50s at night and 70s during the day. when the night temps get a little higher
Great video! I'm new to bee keeping and found this very practical and informative. I'm glad I have an experienced bee keeper that is working with me because I'm realizing that this is a complex "hobby" with a huge amount of information to learn and assimilate. Thank you for taking the time to share.
This video was so informational...thank you so much...I am a teenager and I would like to do bee farming..is it possible to make a video about beginner bee- keepers and how to become one.
Hi and thanks for the question but from what I've seen, no even if she's a virgin she will not be able to pass thru an excluder unless the excluder is not manufactured correctly or if it's damaged. It's the queen's thorax that prevents her passing thru.
@@SaveOurBees Hi mate sort of i had a swarm move into a wardrobe that i set up for garden tools came in for lunch and when i went back outside the swarm was moving in so i thought great i have always wanted a hive so i built a layens hive out of 50mm planks with 14 frames and before the swarm was shifted another swarm turned up and for 2 days the were trying to take over the wardrobe dead bees every were so i called a real beekeeper to show me what to do but he did all the work anyway and put the new swarm into the hive and i only put 7 frames in while he was moving the swarm when he had finished closed the lid and left it at that the problem was both entrances were open and a couple weeks later when i went to open the lid it was glued solid and the bees were only using the entrance with no frames i did manage to pry the lid up and the comb was top to bottom anyway i have got a couple of langsthohf hives and i will talk to him about fixing the layens up and shifting the swarm so sorry this post is so long but it is different cheers
THIS IS ALL GREAT INFORMATION. THANK YOU! I live in NYC and can no longer expand my apiary. I have two have and can't add another hive so what should/could I do to keep my bees from swarming. I was told that I could get rid of the swarm queen cells and kill the queen(not that I like too), to give the hive a brood break and to prevent them from swarming, then requeen a month later. What do you think. Any tips for me.
Hi Brad. Great to hear from you. And a good question. There are many methods to prevent swarming you can use and Bruce mentions a lot of them in this video. Though because you are limited with space you can still consider a split and take the split to another location. If that is out of the question, you can use the demaree method also mentioned in this video where you will effectively create a new colony on the same stack of boxes. Then when the new colony is successfully expanding you could move it to another location or unite it with the old colony after removing the old Queen. Of course all this should be done once the weather warms up and the colony is strong in numbers... maybe a little before spring at the earliest. I suggest you view the video a few more times for clarification. There is a lot to learn with so many options. Good luck with it all.
2 other options. Buy a 5 pack of cardboard or corrugated nuc boxes. They store flat until constructed. I like the plastic Jester EZnucs. Make a split into the nuc box. The queen, 2-3 frames of brood, a frame of honey, frame of drawn comb. Sell the nuc on Craigs list or local beek club FB page. Parent hive should requeen itself, but if in 4 weeks there’s no queen, no eggs/larvae, buy a queen. Second option would be to cage the queen with a push in cage over an area of nectar. At three week point, release queen. Hive will be broodless at that point; great time to do an OA dribble.
@@paulchristu996 Thank you so much. This is the same conclusion I came to after asking the question. I will buy a three frame nuc box and put the queen and lots of nurse bees and food in it for 26 days, they treat naturally like I wish do to, and then reintroduce the queen and the food and bees. Thanks a million. so helpful.
@@paulchristu996 Oh, I also found queen pheromone strips on BetterBee that I could put in the hive once I remove the queen to prevent swarming that makes them think they have a queen for up to 20 days.
Remoiving swarm cells is not a guaranteed method to prevent swarming. Giving more room with another super can be a remedy but it depends on many other things.
Special thanks for comment at the end regarding brood disease spread. This week I have seen two American utubists deliberatly leave all thair stickies out for all the bees in the district to feed from . it won't be long before AFB breaks out causing the death of 90% of bees in the district, honey robbing by bees being the main cause of infection. Is this practice not illegal there?
Hi flyhigh, thanks for your comments. We are in Australia, and August, September, October usually means swarming season in many parts of Australia. Where are you?
When you see a surge in drones and drone cells... it makes me wonder if the numbers went up a lot if the bees always will make queen cells and large drone numbers together? Can the bees decide, we're only making queen cells, or only making drones but not together?
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I watched this last year and I'm watching it again as a refresher now the Frost out here is building off.
This remains the clearest swarm prevention video I've ever seen and touches up on the basics as well just in case your mind gets lazy over winter and forgets that one important detail that could have made your life easier.
I don't think we have the same bee species, nor do we have the same climate as we're in vastly different parts of the world, but the basics are still very much the same.
There isn't a better video as an introduction or refresher on the topic of swarm control on UA-cam than this.
Thanks for the great feedback. Bruce is a very knowledgable beekeeper and very generous with his time. We are in Sydney, Australia where most of the honey bees found in apiaries are Apis Melifera and decedants from mainly Italian Queens. What part of the world are you? Ansd what type of honey bees do you have?
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Thank you! It’s awesome to see an Aussie on UA-cam with that old-school ethic and know-how! Cheers!
Wow, amazing seeing you do this. It's shows how you are a great bee 🐝 keeper. But I have a question, sir, what is wrong with your left hand it looks very different than your right hand. I see this on Frame 3:55. 🤔Please, if possible, explain. Thank you for letting me post a comment.😊😊
So nice of you but no, both hands are ok. Maybe it's just the camera lens. But thanks for your concern.
That was really SMART! Thanks for teaching us how to handle that situation. I am SUBSCRIBING!
Thank you great to see an Aussie on YT with the old school ethic and know how ! Cheers
Thanks and cheers to you to.🙂
The best one on this specific subject of preventing swarming i have seen so far. I am a new beek from Goa, India and i keep Apis Cerena bees. Thanks Bruce for your generosity in putting this video and information out for us newbies. Thanks again and God bless
Thank you to you too, Sandra. Best Wishes.
One of my hives built comb on the under surface of the inner cover. They filled the comb with honey. I removed some of this comb for comb honey. The hive was not crowded, they weren't trying to swarm. Good informative video.
Nice to see how fellow beekeepers in other countries are working. Greetings from the Netherlands
What a great explanation on how to prevent swarming. Thank you!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Subscribed, best bee video I have seen on UA-cam. Excellent presentation and explanation.
Hi Mike. Thanks mate for the comment. Bruce is excellent.. no better teacher to learn from.
Very good information. I'm a newbee so I'll go back and watch this several times. Thank you Sir.
Thankyou for your service. Its another great day of saving the bees ;)
I found this video extremely informative and helpful.
Best I’ve seen on UA-cam.
I am getting two full hives this May,I am completely new to beekeeping and trying to learn all I can before my bees arrive
Glad it was helpful!
I learned more in this video than most others put together.. thank you
@pockiemc great to hear 🙂
Hi Bruce, thank you for this information. I don't have a bee hive but I have been following bee keepers like yourself so I can lean as much as I can about bee's. I have hit the Subscribe button. All I can do is help to save our bee's any way possible. Cheers ....
Greetings from America! I LOVE your Aussie accent! May I call you "Crocodile DunBEE"? hehe
Hi and thanks mate. We are glad you enjoyed it... happy beekeeping
@@SaveOurBees You're most welcome! I hope that the kangaroos leave your hives alone! hehe
@@iowasenator 😄😄😄
Crocodile DunDEAD
I have autism, and I'm delighted by how he pronounces "bees" I've been repeating it, trying to pronounce it the way he does 😅
Unbelievable knowledge and a willingness to share. Bruce you are indeed a legend mate!
Yes Bruce is like no other. Thank you kindly.
Fantastic video, much appreciated that you and your crew took the time to share your wealth of knowledge.
Hi George, Thank you for watching and commenting!
Thank you for sharing your ideas, love watching your video, all the amazing tips on the signs, and ways to prevent bee swarms, ive always noticed the signs but never knew🤔 until i watched these.....thanks again for the knowledge and your awesome skills!!
Thanks Bruce is fantastic.
Awesome information! Thank you for this method of swarm prevention. I am on my first hive of bees I acquired at Christmas this year as a nuc and I’ve bumbled my way through winter. I’m not big on joining a club but I live in the Shellharbour region and I’m considering it.
One of the best bee videos iv ever seen will keep this for further reference Thanks very much
Благодаря!
Спасибо!
Danke sehr!
In all languages I speak, I am saying huge THANK YOU! So easy to understand! So perfektly described. Just perfekt! I wish you all the health you need. God bless you!
Thanks for the great feedback. Bruce is a well known bee keeper in Australia and in some parts of the world. Thank you for watching, God bless you and your bees too.
Great work Bruce, Save Our Bees & Illawarra Beekeepers! I'm following this to the TEE!!
(no queen cells first inspection, second brood inspection this coming Friday, three weeks later)
Hi Matt thanks for the feedback. I hope your bees are doing well now. Maybe time for a new queen.
@@SaveOurBees yep our bees are doing great, thanks, nice & calm. Bruce White's swarm prevention methodology is working well too
@@mattreed3630 great stuff.
Best video ever created on UA-cam about swarming, and prevention, well done Sir.
I used the padgen method on one hive today and demaree last week on one that had potential to build cells in the next two weeks. Another hive I used the method of moving up brood and providing laying space. Gotta try them all 😂.
Hi Liam thanks for the great feedback
a doozy Marie board? is that what he said. I cannot find anything like that word online
A Demaree board
Thanks Bruce for a great video and very clear explanations... what a gem!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video. Bruce explains things very clearly. Well done Bruce and crew.
Thanks Paul G for your support. Yes Bruce is wonderful.👍
This was such a good video, I'm going to make a point to watch all your videos. Thank you.
Thanks for the great video. Is there a reason why, where you have made the new high entrance that the opening doesn't have say, a ledhe or some type of platform right along the new front so as to give the bees a better landing platform when they return?
oooo man. Very very informative. i learned more in this [ur video] than i did in 11 other peoples video. thank u sir.
Hi Lewis. Thanks for the very positive feedback. The presenter, Bruce White, is arguably the most experienced and knowledgeable beekeeper and technical apicilture specialist in Australia. The more I watch from Bruce, the more I learn.
Just found this video/channel and I really like it! Good information. New subscriber here in Alabama, USA
Great video, the first one I found of yours. So much to learn and pay attention to! I'm hoping to have my house and start a hive next spring, 2023. Getting a jump start on learning. From Vermont, USA.
Hi mate, Thank you for watching and commenting! Good luck on your bee journey.
thank you for sharing your expertise. I'm thinking of getting a new hive to be a beekeeper. very helpful information.
Thanks Ema. Great to hear. 😊
That's a lot of information to unpack for a new beekeeper. Very interesting. I am curious why none of the methods showed to remove the swarm cells?
So nice of you
Great video!!, Just caught my 2nd swarm ever today from my hives. I thought they had plenty of room last week when i checked but obviously not.
That is awesome! Thanks for the support😀
Thats lot of detailed information 👍. Thanks for the video 🙏
Great job on the video.🙌 you earned my subscription.
Awesome, thank you!
I think a double screen board or Snelgrove board is interchangeable with a demaree board. If I am wrong please let me know. Thanks.
Very useful information.Expect more such videos.I too a beekeeper in India
Great video and very informative. Like the text boxes.
Thanks or the feedback Sharon. More videos coming real soon.
Excellent explanation. Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher!!!!
I loved the presentation best I have seen!
Excellent video, thank you sir
Awesome simple maintenance routines. 19:00 is a great old system we sometimes used.
Demaree board method was an awesome explanation.
Thank you for the video Bruce, as a new keeper I appreciate you sharing your expertise, question: if bees recognize their own by pheromones, won't the bees know that the new hundreds of nurse bees dropped at their door belong to a different hive?
The 'original' Bees will touch and meet the walking in 'Nurse' Bees, in doing so they will pass their own "Queens Phremones" onto them, and through the bees "given to the hive" to boost their population, they will become one Hive. (Or a Hive over a Hive, in this Video... 👍)
(The Nurse Bees soon forget their (own lower box Maj's 👑 phremones...)
Nurse Bees practically do everything, so are to busy getting made to do Chores, as they join the Colony... Feed, Wash, Clean, Warm the Brood etc etc.
So probably to knackered to think our Queen was.... ??? (!)
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Hope this helps. 😏
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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A lot of thanks for ur very good information...
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Learnt heaps just with this video. Thank you
Rather nice bee channel you have here. This is my first time finding it. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!🙂
Im a new beekeeper in New Zealand and i have 1 hive building into a 2nd brood box and 1 in a single with queen excluder and honey super on
Thats great to hear. It sounds like your bees are doing well.
Wow very well presented video thanks 👍
Thanks Chris. Its great to know u enjoyed the video.
The Best video I’ve seen to date
Thanks for your feedback. Glad you enjoyed the video. Please tell your friends 🤗
Excellen pressentation save our bees and i love this presentation thank you.
Thanks Kosta. The presenter Bruce, is remarkable.
thank you for the video,very helpful
Thank you for watching and commenting!
A fantastic video lot's of knowledge
Really interesting- I hadn't heard of the demaree method! Can you put another queen excluder on top and stack honey supers on with two colonies like that?
Yes you can! Hi and thanks for your question. Bruce has answered your question live in our latest stream video. Look for our March 2021 towards the end of the video for he answer
@@SaveOurBees I will, thank you!
thank you for your video full of information. A curious question, why aren't you stung by bees while you touch without gloves?
Clever tips. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative for a newcomer like myself!
Ehanks all the best to you and your bees.
Buoys=bees, coin=queen.
Thanks for the comment. I hope you wenjoyed the information.
I can't watch this video because of this comment. 😂
I understand more clearly than others video, but subtitles pliz...thq sir
Hi and thanks for your comments. But there are subtitles already there. Can't you see them?
Hi, when can you turn the bottom box back in the original direction when doing the Demaree method?
Once you have shaken the nurse bees off the brood frames in front of the weak hive, can you place the brood frames into the weak hive?
Outstanding video.
Thank you very much!
An excellent presentation, well done! Full of useful information and techniques from an experienced beekeeper. Love the text boxes that reinforce the message, and the encouragement to join the local club.
Hi Calvin. Thanks for the great rap. Bruce is a very knowledgeable beekeeper and arguably the best in the country. This like many of the other videos we have done with Bruce happen off the cuff, no script at all. Bruces' willingness to share his skills is a great asset and we hope to share more content here. Happy beekeeping.
@@SaveOurBees Can you thank Bruce for me please. I am a member of a Ballarat bee club and it was recommended to me, and I will certainly pass on the recommendation.
@@pencilcharlie1 Hi Calvin, definately will pass on the comments. Happy beekeeping.
How wide should the hive entrance be for central NSW.? How important/what size should landing board be?
Hi Stephen. Depending on the time of year, the entrance should be about 80% or so of the brood box width. Enough room so the bees are not queing up to much to get in or out and providing enough ventilation. In cold months, if your hive is not strong reducing the entrance can help prvent cold winds rushing in, and a narrower entrance leaves less work for the bees to guard against intruders. The landing bourd should ideally be as wide as the brood box with maybe 5cm or so deep. i hope that makes sense. Good luck.
Thank you sir! I've been a beekeeper for about 40 days (yes, days). I've been worried about how to manage my hives as I know nothing. You've helped me tremendously by explaining things the way you do. But... being in Tennessee in the US, it seems so strange to hear you refer to August as spring. Where in the world are you? Never mind. I read your 'about' page: Australia.
How did your first year go? Got your girls buttoned up yet? Hello from NC
Great to hear you enjoyed the video and maybe learned a little too.
What’s the difference between nectar and honey? Great video! Thank you
nectar is uncapped honey with higher water content, honey is pretty much capped nectar with less water content :)
Awesome information. Thanks
Nice to see, thanks!!
I have a bunch of drone cells but had no queen cells. but a friend helping me got several frames of brood from a regular super. I added a brood super with just imprinted wax sheets in the frame.
I still plan to split the hive soon. the Temps have been 50s at night and 70s during the day. when the night temps get a little higher
great video, thank you
incredible info for anyone thanks for sharing. new bee keepers can learn alot from this subscribed
Thanks. Brice is a wealth of knowledge. Stay tuned for more.
Well done for this video and also the other videos in your "Beekeeping for Beginners" Series. Keep up the excellent work.
Hi Steve thanks very much for the feedback. More videos coming soon.
I loved it, very helpful indeed, keep it up
Great video! I'm new to bee keeping and found this very practical and informative. I'm glad I have an experienced bee keeper that is working with me because I'm realizing that this is a complex "hobby" with a huge amount of information to learn and assimilate. Thank you for taking the time to share.
So nice of you
I second that. Thank you for explaining.
Thank you so much, very useful info 👍
Glad it was helpful!🙂
This is excellent thank you.
great video particularly the comb close ups
This video was so informational...thank you so much...I am a teenager and I would like to do bee farming..is it possible to make a video about beginner bee- keepers and how to become one.
Oh never mind I saw a video that you made for beginners..thanks a gain for this wonderful video
Great video!!! What do I do if there are numerous Queen cells that have already been capped??
Very interesting.
thanks. 🙂
good idea ! thank you Bruce
I think that mostly virgin queens can pass through the queen excluder. They are skinny and not much bigger than a regular bee. Am I wrong?
Hi and thanks for the question but from what I've seen, no even if she's a virgin she will not be able to pass thru an excluder unless the excluder is not manufactured correctly or if it's damaged. It's the queen's thorax that prevents her passing thru.
Just found your channel and subscribed. Love the content!
Awesome, thank you!
very interesting thank you
Glad you think so!🙂
Buoys are a beautiful thing
cheers
Loving the content guys! Keep it up
Hi Nico, many thanks.. more to come stay tuned
do you use foundation sheets or do you find they like to develop their own combe
Very informative! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Hi mate just found your video and it's great and very informative thank you cheers .
hi Michael. many thanks are u an Aussie "weekend" beekeeper?
@@SaveOurBees Hi mate sort of i had a swarm move into a wardrobe that i set up for garden tools came in for lunch and when i went back outside the swarm was moving in so i thought great i have always wanted a hive so i built a layens hive out of 50mm planks with 14 frames and before the swarm was shifted another swarm turned up and for 2 days the were trying to take over the wardrobe dead bees every were so i called a real beekeeper to show me what to do but he did all the work anyway and put the new swarm into the hive and i only put 7 frames in while he was moving the swarm when he had finished closed the lid and left it at that the problem was both entrances were open and a couple weeks later when i went to open the lid it was glued solid and the bees were only using the entrance with no frames i did manage to pry the lid up and the comb was top to bottom anyway i have got a couple of langsthohf hives and i will talk to him about fixing the layens up and shifting the swarm so sorry this post is so long but it is different cheers
THIS IS ALL GREAT INFORMATION. THANK YOU! I live in NYC and can no longer expand my apiary. I have two have and can't add another hive so what should/could I do to keep my bees from swarming. I was told that I could get rid of the swarm queen cells and kill the queen(not that I like too), to give the hive a brood break and to prevent them from swarming, then requeen a month later. What do you think. Any tips for me.
Hi Brad. Great to hear from you. And a good question. There are many methods to prevent swarming you can use and Bruce mentions a lot of them in this video. Though because you are limited with space you can still consider a split and take the split to another location. If that is out of the question, you can use the demaree method also mentioned in this video where you will effectively create a new colony on the same stack of boxes. Then when the new colony is successfully expanding you could move it to another location or unite it with the old colony after removing the old Queen. Of course all this should be done once the weather warms up and the colony is strong in numbers... maybe a little before spring at the earliest. I suggest you view the video a few more times for clarification. There is a lot to learn with so many options. Good luck with it all.
2 other options. Buy a 5 pack of cardboard or corrugated nuc boxes. They store flat until constructed. I like the plastic Jester EZnucs. Make a split into the nuc box. The queen, 2-3 frames of brood, a frame of honey, frame of drawn comb. Sell the nuc on Craigs list or local beek club FB page. Parent hive should requeen itself, but if in 4 weeks there’s no queen, no eggs/larvae, buy a queen. Second option would be to cage the queen with a push in cage over an area of nectar. At three week point, release queen. Hive will be broodless at that point; great time to do an OA dribble.
@@paulchristu996 Thank you so much. This is the same conclusion I came to after asking the question. I will buy a three frame nuc box and put the queen and lots of nurse bees and food in it for 26 days, they treat naturally like I wish do to, and then reintroduce the queen and the food and bees. Thanks a million. so helpful.
@@paulchristu996 Oh, I also found queen pheromone strips on BetterBee that I could put in the hive once I remove the queen to prevent swarming that makes them think they have a queen for up to 20 days.
I love the way this man says "Bees"
It's the way we say is in Australia. Thanks
Can I also prevent a swarm simply by adding another super as well as remove all the swarm cells?
Remoiving swarm cells is not a guaranteed method to prevent swarming. Giving more room with another super can be a remedy but it depends on many other things.
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀
Special thanks for comment at the end regarding brood disease spread.
This week I have seen two American utubists deliberatly leave all thair stickies out for all the bees in the district to feed from .
it won't be long before AFB breaks out causing the death of 90% of bees in the district, honey robbing by bees being the main cause of infection.
Is this practice not illegal there?
great video thanks ! you have swarm at sempember really ? where are you ?
Hi flyhigh, thanks for your comments. We are in Australia, and August, September, October usually means swarming season in many parts of Australia. Where are you?
@@SaveOurBees I am in Greece here swarm season is April
@@Apostolis3486 ok good to hear from a bee lover in Greece. I live in a part of Sydney that has a lot of Greek people and many are Beekeepers too
@@SaveOurBees 😍😍 love to hear that
Thank you
You're welcome
New to beekeeping ty so much
great to hear, thanks for the positive feedback. 👍
Opa já me escrevi 👍👏👍
Thanks
Great video!
Thanks very much
When you see a surge in drones and drone cells... it makes me wonder if the numbers went up a lot if the bees always will make queen cells and large drone numbers together?
Can the bees decide, we're only making queen cells, or only making drones but not together?