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?
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.
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 ....
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
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)
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.
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. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
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.
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.
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.
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.😊😊
Here... It's early AUGUST says this Beekeeper as he does this Video on Swarming. And the Pom, (Slang for a Brit... ) thinks yes it is ! But I'm not Down Under.... Where it's EARLY SPRING 😆 So go by Spring, and not August. (We aren't even getting a decent summer here)... Typical for Scotland ! 🤭 Happy Beekeeping 2021. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
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
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
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?
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.
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.
I'm back again. So, method # 3 of swarm prevention, around the 18 minute mark, removing nurse bees from strong hive and moving them to a weaker hive, the 10" deep that you removed the nurse bees from is above the queen excluder, when/how did the queen lay the eggs in this box? Never mind, I think I know: refer to method #2.
@@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
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.
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.
Hi Brent, We've asked Bruce about this and his reply is as follows: "This time of the year you will find if you have more than one hive the colony strength will vary often related to how much honey was left on the hives going into winter and bees covering the frames. To split hives, it depends how many frames are covered with bees in the brood box and super only split if sixteen frames are covered with bees and plenty of pollen being collected and at night your bees are ripening fresh nectar as indicated by your bees making a noise by them fanning to ripen the nectar, or if you observe started swarm cells Conditions vary over the whole state some swarming is occurring in some coastal areas with the wattle and garden plants flowering and the Riverina as the Almonds are finishing flowering but Canola, and Capeweed are stimulating swarming being nectar and pollen producing flora. However, requeening the split with a young queen may be difficult so early in the season as they could be difficult to purchase. The alternate is to use purchased queen cells but small numbers difficult to."
way do you shake bees in front of the hive they come from..shake them inside..dont get it...I get it when you shake nursing bees in front of weak hive..! I,m a beginner anyway...
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
I'm distressed to note that in the process of your tutorial and ur haste to reconstruct the two hives u have carelessly smashed a number of bees on the edges of each box. Please do take extra care to avoid this wanton killing.
Hi Ron, it's never out intention to harm bees. Actually exactly the opposite. And at times it's difficult to avoid this 100% Are you a beekeeper? Hopefully you understand this point. Thanks
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!!
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 😂.
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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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What a great explanation on how to prevent swarming. Thank you!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Nice to see how fellow beekeepers in other countries are working. Greetings from the Netherlands
Very good information. I'm a newbee so I'll go back and watch this several times. Thank you Sir.
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.
Unbelievable knowledge and a willingness to share. Bruce you are indeed a legend mate!
Yes Bruce is like no other. Thank you kindly.
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 ....
Great video. Bruce explains things very clearly. Well done Bruce and crew.
Thanks Paul G for your support. Yes Bruce is wonderful.👍
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!
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.
That was really SMART! Thanks for teaching us how to handle that situation. I am SUBSCRIBING!
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.
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.
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 😅
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😀
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.
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.
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Excellent explanation. Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher!!!!
Great video and very informative. Like the text boxes.
Thanks or the feedback Sharon. More videos coming real soon.
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.
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. 😊
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.
Excellen pressentation save our bees and i love this presentation thank you.
Thanks Kosta. The presenter Bruce, is remarkable.
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
I love the way this man says "Bees"
It's the way we say is in Australia. Thanks
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.
Awesome simple maintenance routines. 19:00 is a great old system we sometimes used.
Demaree board method was an awesome explanation.
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.
Just found this video/channel and I really like it! Good information. New subscriber here in Alabama, USA
Rather nice bee channel you have here. This is my first time finding it. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!🙂
I loved the presentation best I have seen!
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.
Very interesting.
thanks. 🙂
Very informative! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Clever tips. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
A lot of thanks for ur very good information...
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Very useful information.Expect more such videos.I too a beekeeper in India
Very informative for a newcomer like myself!
Ehanks all the best to you and your bees.
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
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.
Wow very well presented video thanks 👍
Thanks Chris. Its great to know u enjoyed the video.
great video particularly the comb close ups
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀
I miss beekeeping ❤️🐝
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?
Outstanding video.
Thank you very much!
Just found your channel and subscribed. Love the content!
Awesome, thank you!
that is just GOLD
Great job on the video.🙌 you earned my subscription.
Awesome, thank you!
Here... It's early AUGUST says this Beekeeper as he does this Video on Swarming.
And the Pom, (Slang for a Brit... ) thinks yes it is !
But I'm not Down Under.... Where it's EARLY SPRING 😆
So go by Spring, and not August. (We aren't even getting a decent summer here)... Typical for Scotland ! 🤭
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
good idea ! thank you Bruce
thank you for the video,very helpful
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Nice to see, thanks!!
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 think a double screen board or Snelgrove board is interchangeable with a demaree board. If I am wrong please let me know. Thanks.
Thank you so much, very useful info 👍
Glad it was helpful!🙂
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?
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
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!
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?
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 :)
Great video!
Thanks very much
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.
Hi, when can you turn the bottom box back in the original direction when doing the Demaree method?
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??
Opa já me escrevi 👍👏👍
Thanks
I'm back again. So, method # 3 of swarm prevention, around the 18 minute mark, removing nurse bees from strong hive and moving them to a weaker hive, the 10" deep that you removed the nurse bees from is above the queen excluder, when/how did the queen lay the eggs in this box? Never mind, I think I know: refer to method #2.
Glad you found it helpful and worked it out. Thank you for watching and commenting!
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
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.
My bees are working so hard … I heard some buzzing about organizing a union! What should I do😂
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.
Is it too early to do a split?
Hi Brent, We've asked Bruce about this and his reply is as follows:
"This time of the year you will find if you have more than one hive the colony strength will vary often related to how much honey was left on the hives going into winter and bees covering the frames.
To split hives, it depends how many frames are covered with bees in the brood box and super only split if sixteen frames are covered with bees and plenty of pollen being collected and at night your bees are ripening fresh nectar as indicated by your bees making a noise by them fanning to ripen the nectar, or if you observe started swarm cells
Conditions vary over the whole state some swarming is occurring in some coastal areas with the wattle and garden plants flowering and the Riverina as the Almonds are finishing flowering but Canola, and Capeweed are stimulating swarming being nectar and pollen producing flora.
However, requeening the split with a young queen may be difficult so early in the season as they could be difficult to purchase.
The alternate is to use purchased queen cells but small numbers difficult to."
Everything is different down unda'. September is spring and drones are 'mile buoys'
heard coin (queen) and bowie (bee)
Aussie accents. Thanks for the comment. 8-)
The way he says bee
Is Australia still free of Varroa?
Mainly yes it is, but we are on high alert as there have been some varroa reach parts of NSW. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Bees in Australian is pronounced Boyize
Something like that, Thank you for watching and commenting!
way do you shake bees in front of the hive they come from..shake them inside..dont get it...I get it when you shake nursing bees in front of weak hive..!
I,m a beginner anyway...
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
Buey?
Hi, it's the UA-cam translator interpreting the aussie accent of "Bees" as "Buey" I think 😀
@@SaveOurBees oh I know. Lol
Love this video. Very informative. But what are these buoys he keeps taking about? 🤔 🤣 joking...
Todie I'm gonA tAlk abit
Well you know greed isthe root of all back akees that is why someone come up with meadoms . Rob.
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Ah, yes the sound of excessive little bee bodies being crushed in the morning... 16:10
It's never good to have bees squashed, no. But hard to avoid it at times. I'm not sure if you are a beekeeper, but hope you understand that.
@@SaveOurBees Yes, I understand, I've squished my share when working alone.
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I'm distressed to note that in the process of your tutorial and ur haste to reconstruct the two hives u have carelessly smashed a number of bees on the edges of each box. Please do take extra care to avoid this wanton killing.
Hi Ron, it's never out intention to harm bees. Actually exactly the opposite. And at times it's difficult to avoid this 100% Are you a beekeeper? Hopefully you understand this point. Thanks
This is a very complicated hobby. I'm thoroughly confused now.
No gloves? 😱
You get used to it.
I’m trying to learn about bees not BOUEYS
Same same. thanks
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀
a doozy Marie board? is that what he said. I cannot find anything like that word online
Thank you great to see an Aussie on YT with the old school ethic and know how ! Cheers
Thanks and cheers to you to.🙂
Thanks Bruce for a great video and very clear explanations... what a gem!
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
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
One of the best bee videos iv ever seen will keep this for further reference Thanks very much
A fantastic video lot's of knowledge
Thats lot of detailed information 👍. Thanks for the video 🙏