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I started beekeeping in 2022 with 1 hive, in 2023 with 2 hives and 2024 with 5 hives. This is a video blog of my journey mistakes and all. It is helpful to me to look back on previous inspections and manipulations. Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to comment and offer helpful advice, id love to here from you if this helps you.
GREAT BROOD PATTERN
this is Hive #1, the weak hive that is now flourishing, just look at that brood pattern. I treated all my hives this weekend with formic pro, to treat for Varroa destructor mites, this year my 3rd in beekeeping, I have found that treating for Varroa to be a bit stressful as the last thing I want to do is make the situation worse, I will remove the strips on Sept 12th hoping to have really knocked their numbers down. I am aware that there are risks involved with this medication, it has a strong odour that I tried not to breath in, I think Id suggest wearing an organic respirator while handling, I used my bee gloves instead of nitrile which is recommended, I have since purchased a new pair of bee gloves as these were getting gummed up with propolis anyway.
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Beetle mania !!
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Hive # 2, this hive was re queened back in June, I almost thought that I had lost this colony but she started laying and things have been looking much better, the entrance traffic is a great sign, however upon inspection I found small hive beetle after small hive beetle. Not a slime out "yet" I smashed over 30 beetles and I'm just hoping that a slime out isn't imminent Meanwhile we had Beetle M...
September hive inspection
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In this video I am inspecting hive #3, it is September 1st and Summer is nearly ended. Im looking to see how strong they appear and what they need to keep them healthy I dont want to see Small hive beetles, wax moth or any maggots worms or other nasty stuff. Fortunatly this hive appears healthy and have lots of everything that I want to see. I saw the Queen, lots of worker bees, some drone bees...
Ideal Hive Inspection
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this is the swarm hive, I,ll now refer to as hive 4, September 1st 2024 an ideal inspection where all things are good, nothing seems out of place. enjoy some good frame shots and yes I found the unmarked queen.
Bee Explosion
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I am Rob Summerlin, a back yard beekeeper, I started keeping bees in 2022 with 1 hive, in 2023 with 2 hives that expanded in 2024 to 5 hives. I am no expert but am learning all the time, feel free to comment or ask me questions. Lately i have been working 7 days a week, mostly 10 hour days which doesn,t leave me a lot of time to inspect my hives. I like to take my time to make sure I don't miss...
Comparing hives , formic pro at day 5
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Just a quick walk around the hives at 8pm, looking at behaviour after a rainy day, one have has formic pro at day 5 of 10. Everyone is doing well.
First time using Formic Pro
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Checking the bee yard on August 13th 2024, I recently purchased a 4 strip / 2 dose pack of formic pro. this will treat 2 hives once. I was nervous to do this as I have heard that this can be hard on the bees/queen and brood. it has been 5 days and so far seems to be ok. what I liked about this is that it was easy to install and you can treat while the honey supers are on. Now to wait 10 days to...
weak to strong hive
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This hive was dying back in May, they received a new queen in June and now in August they are doing great
Beekeeping can be frustrating, but worthwhile
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Beekeeping will present you with many challenges to overcome, you can only try to make things go your way but in the end the bees will do what bees do. It is our job as beekeepers to give them the best possible chance to maintain a healthy colony. Things I am always looking for during an inspection are , 1. eggs, 2.larvae, 3.capped brood, 4 small hive beetles, 5 wax moth, 6. Honey, 7. nectar, 8...
A SUPER FOR A SPLIT
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I took a 4 frame split from hive #1 back in may, they had a queen cell that successfully got mated and returned, they have since grown into a 2 deep hive and now need more room for hopefully honey.
Adding a honey super
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The swarm that I caught from my own hive 4 has done so well after initally waiting for their queen to get mated and dwindling numbers, they soon started to grow from one box to two and now three with a queen excluder, I moved some of the honey frames above the queen excluder and gave them waxed foundation to build on below.
O.M.G QUEEN ABOVE THE QUEEN EXCLUDER !!
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This is a split that I made in May from hive #1, it had the original queen from that hive, they may now have a new queen, im not sure but in this video I do an inspection that is overdue, its been 2 weeks since the last inspection and I find that the queen is somehow above the queen excluder, Im not sure how. she is limited to one deep box yet has plenty of brood and a good laying patern. I hav...
hive 4 july 31
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July 31st inspection of a requeened hive #4. I am looking for pests and disease, eggs, Larvae and brood, and maybe the queen, finally this hive is doing much better.
Swarm to Success
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In this video I inspect the colony that I caught after they swarmed from hive 4 back in may, Swarm to Success, they had a virgin queen, although me being new to swarm catching and raising my own queens, I did panic a while ago, I introduced a marked queen but they didnt accept her, a while later I started seeing eggs larvae and brood, looked like the queen that had swarmed must have been a virg...
Bee Brood - in the weak hive
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This hive has been struggling since May, they grew so much in May, that I split the colony twice, one has the original queen and the other made their own queen, however this colony was left queenless and was unsuccessful in making a new queen, I introduced a new queen on May 25th, unfortunately she was not accepted, I did not find her after she was released. I thought that all hope was lost, bu...
WHY won't my queen won't stay on the frames?
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WHY won't my queen won't stay on the frames?
HD Bees, first inspection with DJI action cam 4
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HD Bees, first inspection with DJI action cam 4
Nice, grats.👍
One of the few things I like very much about being a Northern beekeeper, we do not have near as much an issue with SHB's. I think I mentioned but peppermint oil/candy really seem to help. Gunline Bee's down in Louisiana I think, they have have to shop-vac the SHB's🤢 they maybe able to give you some recommendations on helping with SHB's. They have had to learn some hard lessons because of those buggers. Thanks for sharing your time, sorry for the SHB's. Blessed Days...
I have since put swiffer pads and beetle blasters in that hive just in case Ive used peppermints before, i should get more
Eek!!! Beetlejuice🪲 Beetlejuice🪲 Beetlejuice🪲 😵💫 well that's thirty plus less hive beetles so you might have saved the day slamming their numbers down. Time for traps and pads. Don't lose heart, you'll get the mongrels 👍😃In southern New Zealand news,the first fruit tree blossom has started in central Otago with apricot and plum, nice little start to the pollen season, everyone else is getting their hives into orchards, so it's big pollen time for me in about ten days because the river willows won't be far behind it and while everyone else puts their bee's into orchards around here and gets their wallets stuffed, my girls get the pollen monopoly on the river willows 😂 and they produce more pollen than you can shake a stick at😃less money in my pocket not getting in on the pollen fruit tree action circuit in Otago to be sure, but full pollen frames from the willows because no one else has hives on them and that's a win for me, everyone else will be feeding substitute in November and I'll be chucking in pollen frames😃👍
Same day i put swiffer pads and oil traps on every hive, also started a formic pro treatment for mites.
@@honeybees1970 brilliant 👍 it's evil mite time here and I'm treating for that. 😬 I hate those blasted varroa mites
I LOVE HONEY HAPPY BEE DAY I am watching your videos from London in England Good video
Thanks for watching. Im originally from Luton in England and now in Southern Ontario
Well done getting that weak hive to flourish! I love your gentle approach with your bees. Personally, I try to wear the thinnest gloves I can get away with, so I can feel the bees with my fingertips, and I lift the frames at the ends, so I don't accidentally squish them where they're moving around a lot in the middle of the top bar. Speaking as a second-year beekeeper. I'm not a fan of 10 frame deep systems as they weigh a ton when the honey starts to appear. It's much easier managing ideal sized supers, and of course you can put as many of those as you want on top of your brood box. As for double deep brood boxes, I think that just causes more work trying to inspect each hive, and the bees get more disturbed when you have 2 big boxes to go through with the hive open for inspection. What I have is a 10 frame brood box with a permanent ideal super on top which I never rob for honey. On top of that first super I put either a flow super (which I love due to the ease of harvesting honey), or more ideal supers. The bees always have the honey in their brood box in addition to a full super to get them through the winter, and this seems to do well where I live. Our winters seldom get below -1 celsius or so. In colder climes you might need an extra super going into winter. Making small colonies like mine makes them easier to manage, and you can always do a split if you see swarm cells developing (it looks like your girls have these and are getting restless).
Nice inspection 👍 great pollen frames, nice looking stores and brood 👍 im a heartless sod 😂so that drone brood would be history even though I like drones i don't like that many myself but hey your hive your rules👍 i was a little shocked someone's checkerboarding brood frames though, i think that's not a wise practice, honey frames yeah but brood frames i totally wouldn't checkerboard. drones get a bit of a bum rap but when i think of the energy investment for drones, 24 days rearing, constant feeding, i personally feel they play a much greater role than most people give them credit for. Drones are big and great at picking up brood and queen pheromone and getting it around the hive during peak numbers, drones are great thermal mass when cool days strike in summer and the colony has to go from cooling to heating and i personally believe they release pheromone during the honey flow which helps keep the hive in balance. Just my opinion but one of the first lessons you learn is bee's are economical, and they spend big to create drones. Glove cleaning, i use a little turpentine to remove the stubborn propolis and wash by hand after in warm soapy water, then apply a leather care to stop the leather drying out 👍 great video 👋😃
Sorry I dont wear gloves My bees have only been nasty 2 times. I just closed it up and walked away for the day or 2 then got back into it
@@dcrosco1458 i always wear glove although they are rarely nasty, i just dont want to get stung, ive ordered myself a new pair as these ones are so sticky with propolis now
@@honeybees1970 I hope you dont not think I was making fun of you for wearing gloves I just read over what I wrote. I see where you could think I was putting you down. I was not at all, just saying I don't. I understand about bee stings. I walk out my door and one of my ladies stung me in the eye brow. Thank God it did not swell up. Sorry if you thought I was putting you down.
@@dcrosco1458 didnt even cross my mind, i see people wearing no protective gear at all, i am definitely more comfortable around them as I was year 1 but still dont trust them completely at year 3, i dont swell too bad if stung and actually dont mind the after itch. Lol
Bob binnie started small too so you're in good company there. Whoever told you 8000 bee's die a day in a colony is off his rocker. What a crock. 20-30 thousand bee's in a average colony at 8000 a day well nobody would be keeping bee's for long. It peaks about 200 ish in mid honey flow and your queen should be laying 1200 plus eggs a day at least, the average is around 2000 so under normal conditions your colony will always be increasing up into the main flow then drop down with increasing nutrition being fed to "Winter bee's". I'm a little concerned about the lack of pollen on those brood frames, great honey bands🎉😁 and nice brood arcs 👍🐝but (in typical kiwi fashion, here comes the whinge because we're sooooo optimistic 😂) I'd personally actually consider a little pollen feeding or pollen sub I didn't see much beebread or pollen on legs in the video, but those blasted beetles love it too so your call there, you know your bees. Extra points for dead mites and beetles👍😃
Yes pollen patties, cant stand them because the beetles love them, maybe a small strip wont hurt Ive got more video to upload as I put formic pro on 4 of the hives so after 10 days( sept 12th) ill remove the formic pro strips and give them a small amount. I have a bucket of pollen sub powder but haven’t seen much interest from the bees Maybe if i put that under the telescopic cover…. Thanks for stopping by
@@honeybees1970 kamon Reynolds has hive beetle issues in his state, they are bad there, and he has some good videos about pollen sub feeding in beetle prone areas, I don't think Bob binnie has a lot of problem with beetles in his area but I know Kamon does.
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping one of my hive i had to smash at least 30 beetles The other hives seemed ok with a couple to smash I put 2 beetle blasters in that 1 hive and swiffer sheets in all of them
Im about to just hit my hives with the formic I bought; weather dosent seem like it wants to co-operate for me so im going to just 1/2 cover my pads with their wrapper. Aparently pormic pro has a really heavy off gas of formic vapors initially (day 1 honestly) and then immediatley flatlines on day two and has very slow release after that. If you cover the top half of the formic pad with its wraper that half-ish reduction in surface area stops the day 1 off gas flash (by stops I mean its about 1/3 the released of formic being more in line with day 2-14 release/decay rates). I still cant tell if randy olivers test trials with formic pro were done using single pad or two pad treatment aproaches tho.
@@SushikiIIer i simply took the 2 pads out of the foil wrapper and placed them in the hive, both still had their paper wrappers on, 10 days later i removed them, still a significant amount of material in the paper wrappers. Im not sure but i thought it was all supposed to kinda disappear? Anyway like you i need to treat my other 4 hives starting this weekend after inspections . I haven’t seen any fully capped frames to take as yet but im hoping for some. More importantly the bees be healthy and ready for winter with low mite load
2 queen cells also
Get a j hook hive tool so you can get your frames out properly and you won't kill bees or even your queen
Ive got about 4 hive tools, 2 of them are J hooks, ya think I can find them lol, nope thanks for watching
At 17:30 sec
17.30? did ya see the queen? I still dont see her
That sec box you pulled looks like a queen cell at the bottom and looks like they drawn some comb with no frame
Yes when I added that box I only had some medium frames so I put them in, that comb is drone comb ( never had eggs laid in them ) and is full of nectar, if it ever gets capped i was planning to cut it up and add it to jars of honey. I dont think that was a queen cell
God look at that smoker rolling its got a build in fan that Johnny getting it
@@ec9596 its a new smoker i just purchased Lots of smoke is good but it burns out fast Thanks for watching
I'll be interested to see how that works out for you. When I pull frames to a second deep box I only pull two frames and both are capped brood. I then replace those frames in between larvae or eggs. The reason I do it that way is the bees will draw out the two foundation frames in the bottom quickly because they do not like the blank space in the brood area. It also keeps them from drawing out the honey frames super thick in the second deep box. In my experience nectar and honey frames by foundation end up producing super thick stores on the frames you moved up, with little to no foundation being drawn on the adjacent foundation.
@@Mr.q895 its like they say ask 100 beekeepers a question and youll get 120 different answers. I was always under the impression that you shouldn’t split the brood. Im a 3rd year beekeeper, im going to assume you have many more years experience? Anyway I appreciate your input and maybe it is something I will try Take care
@honeybees1970 absolutely! It may work well for you, but I have never had success with moving honey/nectar against a foundation frames. I've been working bees since I was a kid with my grandpa, but only started my own personal apiary about 8 years ago. I have 35 hives as of now, but with the recent purchase of 1200 acres of farmland I hope to get closer to 350 hive over the next 5-10 years.
@honeybees1970 never split the brood is one of those things beekeepers like to say but can't really give you a good reason. As long as the overnight Temps are above about 50-55F there is no harm. And it does cause the bees to draw comb quickly. I do it all the time. It works especially well to bring outside frames into the center to get them drawn out.
Thats a lot of work for sure, i have a hard enough time remembering what i saw in my 5 hives when I do proper inspections, as long as I see eggs, lots of bees and no major pests then im happy, not sure if ill be pulling honey this year but thats ok as long as the bees have what they need to get through winter, next year hopefully will be great!
Hello my friend, I’m From Kentucky, USA I also keep bees, but I must say your hives look very healthy. Like the old saying goes; whatever you’re doing, keep on doing! Thanks for sharing your Apiary with us. Keep the videos coming
@@matthunt4512 hi and thanks for stopping by, yes im pretty happy with how they are looking, hopefully i can keep the small hive beetles, wax moth and Varroa in check. Take care.
The girls are getting busy.
They sure are , a real turn around after a late start, still not convinced ill be able to pull any honey this year though
Good video
@@TracysBees8713 thanks for watching
😬 the formic terrors 😬 I've been nervously considering formic acid for additional varroa treatment myself but the temperature here can be really erratic because I live in the mountains of central Otago southern New Zealand which means we either get weather from Australia across the Tasman which is hotter than normal or weather from the Antarctic which is colder than normal 😂 I think I might have a good window in November when it's not stupidly hot but not subzero either. I'm not a fan of chemical treatment but I hate varroa even more😂, be interesting to see what results you get 👍👋
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping Friday will be the day I remove the remnants of the strips, so far it looks like it is going well as far as I can tell. Its the first 3 days that it is critical to be below 85 degrees, next week will be hotter than that. I just purchased a 10 treatment pack of formic pro, so need to treat my other 4 hives, i have also used oxalic acid as part of my treatment so hopefully under control
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Thanks for watching
So my understanding is that for the first 3 days it is critical that the temps be under 85 degrees, its been 5 days and so far everything looks to be good, I also heard that they have a boost in brood production after treatment so we will see. Thanks for stopping by
You'll have to let us know how it works out for ya, some beekeepers really like it. But you have to watch out for heat on that one I think? Thanks for sharing, Blessed Days...
Looks good. That Honey B Healthy will give them a boost. If there's not any pollen coming in, you might give them a very small piece of pollen patty, like a 1" strip right on top between the frames over where the brood is.
Thanks for stopping by, ive used pollen patty before and it seems the beetles like it more than the bees, but like you said a small strip is probably a good idea
Your queen was on the first frame you pulled out, running around towards the bottom of the frame. You can see her about the 2:46 mark.
Wow she was in plain view and I didn’t even see her, honestly wouldn’t have expected to see her on an outside frame . Thanks 😊
Well spotted👌🏼
Ugh😅 broken smoker 😬 i use lega Italian smokers, theyre bombproof 😂 and so are the hivetools, i haven't used amazon gear but if you like it and its working for you that's great 😃 👍 ten point bonus for the beetle 😂 nice looking colony. Fortunately hive beetle and European foulbrood are not in NZ, we have enough drama with varroa. Great video 👍👋
Thanks for watching, yes varroa destructor mites, we have those here too. The smoker I had was 3 years old and i do leave it outside after use, id hate to burn my shed down. I guess ill see how this new one is
It always feels good when they pull back and build up well, Congrats.👍Ya when the girls get big they get a bit sassy from time to time.😂Blessed Days...
Theyve all been pretty chill so far this year. Maybe 1 or 2 stings Smoker is ordered lol
If there is a laying worker, the hive doesn't want a queen and she is hiding because they bully her.
Frustrating, hold my beer. 😅
@@menglor yea you have had a rough go so far this year, we dont get bears down here 😆
Sometimes it makes ya wonder, doesn't it.😂Blessed Days...
It sure does 😂
Cool apairy, I love the block stands I might try that 👍 😃 nice video 👍👋
Thanks for watching, yea the block stands are ok, although i have other plans that i just haven’t had time for, at the beginning of this year I had 2 hives and with splits and a swarm I caught I’ve ended up with 5
@@honeybees1970 I want to get hives in my home apairy off the ground and I hadn't considered using blocks, it looks like a good solution 👍 no termites or anything, actually we don't have termites in the south island, or any of that other crazy stuff like bears and whatnot, I just want the floors up off the ground to improve their longevity 😃👍
Yea you dont want them on the ground, i need my hives 26” above ground level, last year we had a flood that caused problems in my apiary
It happens. Sometimes you can just miss her because you pull the top box, she drops and then hops in the super, sometimes a slightly damaged wire in an excluder will just be enough for her to squeeze through without being noticed, or sometimes if you're in a rush you can accidentally put the frame she's on and you've set aside into the wrong box😂 it happens, but great looking brood, excellent solution, dropping the box down, checkerboarding in space and giving the bee's foundation to work 👍 nice save😃 brilliant 👍
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping thanks for watching, I was not expecting to find this and did my best, i have now given them an extra box to move up to, again checkerboarding the honey frames with new frames
Looks like you should be watching how to videos not making them. Sorry but you need to study.
@@finiscary9689 well thanks for watching This is a blog of my journey in beekeeping, i dont claim to be an expert , my 3rd year in, this is an ordinary backyard beekeeper. And yes I do watch videos too. Lol
@@finiscary9689oddly,.I just read your channel about your videos, funny how your point is lost. Re read your intro. You might learn something
Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋😃 noticed you had a little lid trouble, you might like to try an inner cover because sometimes pulling off a stuck down telescoping lid can be a complete mongrel. They'll stick the cover down but the lid will be free. It's another piece of kit, but I find them worth while. I wouldn't be concerned about finding queen cell starter cups, or what people call practice cups😅 it's normal to find them and they'll just draw more. The advantage of leaving them is if your hive goes into swarm mode, those starters are where they'll start drawing queen cells, usually😂 I make a mental note of their location and it's easier to spot any changes. In queen supersede mode, it doesn't matter because they'll pull them from scratch from suitable aged larvae. Great video 👍 it's mid winter here 🥶 so I'm watching everyones summer videos 😂
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping hi thanks for watching,, I actually do have inner covers on all my hives, they have managed to get some propolis in there and stick it to the telescopic lid , bit of a nuisance but bees will be bees. Cheers Rob
@@honeybees1970 😂 I'm watching one of your other videos and I saw that😂 it's the queen above the excluder one. There's just nothing like the moment when you're in a honey super and you see brood above the excluder 🤦😃 I think our inner covers are a different design, ours are full sheet covers with no feeder slot because we use inside frame or rectangular feeders so the bee's can't access the cavity.
You can hear my neighbor Arnie talking throughout most of this video lol, he is having a new Deck installed and has a lot to say lol.
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Looking good
Thank you! Cheers!
Lookin good!!!
Im more hopeful than i was a few weeks ago, ive just got to get them through the end of summer with good population Treat for mites Keep the shb away Im not as worried about collecting honey this year but next year wahoo
Is the smoke harmful to the bees? And is it special smoke?
@@ralphh796 the smoke is a tool for beekeepers, it is used to hide the pheromones released by the bees as their means of communication, so no organized attacks on the beekeeper lol. I didnt need to use a lot of smoke this time as the bees were very calm
Ouch, the cost of buying in queens is high, the last thing you want is a jaffa queen, I was so happy when you discovered the female brood. I wonder why they drew a queen cell out? was it a mated queen you bought?
@@AndrewAHayes that was a practice queen cup, common to make them. Yes she was a mated queen that I bought for $45 can.
Where did you get the blocking frame
@@menglor i made it
Hive beetle….where are you based?
@@joncotnsouthern Ontario near Windsor
Not sure,but what works for some may not work for others.i had a hive that was once dying out and i took away a lot of space and reduced the entrance and that hive came back kinda quick.when you picked up that second black frame your queen was walking around to the other side close to the bottom. When you flipped it over she walked back to the other side as you were spinning it
@@chicken6946 yes i have now seen her at 10 minutes in I inspected them yesterday and saw her but she was not on the frames, instead she was on the bottom and sides I wondered if she didnt like the comb so i swapped it all out with fresh comb and a frame of brood
@@honeybees1970 good good.best of luck to you and your bees.
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This weather in UK at the moment is not good for the bees.😡
Im in Canada, we have had rain for a few days, not great for the bees, this hive is struggling but I did find the queen ( 10 minutes in the video ) she is now laying, im feeding them with a syrup frame to help them, im going to check them tomorrow afternoon and put a frame of capped brood as a boost if things look ok
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Ya they do that sometimes.
Yes they do lol.
9:51 bottom right is the queen
@@savageffx7393 yep i have since seen her on this video, i had another look in the hive today and there are eggs and larvae, hopefully enough bees to raise them They are amazing bees, so they’ll figure it out
Congratulations! I have a colony that's driving me crazy with queen problems. From a package on March 30th the colony took off and built up like I've never seen. Sometime in late May the queen was just gone, but population was/is too big for it to have swarmed & since I wasn't into the box, I don't see how I would have rolled her or anything like that. Then they wouldn't requeen from doner egg frame, so I installed a queen in a push cage. They chewed the wax around the cage and released the queen & she laid a bit, but then is gone now too, with a few swarm cells. Because the colony is still so big I split it 3 ways using the swarm cells in the original & additional 2 boxes and now I'm waiting to see what happens, but I have little hope. I am absolutely done trying to save this colony, so if this is their last chance before I either shake out or combine.
@@theunlikelybeek I totally understand your frustration. In one of my videos ( Dying Hive ) I watched it back and saw the queen at 10 minutes in, today i looked and she is laying although i have yet to lay eyes on her. They are currently in 5 frames, so im going to leave them now till next weekend and see how they are doing
I have a frame like that right now and I’m afraid to move it. So I’m gonna leave it in there until next spring.
I had a few frames from the previous inspection that i took to let the bees rob out so I took them away from the hives I figure most of the honey will end up back in my hives in another frame
I did see the queen at 10 minutes in sneaking around the right side of the frame!!!! Yayy hopefully there is some hope yet
Some times you have to do it in the rain.
Caramel queen second to last frame lower right corner
At what time stamp did you see a caramel queen? On the second black plastic frame?