2 WEEK FOLLOW UP - Dealing with Mean Bees - HOW are they doing NOW?
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- This is Part 4 of the Dealing with Mean Bees videos. I went back and checked on the original hive after two weeks. How are they doing? Are they still mean? Do they have a queen? Watch and see!
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Thanks for explaining and showing how bees reproduce and behave. I sure will appreciate my raw honey even more!!
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I always give them a full thirty days to make new queens with a walk away split. Before I check for a queen. That’s enough time for the new queen to be mated and laying. Just my experience over the last twenty years or so. Good videos keep them coming.
Thanks for the advice. Probably wise to do so. I usually start to see some eggs within a couple of weeks but sometimes not. Was pretty anxious to get into this hive and see how they were doing and also give an update. Probably jumped the gun a little bit. Will check back in a couple of weeks. That will basically be a month.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment. I also appreciate the encouragement!
A frame with new eggs would be a great idea if you dont see a queen or eggs, but I suggest that after the inspection NOW would be the right time to do it, before the last of the brood hatches. But if possible i would suggest a new queen. to save some time.
This video was produced back in the spring. The bees did a great job replacing the queen and produced a nice crop of honey. Currently both hives are still alive and well. Thanks for watching!
Two weeks and you're looking for eggs? A little early. A week to mature after she emerges. Another 5 days to a week to mate. A few more days to get ready. Then she lays. Look in two more weeks. Putting eggs from another hive is always a good idea.
Thanks for the input. That is my plan. Don’t plan to crack it open for a couple more weeks. Thanks for watching!
This is so interesting! I love honey and now I see what a hive looks like.
I’m glad you are enjoying the videos! Thanks for watching!
Wow it looks like requeening made a big difference in that hive. Thanks for sharing. If everyone shared their knowledge like this there would be more bees in the world.
I hope it all turns out fine and I hope the videos are beneficial in some way. Thanks for watching and thanks for your kind words.
At minute 8:30, as you turn the frame, a clump of bees fall to the ground. I've been told over and over by the master beekeepers in this area to look at frames over top of the brood box, or at least place the inner cover on the side I am looking and leaning on the hive angled up do that in case clumps of bees fall, they can crawl back up. Especially if one of those is your queen. Thanks bunches for doing the follow up. I've learned a lot from this series!
Great comment and good advice. Thanks for checking in and for your kind words. I have already learned some things from the comments I have had on these videos. Hopefully I can continue to incorporate some of these ideas to become a better beekeeper.
Love the videos. Im not sure if it matters but your the only person iv seen who props their supers and boxes at an angle on the floor. Its just that all the other vids iv seen people set them down flat on a board or spare stand. Just an observation you understand. It might help in keeping the hive/bees calmer as you inspect them.
It works either way. The “proper” way to do it is as you describe but I think the most important thing is to be gentle with them. Sometimes admittedly I am a little rough. Great observation. Thanks for watching and thanks for checking in!
@@brucesbees really enjoyable and educational. Im looking to get started out this year myself. Been building some hives and frames as woodwork projects and a few swarm traps (yep im a cheap skate lol). Im always willing to learn something new. So thanks again.
Robert Murphy I hear ya man. Remember these videos are more like a vlog than anything else. Not necessarily right or wrong. Just taking others along for the ride.
Great video Bruce you are very informative I sure do appreciate that I am a new bee keeper and I learn from watching videos like yours.
Thanks for the kind words. Hopefully you can glean some information that will help you along the way.
I enjoy bee videos. It's nice and calming for some reason. Thanks for continuously uploading bee videos.
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching!!!
its definitely looks like the queen hatched and tore down the other cell ,thanks for sharing
I think you are right. Thanks for watching.
Great video, hey I remember a few videos you were trying to locate the queen in the hive. I recently read an article in Bee Culture about Smoking and Drumming beehives. In it they described how someone named R.L. Taylor put a queen excluder on the brood chamber, put an empty box to hold it down, and started smoking and drumming. It was in the Mar 2019 issue. I haven't tried it myself, but when he tried it in 1890 he found the queen in 25 hives, "one after another.". Not sure if this is helpful information, but I figured I'd mention it.
That is interesting. I get Bee Culture. Will try to remember to look for that article. Thanks for sharing!
If you see a queen cell with a hole in side that is a dead queen the pulled her out if the hole is in the tip of front that is a hatched queen. I have no dought she's in their.
Yep you’re right and thanks for the comment. I did see a cell where it looked like they chewed in from the side and then at least one cell with the obviously hatched out queen from the end as you say. I am pretty confident we have a new queen in there. Just going to leave them alone now for a couple of weeks and hopefully find a box full of eggs then.
Thanks for checking the video out. Joel all is well with you.
Well with any luck you have a new queen and that hive and it will continue to do well. Thanks for sharing.
I certainly hope so. We will see. Thanks for checking it out!
Good videos.... but please turn up the volume. It's really hard to hear your comments.
Hmm ok. Didn’t realize it was a problem. Thanks.
Hey Bruce, Have enjoyed watching you get hammered--haha. Just kidding. But they have let you have it. Hey I just ordered my first Flow Hive. So excited. Are those old flow hives, are did you forget to stain and seal them" If you did, not too late to try "Vermont Natural Coatings." AMAZING STAIN AND SEALER IN ONE. Your hives will stay new looking for 20 years.
No doubt lol. These were not my hives. Some were authentic Flow Hives ame some were knockoff Chinese hives.
I personally don’t have any Flow Hives. Just not cost effective for me.
Thanks for the info and the tip. May have to try that though now I actually plan to wax dip my hives if possible in the future.
@@brucesbees I believe you won't find anything better than Vermont Natural Coatings. I've now heard over a dozen beekeepers rave about it saying their hives look brand new for 20 years. Ya, I'm trying to find one for less. If you do, I'll let you know.
Why would it be an emergency cell? They had swarm cells in the hive when you split it.
If for whatever reason the original cell was damaged or non-viable maybe they created an emergency cell but it is quite possible that the cell or two that had hatched were in the hive when I went through it originally. Could have missed them. Either way I am going to leave it alone for two weeks and check back. Probably got in a little too soon. I’m guessing there is a queen in there that just hasn’t started laying yet. The bees were pretty calm. I highly doubt they were queenless.
i rather have aggressive bees, cause enough thing messes with em> plus they seen like they do better than docile bees. meaning aggressive is stronger> i also like the way you keep you population high WTG > by keeping your population high> eliminates a lot of problems in the hive also
I try but have some that are a little weak right now. I actually am ok with bees that are “defensive”. But sometimes they can get a little crazy.
I appreciate your comments. Keep them coming!
@@brucesbees WELL> YOUR DOING A EXCELLENT JOB! if i see any thing wrong, i will tell ya > if i do > i'am not getting on you !:> JUST TRYING TO HELP Yes bees do throw curve balls, and get crazy My killer bees are taming down as well. THEY WAS KILLERS! i mean all over ya> Searching ways to get in after ya You had to be suited up heavy and tight. cheers buddy
Thanks I appreciate it!
You can't expect a good queen when you smash the cell or shake off the frame, you should have put the cells back unshaken.
You got a queen or they'd be much louder and roaring.
*HOW IS THEN IN YOU PREVIOUS VIDEO YOU DID HAVE A QUEEN THAN WAS SEAT IN THE LAST FRAME THAN YOU DID HAVE IN FRONT OF THE BEE HIVE YOU DID GET HER WHIT A QUEEN CLEP & NOW YOU DINT SEE ANY QUEEN OR EGGS BUT THE COLONY STILL CALM JUST LIKE LAST WEEK*
Different hive. The video before this was a hive that he forced a swarm from the hive you see in this video
Like Kitty Kat said. This is the original hive, not the swarm I took away. Both hives ended up doing well.
Stop shouting.