Beekeeping: How To Discover & FIX Laying Workers
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
- Beekeeping becomes depressing when you discover you have laying workers. Your hive will perish. I'll show you how to evaluate it properly and how to fix it.
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Hi David!
I actually had one of my 18 hives have a laying worker. I noticed it when I saw multiple larvae and the capped brood was all drone brood. I took that box of frames and went to another hive and placed newspaper with slits and added the box over it. The combined hive is now producing proper brood.
The shaking bees method isnt actually to stop laying workers back to the hive
It is a method to scrap the hive completly and bees fly back to nearby colonies and join them
The strong colonies wont allow laying workers in
Still tho your methods are way better and doesnt waste a colony
Hi David,
I'm sorry, but i didn't get a reply to my previous comment.
I love your tests, I hear more and more about an alternative to the smoker, Apisilos I cross.
Have you already tested this product?
If anyone has, I'd love to hear about it. It seems very interesting to me, I hate the smoker.
I thought I replied. I have tested a few vap smokers, but haven't tested the Apisilos. I was asked but of all the things I experiment with, I don't have time to test smokers. Mine works fine for now 😄
I understand that newly mated queens may lay multiple eggs in one cell until they figure out their new plumbing!!!!
Thank you for sharing your experience. Very valuable information. I also was told to throw the whole colony on the grass which is very sad.
This year I have captured a lot of swarms. About 30% either killed their queen or never had one so I ended up with several hives going to laying worker level.
Thank you for all you do! I love learning from you! I am a newbie and have so much to learn.
Question…
Say if you did have laying workers, or took some brood frames with bees on them and then added into existing hives, what about the bees that are on the frames that are put into a new colony? This will not create a bee war and they will get along with the others fine immediately?
Thank you!
They will get along fine this time of year.
I'm so excited, got 2 nucs today! I'm a newbie and got them in their hives and have food on your feeder boards I got from you. I also received my "Backyard Beekeeping" book today!
Wow, that's great. I wish you all the best.
Another awesome video! Great information on solving a laying worker problem.
Such a vast source of info. From us new Keepers Thank you David!
That's great thanks for letting me know.
Good stuff. Thanks David and Sheri. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for your knowledge
My pleasure
Thank you, David
You are welcome.
Hi David, I just had remedied a queenless hive that turned into a laying worker. The hive had swarmed several times. I gave them a few frames of open brood and I now have a queen cell ready to hatch in a few days.
There you go!
I am a new beekeeper and this is my biggest fear. Thank you!!!! 💛💛💛💛
It can be bad, but like I said, just keep monitoring your queen.
Excellent video. Thank you David.
Glad you enjoyed it
David, GREAT VIDEO and info! Yesterday I left my garage door open and late afternoon I had a swarm of honey bees trying to get into one of the deep hive boxes with 10 drawn out frames , 5 frames full of honey. So, I uncovered the box and watched them move in. Later around 10 pm I check on the box and all the bees where inside the box. I closed up the box, moved the box out of the garage this morning, opened the entrance and they have been busy flying all day. I noticed a few of the bees bringing in pollen on their legs this afternoon. I will watch it for a week before I inspect it for a queen. Oh by the way it was 34 degrees here this morning, no frost, currently 60. Watching you tonight.
That's cold.
It was 38 degrees here this morning. Lots of sunshine today, warming up to 70. Bees are flying. 😎
Thank you Mr.David for sharing the knowledge.
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My pleasure
I wonder when they turn laying worker,what percentage of workers start laying? Any idea?
As I mentioned in the video after 21 days. Not sure of the percentage but I would think fairly low.
Is it true that laying workers often lay eggs on the edges of the cells while the queen normally lays in the middle?
Yes, especially when the comb is deep or wide. The workers have shorter abdomens and cannot get down to the back of the cell. But on newer comb that is not fully drawn out they can reach the back.
Thanks for the video! Quick question. When the queen lays more than one egg in a cell, do both eggs develop or do they run out of room? Thank you! Can't wait for livestream tonight!
They will remove them down to one.
Thanks
No problem
I saw one of your video that you said you were in Illinois? Was wondering what part of Illinois? I wanted to get into beekeeping but would love to see how it goes in person.
I live in central Illinois but my schedule doesn't afford me the opportunity to train others in person.
What would happen if you took a laying worker and performed AI on her? Not that I'd ever imagine doing it, just wondering about the biology.
Worker bees lack the reproductive organs. "The spermatheca is either absent or rudimentary" (Snodgrass 1956; Gotoh et al. 2013)