Georgia beekeeper Bobby Chaisson shows us how he finds and marks queen bees. A great video for beginning beekeepers with lots of tips. gabeeremoval.com
The easy way to remember the colour to mark a queen in a given year is using the question "Will You Raise Good Bees?" (White (1/6) Yellow (2/7) Red (3/8) Green (4/9) Blue (5/0))
22:28 Very helpful video!!! I’ve always shied away from marking my superseded queens because the process intimidated me. This was great and loved the comments by the students. Thank you!!!
Great video! I just marked my first queen last week. Unfortunately, I suffered a marking pen mishap like he mentioned and wound up with a queen painted white from stem to stern! She seems to be doing well, regardless. On the bright side, she is easy to spot, for sure!
Thanks for sharing! I need to get used to handling my queens. Last time I commented it was about selling nucs and not wanting to loose my equipment.... I've since got some of the cardboard nuc boxes and sold a few. 😊 I appreciate you sharing as usual thank you sir!
Thank you for interesting video of internal life of the hive and honey bees. Best wishes to the entomologists and beekeepers and bumble-bees and insect lovers!
Always a blessing when a new video comes out!! If it was on baking biscuits I'd watch it if Mr Binnie posted it, wealth of knowledge!! Thanks Mr Binnie. God bless you from Texas.
Bob seems like a very Generous, easy to work for or just hang out with, I remember the old TV Show, where you had 3 Curtains to pick from, if Bob was behind the Curtain you picked, you would be the Winner. I like the way Bob shows the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I like the Big Smile when things work like they're supposed too, gives me Hope.
Really good video. I like to do quick test of the marking pen on the back of my thumbnail just before I put a dab on her. This gives me a good feel for how the marker is going act just in case - because like others, I have accidentally splooshed out too much. We’re having good experience with the pens from the Chris Werner video last year.
He's a Good teacher some great tips . Always have people asking me to start having queen rearing classes .. not sure how I'd set that up have to be like 3 classes spread out over 3 weeks .. maybe have them do 10 queens each they can take home
Hi Bob how are you? I have a friend who is in Florida working with queens and I'll probably be there next year. I'm from Brazil and I work on everything in beekeeping from making hives to producing queens. I'm waiting for an opportunity to come to the US and do a good job. If you know of any Farm in California or Florida that needs a good beekeeper, I will be available.
Thank you for another helpful video, I’ve been binge watching your videos for the past week and this is in my opinion the most educational and what seems like trustworthy CZcams channel I’ve found. There are some good ones but this one gives real practical advice from a big scale perspective. Not to mention the fact that you’ve been a commercial bee keeper for so many years and still you stay humble about what you know and don’t know. I tip my imaginary hat to you ☺️. I was wondering, do you or anyone else here have any advice on getting used to handling bees without gloves? I’m a first year beekeeper and I’ve been stung a few times and I’m not really afraid of it but the plunge to going full on without gloves seems huge. Greetings from Sweden 👌
Greetings. I just ran across your comment that didn't get answered. I would suggest getting stung at least once a day for a while and then two or more. I have a saying that once you remove the gloves you instantly become a better beekeeper. Good luck.
@@bobbinnie9872 thank you very much for taking the time to answer, I’ll keep your advice in mind once this cold spring subsides! And I completely understand and agree with the sentiment about becoming a better beekeeper without the gloves.
Pine needles are acidic but magnolia leaves are not, and doesn't make a caustic smoke that will burn the eyes. Put the smoke in your own face and if it is not hurtful to you then, you can safely use that material for your smoker.
Bull....folks been using pine needles FOREVER. I'm so tired of hearing people whine about hurting the bees. You're not hurting the widdle beezy-weezys.
@@charlierose8164 I use the medium point. I have used the fine point sharpie paint pen, and it doesn't make a large enough mark with just one touch. I found myself touching several times. To get large enough dot.
@@bobbinnie9872 Bob, I put a dot from an oil based marker on my right hand and a mark from a water based and the oil base stayed on till the skwin wore off. The water based washed off the first time I washed my hands.
Don, I bought two markers and put a dot from each on my hand and one lasted until I washed my hands and the other lasted for 4-5 days before it disappeared. I threw one marker away. LOL
@@russellkoopman3004 I bought a set of Posca marking pens a little over 4 years ago and I’ve used 4 of the colors and none of them will stay on my Queens. Then someone told me to try finger nail polish and it stays pretty good.
Hello Bob. In addition to marking your queens when the opportunity presents itself, at any point in your career have you clipped your queens? On the ’pros’ side of the ledger, the prevailing view seems to be that it may buy you an extra few days before a colony swarms, and if they do ultimately swarm before you can take action, they will end up near the hive entrance where you’ll have a good chance of recovering the queen and the bees. The ‘cons’ that come to my mind are it’s one more thing to do, and every time you handle a queen, there’s a chance for injury. It seems very uncommon in the US, and perhaps more frequently practiced in other countries, such as the UK. In your view am I missing anything on either side, and on balance, where do you come down on it and why? Thanks much.
I agree with everything you mentioned. There's also occasions when the queen is completely lost and the swarm returns. If you catch them at the right time, and only leave one cell, the colony will not swarm again, you have a new queen, a brood break and a strong colony too. I have never personally clipped wings but once purchased a batch of queens that were clipped. I don't see a problem with it if done properly.
Bob, Where can you buy a queen bred to her own kind? I can make queens many different ways like the rest of us can. A Carnolian queen x Carnolian drone. All queens produced from moma will be carnolian queens. This will allow Carnolian queen for 4 years. Thanks, Mike
I throw away my empty medicine bottles. They can't be recycled, so I will turn my next empty into a queen catcher cage. I've never touched a queen except ro kill one for obvious reasons. A plunger size may take a bit of doing, but I can make one if necessary on a wood lathe and get it sized perfectly.
There are many queen producers in California but I doubt they would have queens for sale at this time. You may be able to get one from Hawaii. Google search for "queen producers in Hawaii".
I prefer to pick-up by the wings and hold by the thorax. Seems risky to hold by the legs. Good way to damage a leg and force a supersedure. Just my novice opinion.
Since your a novice I wouldn’t give opinions till your well and truely experienced, this is a very common way of handling queens and works very well , just make sure you got everything in place before starting looking for the queen , but hey we are all humans and can be forgetful sometimes , Also bee keepers have there own preferences on how they do there bees , there isn’t any hard rules that say you have to do it one way or another just what suits your bee keeping style
Better never mark like that! A very very high chance of injuring the queen( legs in this case) in this way. It's hard to grab all the legs and the queen will also begin to twist, you will try to squeeze harder and injure the legs. Catching her by the wings is not best, and in this case, you will need to catch by the wings first and then by the legs which are the two weakest parts of the queen bee. It'll lead to laying eggs not correctly and eventually supersede her by bees in the best total if before that the queen dies in your hands. Best way to catch by the thorax which is the middle part, but aim for the head, not the ass:) Train to catch and mark on bees anyway. Good luck
In my first year i got a marked queen (had 1 hive only) 2nd year unmarked queen, i am in my 5th year now with 3 hives. If I need to buy a queen I get them marked, not because I can't find them, but for the same reason Bob mentioned, if your hive swarms you will know when you see an unmarked queen. This year I had one hive I couldn't find the queen for almost 6 weeks, I knew she was there because of the eggs, but she was a pro at hide and seek, like most of the queens are.
I have been only by one but she got me three times the first time did not have bees but for a 2-3 months and then when I ask the question about the cleanest thing in anybody told me no I was confused second time I peeled her off my eyelid there was no doubt who she was marked by that time third time I got rid of her because I did not want to put something in the bees because I was told a lot of it was genetics in bees
@@bobbinnie9872 I got her with my first nuke I bought. The first time I opened the box to put her in my hive from the nuke box to the 8th frame box. You know the sound the queen makes she was making that sound and round around on the frame the second time open the box two weeks later that's the first time I got stung and when I pulled her off my face I said okay I didn't think drone stung because it was a whole lot bigger than the worker bees and so I marked him that way I had a man coming by that had bees I was going to show him the drone with a stinger so when he got here I showed him but as I looked at her I said that's the queen he said yes so I said she stung me then and he told me please don't sting nothing but other queens I must have been mistaken it wasn't long after open the box up she flew up and stung me but the third time she done it I just got rid of her my first three bee stings come from her. I wish I was set up like you are with the cameras All around video taping that way you would have been able to see it too
I don't like the way he holds the Queen, he even admitted to breaking of a queen's leg so that the bees had to replace her, consider how much walking the queen needs to do, her legs need to be strong. I'll not be using this method.
Morning Bob...great video! Hey Dr. Ellis Can you please help me define Oxalic Acid….a lot of folks say OA is not natural and is a chemical. When people are quoting chemical treatment they quote oxalic acid. Can you help me define chemical versus natural with Oxalic Acid? It sure help knock down Varroa. thank you Sir stan
This is quote from Jennifer Berry in an article she wrote. www.beeculture.com/oxalic-acid-effective-easy-on-bees-but/ What is Oxalic acid? It’s an organic acid found just about everywhere in the environment including in plants and vegetables. It is bitter to the taste and irritating to the eyes, mouth and skin. It is a natural plant defense against herbivores. It is also found in honey. Since it is not fat soluble (a lipid), it doesn’t build up in wax comb. Back in 1957, it was registered as a pesticide (disinfectant/sanitizer), but, by 1994, the renewal of the product registration was cancelled.
@@bobbinnie9872 man BOB ...You are the best...thank you so much for taking the time to respond...It seems a lot of folks think that OA is such a bad thing. Have a great winter!!!--stan
Nice video. I use vinegar to wet my hands. It's prevent from stinging. Greeting from Czechia.
The easy way to remember the colour to mark a queen in a given year is using the question "Will You Raise Good Bees?" (White (1/6) Yellow (2/7) Red (3/8) Green (4/9) Blue (5/0))
Bare hands is the best AND safest way to mark queens. Great video Bob, thank you.
Fantastic. I used to spend over an hour trying to find the queen. Logical and common sense queen finding. Love it
22:28 Very helpful video!!! I’ve always shied away from marking my superseded queens because the process intimidated me. This was great and loved the comments by the students. Thank you!!!
Thanks.
Great video! I just marked my first queen last week. Unfortunately, I suffered a marking pen mishap like he mentioned and wound up with a queen painted white from stem to stern! She seems to be doing well, regardless. On the bright side, she is easy to spot, for sure!
*Thanks for sharing interesting, valuable information Bob* 👍🇺🇲
Thanks for sharing! I need to get used to handling my queens. Last time I commented it was about selling nucs and not wanting to loose my equipment.... I've since got some of the cardboard nuc boxes and sold a few. 😊 I appreciate you sharing as usual thank you sir!
Thank you for interesting video of internal life of the hive and honey bees. Best wishes to the entomologists and beekeepers and bumble-bees and insect lovers!
I lost half my eye sight 3 years ago. I can find her but I have a problem picking her up. I've watched Bob pick up the queen and I'm so jealous.
Great video Bob. I learned to go to the "Dark Side"! Never thought about that when looking for the queen. That will save a lot of time!
Always a blessing when a new video comes out!! If it was on baking biscuits I'd watch it if Mr Binnie posted it, wealth of knowledge!! Thanks Mr Binnie. God bless you from Texas.
Hello to Texas. Thanks.
Bob seems like a very Generous, easy to work for or just hang out with, I remember the old TV Show, where you had 3 Curtains to pick from, if Bob was behind the Curtain you picked, you would be the Winner.
I like the way Bob shows the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I like the Big Smile when things work like they're supposed too, gives me Hope.
This is a fantastic demo for marking queens. I’ve previously heard at least a dozen people talk about it, but this really is the best method
Fantastic video with some brilliant tips thank you for sharing :D
Really good video. I like to do quick test of the marking pen on the back of my thumbnail just before I put a dab on her. This gives me a good feel for how the marker is going act just in case - because like others, I have accidentally splooshed out too much. We’re having good experience with the pens from the Chris Werner video last year.
Good infor!
Really enjoyed watching Bobby in this one! Way to go guys!
I Greg, thanks. I just ran in to Kevin in Iowa. Sounds like I might see you in Nebraska soon.
@@bobbinnie9872 awesome! Looking forward to it!
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Thank you for sharing!
great video thanks
Very informative
He's a Good teacher some great tips . Always have people asking me to start having queen rearing classes .. not sure how I'd set that up have to be like 3 classes spread out over 3 weeks .. maybe have them do 10 queens each they can take home
An interesting video.
Very helpful, thank you
Hi Bob how are you? I have a friend who is in Florida working with queens and I'll probably be there next year. I'm from Brazil and I work on everything in beekeeping from making hives to producing queens. I'm waiting for an opportunity to come to the US and do a good job. If you know of any Farm in California or Florida that needs a good beekeeper, I will be available.
Very good
When I open a hive and remove a frame, if the bees are drulling down the frame, it is hard to find her.
I use hot pink in marking feral queens.
Africanized /feral bees are usually“hot” in Los Angeles.
Gentle genetics get the regular color code.
Thank you for another helpful video, I’ve been binge watching your videos for the past week and this is in my opinion the most educational and what seems like trustworthy CZcams channel I’ve found. There are some good ones but this one gives real practical advice from a big scale perspective.
Not to mention the fact that you’ve been a commercial bee keeper for so many years and still you stay humble about what you know and don’t know. I tip my imaginary hat to you ☺️.
I was wondering, do you or anyone else here have any advice on getting used to handling bees without gloves? I’m a first year beekeeper and I’ve been stung a few times and I’m not really afraid of it but the plunge to going full on without gloves seems huge.
Greetings from Sweden 👌
Greetings. I just ran across your comment that didn't get answered. I would suggest getting stung at least once a day for a while and then two or more. I have a saying that once you remove the gloves you instantly become a better beekeeper. Good luck.
@@bobbinnie9872 thank you very much for taking the time to answer, I’ll keep your advice in mind once this cold spring subsides! And I completely understand and agree with the sentiment about becoming a better beekeeper without the gloves.
Pine needles are acidic but magnolia leaves are not, and doesn't make a caustic smoke that will burn the eyes. Put the smoke in your own face and if it is not hurtful to you then, you can safely use that material for your smoker.
Bull....folks been using pine needles FOREVER. I'm so tired of hearing people whine about hurting the bees. You're not hurting the widdle beezy-weezys.
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I will repeat this video in future to learn how to find queen.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤
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Hello Bob. I mark my queens by hand also. I like the Sharpie oil based pens. I find that the oil base paint last a little longer.
I have better luck with oil base also and it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
Do y'all use the fine point ones or the medium point ?
@@charlierose8164 I use the medium point. I have used the fine point sharpie paint pen, and it doesn't make a large enough mark with just one touch. I found myself touching several times. To get large enough dot.
@@markbooth8458 thanks !
@@bobbinnie9872 Bob, I put a dot from an oil based marker on my right hand and a mark from a water based and the oil base stayed on till the skwin wore off. The water based washed off the first time I washed my hands.
Finger nail polish stays on them better than the paint sticks on my hygienic bees.
Good to know. 👍
Don, I bought two markers and put a dot from each on my hand and one lasted until I washed my hands and the other lasted for 4-5 days before it disappeared. I threw one marker away. LOL
@@russellkoopman3004 I bought a set of Posca marking pens a little over 4 years ago and I’ve used 4 of the colors and none of them will stay on my Queens. Then someone told me to try finger nail polish and it stays pretty good.
@@donbearden1953 great tip to remember thank you
Hello Bob.
In addition to marking your queens when the opportunity presents itself, at any point in your career have you clipped your queens? On the ’pros’ side of the ledger, the prevailing view seems to be that it may buy you an extra few days before a colony swarms, and if they do ultimately swarm before you can take action, they will end up near the hive entrance where you’ll have a good chance of recovering the queen and the bees.
The ‘cons’ that come to my mind are it’s one more thing to do, and every time you handle a queen, there’s a chance for injury.
It seems very uncommon in the US, and perhaps more frequently practiced in other countries, such as the UK. In your view am I missing anything on either side, and on balance, where do you come down on it and why?
Thanks much.
I agree with everything you mentioned. There's also occasions when the queen is completely lost and the swarm returns. If you catch them at the right time, and only leave one cell, the colony will not swarm again, you have a new queen, a brood break and a strong colony too. I have never personally clipped wings but once purchased a batch of queens that were clipped. I don't see a problem with it if done properly.
Gonna start trying to catch/mark queens. Do you think its a good idea to practice catching bees by catching drones first to perfect the technique ?
Bob,
Where can you buy a queen bred to her own kind? I can make queens many different ways like the rest of us can.
A Carnolian queen x Carnolian drone.
All queens produced from moma will be carnolian queens. This will allow Carnolian queen for 4 years.
Thanks,
Mike
Have you had any experience with ECO Wood treatment on wood boxes?
Sorry, I have not.
I throw away my empty medicine bottles. They can't be recycled, so I will turn my next empty into a queen catcher cage. I've never touched a queen except ro kill one for obvious reasons. A plunger size may take a bit of doing, but I can make one if necessary on a wood lathe and get it sized perfectly.
I am a newbie, I have 1 bee hive without Queen Bee, let me know where I can buy her? I live in San Jose Cali. Thank you so much.
There are many queen producers in California but I doubt they would have queens for sale at this time. You may be able to get one from Hawaii. Google search for "queen producers in Hawaii".
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks you so much.
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I prefer to pick-up by the wings and hold by the thorax. Seems risky to hold by the legs. Good way to damage a leg and force a supersedure. Just my novice opinion.
Since your a novice I wouldn’t give opinions till your well and truely experienced, this is a very common way of handling queens and works very well , just make sure you got everything in place before starting looking for the queen , but hey we are all humans and can be forgetful sometimes , Also bee keepers have there own preferences on how they do there bees , there isn’t any hard rules that say you have to do it one way or another just what suits your bee keeping style
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When you find a queen and look away, they turn on their cloaking device. A pain to find them again.
It's magical !!
Better never mark like that!
A very very high chance of injuring the queen( legs in this case) in this way. It's hard to grab all the legs and the queen will also begin to twist, you will try to squeeze harder and injure the legs.
Catching her by the wings is not best, and in this case, you will need to catch by the wings first and then by the legs which are the two weakest parts of the queen bee. It'll lead to laying eggs not correctly and eventually supersede her by bees in the best total if before that the queen dies in your hands.
Best way to catch by the thorax which is the middle part, but aim for the head, not the ass:)
Train to catch and mark on bees anyway. Good luck
In my first year i got a marked queen (had 1 hive only) 2nd year unmarked queen, i am in my 5th year now with 3 hives. If I need to buy a queen I get them marked, not because I can't find them, but for the same reason Bob mentioned, if your hive swarms you will know when you see an unmarked queen. This year I had one hive I couldn't find the queen for almost 6 weeks, I knew she was there because of the eggs, but she was a pro at hide and seek, like most of the queens are.
She turned on her cloaking device.
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Yes, good but without gloves ! And quiets bees ...
I have been only by one but she got me three times the first time did not have bees but for a 2-3 months and then when I ask the question about the cleanest thing in anybody told me no I was confused second time I peeled her off my eyelid there was no doubt who she was marked by that time third time I got rid of her because I did not want to put something in the bees because I was told a lot of it was genetics in bees
Interesting. I guess you had to have that one in a million.
@@bobbinnie9872 I got her with my first nuke I bought. The first time I opened the box to put her in my hive from the nuke box to the 8th frame box. You know the sound the queen makes she was making that sound and round around on the frame the second time open the box two weeks later that's the first time I got stung and when I pulled her off my face I said okay I didn't think drone stung because it was a whole lot bigger than the worker bees and so I marked him that way I had a man coming by that had bees I was going to show him the drone with a stinger so when he got here I showed him but as I looked at her I said that's the queen he said yes so I said she stung me then and he told me please don't sting nothing but other queens I must have been mistaken it wasn't long after open the box up she flew up and stung me but the third time she done it I just got rid of her my first three bee stings come from her. I wish I was set up like you are with the cameras All around video taping that way you would have been able to see it too
I don't like the way he holds the Queen, he even admitted to breaking of a queen's leg so that the bees had to replace her, consider how much walking the queen needs to do, her legs need to be strong. I'll not be using this method.
No. biggest fear is, Am I going to get stung? ...
Eventually it will probably happen.
Can't beat it cause it's full of chemicals
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Morning Bob...great video! Hey Dr. Ellis
Can you please help me define Oxalic Acid….a lot of folks say OA is not natural and is a chemical. When people are quoting chemical treatment they quote oxalic acid. Can you help me define chemical versus natural with Oxalic Acid? It sure help knock down Varroa.
thank you Sir
stan
This is quote from Jennifer Berry in an article she wrote. www.beeculture.com/oxalic-acid-effective-easy-on-bees-but/
What is Oxalic acid? It’s an organic acid found just about everywhere in the environment including in plants and vegetables. It is bitter to the taste and irritating to the eyes, mouth and skin. It is a natural plant defense against herbivores. It is also found in honey. Since it is not fat soluble (a lipid), it doesn’t build up in wax comb. Back in 1957, it was registered as a pesticide (disinfectant/sanitizer), but, by 1994, the renewal of the product registration was cancelled.
@@bobbinnie9872 man BOB ...You are the best...thank you so much for taking the time to respond...It seems a lot of folks think that OA is such a bad thing. Have a great winter!!!--stan
@@bobbinnie9872 Ive never understood the fuss about OA. Some think its like putting rat poison in the hive ???
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