The bees have a perspective that you don't have. By the same token, you have a perspective that they don't have. The bees don't know more than you know, nor do you know more than they. What can be the case is, you know something they don't know, or the converse. When I move bees, sometimes the bees will see that as a traumatic situation and they then blame the queen and might supersede a perfectly good queen. In this case, I actually have a better understanding of what just happened than they do so a supersedure at that point might not be the appropriate decision. It is true that they have information that I don't have but I also have information that they don't have. Allowing or stopping a supersedure is always the beekeeper's choice and the best we can do is to learn all we can about be behaviour so that we can make an appropriate decision. In this particular case, the beekeeper cannot make the wrong decision, IMO. As you showed, this colony is rocking!
@@decaturridgebees8761 They say you're as old as you feel so if that's the case, I'm probably about 100 years old. As for wise, I can only aspire as I am yet just a fool.
Not as of yet! On another note though I had another colony supersede the queen. I noticed the other day more supersedure cells but the pattern looked great. I opted to split the colony up and pinched the queen who looked amazing. Dropped in two virgins. Came back 5 days later to destroy cells again. I found one frame that was open brood now mostly capped and drone brood was scattered about. Not a terrible amount but def enough to see she’s failing. The bees knew
Watching them fly up over the canopy of trees to get to there nectar and back down is wonderous.
Sure is!
The bees have a perspective that you don't have. By the same token, you have a perspective that they don't have. The bees don't know more than you know, nor do you know more than they. What can be the case is, you know something they don't know, or the converse. When I move bees, sometimes the bees will see that as a traumatic situation and they then blame the queen and might supersede a perfectly good queen. In this case, I actually have a better understanding of what just happened than they do so a supersedure at that point might not be the appropriate decision. It is true that they have information that I don't have but I also have information that they don't have. Allowing or stopping a supersedure is always the beekeeper's choice and the best we can do is to learn all we can about be behaviour so that we can make an appropriate decision. In this particular case, the beekeeper cannot make the wrong decision, IMO. As you showed, this colony is rocking!
You sound like a hundred year old wise guru my man!
@@decaturridgebees8761 They say you're as old as you feel so if that's the case, I'm probably about 100 years old. As for wise, I can only aspire as I am yet just a fool.
@@ThatBeeMan you are not a fool in my mind brother! Have a beeutiful day
Can we get an update? Did they supersede her?
Not as of yet! On another note though I had another colony supersede the queen. I noticed the other day more supersedure cells but the pattern looked great. I opted to split the colony up and pinched the queen who looked amazing. Dropped in two virgins. Came back 5 days later to destroy cells again. I found one frame that was open brood now mostly capped and drone brood was scattered about. Not a terrible amount but def enough to see she’s failing. The bees knew
I found the colony last week without the queen and i keep checking for the new queen and see no sign at all. I think it failed :(
@@decaturridgebees8761 well 99/100 ain't bad! Lol