Can't find your queen? Stop and look for this instead
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- This is the easiest way to know that there is a queen in your hive, you don't always need to spot the queen the more you look the more of a chance you will have of hurting or smashing your Queen by accident, once you find the eggs put the frames back and stop.
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True words. When there are eggs, there's a queen. UNLESS you're seeing an irregular laying pattern with only high cones. That's drone brood, which means you have no queen, but a laying worker instead.
Interesting to learn. Thanks for the knowledge.
A virgin queen, old queen, or a queen that ran out semen will have the same brood pattern you described. It's not always a laying worker. There could be a bad queen there so you need to pinch her before you put a new one in. If you don't there is the possibility the bad queen will kill the new queen.
@HeartlessToshiba64 You are correct, a queen running on fumes is also a possibility. There is however a difference. A barren queen will (usually) still lay in a dense, regular pattern, and deposit one egg per cell, at the bottom, in the center. Laying workers lay erratically, against the cell walls, and often multiple eggs per cell.
When I take out an old queen (rarely have to do that), I wait 2 or 3 days, then add the new queen in a cage with a candy plug. This reduces the risk of the queen walking out, as well as of the workers rejecting her.
Laying workers are hard to find, and there may be more than one, so if I don't find a queen I just shake out the hive 20 yards away, and add a new queen the same way 2 - 3 days later.
Great video David. You can see them perfectly.alot of times it's hard to see egg. Great job
I use a small, bright LED flashlight. That helps a lot, making the eggs much more visible, even in bright daylight.
Black foundation shows eggs really well.
Thank you for such interesting videos. I am from England and doing Beekeeping for 5years with two hives. I have learnt more from you than I have from my Classes that I had.years ago. Very homely and comforting information. I salute you. Please carry on sending them.
*watches this at 4 am* I guess I'm a beekeeper now
Your videos are always so informative! I've learned most of what I know about bee keeping from this channel!
it would be interesting to record how many frames have eggs to see just how strong the queen is laying and how many bees will mature in the coming weeks.
Thanks for this Dave! Makes inspections go pretty fast when you're not trying to go through each and every frame to find her. Meanwhile, you see 1-2 frames with brand new eggs. Hahah
Amazing video Dave!!!!!!!!!! I could see everything you were pointing out! Your videos are better than any classes!!!!!!! Thank you so, so much for showing me what I need to know!!
Good tip, thanks - my queen has a red paint spot which makes it easier for me. (it's a Barnyard Bees queen)
Thanks again David! Always something to learn!
Great video David. The eyes showed up very well in the video. Great angle and camera quality.
Keep wandering over to watch these videos in odd moments...super interesting....and relaxing LOL
Awesome video!!! thank you for making this! You saved me a lot of stress and worry and potentially buying an unneeded queen
Great video! Thank you!
Thank you, very informative.
never knew that about how to date and egg it's great to learn thanks Dave
Thanks for the info.
Nice video from fellow bee keeper in Cali
I had to pause the video to check for the eggs (I’m not a bee keeper but would like to be) so that might help others to see the eggs. Thank you!!
Hope you are well with that hurricane and all!
I do not look for the queen, unless I really need to find her to make sure if there is a queen or not.
I look at the comb that will show me a good bit of history and will show me what is going on in that hive.
You will see comb-build, eggs, larvae, new young bees, capped brood, pollen, syrup, capped honey.
Listen to the noise the bees are making and you know right away if you have a queen or not. Noisy bees have no queen.
Bees that are eager to attack you may not have a queen.
So there is a lot of information if you read the frames/combs without seeing the queen.
I just look for eggs if i see the queen its a plus.
lol thats not as hard as one of my queen, finally found a queen the other day, turns out she had almost completely black tail, she somehow disappears even when you are looking right at her
What works for me is looking for the shape and behavior of a queen, rather than for the color. But I agree, the black ones are really hard to keep your eyes on.
I discovered a bee hive in a birdhouse for a month which are doing well and maintaing a strong hive. Until that one day I cheak on the hive and I noticed all the bees left the hive for good except the 4 worker bees that have stayed in the hive. Do you think that the worker bees would find a new queen to keep the hive going again or the worker bees would leave the hive too.
I thought that was your first hive until you turned around haha
Are there color variations even in the purebred queens like Italians?
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Vielen Dank für deine Videos .
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My hive came with 2 queen excluders is one supposed to be on the bottom to prevent the queen from leaving? Would it harm the hive if I do? I lost my first queen right after marking her and I installed a new queen and wondering if I could to prevent her from leaving ?
I can find her on videos but looking at the hive I can't ever find her? How long before she starts laying on a swarm or a cut out after she hits the new box?
David can you reuse old boxes and frames that are in good shape. I am inheriting a large quantity of equip. And have not dealt with bees
Ah, this is one you have said many times - probably without realizing it. You get in a hive, going to do something (ex: a split) and you want to know where the Queen is. You see day old eggs, and comment, well we know she's in here. Then you made the point, you can split it right now and if you have eggs at the right age in both old and new hives, it does not matter which one has the queen. Fresh eggs always mean queen is there. However, when you showed that queen, it took me a bit to find her. I am used to the solid colored abdomen - Italians have a golden color, carneolans are dark, almost black. but that queen had the stripes of the workers, so yeah. it was hard to find her. I would so mark her, I would! lol
thanks for another good training video, I learn in every one - even when I think I knew what you were talking about. you always have those little tidbits of gold that remind me I still have a LOT to learn! thank you sir!
Well thank you David. I am working on it. I live in an apartment complex, so I have to find a place I could keep bees. But that complement from you has made my whole week, thank you!
A worker bee can start laying eggs when a queen is not present, but the laying pattern would be spotty and all of them would turn into drones.
can you explain the stages of honey, im guessing they lay egs first then cover the larvies but how does the honey form or do they make honey first before laying im a novice to this just stumble accross this video
So does the queen walk around to check things out and make sure everyone is doing their job?
*Can I apply this to my love life?*
I have a maybe not strange question but an uneducated question about the queen. On Tuesday morning of this week a bee flew inside my daughter's car as I was getting in she all but freaked out but I got her to step out to allow the bee to leave. She asked what it was and I told her it looked like it might have been a queen honey bee. But this bee was by itself at that point. I looked around but didn't see or hear any others. Would a queen go off like that?
@@davidhaught84 it didn't look like the images of a yellow had it queen though ... it didn't have a slick exoskeleton it was a little fuzzy
I know iv got queens and I find the eggs and lava but finding that lady is hard or close to impossible for me and I want to replace some soon 1 because of hive temperament .most of the bees around me are Italian and some carneys and after 3 or so crossing carneys and Italian you can get temperament problems .they are tough bastards and rob the hives around them they helped kill a wild hive that was dead in my mothers house and have no problems with varroa i never treated them this year and there is no major signs but I got a big belly like you and the wife pulled out 13 stings lucky I had my vail and gloves on .I want to find that grumpy old slapper and mark her so next time I get a spear queen i can find her easy and squeeze her
Why I can't hold my frames like that bare handed? Cuz if I do I get lots of stings... as I bring my hand closer some bees start threatening wiggling their wings, if I insist they land on my hand and sting...
Dave when are we going to get a tour of your honey yards? I love your videos with all your nucs but would like to see how your hives look.
He only runs nucs. His business is queens, not honey.
He has mentioned in a few videos in regards to feeding sugar syrup that he does not have to worry because his honey production hives are in another yard so wont be tainted by syrup so I took it that means he has full hives in other locations my bad.
If you subscribe to this channel, you will see his production hives occasionally. I watch for the nuc and queen rearing tips. Great content.
Any tricks to finding a virgin drone laying queen? She is small enough to squeeze through a queen excluder and for the life of me I cannot find her.
David how bad was Hurricane Michael, hope the bees an All are well
I'm betting the bees near Mexico Beach, Florida are still shaking, or dead. We might need to import bees there. It was very sad.
How do you keep the bee's from stinging your fingers? Sometimes I get stung right through my gloves!!!
Get bees with less aggression in their genetics. Don't shock the hive, because vibrations alarm the bees. Don't breathe near the bees, exhaust breath alarms the bees too. Don't squeeze bees between hive parts, it will make them aggressive. If a bee stings, consider stopping for a while, because the pheromone from the sting is an alarm signal to the other bees. But even if you do that, you WILL get stung on occasion. It's part of the job.
It's very simple: don't crush bees. Be super careful. You can touch bees, and gently move them out of the way. Drop the gloves, and you'll eventually learn how to handle them. However, even with gentle bees, if you crush them every time you go in the hive, they will remember, and associate you as a threat. After you handle them rough, and crush them every time you go in the hive, they'll hate you.
@Rusty Shackleford I do not think it is a good idea to recommend against wearing protective clothing.
I cant take the chance dropping the gloves, I'm one of those crazy ass beekeepers that's allergic to bee stings, I have to wear a fully enclosed bee suit, boots, etc... I was just wondering if he put anything on his hands to keep them off is all
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@Mary Lupo Wow, that's quite a risk you're taking. No matter how well you harness yourself, there's always the chance that a bee gets through. Do you carry antihistamines with you?
I swear in my next life I will have a bee farm thingy.
de Vivre Jones why not this life
@@sketchyaxolotl8168 other priorities for the time being. Therefore, I'd really not jeopardize any bee as badly as they are needed in our ecology.
David, noticed your black plastic frames. I use Mann Lake 4.9 plastic black frames to see larva to graft and start two frames. One foundation less next to the box then the plastic frame.
How are you using yours in your system if I may ask.
And heck winter is early here in Tulsa. Freeze warning Monday!
@@davidhaught84 I always double coat them with wax I roll on.
The hive beatles love to hide in the groves of the frames. I grinded down the point of a nail so I can smash the little s**ts.
Have a good night. Enjoy your videos.
How you doing,Michael get you any?
How do you queen your hives , breed your own ? Just split & let them raise their own queen
Thank you , I have done my first graft last Monday , am trying the Nicot system today . I live in Tasmania Australia , been subscribed to your channel for a fair while now , thanks for all the info
2nd hi David
I believe I finally made it here first.....now I don't know what to say..... Hmmm. Tag you're it.
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