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Instead of killing off an aggressive hive, try WEED in your bee smoker, when you smoke the bees with weed, the bees will mellow out who will be TOO mellow to sting anyone!!🤣😂🤣😂

I wouldn't want to be your neighbor lol

I watched another video where the beekeeper was using an electric knife to uncap frames. I'm going to find one at the Goodwill for a few dollars and try that!

Aqui nós não temos colonias agressivas. Só mais ou menos defensivas. Aqui elas não " atacam" a seu bel prazer, só se defendem, mas aí quem sabe, a biologia pode ser diferente.

I watched the whole video and I never see the g****** smoker.

is it better if there are many queen bees ❓ can you tell me what is the advantage of many queens in one box

Maybe I have been away from beekeeping to long but doesn't anyone use regular bees wax foundation anymore?

I can’t stress this enough *where is your Bee smoker?*

She is a big girl!

I found it idmeteately!

Thank you for sharing this. I'm a first time bee keeper and I've seen this on some of my frames.

what type of bees do you have? Italians?

Used a net.

Can't see anything

Great video. Really good tips and knowledge. Thank you!

I just got out of a hive like that. During the bedlam they managed to get inside my veil - absolutely miserable feeling. I left all the boxes open on the ground & left. Hopefully, they will be gone after a good rain. 🤷‍♂️

Its the first time with my own bee hive. I picked up the swarm around mid summer. I took one small honey harvest off it and noticed that the flight pattern there after was chaotic. I realized that it was robber bees. Now my hive is a complete ghost city. Lots of dead bees out the front. Could I have accidentally killed the queen?

Smash it down even if it has honey/brood/pollen in the cells?

I love crystallized honey 🍯

Do you think that they are africanized?

I wear a vail and that's it, I often wear black shirts. What I do different is I sing it relaxes me. The girls just come up and look at me and then go back down. They probably go oh it's just him. I can't carry a note even with a handle on it. But where can I go and have 5o,ooo females listen to me sing.

I use screen bottoms here in florida and when i use smoke i place it under the hive and let it smoke through the hive

Mann Lake...do you live in East TX?

Those are all great tips but you didn't say anything about the time of the day or the weather or that it could be that the bees are not going to cooperate. I work my bees in just a cheap mosquito veil and a t shirt 99% of the time. That one percent that I don't is for Aggressive hives or when I work the bee before 11am or after 5pm. Like you said you need to use the smoker right. Just my 2 cents

Seems that the queen you had, was probably using sperm from a different drone that was geneticly more aggressive vs the sperm from the previous drone that was calm, if you tryed waiting it out for close to 2 months, they may have calmed down when she would again rotate(to different sperm) into a completely new set of brood. You will probably find even though you switch to a new queen, they will continue to be aggressive, until all the aggressive brood/bees that were hatched with that aggressiveness die off...2-2½ months...

How are you supposed to smash the wonky comb down when it’s covered in bees and full of brood? One of my hives is a huge mess with comb like this, not a single frame drawn out properly so I haven’t really known how to go about cleaning all 10 frames up when it’s mostly all capped brood and all the bees are between the comb and the foundation?

Good info

I'm going through this now for the very first time. Just ordered a new queen though I would bet they're already queenless. Couldn't get deep enough in before having to call it quits to find any evidence of a queen. They're going to have to accept the new lady of the hive or it's Dawn dish soap for the lot of 'em. This behavior is a no-go, ESPECIALLY with neighbors (mine are about as close as yours are, and my bees are currently kamikaze-ing me from about the same distance away.

Thanks for the tips. All my mentorship comes from bee keeping friends over phone and texts.

How do you correctly add wax to frames.

Thanks

I have a swarm trap in my yard right now that has that same entrance disk and I just had a swarm move in about four days ago. Imam letting them get established a bit before they take the trip to my actual bee yard. Just as you pointed out, it was the design that is the issue and not the materials. The title thumbnail is the biggest mistake that you forgot to mention.

Great tips!

Is this thing common in the states? I keep bees in Germany, but although I know this plastic foundation frames, here it's very rare used. We get empty frames and equip these with so-called Mittelwänden, wax plates with the structure of the combs. These are then build to combs by the bees. And I never had this problems.

Holy, this helps a lot. I just went down and they build comb right over the frame. It pissed me off.

Thanks, i have this problem. I waxed all my frames but only 1/2 drew properly. Ill try smashing down the wonky comb.

I had an awesome hive that was super gentle and super productive. Over the winter something happened and by March they were incredibly aggressive. I did a mite check and dropped that queen into the alcohol with the other bees, then a few days later put in a new queen. Unfortunately, she didn't survive, then I let them make their own queen, but that didn't work out, and a couple of weeks ago the hive was getting robbed. It didn't have enough bees left to defend itself. They basically euthanized the hive on their own.

I had a hot hive like this once and they had to go. I notice one day they were going after people walking by on the street and I couldn't go out and work in the yard at all without getting stung multiple times.

No smoke? I have 2 hives and one is aggressive, I use smoke and it calms them down a lot

I don’t see any reason to use plastic foundation when you got to heavily wax it anyway so why not just use beeswax foundation they will readily accept , to me this just does not make any sense but to creat lazy bee keepers thinking they can just put plastic in there and it will be all okey dokey not to mention isn’t there enough plastics in the world with out using more plastic , just sayin. I myself will always stay with wax that what bees do build wax ,can’t blame them for shunning the plastic ,they know it’s not theirs so why waste your time with un natural bee keeping accessories , food for thought.

I melt the wonky comb with a heat gun and brush it over the plastic

Thank you for the video. I was taught to scrape the comb off and to do the same with the excess on the top of the frames when housekeeping. On my hives I started placing the removed comb at the side of the front entrance and normally the ladies will immediately remove the honey and them remove he comb to use inside. It takes a lot of energy to generate that wax so I think smashing it or placing it at the front is a great solution.

Dude my brother's hive lit my ass up two days ago!! He got the box hive 2 years ago and I've been the one mowing his yard for him since he got them. Mowed all last year no problem. The area where the box is is kinda a barren spot of their yard with very little grass or weeds within 10 to 15 feet of the box. There is a section in that general area that I've always mowed, I'd get within about 15 feet with the mower and these bees never once have bothered me, I could even get fairly close with the weedtrimmer and cut down the few weeds in pretty close proxinimy to them, no problem. Mowed there like 2 or 3 other times this year no problem but this last time was not a good situation!! lol I was on the riding mower and started mowing in that one section somewhat near them, I noticed they seemed to more bees than normal swarming right around the box, anyways a few started buzzing around me and I'm like nope and I immediately exited that area and immediately drove over to my brother and asked him if there was any reason he could think of that his bees were acting aggressive. He said he didn't know and hadn't noticed. I worked up the courage to go back over in that area to mow. Made a couple more swipes with that mower and I really was not that close to these things at all(I've been twice as close no problems) and here they come. They absolutely swarmed my ass. I got stung in the forehead 4 times, they got the back of my neck half a dozen times, my left arm and back got hit a couple times each. When it started I was swatting and thought I was gonna manuever that mower to safety but it wasn't cooperating in that moment and I literally had to bail off that mover and running towards the other side of the property as fast as I could while swatting at bees. Man it sucked. After the initial attack was over and I was collecting my composure and accessing the damages I was probably damn 150 to 180(or more) feet away from them and still had an occasional bee or two finding its way to me and attacking. I had to get full dressed in their bee suit to retrieve the mower along with my hat and sunglasses that I slapped off my face when first attacked lmao. It had been like 20 minutes and they were still swarming my mower out for blood lol. They got me good. Thank god I'm not allergic. That was the 2nd worse encounter I've had with bees/wasps in my life! I've never had multiple honeybees attack me before. When I was like 9 or 10 I got stung like 35 times by yellow jackets tho.

Brand new beekeeper here, getting my first nuc next week. What do you mean by putting wax on the plastic? How do you do that? never mind just saw the same question below.

Bees weren’t crazy about drawing out wax foundation either. Frame spacing is the key on foundation. Next time take a heat gun and just melt the wonky comb onto the foundation. Black, white, yellow, no real difference. 54 years keeping bees.

I had a hive that would seek people out at 200 feet. They would start stinging at 100 feet. They would follow for a quarter mile. They died a soapy death.

I put a box with half yellow frames and black frames. My hive rejects the black foundation and only uses the yellow.

The disk is fine. I’ve caught many with them.

I hope it works! I went in guns of the navarone on a cold day and really messed some stuff up by doing too much too early. After that, the defenders were buzzing me all around my yard. I haven't requeened but I am thinking if it persists I will. I am getting into them again this weekend. I had a hot hive at the farm and I just killed the queen and put in cells from another hive. The hive was hotter but not like super aggro.

Why do beekeepers like barnhard use single colony boxes instead of compartmentalized