((Detailed Video)) Hive is fixing to swarm.. Now what?

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Комментарии • 119

  • @roycarter6235
    @roycarter6235 4 года назад +4

    Thanks for great videos. I'm a beekeeper in the Blue Mountains Australia. I have been beekeeping for under two years in total. I am learning a lot from you. Most appreciated

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  4 года назад +1

      Thank you for watching

  • @hiteck007
    @hiteck007 4 года назад +1

    I'm amazed how plassard those bees are messing with their hive & how typical that you'd find the Queen on the last frame, man really. Definatly bees you want to keep. Good job on the video.

  • @joycemclean3894
    @joycemclean3894 5 лет назад +1

    Wow that bunch of bees

  • @chrisnickell2148
    @chrisnickell2148 8 лет назад +2

    Your videos are more interesting when you take the time to explain what and why youre going to do what you want to accomplish...thanks for taking the time to help us understand...

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +Chris Nickell you are welcome and thank you

  • @honeybeeasian7718
    @honeybeeasian7718 8 лет назад +1

    I'm in awe of how calm they all are. Impressive numbers and excellent temperament. You got a really good colony there.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      Yes they are really good bees

  • @baccusthedrunken
    @baccusthedrunken 7 лет назад +6

    you and dirt rooster best and favorite bee channels!

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад

      +McBoots thank you very much. I am friends with him. He is a good guy

  • @derickjames1998
    @derickjames1998 4 года назад +1

    Thank you showed me some something I didn't know. All these bee videos I've watched and I never saw a queen cell before you showed me that one in the corner

  • @bear09871
    @bear09871 8 лет назад +2

    Good looking strong hive! Always nice to see!

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +bear09871 they are strong

  • @628DirtRooster
    @628DirtRooster 8 лет назад +4

    Running strong!

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад +1

      +628DirtRooster good bees too

  • @dadu63
    @dadu63 7 лет назад +2

    great looking hive. i really enjoy your videos

  • @bsbeesbuzzworthyhoney8918
    @bsbeesbuzzworthyhoney8918 7 лет назад +2

    Best explanation of a split I have ever seen! Thanks!

    • @emmanuelmaxim7566
      @emmanuelmaxim7566 3 года назад +1

      i realize I'm kind of randomly asking but do anybody know of a good place to watch new series online ?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  3 года назад

      Series on what?

  • @357lockdown
    @357lockdown 7 лет назад +2

    Great stuff man! Thanks for sharing your knowledge...It means a lot.

  • @ericahockett6409
    @ericahockett6409 7 лет назад +1

    You are so good! Calm and knowledgeable. I can NEVER find the queen. I do top bar bee keeping.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад

      +Erica Hockett never had a top bar hive. I have one my brother give me but I have never put anything in it

  • @dadu63
    @dadu63 Год назад +1

    I came back to watch in 2023. Where yall been? Haven't seen ya on the RUclips in a long time. Hope yall are well!

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  Год назад +1

      Ya got to get back to making some videos. So far I have caught 2 swarms this spring

  • @xtremelemon8612
    @xtremelemon8612 8 лет назад +1

    You got unlucky on that one haha the queen was on the very damn last frame you checked hahah

  • @bluzervic
    @bluzervic 6 лет назад +2

    I really liked this video, great job

  • @RaySarasin
    @RaySarasin 5 лет назад +1

    Splitting my hive tomorrow also cheers

  • @denniskutsiy326
    @denniskutsiy326 6 лет назад +1

    Awesome video , thanks for sharing

  • @NorthtoHopeDesert_Hues
    @NorthtoHopeDesert_Hues 6 лет назад +1

    We caught it in a video before our cut out bees swarmed. I think they were queenless. I wish I had got a video of when they all bolted out of the hive but I did get them afterwards.

  • @seafoxskipper1
    @seafoxskipper1 8 лет назад +3

    As I understand it queens that are preparing to swarm slim down a little to be able to fly a little better. This may have been a contributing factor in the escape from the cage.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +Bob Bruchsaler might be. I have never heard that.

    • @cynvision
      @cynvision 8 лет назад +1

      Yep. Heard that at the SC State meeting last week. It was Dr. Tsuruda or Dr. Rangel who said bees invented diet and exercise for weight loss. The workers lower the amount they feed her and run her around.

  • @tphvictims5101
    @tphvictims5101 6 лет назад

    Pretty good.

  • @426superbee4
    @426superbee4 5 лет назад

    1 trick is, pull the honey frames out replace with empty frames. You want em always drawn out comb. Reason will loose your construction bees. that slow a hive down. This slow em down from swarming. Once you pull the queen cells. Can also move some brood frame cells into a weaker hive. The Population about right, a little on the heavy side. WOW THERE all nurse bees. Why there not flying and so DORSAL he he ya GOT HER > IT REALLY NEEDS TO BE SPLITTED

  • @robertpryor9679
    @robertpryor9679 7 лет назад +1

    Great job.....very helpful

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад

      +Robert Pryor thank you

    • @robertpryor9679
      @robertpryor9679 6 лет назад +1

      Could some of the capped queen cells be used to start a new hive?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  6 лет назад

      Yes you could

  • @royreeves4081
    @royreeves4081 6 лет назад +1

    Smart

  • @marchill1837
    @marchill1837 8 лет назад +1

    I need a couple of those cells.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +Marc My World and some things that interest me. I know right

  • @ericahockett6409
    @ericahockett6409 7 лет назад +2

    Ha! She was on the very last frame you looked at. What patience. I have a question. Do the bees start making a queen cell and then get the queen to lay in it, or do they create it from a 3 day egg? The reason I ask is, if I see an open queen cell does that mean that there was once an egg in it? Or do they sometimes make queen cells and leave them open in the hopes that the queen will lay an egg in there? I have read that there can be superceed cells and swam cells and that they are different things, depending on what the bees are trying to do. I made a split but I think they are still queenless. However there are open queen cells in there now but I can't tell if they ever had a lavea in there. Today I took a capped queen cell from another hive and put it in the new split. Fingers crossed! Thanks.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад

      +Erica Hockett some people say the queen lays in them others think the workers move them. I am not sure. Never seen them do either one

  • @wadebarnes6720
    @wadebarnes6720 3 года назад

    Our show to take a queen to take a queen excluder put on a box then put a box on top of the Queen excluder and shake the bees the queen can't go through

  • @garycasey991
    @garycasey991 Год назад

    I hope what I was watching has something to do with how much room you have for the amount of bees in the box because I want more honey enough for them and some for me I have a plan I hope it works

  • @lourensklopper4217
    @lourensklopper4217 5 лет назад +2

    Split the hive in atleast 4 Nuc's!!!!

  • @darrinboadway
    @darrinboadway 8 лет назад +1

    thanks for the vids they are helpful ....

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад +1

      +darrin boadway thank you. If you have any questions just let me know I will answer them if I can

    • @joncotn
      @joncotn 8 лет назад +1

      +dfishman76 to make these vids, I know how long it can take!! It's great to have people like yourself to make the time to do these vids and answer questions. Nice 1 👍

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад +1

      +jon alford the videoing is the easy part the editing is the pain. That video was almost and hour long and I cut it down to what is posted. Thank you for watching the videos

    • @darrinboadway
      @darrinboadway 8 лет назад

      ya its hard to make shot vids I try to lol keep it up cheers

  • @ascher40
    @ascher40 5 лет назад

    17:25 you talk about the wiggle dance. i for one, don't believe that dance gives them information on where to forage. I have seen many of my bees in the nursery doing it, and those bees are not foragers, they are nurses.
    To lead the other bees to the nectar supply, I feel that they communicate with a pheromone.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  5 лет назад

      Not sure. I know it’s something they have in nearly all the bee books

  • @ccthepope
    @ccthepope 8 лет назад +1

    When you are moving the frames that are loaded with that many bees do you squish many of them? Edit.. I guess you answered my question later in the video, sorry for asking before not watching the whole video.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +r aeronca normally I don't but sometime you can't help but the squish some. That's one of the reasons to take a frame out so you have room

  • @cynvision
    @cynvision 8 лет назад +1

    Can you point out where the plans for the nuc from a board are on beesource? I saw the post last year and copied them to paper but then moved. Box with the cut list is buried in the garage. Can't find the post. Isn't that the way it is?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      beesource.com/build-it-yourself/5-frame-nuc-d-coates-version/

  • @smokeydabeecharlescoleman8365
    @smokeydabeecharlescoleman8365 8 лет назад +1

    At 8:36 something happens in the Matrix!!!.....................Ever try to do the split, and just candy cage the queen into the new hive to allow her a chance to change modes ? Would it be faster to split it, and listen to see which box gets louder ?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +Smokeydabee Charles Coleman well I wanted to make sure I took her with me. That walk away split and the louder hive does work

  • @pmac5621
    @pmac5621 4 года назад +1

    When you have a lot of capped Q cells, how many do you leave in the main hive?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  4 года назад

      Just depends on how many there is of them. The more the better

  • @3_up_moon
    @3_up_moon 7 лет назад +1

    I love the way you talk. I don't know what it is about it. Where you from?

  • @tiporari
    @tiporari 8 лет назад +2

    Those are very docile. I can't get near our hive without a suit. They immediately go after me when I get within 20 feet.
    They like my wife better.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад +1

      +tiporari this hive was open for almost and hour and I got stung one time and thats because I mashed her

    • @kiaya007
      @kiaya007 5 лет назад

      i realize its been a few years since you made this post but did you try requeening the hive with a cell from another hive of calm bees? cause seems to me an aggressive hive is no fun. also if they are attacking then you may be going into the hive too often and the bees are always in defense mode also use more smoke to mask the defense pheromone. smoke then even before you crack the hive open at every entrance to calm them down and put them into what i like to call "happy hour" mode. i dont know how much you smoke them but lots of bee keepers often use too little smoke before they go into the hive. if my bees were aggressive id first requeen them and use more smoke. also dont buy your bees from a keeper with aggressive hives. bee keeping is supposed to be a joy not pain. let me know what you ultimately did. id love to know.

  • @michaelmoore5233
    @michaelmoore5233 8 лет назад +1

    I love a big box of bees ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, look like ya got some good splits out of that box go bro >>>>>>>>

  • @richardowen4763
    @richardowen4763 7 лет назад +1

    hi my new bees swarmed ..was ok as i got them bake in to another hive ..i checked my brood box theirs still Queen sell on a rack ,, them should i make a split of them or gust leave them to do there thing

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад

      +Richard owen not sure without knowing everything about them. I would just leave them alone. You can always add another box if you need to

  • @rickyhardman1380
    @rickyhardman1380 8 лет назад +2

    great video. finding the queen with that many bees is a job in itself. she's usually on the last frame you pull. what's the latest you would do a split? I've been told the end of july.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +Ricky Hardman depends on where your bees are. If you have a strong hive I don't see why you can go later than that. As long as they have plenty honey and pollen they should be fine.

    • @nclivingstone
      @nclivingstone 8 лет назад +1

      or the first frame when you aren't looking for her. LOL

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад +1

      +Deborah Horne that's right

    • @nclivingstone
      @nclivingstone 8 лет назад

      here In NC - when is the last YOU will do a split with a healthy hive

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +Deborah Horne I would not do one after late August

  • @donatin67
    @donatin67 6 лет назад +1

    Pls what kind of bees are there and what state are you on ?. Those girls are really quiet ! Thanks for sharing.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  6 лет назад

      These are mostly mutts. They are from swarms and cutouts. The main genetic would be Italian if I had to guess.

  • @heatherhood5625
    @heatherhood5625 8 лет назад +1

    so with it being so hot will they be OK without water for 1-2 days while you have the enterance blocked?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +Heather Hood I blocked them off until I got them to new location. They where blocked off just so the bees could not get out until I got them to where I was putting them.

  • @wtmccain1
    @wtmccain1 5 лет назад

    Got a question.. could you have shook the bees off the frames with queen cells on them and put them in another box then put queen excluder on the bottom box sit the box with queen cells back on went back later that evening or next day when bees went up to brood and made your spilt? Would this work if you couldn’t find queen?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  5 лет назад +1

      It’s best not to shake the frames with queen cells on them. This could kill the queens inside. Yes that would also work. Many different ways to handle this situation

  • @BillyBobBrookTrout
    @BillyBobBrookTrout 4 года назад

    Just curious as to why you limited yourself to two art swarms you seemed to have enough resources for another?

  • @bsbeesbuzzworthyhoney8918
    @bsbeesbuzzworthyhoney8918 7 лет назад

    Here's my dilemma....found queen cell yesterday and open at bottom so I assume the new queen is out. I found the old queen in upper deep and looked good. Still producing. Should I look for new queen near the queen cell? If I find her, what then? Do I put the new queen frame in another box?THanks

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад

      +B's Bees in Bama you can split and and see what happens. If one of the splits starts to fail you can combine the hives again by using the newspaper method

    • @bsbeesbuzzworthyhoney8918
      @bsbeesbuzzworthyhoney8918 7 лет назад +1

      Thank you!

  • @kirkives4956
    @kirkives4956 4 года назад +1

    Just a question?? I see a lot of videos (not just yours) where the queen gets out of the clip because it’s smashed just enough to open the clip. Can’t you just cut out a small corner of hive of one frame and hold her in the clip with a rubber band? Just asking?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  4 года назад +1

      You could. Several ways to do the same thing. This is just how I do it.

    • @kirkives4956
      @kirkives4956 4 года назад +1

      Thanks. I enjoy your videos. I like how to edit. I like the fast forward that you do. I think it keeps people interested longer. Thanks for your knowledge and reply.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  4 года назад

      Kirk Ives thank you

  • @xshanghu
    @xshanghu 5 лет назад +1

    Do you ever just cut the drone cells out?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  5 лет назад

      I have not but don’t see why you could not.

  • @danaililev6221
    @danaililev6221 7 лет назад +1

    Do you use a stand for your camera?

  • @baconneggs2406
    @baconneggs2406 7 лет назад +1

    bee wisperer

  • @joncotn
    @joncotn 8 лет назад +1

    Great vid :)
    Time for a new queen clip me finks ;)

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      +jon alford it was the way I put it in the hive.

    • @joncotn
      @joncotn 8 лет назад

      +dfishman76 as you know, if there's a way out (or in), they'll find it. You've got a bionic queen there- definitely worth grafting from her!!!

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад +1

      +jon alford oh ya. I got to check on her in the new hive. Weather has been crap past few days so I have not had a chance to see how she is doing

  • @baconneggs2406
    @baconneggs2406 6 лет назад

    Shes always on the last frame in the box😂

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  6 лет назад

      Like the old saying goes she is in the last place you looked for her

  • @winkyshy2
    @winkyshy2 5 лет назад

    pretty impressive bee gear you have on. have you considered wearing nothing at all just for fun?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  5 лет назад

      No thanks on the nothing at all

    • @winkyshy2
      @winkyshy2 5 лет назад

      @@dfishman76 ya i understand...but its not because of the bees, im guessing

  • @gpaulwelch7127
    @gpaulwelch7127 6 лет назад

    Why don't you Mark your queens

  • @mrd.6594
    @mrd.6594 8 лет назад

    +dfishman76
    Hey Darrell I was wondering I see you do that with no protection...I heard you say how docile they are but have they ever turned on you in a dime?

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  8 лет назад

      Bees can go from docile to aggressive sometimes. If you are slamming stuff around, killing bees, and being aggressive with your movements that can make them turn on you. Weather has a big effect on them and what their mood is. If it's cloudy and looks like rain better suit up or leave them alone.

  • @mzmamamiavirgo
    @mzmamamiavirgo 7 лет назад +1

    That accent!!!!

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад +1

      +MamaMia Virgo lol some people are trying to figure out where I am from

    • @mzmamamiavirgo
      @mzmamamiavirgo 7 лет назад

      dfishman76 My guess is Georgia or Louisiana Just guessing tho!!!

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад +1

      +MamaMia Virgo NC

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад +1

      +MamaMia Virgo you where close

    • @mzmamamiavirgo
      @mzmamamiavirgo 7 лет назад

      Lol Yey!

  • @ellenl.5581
    @ellenl.5581 7 лет назад +1

    Get a drone.

    • @dfishman76
      @dfishman76  7 лет назад

      +am_Lily worn I am taking up donations lol