48 Hours Later : Did my new queens survive?
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- About this video: Today we will check to see if the queens we installed two days ago survived. The Hot Release queen has ben keeping me up at night. Not sure if she survived or not. Let's find out.
Thank you for all the great videos! Hope you enjoy our honey!
We already tasted it on warm buttered toast. It was awesome and greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
I just use 8 mil nitrile gloves, very rarely do I get stung with them. I like them cause you can feel what you're doing better. That was some beautiful honey, really light.
It was awesome. It was almost iridescent yellow. I saw some new glove from Mann Lake I may try. Maybe I'll sew up a pair on my own :-)
Best gloves on the market are apis tactical bee gloves. Ventilated gloves and fit is perfect.
Thanks. I am going to check them out now. Much appreciated.
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Guardian bee makes a good pair of gloves. I really like them. I have the short pair they make. Ventilated too.
Thanks a ton. I'll have a look at them. Much appreciated.
The yellow foundation is good for spotting SHBs
Very true. They stand out well against the yellow background.
life goes on even if you buy a queen
For me, yes. For the hive, not so much.
Curious where you got your queen marking cage at?
Win some lose some. But in the end you got two hives that should take off. Take care.
Yes! optimism is the key :-)
The new one you found in the first hive looked small and didn't appear to me to be mated what do you think ?
I agree and fear she won't get mated. I may have to give her the old pinch and combine the hive with another one.
Apis Tactical gloves!
I noticed a partially torn down queen cell on one of the first deep frames you looked at. I suspect you had a new virgin when you introduced your marked queen and that queen may had killed the new introduced queen. When you introduced the new marked/mated queen I would have made sure there were no active queen cells present.
That empty cell was there prior to the new queen install. I honestly think we just missed the queen in the last few inspections because she was small and dark on dark comb.
I think you have an intercaste queen in that hive that is probably sterile. She's putting off pheromone, but isn't going to lay anything. I'm not sure how much longer you have in your season in Georgia, but up here in Virginia I would pinch her and combine the hive.
That is a new term for me. Intercaste. I will begin my research. The season is drawing to an end and there aren't many drones. I think a combine is in my future unless I come up with another idea. Thanks.
@@BugFarmerBees I can't find the video where Bob Binnie talks about it, but he alludes to it here in this video about choosing which cells to take in a walk away split. ruclips.net/video/NwwTi-hZloE/видео.htmlsi=5Bk6ijdnysXDfMdz Basically it's where the bees choose a suboptimal larva that didn't get royal jelly the entire time and therefore produces an inferior queen that is stuck somewhere between worker and normal queen.
I am a bit suspicious about that queen that suddenly turned up after having been missed during multiple inspections. Even if she was a virgin queen out on mating flights during those inspections, she should have been laying by now and there probably already should have been larvae.
I agree with everything you are saying. I suspect she is poorly mated or not mated at all. The bad news is she has a pheromone in the hive which caused her bees to kill the good new mated queen. I may have to just pinch her and combine.
@@BugFarmerBees Even if she were poorly or not mated, she should be laying drone eggs, but not even that.
Great video I would love to marker mark my queens I've got the ring you have do u push it down we're she can't move or do you just mark her why she walking around
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Ha great video I voted Republican all the way. on the gloves I just use anything and sometime nothing. just house hold rubber kitchen gloves work great but my hands sweat bad in them. but kamon has a nice pair of leather bee gloves for amazon they are 40.00 they are great i have a pair of them as well. have a blessed week
Ok Bug Farmer, Your hive is bad out of balance, no young bees and to many old ones . I,m not a wanta be bee keeper i have had bees since 1970. You need to get rid of that super, bees always do better in a smaller space. If you ever have a doubt about having a queen give them a frame of brood it wont hurt regardless. Your new queen is to young to lay she will in about a week. I saw a chewed down cell on 1 of the frames.
Thanks for the advice Doug. I agree the hive has too much space. As for the chewed out queen cell, well, it's been like that for a while. The cell isn't new, it's an old cell I removed weeks prior. I left the super on top of the hive because our fall flow is about to start and I was hoping for a bit of honey. However, it's been dry so it looks like a productive flow is a pipe dream. My plan for today, you will see in an upcoming video, is to remove the supers and drop a couple of gallons of feed on each hive. As for the queen beginning to lay; my fingers are crossed. Thanks for taking the time to help a fella out. Take care.