How to Bank Queens - Banking Mated Queens - How to Bank Mated Queen Bees
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- How to Bank Queens - Banking Mated Queens - How to Bank Mated Queen Bees
In this video I show you how to bank queens. Banking mated queens is a really important technique to use during the season to ensure you have mated queens when you need them.
My technique for banking mated queens is really simple and easy to follow.
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Hi Lawrence thanks mate my F1 buckfast queen arrived safely on Tuesday afternoon, introduced her this morning into my queen less colony the bees where happy to see her and had her covered in the cage fanning away and feeding her also your heather honey is so good had some on my toast this morning.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 a big thumbs up from me Lawrence mate, I will give you a update next week.
Thanks Lawrence for another great info video
When I get a batch of 30 Queens I now make up a queenless colony to bank them because doing what you did I've had them swarm 10 oclock next morning with all that Queen pheromone. Perhaps it only happens to me but won't risk it anymore because I keep the Queens in a hive in my garden for easy access to post them. And don't want them Swarming annoying the neighbours. You're putting some great information out there nobody needs to buy a book anymore I tell people to watch you that's all the information they need🍯👏👍
Hey Jess! Thanks for the kind comments! 😊 Very much appreciated 🙏
That's really interesting. I've never had that happen. I do often store them in nucs without queens as well but find the queenright hives are more often available and as long as the flows are on and they are well separated from the brood area, they are well looked after
@@BlackMountainHoney I think all the piping the young Queen's do that would normally happen in a hive before swarming and bees don't recognise Queen excluders they only recognise the whole colony as one so all that piping going on above makes them think they better get their Laying mother out to safety before the young Queen's kill her. Have you ever noticed when the Queen pipes all the Bee stop moving they listen to the Queen's.
Great. Never seen that before. Have a good break with your family. I expect you will be busy when you return!
Cheers Peter! Argh. Always busy when I'm taking a break 😉
Nice one Laurence great video.
Thanks 👍 Cheers Tal!
@@BlackMountainHoney Ive never had that many queens delivered but there have been times when they're are rejected or there simply arent enough bees left in a box to support her by the time she arrives...and this would be a great way of extending queen survival without having to risk it by throwing a swarm together and simply chucking her in so to speak. Honestly though I actually find that dropping a lot of nurse bees in a clear box and putting the queen cage in the middle is a reasonable last ditch way of getting her accepted (I found that one two years ago when all kinds of weird things happened to my queens)
Perfect timing! Might get the chance to put this new found knowledge to good use over this next week, depending on how many queens make it back to the 3-frame nucs I'm raising them in.
Thanks for another interesting video. Aren't you doing any queen rearing of your own this year?
We will do a bit later in the year for some requeening but struggling for time this year
What is the name of those types of queen cages? Where can they be purchased?
thanks!! so you are banking queens in a queen right hive???
When you put them in a split are they going to be in the cage for another week?
Great video as usual 👍🐝🐝🐝🐝
Not these ones. Made up the splits ready for them 😉
Hi Lawrence I have a question regarding my hive, the hive is a 12x14 and was transferred from a standard national nuc over a month ago. Unfortunately the bees have built comb on the floor under the shorter old frames rather than building on the new 12x14 frames. How should I correct this? I was planning on slowly moving the old frames from the inside out but the comb on the floor is full of brood
I did this before watching this video but put the mesh upwards not downwards, and put the candy plugs facing each other in lines of two, so bees can't eat it from o/s, went back and the cages were covered and the bees were obviously feeding the queens but they were very interested in them with a clump of bees on top of each, had me worried but I looked closer and there was noit stinging.
how many days can the queens stay in the bank? is it better for the hive not to have a queen?
How do you get so many mated queens without hives? I've seen the queen rearing frames with all the artificial queen cells, but I don't get how they don't kill each other and then go get mated unless you move them to their own splits before they are born...
They all need to be split, laying and analysed before they are caged up for banking
@@BlackMountainHoney so are you putting queen cells in splits first, then they hatch, get mated, start laying, then you capture them and bank them? What do you do with the split they came from then?
Requeen it with a cell and start again. These are ordered in queens that we get regular deliveries of so I've not reared these myself
@@BlackMountainHoney ahh that makes more sense, just keep repeating the process with the splits!
@@SummitForWellness Yes. Otherwise they can abscond very quickly in mating nucs
Where do you purchase the yellow queen cages. I am in the USA.
Not sure where to get them in the US. They may be called puzzle cages
hi, will this cause the strong colony to swarm? thanks!!!
So you put various queens at the same cage?
No - each cage has a 1 queen and a few attendants
How you know these queens are matted? Greetings for Minnesota, USA
They are open mated F1 Buckfast. We have a good relationship with the importer and you can tell by the size of the abdomen, they are really well mated.
A lot of talk… show it more…please..
Not really a huge amount to show on this one. I put some queens on a QX on top of a super ;)