Stop swarming and make honey with the Demaree method
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
- My friend Amy has two strong overwintered hives that need attension to prevent swarming, one was showing early queen cells 5 days ago. We consider, splitting the hive, making nucs, swapping positions of hives but all these will lower productivity. My favorite solution to this dilemma is the Demaree manipulation which will stop swarming and make a monster hive capable of making hundreds of pounds of honey!
Unbelievable, I was just talking about demaree splitting today😂 I'm in southern New Zealand and I doubt many beekeepers have heard of this technique in new Zealand and the guy I was explaining this too was giving me the " you gotta be kidding me" look😂 so now I'll send him the link too this video 👍😆 thanks for uploading 😄
Great demonstration! Really illustrated the work required to do this correctly. Too often tube demo"s make it look easy. Thanks for a realistic one!
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As much as this is about a Demaree, it's also useful for us novices to see videos of 'not ideal' inspections as many of us novice beekeepers are like Amy and have limited time available.
Ha Peter great video, I did this on 20 of my hives this way is great I always enjoy your videos. Thanks for doing them. Have a blessed week
A video well done! Thank you!
When I do the Demaree manipulation to a hive, I like to prop up the inner cover with 3/8 inch diameter sticks at the front corners. This gives the bees an upper entrance that allows drones to escape. The bees love the upper entrance and no drones die on the queen excluder.
I followed your instructions and had no swarms plus an excess of honey so far. Thank you.
Great video once again on the Demaree method!! Can you explain the logic of putting the original 2 deep boxes with brood all the way to the top so far from the queen? Why not have them on top of first deep box with the queen, right after the queen excluder? Thank you for all the valuable info you are sharing with us!!!
We are living parallel lives! I did a Demarree split today!!!!
When is the best time to requeen when I use the demaree method?
Question...in order to avoid having to lift a deep super filled with honey from the top of the stack, can we replace it with a medium super once all brood is hatched and is about to back-fill with honey?
If there is a queen excluder and Vergin hatches won’t she die against the excluder.
Do robbing bees spend the night in the hive that they are robbing?
Demaree uses two QE. What happened to the second QE?