That was actually heartbreaking, ok maybe no tears in the Bungle house, but to find that the queen has died or absconded and all the workers are desperately trying to form a new queen & working overtime literally, Fingers crossed, see you in a few more weeks
Absolutely fascinating guys. Great explanation as to what's happening as I know nothing about beekeeping. I really hope everything works out okay with getting a new Queen 🤞
With the greatest of respect, you guys really need a mentor. Are you members of your local association? If not, you should be. Almost definitely already swarmed. Once that cap gets sealed they're gone. I'd have probably kept all the bees together. If you've already lost up to 70% of your bees to a swarm, why make it even weaker by splitting it again? You'll also lose 80% of the flying bees back to the original hive. Instead of putting that split in a full hive, you should have put them in a nuc. If they have too much room they'll be overwhelmed. I know it sounds like criticism but if you'd had a mentor, they'd have told you exactly the same.
Thank you for your constructive comments, they are appreciated No, we don’t have a mentor, but we have completed a lot of reading around the subject and watched many many hours of RUclips videos! We have found that we get a lot of conflicting advice and ideas on how to do things and we have taken the view that we are trying to make as many informed and considered decisions as possible but we are having to learn on the job! Since this video, our bees swarmed about a week later! We did manage to retrieve them. It seems our mistake was that after this video, we did not go back in to both hives and check again for queen cells.
I read it takes 16 days after the egg was laid or 13 days after the egg hatches into a larva. If a larva 24 hours old is grafted, a young queen will emerge 12 days later. (From Google) Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 🐝 Great stuff Bungle and Lady M 👍🏻
Nice one 🐝 Bungle and Lady M 😊
That was actually heartbreaking, ok maybe no tears in the Bungle house, but to find that the queen has died or absconded and all the workers are desperately trying to form a new queen & working overtime literally, Fingers crossed, see you in a few more weeks
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Very interesting. I enjoyed that video Thank you
Thanks so much for watching ❤️
Absolutely fascinating guys. Great explanation as to what's happening as I know nothing about beekeeping. I really hope everything works out okay with getting a new Queen 🤞
Us too! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🐝🐝
With the greatest of respect, you guys really need a mentor. Are you members of your local association? If not, you should be. Almost definitely already swarmed. Once that cap gets sealed they're gone. I'd have probably kept all the bees together. If you've already lost up to 70% of your bees to a swarm, why make it even weaker by splitting it again? You'll also lose 80% of the flying bees back to the original hive. Instead of putting that split in a full hive, you should have put them in a nuc. If they have too much room they'll be overwhelmed. I know it sounds like criticism but if you'd had a mentor, they'd have told you exactly the same.
Thank you for your constructive comments, they are appreciated
No, we don’t have a mentor, but we have completed a lot of reading around the subject and watched many many hours of RUclips videos!
We have found that we get a lot of conflicting advice and ideas on how to do things and we have taken the view that we are trying to make as many informed and considered decisions as possible but we are having to learn on the job!
Since this video, our bees swarmed about a week later! We did manage to retrieve them. It seems our mistake was that after this video, we did not go back in to both hives and check again for queen cells.
I read it takes 16 days after the egg was laid or 13 days after the egg hatches into a larva. If a larva 24 hours old is grafted, a young queen will emerge 12 days later.
(From Google)
Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 🐝
Great stuff Bungle and Lady M 👍🏻