@captbriansbees 😳😂😂 oh no!! I was lifting a deep off of another deep and was about 80 pounds…it slipped, slamming back down on the hive. They weren’t happy either 😂
I'm a first year beekeeper and I am really curious how far is too far to transport queen cells on a frame before it will kill the queen cell and other brood. I had a hive that was ready to split and I had 10 different queen cells on three different frames. My buddy, also a first year beekeeper who only lives a five to ten minute drive away, injured his queen while attempting to mark her so I pulled one of my frames of queen cells and just threw it my my car and drove it over to him and inserted it into the hive. In a few weeks we checked it and he had no queen, no new eggs or larvae, and no new queen cells formed.
Great question, I understand where you’re coming from. So distance is less a factor than consistent temperature. If the correct temperature is maintained and the queen cell is ready to emerge within 1.5 days, (they’re very fragile the previous three days) then distance should not be a concern. Does that help or are there other details that would help?
@@thehivedoctor13 The distance was only given as a way to estimate the time the frames were not within a hive. This happened at the end of July in high 70 degree weather, on the North Oregon coast, and I would guess the total time the frame was out of the hives was just under 30 minutes. I did transport the frame in a NUC box but it was solo with nothing to keep a constant temperature. Also, After my buddy hurt the queen, he told me he heard a clear crunch while pressing her up into the marking tube and she was partially curled up but moving, he put her back into the hive inside pinching her so we don't know if or how long she survived and I dropped the frame of queen cells into the hive within a couple of hours of him injuring her so there were many different reasons the queen cells may not have survived.
@@thehivedoctor13 I guess my main question is how low can the temperature get and how long can it stay there before the queens are in danger. I'm sure there is no definitive answer but I was just wondering what your experience suggests.
@disillusioned070 Okay, well in that case I wouldn’t attempt to transport a cut-out queen cell. I would give them a frame of young brood to raise a queen from. That could be done in a nuc box with nurse bees to keep the brood warm until arrival and they could join the hive needing help.
Oh, I told you late spring about a queen that emerged in my hand, she has turned out to be a nice strong queen.
I remember that! How cool she’s going strong!! Yes!🐝🐝
Another good video thank you.
Sweet! Thanks!!
I think that I am going to try queen rearing this year, if not, definitely next year.
Cool. I recommend starting with figuring out what you want to use for queen raisers. That’s where I started.
I would love to see how you handle that hot hive and follow up after and how the new Queen effected the hive.
I actually made a video on that! Only to discover that my mic had died and there was absolutely no sound 😅
@@thehivedoctor13 Oh brother🤦♂️ I had my phone stand tip over on to the hive. Bees were not happy.
@captbriansbees 😳😂😂 oh no!! I was lifting a deep off of another deep and was about 80 pounds…it slipped, slamming back down on the hive. They weren’t happy either 😂
I'm a first year beekeeper and I am really curious how far is too far to transport queen cells on a frame before it will kill the queen cell and other brood. I had a hive that was ready to split and I had 10 different queen cells on three different frames. My buddy, also a first year beekeeper who only lives a five to ten minute drive away, injured his queen while attempting to mark her so I pulled one of my frames of queen cells and just threw it my my car and drove it over to him and inserted it into the hive. In a few weeks we checked it and he had no queen, no new eggs or larvae, and no new queen cells formed.
Great question, I understand where you’re coming from. So distance is less a factor than consistent temperature. If the correct temperature is maintained and the queen cell is ready to emerge within 1.5 days, (they’re very fragile the previous three days) then distance should not be a concern. Does that help or are there other details that would help?
@@thehivedoctor13 The distance was only given as a way to estimate the time the frames were not within a hive. This happened at the end of July in high 70 degree weather, on the North Oregon coast, and I would guess the total time the frame was out of the hives was just under 30 minutes. I did transport the frame in a NUC box but it was solo with nothing to keep a constant temperature. Also, After my buddy hurt the queen, he told me he heard a clear crunch while pressing her up into the marking tube and she was partially curled up but moving, he put her back into the hive inside pinching her so we don't know if or how long she survived and I dropped the frame of queen cells into the hive within a couple of hours of him injuring her so there were many different reasons the queen cells may not have survived.
@@thehivedoctor13 I guess my main question is how low can the temperature get and how long can it stay there before the queens are in danger. I'm sure there is no definitive answer but I was just wondering what your experience suggests.
@disillusioned070 Eek!😬 I’ve come close to squeezing a queen too hard while marking her as well.
@disillusioned070 Okay, well in that case I wouldn’t attempt to transport a cut-out queen cell. I would give them a frame of young brood to raise a queen from. That could be done in a nuc box with nurse bees to keep the brood warm until arrival and they could join the hive needing help.
Queendom, not Kingdom! 🤣😆🤣
That’s something I’ve never thought of!!