Requeening in Vermont
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Introducing new queens with Michael Palmer at his cell building yard in Vermont. This is a video I put together after returning from my week spent in Vermont. It covers the two types of introduction of queens for various different reasons but concentrated more on the use of push in cages that will give more of a guarantee of acceptance each time! These are pretty standard methods used in beekeeping and if instigated properly, theres very little rejection or further intervention needed apart from just releasing the queen. Very few times do you get a queen rejected. If so, theres usually other issues in the colony like another recently hatched Virgin queen!
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Great video compilation of push in cage re-queening, thanks.
im watching 3 videos of yours every morning while i have my coffee. cheers
i appreciate all the work you guys. learning alot Richard. thank you
This is fantastic . Must be a ton of experience being there with Micheal and absorbing the great hands-on techniques that he openly shares ..
Yes it was an amazing experience, so much to see and learn!
Absolutely fascinating - so informative and a joy to watch.
Thanks Sandra. it was a great week and i learned heaps. would go again tomorrow!!
I've never been able to successfully re-queen using mailing cages. Can't wait until next season so I can try this method. Thanks for sharing.
+Rich Booth Hi Rich. The biggest problem when buying a queen in a mailing cage must be during her introduction. A queen harvested one day, posted the next and then put in a hive the following morning for example is still unlikely to become accepted if the existing queen was still in the hive recently. I would say two days or less. It takes that long for bees to start queen cells sometimes, so without using a push in cage you are surely running the risk of losing that lovely new queen you just bought!! I reckon if you can't find brood you still have to be careful as their may be another queen cell or recently hatched virgin somewhere in the colony, so using that as a method of introduction with a mailing cage can't be guaranteed. However in the majority of cases no brood and no sign of bees preparing for a new queen would usually mean a mailing cage would be just fine!! If your still not sure, then use a frame of brood from another colony, introduce the queen under a cage. That way you won't have any problems. If you come to lift the cage after 4 days then you will see aggression from the outside of the cage before you even lift off the cage!. then theres issues, check for another queen or virgin queen.
Michael makes removing a queen from a mailing cage easy, but in reality its not!! do it in your car or near a window in the house, that way if she flies, she goes towards the window and you can catch her again. You can now see why so many people buy queens but don't manage to successfully requeen or substitute correctly. They are trying to get a queen accepted by bees that only know another. This method gives very reliable results!!
Watching your vids I’ve learned so much Richard. Thanks a bunch. Seems you took full advantage of your time with Michael
Decatur Ridge Bees yes it was fantastic! Thanks for your kind comments! Mike was great! His apiaries and bees were amazing 😉
Yea I only wish there was more resources featuring Mike. Are you doing any double nucs? I built one late summer and split my biggest hive and put in two new queens. It’s a little clunky to get used to working them. Hoping they’ll get through winter decent
Decatur Ridge Bees yes I run a couple and they seem to run slightly better than my singles but they would probably be more beneficial if we had a real winter here! I am I North Brittany so we’re generally like the south cost of the UK and are heavily influenced by the English Channel and North Atlantic drift! It’s good to try many different configurations until you find 1 that works for you! Best wishes for 2019.
Richard Noel same to you friend! My climate is probably in between yours and Michaels. His winters are cold and snowy. We have a lot of snow but not quite as cold. I’m in sw michigan zone 6 and we’re slightly moderated by Lake Michigan here. I like the versatility of singles though. You can butt them up to one another when its colder and separate when its warmer. Thanks for your responses. Take care
Thanks for sharing this video, I will try this method next spring.
Absolutely great video.....really enjoy it
Thanks a lot !!!
Thanks for traveling and putting this video together, always a lot of good info from Micheal Palmer!
I did find myself wondering though, why he takes the time to remove the nurse bees from inside the mailing cage. Why not put the mailing cage under/ inside the screen cage, the nurse bees inside remove the candy plug and they and the queen are released inside of the larger cage, that way the queen has some friendly nurse bees with her inside that cage to feed and groom as the colony gets to know her. Seems that it accomplishes two good goals-save time, and give the queen some assistants inside her larger cage.
Thanks again.
As a follow up to my comment above, I just successfully re-queened a hive with this push in cage method and put the entire 3 hole shipping cage under the push in cage with her 5 attendant nurses in there with her, did not bother to get rid of them. Pulled the small cork out from the end of course.
5 days under the cage, let her go and she immediately started laying in open cells a few inches from where the push in was. 30 seconds out of the cage and she was backing into cells laying, never saw anything like it. Just checked her a week later, accepted and laying up a storm. Complete success.
great method for the summer! thnk you
I guess im from the old school ways of doing things.If you are sure,did I say sure? there is not another queen or cell in the box,I have used step three,lol.A spray bottle with water and vanilla extract.Make every thing smell the same for a couple days.We used to do this to get rabbits to except orphans ,Works on calves and sheep and many other things as well.
Very cool and very near my home who'd have thought
Magic Hat #9. Kork's favorite!
great video!! initially if you take a laying queen out of box.....how many days to you come back and put new non laying queen in push cage?? or how many days should you let them go queenless? thanks!
Where can we get that beekeeping hat of Micheal Palmer, that is folded and portable which is very good?
I think she was distracted by the Magic Hat #9
Richard,
When did you visit Michael? It must have been a great experience I live south down about an hour from NYC. Good informative video
Dewayne Florian July 2015. It was fantastic! I learnt a huge amount!! Great fun too!!
4:00 what an weirdo, 14:05 Chipmunks are good to have around the kill mice
I'm a newbee, so question" the queens placed underneath the cage are MATED QUEENS, not Virgin?"
Hey do you talk to Mike anymore? Does he have a channel to?
Mike passed 3 days ago
@@Melo_Andromeda I hope you are wrong Pontos .What a top fellow he is.
A old queen is removed?
Yes, if we cant find her, we shake the entire colony through a shaker box, a brood box with a queen excluder fixed to the bottom of it. then she's dispatched, with the hive tool test, she fails every time!!
Why do you use duck tape over your hole's.
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