Hunting Rogue Cells in the Randy Oliver Queen Colonies-That Bee Man
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🇺🇦💛💙🇨🇦 Thanks for sharing. I'm very glad that your bees look very good. I wish you good luck in the further development of bee colonies
Nice to see you working bees! Wow those 6 framers are packed! You’ll have to be careful they don’t swarm!
You called it! Yes, that's next week's work.
Nice nucs Brad, those looked real relaxed and chill. I can hear their buzz and it sounds happy.
OH I never thought of trying a screw to get the cork out. I got to hand introduce a returning mated queen in the front door my first season, it was so cool to watch them let her walk in the door.
The nucs seem really nice! I hope they all grow and produce well.
Looking good Brad! For the ones that didn't take at least you have the genetics to get them to make another queen. Thanks!
It's exciting to have Randy's work in my apiary!
Morning Brad, I just spent the last 6 days hunting those hidden queen cells they kept making.
🤨Check, 🤨check, 🤨check 🤨It is so difficult to change those crazy bees minds.😂Blessed Days, Brad...
We have to be dilligent. Thanks, DC!
I did the same thing last week and I came back this week to check the hives and I missed a couple. Hope you have better luck than I did. I need to slow down and be more thorough like you. Those nucs are looking strong.
They aren't hard to miss. I far prefer checking before introduction, or AT introduction, so I can shake the bees off.
Here is something for you to think about. The lack of a mated queen's pheromones cause the colony to make emergency cells. All that the workers want is a queen. Within a few hours, the workers know they are queenless and being cells. Why wait to put the mated queen in? The new queen will be out of the cage before the cells begin to be drawn out, and she will eat any royal jelly as she takes out the cells. It is when the cells are capped that the queen struggles to remove cells. I put the queens in the splits within a few hours or less of being queenless. I have a high rate of take. The sooner, the better, it's a lot less work for the beekeeper. They make a lot fewer cells if the new queen is in the colony asap.
Thanks for watching. Here are also a few things for you to think about.
1. Make the split and add the caged queen immediately and the bees still make cells, and don't always tear them down. I know this from experience. A caged mated queen doesn't have the same pheromone profile as a laying queen. Still need to check if you don't want to lose your mated queen.
2. "Why wait to put the mated queen in?" Logistics aren't always ideal, even taking point #1 into account, one needs to make splits when the weather allows and then also needs to allow for when queens are available from suppliers. It's never ideal.
3. These caged queens were in the splits within 24 hours of making the split, just for context.
@ThatBeeMan thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned I bank my queens with an extreme number of nurse bees, which brings the queen's health up to almost laying condition, they are fat. I mix my own candy, so the release is predictable. 3 days after the split queens are laying. The bank sorts out the virgins and tells you if the breeder is worth doing business with again. I do 200 to 300 queens a year this way. I requeen colonies by killing the old queen and in goes the new queen, I don't see many cells and a lot of the time none, if the queens go in instantly. I don't put eggs in my splits, old brood, and young bees only.
@@sidelinerbeekeeper Thanks for that information. I agree that a split with mature brood is best. Sometimes beggers can't be choosers. The May weather invariably causes us more work than might be necessary under ideal conditions.
Last year was our rebuild year only had 8 left coming out of winter.. waited until they started swarming split them to 49 .. ended up with 212 ... I kept apivar on them as I split.. bees I have now have never had mite load .. all the VSH strains starved to death.. healthy bees eat a lot ... Reg and the latshaw didn't starve.. shame because those vp VSH queens didn't really good on mites they just don't shut down like I need
That's an impressive rebuild! Thanks for watching!
@@ThatBeeMan we split them into 4 frame equipment double stacked at 6 weeks some of those splits started swarming.. they build a lot faster up plus they share a wall ..
It was my understanding that packages, nucs, and queens could not be brought in to Canada from the US and the same for the other way. That leads me to wonder, how did you receive Randy Oliver queens? Love your channel and I always tell new beeks to watch you.
Your understanding was not correct. Importing queens from the USA into Canada has never been banned. Thanks for watching! I appreciate the encouraging words.
@@ThatBeeMan I did not know that.
@@dcsblessedbees I believe that the US importer must be inspected and get certified to ship to Canada. Lots of paper work and takes time.
@@russellkoopman3004 Of course there are controls.