After a couple of days queenless I would expect the bees to be making Q cells and may possibly reject the new queen. I generally knock the old queen off and put the new one in straight away it takes 2 or three days for the bees to dig her out so no real dramas. Like everything in Beekeeping there is no right way but let us know if you have rejection or queen cells that could result in swarming.
Well I stumbled across this show thinking about starting a backyard hive next spring and I've watched about half your episodes in about 3 days! Good camera work and fun content! I can't help but notice how your area looks like my home of west Texas. A bit to much language to watch with the little ones around but the show wouldn't be the same without it :) Trying to get as much education as possible before I start a hive so keep em coming.
Thank you so much for watching! We're glad we have been able to teach you a little along the way. A lot of people have said where we are looks and sound similar to west Texas.
The old 👸 Queens you take out that your going to use.put them all in a small glass container with some alcohol and then use it as a bee lure to your hive swarm capture. I read about it on the 628 dirt rooster , he also has a cool bee vacuum you might check out. I do really love your Chanel. Your like the Steve Irwin of bee’s. Bee’s always were scary to me but you have made me love bee’s. So thank you. Big hugs
I requeened a struggling hive with a queen from Blayney not too far from Orange. After 3 days I checked. The bloody candy was rock hard and she was still caged. I released her into the frames hoping that her pheromones had taken control of the girls. I will be checking this afternoon to see if they have accepted her. Do you have any ideas about how to prevent the hard candy issue besides the matchstick?
Hi BBM just looking at some of the videos i have watched before and i follow a guy in cambodia (khmer beekeeping) who keeps bees ,last video he had a hive that was worse than those you are working with .He showed his gloves after working them and he must have had around a hundred stingers in each of them from one hive ,it was so bad his camera man ran away they were phsyco , i think he did the same thing knocked of the old queen and introduced a new one
I think it was the Uni of Guelph in Canada that was saying that some behavior of the bees lies in the genes of the drones so killing of the queen might not do much about a specific trait. You'd have to replace the drones. Doesn't make that much sense to me considering the boss only mates once. Or have I got that wrong?
Queens mate with 10 or more drones. Most pro beekeepers consider a Q that mates with 10 or less drones a failure. You are of course correct about some of the genetics passed on belong to drones however as fertilised eggs are all female you would expect the female traits to be dominant.
The queen is the one that passes on the drone genes to the worker so you change the queen to change out the drone sperm she was carrying. Queen usually don't mate with drones that are brothers, if they do then the workers kill and eat the resulting eggs or larva.
@@michelepadbury8348 no not necessarily drones are haploid and workers and the queen diploid. The Drones only have half the DNA as the queen and workers so some drones genes will be dominate in workers. One interesting result of this is drones do not have a father but have a grandfather.
Thank you - cant get enough of the Bush Bee man! Luv the music so much. Great work.
Thank you so much!
This guy just has way too much positive energy. I'm exhausted just watching him..And god damn those are some angry bees.
After a couple of days queenless I would expect the bees to be making Q cells and may possibly reject the new queen. I generally knock the old queen off and put the new one in straight away it takes 2 or three days for the bees to dig her out so no real dramas. Like everything in Beekeeping there is no right way but let us know if you have rejection or queen cells that could result in swarming.
Wrong. There is always a right way and a wrong way, often multiple of both.
As usual, amusing commentary! Look forward to the results!
Cheers!
Well I stumbled across this show thinking about starting a backyard hive next spring and I've watched about half your episodes in about 3 days! Good camera work and fun content! I can't help but notice how your area looks like my home of west Texas. A bit to much language to watch with the little ones around but the show wouldn't be the same without it :) Trying to get as much education as possible before I start a hive so keep em coming.
Thank you so much for watching! We're glad we have been able to teach you a little along the way. A lot of people have said where we are looks and sound similar to west Texas.
"Don't do this when your neighbors having a Barbeque" HAHA
The old 👸 Queens you take out that your going to use.put them all in a small glass container with some alcohol and then use it as a bee lure to your hive swarm capture. I read about it on the 628 dirt rooster , he also has a cool bee vacuum you might check out. I do really love your Chanel. Your like the Steve Irwin of bee’s. Bee’s always were scary to me but you have made me love bee’s. So thank you. Big hugs
Do you keep the old queen bees that you pull out to make a pheromone spray for your swarm traps boxes ???
How important do you think it is to remove old queens a couple of days prior to adding in new queens? Can you do them at the same time?
In the first hive examined, could the queen have been in the stray comb inside the lid?
do you worry about hive beetles with the hive boxes directly on the ground? does australia have these as an issue?
A little, placing them here was the plan but the food sources here in Riverland have been limted due to a lack on rain.
I requeened a struggling hive with a queen from Blayney not too far from Orange. After 3 days I checked. The bloody candy was rock hard and she was still caged. I released her into the frames hoping that her pheromones had taken control of the girls. I will be checking this afternoon to see if they have accepted her. Do you have any ideas about how to prevent the hard candy issue besides the matchstick?
do you put the removed queens in alcohol to use for queen pheromone attractant?
Hi BBM just looking at some of the videos i have watched before and i follow a guy in cambodia (khmer beekeeping) who keeps bees ,last video he had a hive that was worse than those you are working with .He showed his gloves after working them and he must have had around a hundred stingers in each of them from one hive ,it was so bad his camera man ran away they were phsyco , i think he did the same thing knocked of the old queen and introduced a new one
Great episode guys! Would of been a hard day finding all the queens 😉
Lucky we had the site supervisor kepting a eye on us ;)
I was bloody lucky my very first swarm I caught were very well behaved.
I'm so glad, most of the one we have caught have been nuts.
Those boxes look like they're filled to the brim. Is there a reason you didn't add supers?
Why do you guys have rows of pines?
We thought at one point of trying to grow pine nuts but then we realised how complictaed they were to harvest haha
@@TheBushBeeMan Ha, you guys are the best. I'm going to fly out there for a surprise visit. I expect lots of beer and maybe some of that mead...
Hello Bush beeman it would if you gave them more room. Very entertaining as usual .
I think it was the Uni of Guelph in Canada that was saying that some behavior of the bees lies in the genes of the drones so killing of the queen might not do much about a specific trait. You'd have to replace the drones. Doesn't make that much sense to me considering the boss only mates once. Or have I got that wrong?
Id think these queens are already mated so the genepool is from generally placid bees both queen and drone.
Queens mate with 10 or more drones. Most pro beekeepers consider a Q that mates with 10 or less drones a failure. You are of course correct about some of the genetics passed on belong to drones however as fertilised eggs are all female you would expect the female traits to be dominant.
The queen is the one that passes on the drone genes to the worker so you change the queen to change out the drone sperm she was carrying. Queen usually don't mate with drones that are brothers, if they do then the workers kill and eat the resulting eggs or larva.
@@michelepadbury8348 no not necessarily drones are haploid and workers and the queen diploid. The Drones only have half the DNA as the queen and workers so some drones genes will be dominate in workers. One interesting result of this is drones do not have a father but have a grandfather.
I see you third person. why aren't you helping? lol. I could imagine "like hell I'm helping you two do that."
That's pretty much what he was thinking haha