I think you hit the nail on the head, I never understood the idea of just leaving one cell, I do the same thing if I find multiple cells. Noting wrong with having extra nucs around . Great video.👍👍👍
Finding queen cells is always a great way to make splits. The bees do the grafting for you. I also think there is a reason that you will find queen cells in several stages of development in a Hive. the Bees know if the queen comes back they can always tear down the remaining cells but if she don't they have more queens to come and another chance for success . I have made 26 splits with swarm cells and 17 are now nucs. Some cells never completely developed and some queens didn't make it back. made 5 more splits this weekend
I'm with you here. I never could stand throwing a bunch of perfectly good Queen cells away. Who knows how they will turn out. Them people that throw them away are taking a big chance of not having a Queen. I love your video's. I'm no kid but i still learn from watching you.
I wrote this seme comment a couple days ago.. can't remember where. I did probably 100 experiments with swarm cells over the years.. not picking one but splitting in five (like you said). Almost always l would get 1 great queen, 1 good one, and 2-3 not worth the box they occupy. So l agree with you.. how can we know which one is the best. There are signs in how the bees behave on some cells, but not inaf for us to pick only one.. It's very strange for me to find a beekeeper that I always agree with (did I wrote it right).. lady, actually so far you're the only one. Not even my father, who works with me all my life.. and we still have some different opinions
❤️💞💟 I need to like this 1000 times😁 I love your knowledge and comments. I am sure your father does too🤣 but sometimes we see more fault in family than is really there✌️ love your comments my friend thanks for sharing your experiences!
I started a hive last year, overwintered and it exploded in population very fast. Of course I added a super to give them more room. I inspected and didn't see swarm cells. 2 weeks later they swarmed. I did capture that swarm and re- hived them. Going back into the mother hive I found 7 swarm cells. I made a Nuc with a cell that was about to emerge. Removed 2 swarm cells and left 4 cells in the mother hive. I seen a New Queen in the mother hive after 2 cells had emerged. No signs seen of a successful mating. After a week no signs of a Queen The other 2 cells emerged. I seen a healthy Queen, no sign of being mated I am hopeful. Meanwhile in the Nuc no sign of a queen after it emerged. Had a new nuc go queenless and had new queen cells. put 2 cells in the nuc I made from 1st hive both had emerged but again no signs of a queen. I am not scoring good on the 70% chance of getting a mated queen back in these hives
A virgin takes 10 days after emerging to come back mated. Some less, some more! If the colony is ' holding open '( leaving cells open in brood area, not packing nectar there) then a virgin may still be there you do not see. The more we try, the more we learn and we can't control a return from mating ✌️✊️🐝🐝🐝
@@buttsbeesllc4063 The Queen I seen yesterday in the mother hive was very large in abdomen size and fairly easy to spot. I am thinking that she perhaps is mated and may not have open cells available to lay. I am thinking of taking some drawn open frames from another hive and shuffling some frames around. but weather temp is only 61 degrees
@@buttsbeesllc4063 Thank you for your advise. I am presuming this large queen is mated and no place to lay. I did pull 3 frames mostly drawn empty fresh comb from a donor hive and placed in center with pollen frames positioned on the outsides of of center frames. I am hoping the queen will find these frames before the bees try and back fill those frames
that's exactly what I'm doing. trying to get 5 nucs out of a sad situation when we squashed the queen accidentally (she wasn't well mated either so we were gonna replace her either way.
I kinda figured you'd know by this point! Try this video, ruclips.net/video/ZSljh1v89iE/видео.html or this one ruclips.net/video/UVjYdEvI8ik/видео.html let me know if you learned what they look like😉
I think you hit the nail on the head, I never understood the idea of just leaving one cell, I do the same thing if I find multiple cells. Noting wrong with having extra nucs around . Great video.👍👍👍
Exactly! The only thing stopping someone is a lack of equipment BUT even a cardboard box would work!!
Finding queen cells is always a great way to make splits. The bees do the grafting for you. I also think there is a reason that you will find queen cells in several stages of development in a Hive. the Bees know if the queen comes back they can always tear down the remaining cells but if she don't they have more queens to come and another chance for success . I have made 26 splits with swarm cells and 17 are now nucs. Some cells never completely developed and some queens didn't make it back. made 5 more splits this weekend
Well said 👍🐝🕯️
Agreed 100%
Very well done! Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Great advice!
Glad you think so!
I'm with you here. I never could stand throwing a bunch of perfectly good Queen cells away. Who knows how they will turn out. Them people that throw them away are taking a big chance of not having a Queen. I love your video's. I'm no kid but i still learn from watching you.
Thanks! ✌️🌻
I wrote this seme comment a couple days ago.. can't remember where. I did probably 100 experiments with swarm cells over the years.. not picking one but splitting in five (like you said). Almost always l would get 1 great queen, 1 good one, and 2-3 not worth the box they occupy. So l agree with you.. how can we know which one is the best. There are signs in how the bees behave on some cells, but not inaf for us to pick only one..
It's very strange for me to find a beekeeper that I always agree with (did I wrote it right).. lady, actually so far you're the only one. Not even my father, who works with me all my life.. and we still have some different opinions
❤️💞💟 I need to like this 1000 times😁
I love your knowledge and comments. I am sure your father does too🤣 but sometimes we see more fault in family than is really there✌️ love your comments my friend thanks for sharing your experiences!
I started a hive last year, overwintered and it exploded in population very fast. Of course I added a super to give them more room. I inspected and didn't see swarm cells. 2 weeks later they swarmed. I did capture that swarm and re- hived them. Going back into the mother hive I found 7 swarm cells. I made a Nuc with a cell that was about to emerge. Removed 2 swarm cells and left 4 cells in the mother hive. I seen a New Queen in the mother hive after 2 cells had emerged. No signs seen of a successful mating. After a week no signs of a Queen The other 2 cells emerged. I seen a healthy Queen, no sign of being mated I am hopeful. Meanwhile in the Nuc no sign of a queen after it emerged. Had a new nuc go queenless and had new queen cells. put 2 cells in the nuc I made from 1st hive both had emerged but again no signs of a queen. I am not scoring good on the 70% chance of getting a mated queen back in these hives
A virgin takes 10 days after emerging to come back mated. Some less, some more! If the colony is ' holding open '( leaving cells open in brood area, not packing nectar there) then a virgin may still be there you do not see.
The more we try, the more we learn and we can't control a return from mating ✌️✊️🐝🐝🐝
@@buttsbeesllc4063 The Queen I seen yesterday in the mother hive was very large in abdomen size and fairly easy to spot. I am thinking that she perhaps is mated and may not have open cells available to lay. I am thinking of taking some drawn open frames from another hive and shuffling some frames around. but weather temp is only 61 degrees
yes, if full of nectar she needs a spot. 60 degrees is fine, they are flying and you can be quick ! careful but quick ! ✌️🍀🍀
@@buttsbeesllc4063 Thank you for your advise. I am presuming this large queen is mated and no place to lay. I did pull 3 frames mostly drawn empty fresh comb from a donor hive and placed in center with pollen frames positioned on the outsides of of center frames. I am hoping the queen will find these frames before the bees try and back fill those frames
that's exactly what I'm doing. trying to get 5 nucs out of a sad situation when we squashed the queen accidentally (she wasn't well mated either so we were gonna replace her either way.
Hope they come back fat for you✌️
I just did the same thing. Why waste perfectly good queens? I love your videos by the way.
Great minds! 😁 Thanks so much !!
What type of queen bee is that
A VSH Italian , open mated .
@@buttsbeesllc4063 very nice
It would help if you actually showed us what a Queen Cell looks like.
I kinda figured you'd know by this point! Try this video, ruclips.net/video/ZSljh1v89iE/видео.html or this one ruclips.net/video/UVjYdEvI8ik/видео.html let me know if you learned what they look like😉