Hello Wales. Pacific Northwest here. Good video. Tnx.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

18 Bees thanks!! 😁 great to connect with people so far from home!! Hope you get a great Beekeeing season! 👍🏻

Top video, very helpful 👍🐝

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful 😊

Thanks for sharing. Where we are we would never install a queen cage with the opening pointing down like that. If any workers die they can potentially block the opening, preventing the queen from exiting.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a fair point. But even if all the bees die in the cage leaving the queen inside. The bees outside the cage will eat the fondant and remove the bees. Same way they remove dead bees from the hive. Haven’t had a problem in 10 years of doing it. But I can see it may be plausible 😊

Hey dude I’m from Canada and your a cool dude I like your videos do you get real bad winters ?

@gwenyngruffydd

Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 No noting like your Canadian winters!!

@aaronparis4714

Ай бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd😂 yes we have a very short I do use the poly hives they are the best I also don’t use top Entrances that’s a old method I wish more people would listen to the science behind only having a bottom entrance your bees stay warmer and they eat less

I've got a queen in the post, but haven't made my nuc up yet, will I have to keep the queen for a week in the cage or can I just introduce when I set the nuc up?👍

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Make the nuc and introduce the Queen in the cage. Go back in 3 days cut queen cells and remove plastic cap. Put the cage back in. Check in a week to see if Queen is laying 😊👍🏻

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

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Probably a stupid question (I've not got any bees myself but am researching for the future) but why do you not want them to use a queen they've hatched themselves?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Great question. Normally I would leave the original hive make their own queen. But in this case I was introducing a specialist bred queen into the hive and didn’t want the bees to kill that queen 😊