Need to buy and queen and introduce her to your bee hive?
Here's how!
Adding a honey bee queen to a new hive is relativity easy but you need to know what you're looking at when the bees react. This video goes into detail of how we added a queen and what we observed to worker bees doing. We will cover good signs and bad signs from the workers that will help you in your decision making process.
00:00 Intro
00:32 What to do before buying a queen
01:18 Determining a Queenless hive
01:59 Balling defined
02:31 Good and Bad Signs
03:13 Queens Retinue
04:41 Example of balling
05:24 Placing the queen in the hive
07:06 Checking on the queen
09:18 Wrapping up
10:44 Outro
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