Really liked the video and I'm glad you got the technical issues figured out!

At 5:50 that is a beautiful circular brood pattern.

Maybe you can give yourself a try at making multiple queen cells, and requeening at the beginning of each season

You are doing a good job of telling us what the condition of the colonies were at the last inspection but you arent telling us the timing. Its hard to know for sure but it appears you may be early on some of your check backs.

@SuburbanSodbuster

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback - that's a good point. In the "part 1" video I mentioned that I normally inspect 3 weeks after finding queen cells, but was doing so a few days early because of a few upcoming days of forecasted rain. Sometimes I don't want to repeat myself too much but forget that it's important to give such contextual details. I'm still learning.

@rtxhoneybees

Жыл бұрын

@@SuburbanSodbuster No problem, I went back to the beginning of this video to see if I missed something but I did not go back to the Part 1. I saw something interesting on a Bob Binnie video last week. He reported that successful queen mating was much lower in his full sized colonies than in his mating nucs. He suspected it could be related to uniform way in which the boxes are laid out. Your hives seem to be some distance apart and are distinctive. Unless the size of the box has some bearing it probably wouldn't be relevant to your situation.

Thank you for your informative videos. Where did you get those hive doors with the mouse excluder?

@SuburbanSodbuster

Жыл бұрын

The entrance gates are just standard circular gates (amzn.to/3N1AmII) but I staple a piece of 1/2" hardware cloth over the entrance. Sometimes they interfere with the gate, even if I hammer down the wire edges, so I think I might add the hardware cloth to the inside on future builds.

@MustSeed1

Жыл бұрын

@@SuburbanSodbuster Ok, that makes a lot of sense, as I have those same entrances as well. I thought it was a part of the circular gate (which would be really nice). Dr Leo has slightly improved circular gates entrance with 7 larger openings and limits robbing.

I robbed a Queen from a old hive on May 18th to give to a rescued tear out hive that had no Queen. When do you think I will be able to see some decent sized larvae (my old eyes can’t see eggs very well) in the cells if they made a successful mated Queen and she’s laying? Also what breed do you recommend if you purchased a new Queen between the Carneolan and Italian? Texas conditions. I’m not concerned with honey production. I’m more concerned with survivability and a gentle behavior. I have one hive that will get all over me and follow me across the pasture into my home. Relentless aggression and smoke has no affect on them. They attacked me one day when I was mowing the pasture. I need to re-queen that hive. My other hives are much more docile. All rescued hives.

@SuburbanSodbuster

Жыл бұрын

When you say you "robbed a queen" do you mean a queen cell? If so then I'd give them three weeks before checking for brood. If nothing is found then, give another week and check again. I don't have a particular recommendation for purchased breeds. It seems that, when it comes to commercial queens, gentle behavior is often counter to survivability. My recommendation would be to harvest a queen cell from one of your better-tempered hives and add it to the aggressive hive a day after removing the queen. How close are you to Austin? Bee Mindful, LLC might be able to give you advice better suited to your local area.

@jamesbarron1202

Жыл бұрын

@@SuburbanSodbuster no I took an old Queen and gave her to a newly rescued hive without a Queen. I’m letting the old hive make a new Queen from their resources and wanted to make sure they were successful and when she’d have larvae I could see. I’m 40 minutes from Oklahoma.

@SuburbanSodbuster

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesbarron1202 I was confused between the queen you moved and asking about a queen being mated. When I have a colony making a new queen I usually check for queen cells after 1 week, them check again after 3 weeks for brood. If the colony makes multiple queen cells that might be an opportunity to cut one out and use it to requeen your ornery hive.

@jamesbarron1202

Жыл бұрын

@@SuburbanSodbuster thanks. I haven’t even been back inside the hive because I didn’t want to disturb them. I treated my other hives with Apiguard 2 days ago and figured I better skip that hive. I’ve heard they’ll sometimes remove brood when it’s applied in hot weather (90 today). I saw one bee removing a larvae today.

@JoSeeFuss

Жыл бұрын

Depending on how many hives that you have, requeening with mated known gentle hives each year is the best way to go. The hot hives most likely have the hybrid bee that need to be eradicated.

Yeah. Don't grab her by the legs.