Probably your best video yet, thank you. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben 😊

Great video Gwenyn 👍🏻. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐝

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks for watching 😊

Great video. I am definitely going to try this method. Thanks for the advice.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

No problem 😊👍🏻

great video just starting out myself my first bee hive your videos are full of great tips :)

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Glad your finding them useful 😊👍🏻

Very good, cheers

Brilliant info. Thank you 👍👍

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

😊👍🏻

Hello mate, exactly the way I split my colonies I was shown this way many years ago and have never really tried any other method but I do take the nuc to my other yard leave them locked up for the day or two and as you said there good for the following year. Thanks mate good vlog.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter 😊

Greetings Griff from a Welshman in California love ❤️ your videos on bees and farming in Wales makes me homesick sometimes .Anyway not to in anyway tell you how to run bees just a little tip please don't take the wrong way .When I make shook swarms I often harvest a few of bigger swarm cells put them in mating nucs with a cup full of nurse bees in each Nuc they will if all goes well be mated in less than two weeks .Then in a week from artificial swarm knock out all emergency cells in mother hive rendering them hopelessly queen less.Then re introduce now mated swarm queen from one of nucs This saves me so much more time for honey production.Time is Honey in this game! All the best butti

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Richard!! A Welsh in California!!! That must be rare!! 😀 Sounds like you’ve got it all under control! 😊👍🏻 Thanks for reaching out!! Made my day your Welsh and from California!! 😄

Just made my first ever split using your method and everything went well second time as I couldn't find the queen first time, so I put everything back together and left it until today. The Queen is now safe and sound inside her new NUC and the hive is queen-less for a week or so. Thanks again Gruff for your simple precise instructions.

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful 😊👍🏻

@abdullahdaniel8010

2 жыл бұрын

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@javiermiguel6241

2 жыл бұрын

@Abdullah Daniel instablaster =)

@abdullahdaniel8010

2 жыл бұрын

@Javier Miguel I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im trying it out now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@abdullahdaniel8010

2 жыл бұрын

@Javier Miguel it worked and I finally got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thank you so much you really help me out :D

Nice job buddy. I am in the states and trying to learn bee keeping so I can enjoy the hobby as well. Keep up the good content. I know how hard it is to get subscribers but you just earned mine.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ☺️

I made a (long) separate comment on your other VLOG. This one I understand. P.S. Very high tech hive tool - very purposeful, professional looking (not like mine ! LOL). I suppose what threw me was that you are making up nucs under slightly different circumstances in the two videos - & unloaded them not too far apart (one being a split to stop swarming - and the other just doing a split on a less robust hive). Perhaps that's why you requeen a less robust/successful colony...... maybe I'm beginning to understand (I can be a bit slow on the uptake....) ! Really good video - thank you for the fast forward bit (it can be really painful watching other beekeepers looking at every single frame in real time. The bee VLOG equivalent of watching paint dry !) Excellent stuff !!! Thanks

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Greame!! I have just replied to you on the other comment. Hopefully that will answer the questions if not hit me back with another comment and il dive in deeper 😊👍🏻

Life saver thx Griff

@gwenyngruffydd

Ай бұрын

😊👍🏻

Great idea thank you 🐝🐝👌👍

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

No problem 😊

Brilliant! I’ll do this if I need to prevent a swarm.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 ай бұрын

😊👍🏻

I’m a keeper as well. I think it would be neat to swap honey. I live in the states (Indiana). I’m intrigued by different honey flavors. :)

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds good 😊👍🏻

This is an excellent video. Well done for including so much information. I wish I’d seen it in March, before the swarm season started, as it definitely better than the method I’ve been using over the last few years. Am going to subscribe and I’m looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind comment and thanks for subscribing 😊 glad your here for the ride! 🐝🐝

Some people suggest putting the new box at the original location. The theory is that the flying bees from the original will return to the new hive and lose the desire to swarm. Has anyone here tried that?

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of different ways to make it work. This way works too.

@grassracin282

Жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd thank you for the really helpful video. I have a question, hoping you can help. I caught a medium-sized swarm late last year and obviously don't know the age of the queen so I was going to use my BS honey nuc box for swarm control but I was wondering if it's possible to do the swarm control with the 3 frames one side in the nuc and the other 3 frames use a frame with a queen cell on and bees etc ? So basically make a new queen in the original hive, keeping the queen in the nuc one side and also create a new queen in the other side of the nuc to then kill the old queen and merge the bees in the nuc. Therefore making 2 new queen's to head two colonies, one in the hive and one in the nuc? Sorry if that doesn't make sense ! Thanks

@gwenyngruffydd

Жыл бұрын

Can’t see why not. As long as the original hive was strong enough and plenty of brood frames. Should be fine

@grassracin282

Жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd thank you for you quick reply! Will see how they go 🤞

Great vid again Gruyff- just wondering, did you make a follow up vid of the original hive and the new queen? My mentor does the same thing, but moves the nut to a separate Apiary over the 3 mile mark. Looks like there is no need to this.

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks John, No I don’t think I did a follow up video. You can do it either way moving them to a new apiary or keeping them there.

Really enjoyed this vid. Very interesting and the way I'd have thought an artificial swarm should be executed. I've never quite understood when some methods are in leaving or rearranging frames and the Queen, to ultimately her ending up back where she started in the original hive and position. To me this kind of method goes against the reason to why bee's want and to swarm. The Queen doesn't want to hang around with her original crib!! Innit? 😆

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful 😊

Thank you for this video, I found Queen cells yesterday so I just got on with the artificial swarm you demonstrate. If original box does not produce a new Queen do you put old Queen back in or move a frame with eggs from old Queen in the nuc to the original hive.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Great question. In about 4 weeks time you can add a frame of eggs into it to boost numbers and potentially give the bees another opportunity to make another queen if they need to. It’s never 100% success rate with breeding queens

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

But yes you can re-introduce the queen but no guarantee they will accept here. She will need to be re introduced in a cage to give her the best chance

Great video! Can I again cut out the queen cells making them hopelessly queenless then introduce an overwintered nuc queen so the laying resumes sooner. Or is it best to let them raise their own younger queen. Thanks!

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

hi, Yes you can do that as well. Nothing wrong with that method. Just make sure you catch every queen cell!

@Dougarrowhead

3 жыл бұрын

Cutting out the queen cells wont make them queenless. If you have cells they are going to swarm anyway. You cant stop them from swarming.

Hi if you don’t have any room for more hives Can you reintroduced the nuc back to the original hive minus the old queen once they have produced a new queen hope that makes sense Thanks

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

You could but I wouldn’t. Keep that nuc to replace potential winter losses. If you come out of spring with too many hives you could sell some then.

Can you use a brood box instead of a nuc very helpful video, thanks

@gwenyngruffydd

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can 😊

Can a split like this be made without Queen cells in the main colony or do you have to wait until they are seen? Can l just say this is the Best Beekeeping Video l have come across! Well Presented and Very Informative.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Yes you can split bees without q cells. The one without the queen will make q cells. Either let them make a queen or introduce your own.

@CJBeekeeping

2 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd Some people don't rate these "emergency cells". What are you thoughts? Cheers - getting ready or next spring

I have five hives and not really interested (for now at least!) in having more. What's the best approach in this scenario?

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Probably to sell the nuc instead of keeping it. 😄 But sell it once the old hive has successfully created a new mated queen. There are a few things you could do.. kill the old queen and reunite the nuc with the hive etc Either way once they show signs of swarming you need to get a new queen in there.

Gwenyn, where did you get your veil from? seems ginormous... but good at keeping them away from the face.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

It’s from Swienty. It’s called the Swienty Breeze suit. I did a review on it.kzread.info/dash/bejne/laeauKV_eLK7fMo.html

Another great video. Thanks. Keep them coming. I am experimenting with this type of split and a Demaree. With Demaree Bees are back filling top box brood frames with nectar.😱😱

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark 😊. A lot of people use the demaree method.

@markw.5128

4 жыл бұрын

Took your advice and split a hive yesterday just as you demonstrated. Hope it works out. and I get some honey from the original. This one is on you Gwenyn 😂😂 By the way Two Demarees were not successful. Bees continued to build QCs for two weeks in top and bottom boxs after and had to be split.

watching this video I noticed the design of you veil, and prefer it to your previous ones & my own, where did it you get this particular one please?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, It’s from Swienty 😊

@T.S.Beez01

3 жыл бұрын

thank you very much, I'm off to have a look, 🤞🤞🤞 🙏🙏🙏 they aren't too many £££

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

The price is competitive 😊

@T.S.Beez01

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd itll have to be much more competitive for me, that price would sting me more than the bees, 🤣😂

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

😄😂😂

If you remove the queen into a separate colony and remove the queen cells from the original colony. The following week when the queen cells are remade and charged with brood or jelly, won’t the queen cells be filled with unfertilised eggs resulting in drones being made as the queen is missing who has all the bee sperm to fertilise the egg to make a queen? Thank you for reading my question.

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, Great question. No, because the bees will start to make queen cells instantly when you remove the Queen. The bees can make a Queen from any fertilised egg up to 3 days old. Because every have just removed the Queen there will be plenty of eggs in the hive.

Are your gloves sting proof?… if so where did u get them? Thx

@gwenyngruffydd

11 ай бұрын

No but I don’t get stung to much in them. I wear a stronger orange glove these days. We sell them on our website 😀

Hu Gruff - do you feed them much more after the first feed of syrup?

@gwenyngruffydd

Жыл бұрын

All depends if the time of year and current honey flow. Most cases one feed is enough

@CJBeekeeping

Жыл бұрын

That’s what I was hoping you’d say. Cheers buddy

I like your hood on your suit, where can I get one?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

It’s from Swienty 😊

Pretty good. Remove swarm cells and replace with emergency supercedure cells. Do you find the quality of the new queens drop off when you create this type of artificial swarm?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Not really, there will be some small QC there yes....but at the same time there will be one or two big juicy ones too!! I keep the best one. 😊

@darkeblue

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd Thanks! I am going to have to try this artificial swarm technique soon.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Works a treat! 😊🐝🐝🐝

I do not have space to relocate the nuc or to turn direction.. can I keep the nuc next to the hive pointing same direction and close nuc's entrance for a day allowingfor ventilation? Is that going to work?

@gwenyngruffydd

2 ай бұрын

It could but I would not recommend it. I’d spin it round 180 degrees to be safe. Or even 90 degrees.

This is probably going to sound like a stupid question but is it possible to encourage a swarming colony from one hive into a new, empty hive nearby? I know that some beekeepers use bee swarm attractant/lure to encourage wild colonies to enter an empty hive. I was wondering if this would work with domestic bees also?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Great question, yes it does happen. You can set up an empty hive at the apiary and if your bees swarm they can go into the empty hive. But this is rare, normally they like to go some distance before setting up another home. But it does happen! If they want to swarm it’s always best to do an artificial swarm yourself and be in control of the process 😀

@jackspring7709

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd I see. Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks again for the prompt reply.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

No problem 😊

Hi, great video. I was told that you feed the nuc the day after the split so all the forever bee's go home and don't tell the main hive of the resources in the nuc to rob. Your thoughts.🐝🐝

@pottyplotter2462

4 жыл бұрын

forager

@beehinde

4 жыл бұрын

@@pottyplotter2462 It's called silent robbing, if the split is left in the same apiary. Both hives smell the same and it will take a few days for this to change.

@paulwilliams3494

4 жыл бұрын

@@pottyplotter2462 . I've heard that too and it makes sense ..............but only if you have plenty of time, all your bees handy by or not many colonies to manage. I manage robbing by restricting entrance size to one bee space only on anything vulnerable................dead colonies are dead if they are robbed or starved.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a fair point. I’ve never seen it to be an issue 99.9% of these nucs come on great no robbing. Within beefarming you need to get all the work done when your there. Driving back to feed a nuc isn’t viable unless there are a lot to feed.

@BlackMountainHoney

4 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd Just move it along to the next apiary on your loop? We always split and move to stop robbing. In a dearth they can strip it in 24 hrs.

One question: why do you knock off all the Queen Cells and wait for them to make more? Why not reduce the existing queen cells to one?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Great question Because the hive is full of eggs and the bees can make even more queen cells once you leave

Great video, does this method mean that you end up with double the amount of colonies every year?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no, not all the hive s will mate successfully. If you purchased or bred queens yourself and introduced them then yes you would double every year.

@mariuscarrick4256

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd ok thanks, if the Queen failed, could we reintroduce the one we took out by uniting the colonies?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Yes you could but I wouldn’t. Sometimes the bees want to swarm because the queen is old or on the way out. I would try and let the splits make their own queen. You should get a success rate of 60%-70%. With introduced queens much higher again.

@mariuscarrick4256

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd thanks for your help. I’m subscribed!

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Your welcome, thanks for subscribing 😊

You said to never put foundation in the middle of the hive. I always put my foundation in the middle of the hive. Just 1 frame and skip 2 brood and then the second foundation. Widens out the nest and make fast comb.

@gwenyngruffydd

Ай бұрын

Not on a split. On other hives yes.

Should I do artificial swarm on all my hives?, Still debating whether to clip my queens wings or not?

@gwenyngruffydd

Жыл бұрын

It’s up to you. It’s a great method if they want to swarm.

@gwenyngruffydd

Жыл бұрын

Clipping the queen’s wing will buy you some time but won’t stop swarming

my second hive super seeded as the queen either got damaged or killed in the move or she swarmed as i found 7 capped queen cells

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

If they super seeded there would only be 1-2 cells. If there are 7 she’s probably swarmed. How many bees are there in the hive?

@roystheboy

4 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd there was still alot of bees there I left 2 cells and have left them now for 12 days now

Won't the other hive stop foraging now that they are queenless?

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

Ben Smith no, they will still need nectar and pollen for all the young brood in the hive. They will continue as normal.

Would you re-queen the hive if the the queen that will hatch dies or something

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

No, but there’s nothing wrong in doing that. I would give them a frame of eggs and let nature take its toll

@johnnycorcoran6076

2 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd thanks

Hi, As mentioned below I carried out an artificial swarm as per your video. That was 16 days ago. Today, in the rain, I have a clump of bees bearding from edge of landing board and another clump under a visor a foot above the landing board. They have been there for a couple of hours. Any suggestions what to do would be appreciated. Both clumps are about the size of 2 fists.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a cast swarm. How many queen cells did you leave in the original hive?

@IanUK.

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, Just the one I intended to do. I'll box them up and see what happens. I did not initially as worried no Queen in the clumps and they were waiting for the newly produced Queen to come out for a mating flight.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Give them plenty of syrup to help draw out the frames. Casts swarms are never guaranteed to work...but sometimes the do 🤞🏻

@IanUK.

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd Thank you for replying again. Will do. I don't mind giving them a chance, I can't see they would have made it outside a box in this awful weather.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

This spring is making everything hard about Beekeeing

I see someone has already asked this and it is a Swienty Suit.

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

😁

where did you buy those clothes?

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

The bee suit is from swienty 😊

@MasiMoreno

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd gracias

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

😊

Hello

I dont understand why you destroy all the cells the first time vice just removing the queen like you did and allowing the one cell to hatch and speed things up?

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Because they will make more queen cells with the eggs already in the hive. You risk losing multiple cast swarms

id love to have bees but it looks so complicated!

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

It’s easy once you get into it!

@LordJasonKing

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd i'm on a bit of a budget, what you think of a getting a used national hive on Ebay??

@gwenyngruffydd

3 жыл бұрын

Second hand is fine nothing wrong with it. Just make sure you don’t use second hand frames and sterilise the hive properly and you’ll be fine

Good evening colleague, allow me to contact you to request a job opportunity

@gwenyngruffydd

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Unfortunately we haven’t got any openings at the moment. If your looking to work in the U.K. on bee farms contact the bee farmers association. They have job openings there. 😊👍🏻

As a beginner it wouldn't be bad if I could actually see what you are doing.. the camera is too far you, you need to do close-ups on stuff like a queen cells so people that are new like myself actually know what they are looking for..

@gwenyngruffydd

Жыл бұрын

Noted 😊👍🏻

The background music is awful.

Why are beekeepers afraid of bees swarming? Its like being afraid of your dog barking...swarming is perfectly normal folks...a colony that does not have a swarming instinct is a horrible colony.

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, Thanks for the comment but I respectfully disagree. When your bees swarm you will lose half the bees. And any hope of a decent honey crop from them. When your living depends on a crop of honey you can’t afford to let your bees swarm. That’s why the artificial swarm is so good. Good for bees and beekeeper. + what would your neighbour say if your bees swarmed into his chimney!?

@paulwilliams3494

4 жыл бұрын

@@gwenyngruffydd Indeed Griff! You are a honey producer and bee farmer, not a charity. As you also mentioned it's quite inconsiderate allowing lots of swarms as there are few natural cavities for them these days so often someone ends up with a potential problem on their property. I note some channels content is mainly videos of bee removal jobs. I wonder why?

@gwenyngruffydd

4 жыл бұрын

😊👍🏻

@unforseenlaboratories8017

3 жыл бұрын

It's like a cattle farmer not caring about losing half his older cattle by breaking out and roaming to some other farm where you can't find them.

Bla bla you muving werry slow

@subee248

3 ай бұрын

And you my friend are rude and can't spell.