Beekeeping | Secret To Introducing A New Queen To The Hive

Beekeeping boils down to one bee, the queen. The entire colony will collapse quickly without the queen. If you have to replace your queen make sure you do it correctly.
Queen Push In Introductory Cage: amzn.to/40Ic4ZF
BEETEAM6 INFO:
❤️👍I want to be your personal beekeeping mentor. My mentoring community, BeeTeam6, has a few openings! Hurry and sign up fast if you are interested in having me help coach you with your beekeeping endeavors. You will have personal access to my cell phone and private email to ask your question with me personally: www.honeybeesonline.com/mento...
🐝 OUR PACKAGES OF BEES ARE ONSALE NOW! Check out our new 3lbs packages of honey bees with a mated queen or our 5 Frame Nucs raised here in Illinois: www.honeybeesonline.com/packa...
ULTIMATE ONLINE BEEKEEPING COURSE
✅ If you are new to beekeeping or you keep failing, I strongly recommend you take my Ultimate ONLINE Beekeeping Course. This bundle includes all 7 of my online courses: Beginning Beekeeping, Mite Control, Spring: SurvivAL, Supering, swarms & Splits, Advanced Beekeeping, My Popular Queen Rearing Course, A Day In The Apiary With Me and How To Get Your Bees Through The Winter. Here's the link:
www.honeybeesonline.com/ultim...
Subscribe To My Channel Please & Hit My Notification Bell:
kzbin.info...
COFFEE MUGS: www.honeybeesonline.com/youtu...
My FREE Downloadable "Raising Quality Queen Bees" book: www.uaex.uada.edu/publication...
MY INSTAGRAM: / longlanehoneybees
👀Take a look at our book that Sheri and I wrote, Backyard Beekeeping from our website and we will autograph it for you:
www.honeybeesonline.com/beeke...
ULTIMATE ONLINE BEEKEEPING COURSE
✅ If you are new to beekeeping or you keep failing, I strongly recommend you take my Ultimate ONLINE Beekeeping Course.
www.honeybeesonline.com/ultim...
❤️❤️Take one of our Beekeeping Courses. Taught by EAS Certified Master Beekeeper, David Burns. Since the pandemic continues, be safe, stay home and take our online beekeeping courses:
www.honeybeesonline.com/onlin...
www.honeybeesonline.com/onlin...
Check out my Inspection Guide which you can download and print off to help guide you on your hive inspections:
www.honeybeesonline.com/beeke...
Take my online beekeeping course on "Spring Management.” Enjoy this online course from the comfort of your home. Save the gas money, and watch my course on your one time, in the privacy of your home. Learn at your own pace! Here's the link:
www.honeybeesonline.com/onlin...
DISCLAIMER: Some links in this description might be affiliate links which means if you purchase a product or service using a link I provide, I may receive a small commission. There is no extra charge to you. Thank you so much for supporting my channel which enables me to continue to produce more videos for you.
Burlap: amzn.to/3IMU0ra
Microscope Camera: amzn.to/3IkkvDY
Pollen Substitute Powder: amzn.to/3lxJhaC
💪BEEKEEPING SUPPLIES I RECOMMEND:
Honey Bandit: amzn.to/3pBPNMx
Pollen Powder: amzn.to/3Qo35XZ
Robber Screen: amzn.to/3Qo3idJ
My Yellow Rubber Gloves: amzn.to/3SZmFLM
Beeswax: amzn.to/3FWfVXY
🌻FEED YOUR BEES:
Plan ahead for spring. Feed your bees in the spring by using my Feeding board known as the Burns Bees Feeder. Safely feed your bees from the top. Great way to help you build up your bees of winter physiology. Check it out:
www.honeybeesonline.com/feeders/
Feeding Additives:
www.honeybeesonline.com/feedi...
Pollen Powder: amzn.to/3Qo35XZ
📬If you'd like to send something to add to the store front to spruce up my back drop, send it to David Burns, PO BOX 254, Catlin, IL 61817
Whoa, you made it all the way down here! Thank you ♥️ Love you

[@blackberry5908]

David I had a hive kill 3 queens until I used that same introduction cage. I did "spray" the queen because she did try to fly. Tip: I noticed that the queen didn't like to go in descending way, that means if your frame is laying flat and you try to shake it inside she won't go down. Whenever I held the frame in an angle and put the the queen in an ascending way trough the hole of the introduction cage she climbed inside the cage by herself.

[@beek]

It is impossible to get queens to go down out of a cage I agree

[@neilstafford4166]

Thank you David. You make me more confident as newer bee keeper with all of your teaching.

[@michaelshipman4229]

Thanks David! I had an Africanized colony, and the bees did not accept the new buckfast queen. Definitely will get one.

[@beek]

For sure!

[@bradgoliphant]

Wow David-thank you! I’m currently using this to requeen my third queen-the past two they killed. Something I also heard and implemented is I got my hive to where it was hopelessly queenless-which is like 9 days without a queen, gone back into the hive and removed all the queen cells, then caged the queen. She has been inside for five days. Tomorrow I’ll release her. So glad you agree with this method. Thx!!!

[@beek]

Thanks Brad, hope it goes well.

[@CastleHives]

That cage is great. I will definitely add that to my list of supplies. Thanks David.

[@beek]

Glad it was helpful!

[@michaelhall7921]

David Thank you so much for this so valuable video..... We need to replace this so called quiet Buckfast Queen. The hive is very aggressive and is causing a nuisance with our neigbours. Next Friday a new Queen is coming. I have a cage as per your instructions but had to make it out of 4mm stainless mesh. I hope it works same as your cage. I made it because I couldn't get one for a month. I have watched you video three times now but feel I aught to watch it more before the 'event'. You are always straight forward and have an open mind which is essential in anything complex. I'll be looking at your videos to see if there is a suggestion re - do the bees behaviour give a pointer as to when they seem to accept the new queen. All your instructions in this video give a novice of three seasons beekeeper comfort & confidence. Two deep inspections have failed to find a Queen but there is plenty of lavae and worker brood but we find eggs are hard to see. I have decided we must find that queen or queens or none with the shake and queen excluded on Tuesday next week but are not looking forward to the fireworks!..... Been stung 4 times each now through the suits! You have given us the confidence that we might well get there eventually and are looking forward to a future quiet hive same as the other two.

[@framcesmoore]

first time I tryed to use them the queen took off never seen her again I just stood there looking to the sky 50.00 flew off right before my eyes

[@strengthequals5336]

I'm trying one of these right now. However I do not a any brood to work with, other than drone cells. I just pit her in with some drawn comb with some honey. We'll see?

[@elsefie]

This I unrelated, but did you know that when your Queen Rearing, you can put specialy designed queen excluders on the individual queen cells so that when they come out of their cell, they're trapped and incapable of killing any unhatched or hatched Queens around them.

[@beek]

Yes I’ve done that for years in the incubators.

[@KubotaKid]

Thank you brother for awesome information.

[@beek]

My pleasure

[@agpizz]

love you man thanks for the burns top feeder ill support you till the end!!! love your knowledge thanks for teaching!!!

[@beek]

Thanks Austin

[@williamsouthwad]

Thanks

[@PatrickRivers-mq1dd]

David, I had a hive last spring that was not queen-right. I had a laying worker bee. The bees were not accepting the new queens so I made a similar queen cage to help get the new queen accepted.

[@framcesmoore]

Ha David I have some of them already good thing this video made the folks on amaon out of stock good video enjoyed it thanks

[@pcelarskisokak]

The most important thing is to prepare bee colony for successful accepting new bee queen, then things go easy no matter which method is used, no matter which tool.

[@beek]

Sure helps to set up a queenless Nuc with young bees.

[@DougMcHone]

Would a device like this be good for breaking the brood cycle or for knowing which section of frame day old larve can be found later on?

[@steveandrews8301]

What about introducing / safely releasing her to the new package of bees she came with? The hive is new and there's no drawn comb in it yet. New beekeeper, here, who just got his bees in yesterday. How would you introduce her or release her from her little wood cage to help assure they wouldn't kill her? Thanks.

[@randymccracken8914]

In my opinion that cage would come with issues it needs to go to the mid rib of the comb the legs will but the walls don’t and the bees will chew under that cage in no time. I use metal push in cages that go all the way to the mud rib so bees can’t chew under and if not used on plastic foundation I’ve seen bees chew through from the other side on wax foundation

[@beek]

Maybe file the legs shorter

[@user-oe1yu6et6j]

Could you use the cages for mite control?

[@PanajotKaci]

Thanks David! I have a question! If you have a laying worker hive and you borrow a frame from another hive that has a good queen with 1-2 days eggs inside + brood that is ready to emerge and you also introduce a new queen in a cage, how long takes for the new queen to start laying eggs ? And if they decide to make their own queen is that upcoming queen going to be a good one, or the royal milk that they feed the new queen is not a good one because it comes from a laying worker? Thanks again!

[@joejackson9214]

David If the edges are like a queen excluder, what stops the bees from going in and killing her?

[@blackberry5908]

They are not. No bees can pass trough that cage. Any bees trapped inside will stay inside.

[@crazzylongears8835]

He did tell if she will be there alone ,I think so.

[@joaoribeirodesa1163]

I am going to get two queens. My two hives are without any capped brood. Lots of bees but no queen, and no queen cells, as they don’t have real eggs, as I guess a laying worker is on duty. So I will get them 2 brood frames with eggs and capped brood from other hives on each, and introduce new mated queen to each one. Wait 24 hours , than open the safety plastic. Does this makes sense? Where to get that plastic thing? Another thing. Should I shake frames out before introducing the queen? Far-way or doesn’t matter? Thanks

[@petrafischer6599]

Should you brush the bees off that are already in the comb?

[@blackberry5908]

Yes or they might kill your queen.

[@mudgewro]

I assume this is something were you need to take this frame of choice away from the hive to place the cage, insert queen and than take it back to the hive, so you are not dealing with the workers.

[@beek]

You can shake or brush them off

[@daisyshoney6021]

If the worker bees can travel in and out along the sides of the cage, how is the Queen prevented from being killed?

[@blackberry5908]

They can't.

[@beek]

I misspoke and that has been removed. They cannot gain access to her.

[@charliegioe3158]

David so the queen that you put in there and the other bees from the old hive they won’t kill her Charlie PA

[@beek]

They cannot reach her

[@scotthenderson4376]

If the workers can get in to feed her then they can get in to kill her but I like the idea of an area for her to move around

[@beek]

I misspoke and that has been removed. They cannot gain access to her.

[@michaelshipman4229]

Bees that come in and out of the push cage won’t kill the new queen in the first few days?

[@blackberry5908]

No bees can escape that cage. You have to come release the queen by yourself. On day of the introduction the only bees inside that cage will be the queen and the bees that came when you bought her. After few days the newly emerged bees will fill that cage. Note that that if you leave that queen ling enough bees can dig a hole big enough and release the queen. Also note that sometimes when you remove that cage it can be hard to spot the queen right away because she moves pretty fast so before you come to a conclusion that your queen is dead make sure to inspect your frame pretty well.

[@beek]

I misspoke and that has been removed. They cannot gain access to her.

[@radsk5]

Where can I find that item

[@beek]

The link is in the description

[@Raymond.Butler]

Wetting your bees, sounds like, would stress your bees. I am not a beekeeper, however, I do want to get into it.

[@tomahawkmissile241]

just want to say hello

[@beek]

Hello

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

Only if their is a virgin that you missed they will kill a queen strong survive

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

A few hundred maybe????

[@BucksBeesS.C.]

Never thought of a 3 thousand dollar queen. Are you for real?

[@beek]

I have heard of some up to 2,000.

[@dickeliezercabanlig7016]

I introduce my mated queen 24hrs only and they accept her.