Beekeeping : Let's See If The Split Is Raising A Queen

[@michaelhopper7487]

I've just started beekeeping getting my first bees been watching a lot of your videos I'm appreciative enjoy watching your videos

[@leroydalton173]

A few cups of coffee a good seat and I can watch all day!

[@jimmyjimjimmyjimjimjimjim4437]

Your videos are great, I especially like the way you constantly talk through everything you doing and looking for. It very helpful.

[@Vetventures]

I love your videos, I've watched every single one and some I've watched a few times! thanks for making them!

[@dmcg040utube]

New beekeeper and watching your videos... Love them.... sittting back with a cup of hot tea, ear phones on and learning lots! Thank you for sharing.

[@beek]

Thank you . Put some honey in that cup of tea.

[@thuffman44]

Hi David. I'm also a new beekeeper (finishing up year # 2 here in SW Florida), and I also have a youtube channel. It certainly takes some effort to inspect the hives while adjusting the camera, and then takes more time to edit & upload. As an amature, my videos are certainly not 'how to' .. but I enjoy making them in lieu of writing down notes. So, just wanted to say 'thank you' for your time & effort. I love following channels like yours and other beekeepers. Really looking forward to your next upload. Have a good day

[@beek]

Thanks Tim, filming and editing is a huge effort. Constantly charging batteries, storing huge video files on external drives and but for me I'm a really fast editor. I try to film to minimize edits. I use final cut pro on my MacBook Pro.Took me about 1 year to become good with Final Cut Pro Software. I love doing it all. I cannot wait to go out and film some more every day! I wake up wondering...what shall I film today. I hope my love for bees and passion to help educate others shows in my work.

[@jembo1959]

Hi David I 'am in Ireland and a second year bee keeper and I have two hives, thanks for sharing your videos I watched the first video showing the split and continued to watch this as a follow up video, Thanks you have helped me so much as a novice bee keeper.

[@reynoldsoutdoorlife3215]

This is my first year having bees! I just found your channel. I hope to learn something!

[@jlhomestead954]

Great set of bees. Bees always do things to surprise you.

[@melwynpinto6552]

What is there were no eggs . What should I do . Should I provide them another frame or combine back . I made a split with 2frame nuc

[@ellenl.5581]

thanks

[@MLshinebox]

How long after the walk away split should you expect to start seeing queen cells? Last year was my first season and I should have done a split last year. Long story. But knock on wood, they are still alive today. Hoping they make it the last 3-4 weeks. So thank you. Very informative. Think spring!!

[@davidmartin6312]

if all the queen cells hatch out then will the strongest queen will survive ? or will the first one to hatch be the new queen ?

[@garyshaffer68]

I would have split that hive one move time when I seen the 2nd queen cell. and put them in a nuc . But thats just me.

[@beek]

Yea, especially since it is still early here in Illinois. I usually wait until May 1st to make splits. That's the neat things about bees, you become a citizen scientist as a beekeeper and can experiment and try different things.

[@decaturridgebees8761]

Haha, I’m split happy to! When in doubt, split it out!

[@tarnishedknight730]

If the queen, drone, and workers are as good as you say they are, I'd be trying to have all three cells produce a queen. I would do everything I could to propagate those qualities.

[@brianhazelwood5055]

Do you move your hive a large distance apart when you split them queenless? Trying to do my first one and getting a lot of answer of how far to move them apart after the split.

[@beek]

Sometimes, but I can usually keep them close if I place something large by the entrance of the split to cause foragers to take a new orientation flight.

[@stacyflynn2223]

What kind of bees are these and would it be a good match to have in Seattle Washington?

[@jefflong6906]

I have a hive that keeps building comb on top of the frames in the top box of the hive. There is room in the hive on additional frames so I'm just not sure why they keep building comb on top of the frames rather than on the frames. Any suggestions?

[@beek]

Add some wax on the foundation.

[@howardmcadams3852]

Thanks Sir Keep up the good work

[@beek]

So nice of you

[@teresacahlik6887]

I want to split my hive, you make it look simple. It is only a couple of weeks before the honey flow here in southeast Texas. Do I need to wait and if so when?

[@sonfirstlymarbaniang5724]

Can the splitted hive lay their own queen??

[@denisegray5722]

That was great.

[@vermiman]

Is there a follow up to this video?

[@aprilbatley9265]

For a female just getting bees next spring.. would u recommend one deep and two medium for brood or 3 medium for brood??????( im understand ill only have one box initially but im considering the big picture

[@beek]

Anyone who wants to reduce the weight of the hive to save the back would benefit from medium boxes rather than deeps.

[@aprilbatley9265]

@@beek ok how would i go about spliting bees from a deep box ( my husbands future hive when its time to split ) into a medium( for my hive).???

[@carolinacarnio5381]

Hey David, so...do you just let them decide which will be the best Queen to keep?

[@blueeyedbeekeepers8709]

Will they recollect the dropped pollen nodules?

[@helengilry1050]

It is the bizarrest thing! Wear headphones. At 9.22 David talks about how cool the queen cells are and how he can make splits out of each one. Just before 9.22 he says 'Cool isn't!', listen carefully, just after 9.22, it's almost as if one of the bees replies 'Yes!' In a buzzy female voice! Very Cool David!

[@KevinsNorthernExposure]

A little confused. I'm a newbie and trying to learn.....you had a couple of frames full of what appeared to me to be capped brood (tan color)....which you commented on how wonderful it was to see so many....how is that possible without a queen? If that was from a split you made earlier, then it came from another hive and shouldn't have been a surprise since you put it in there, right?

[@mikeries8549]

He put capped brood in his walkaway split. I do it a little bit different. If you get cells and a mated queen it's a success. His split will be powerful pretty fast because of the capped brood. He probably gave the mother colony a full deep of drawn comb and that queen is motoring away.

[@KevinsNorthernExposure]

That's what I presumed....but he sounded so surprised there was all that capped brood. I was thinking to myself "didn't you put that in there in the first place? why is it a surprise to you?".

[@mikeries8549]

It could have been capped after he made the split. Someone from the University of Illinois taught me to take the queen, some capped brood, and some honey away when doing a walkaway split. (Mimmicks a swarm) You really want a frame of emerging brood in the queen right hive. Give the queen laying room. He's doing it backwards but if it works it works. Have done it both ways myself.

[@beek]

Yes, sorry I should have clarified that. It's from the hive that I made that split from. It was a surprise since it is so early in the year here in Illinois to come out of winter with that much brood.

[@mikeries8549]

True. It would be hard to make a split on some of mine without using capped brood. (and they need split) They brooded up early in a big way this season. Swarm prevention is going to be tough this spring with everything blooming at once.

[@WeBeeKH]

Many drone cell in bee hive 🐝

[@darrinshort4834]

Will some of the bees clean up the dropped pollen and take it inside the hive?

[@beek]

No, they'll just fly out and get more.

[@galtobell1]

I noticed your inner cover has notches on 4 edges, is that for ventilation, or alternate entrances for the bees?

[@alejandroramos4992]

Yes!

[@jamesblakesley3213]

David I'm having trouble with getting my bee's to draw out comb do you have any solution

[@kmtango4334]

Great video, I subscribed. But I'm confused. Hive A is the overwintered hive. You took Hive A and Split it into two more. Hive B and hive C. Let's call Hive B the one with the 2000 queen and the hive with the queen cups hive C, they are rearing their own queen. So is the original hive A making a queen as well since you took the queen?

[@DanielPattersonBeekeeping]

I thought bees only brought in pollen if there was a laying queen. Could this be because there is brood present?

[@beek]

Yes, bees bring in pollen even when a queen is not present because as they gather nectar, the pick up pollen in the process.

[@brendatolley9862]

They also bring pollen in if the queen is lost and the workers are laying. Had that happen with one my packages first year of beekeeping. One package released their queen and did fine. Other hadn't in 5 days, so someone told me to release her and they must have killed/balled up on her. Being brand new I checked once a week and saw no eggs, and still waited a while to see if maybe she was just a slow starter. Didn't see them bringing in much, if any, pollen until suddenly and what I found was multiple eggs in cells. Soooo. I got a queen cell locally, pulled the frames with what would only be drone cells, and that queen did great. Going to try a split this year since I lost a hive. Was a bad year for beekeepers all up the east coast I'm hearing.

[@kareneaton3395]

congratulations on the successful queen cells. On the last frame you pulled you mentioned that you could use the cell for another hive and I noticed that in was right against a plastic frame. How would you get it off that frame since the back is against plastic?

[@preacherbeeman3437]

The best option would be to give the frame to another queenless hive.

[@beek]

Hi Karen, I use an X-acto knife and cut them off. If the back side of the cell is open, I try to take as much of the surrounding wax to pinch it closed without harming the pupae. But like Christopher said, it's easier to take the entire frame, bees and all so as not to disturb that cell. However, I will cut two off in a few days because these are from the $2000 queen and I want her stock. I'll make a video of me doing that.

[@preacherbeeman3437]

The surgeon at work. You should make a video showing that process.

[@jeffreyrumpf6841]

Fantastic!

[@beek]

Thanks

[@charliedanieltamayo3801]

Hey sir your avid fans here..how often we feed for 5 framer nucs?

[@beek]

Thanks for watching. Feed a 5 frame nuc especially if they are low on foragers.

[@chazchaz6569]

what is the point of a board with a hole in it under the lid?

[@chazchaz6569]

@Cekeybula OK, Thank you .

[@carolinacarnio5381]

great videos!

[@paulablack576]

Great video! We are looking for a new queen immediately for one of our hives- all of our bees are gathered in between the inner cover and top cover and dying. No queen in sight. We just installed 2 packages and are new to beekeeping. Any suggestions? Thank you!

[@beek]

If you call our office tomorrow after 10am central time it may be possible we can ship a queen Monday. Thank you.

[@HornadySetiawan]

Hi David, i noticed some bee sting marks on your index finger? Are you being stung?

[@decaturridgebees8761]

I’d say this......everyone on KZbin gets stung more than they let on. Understand that if someone wants to sell you something, they portray a particular image of their product. But bees sting...that’s just the way it is. Certainly his bees are pretty gentle or he’d be suited up

[@majesticroofingllc927]

Hey David this Israel Gonzales here in ohio I have bees last year and I and up having 7 hives but 3 hives died and I don't know if the other 4 are going to survive I like the way you protected them I will do the same that you do and see if it works for me and else can you sale queens from your queen cells? And where you from thanks I wiil be waiting for your answer keep up with the good videos.

[@kitersrefuge7353]

I've watched a LOT of videos on beekeeping. David Burns' is by far the best one to date...and I include the likes of the Flow guys and Frederick Dunn...which is really saying something. What I like about David is that a) he seems to have a very gentle karma b) is obviously innovative (e.g. insulating the hive over winter).

[@beek]

I'm humbled. Thanks

[@salembeeman370]

David, Love your videos. I'm trying to cajole my wife into letting me take your online course! Did you get $2,000 for that Queen? LOL She is a beauty. I'm getting my first 2 nucs next month and only hope to have as much fun as you do. Thanks for taking the time.

[@connietrahan1358]

Dry wet honey after harvested

[@bbaker6295]

Hey David. are you still shipping queens.

[@hamlakehoneybees2693]

Will a hive that has been split in spring still a produce a honey crop. I’m in MN and planning in May to do a walk away split on my 2 hives of carnies. Also I love your videos!

[@royhendershot]

Do you sell your winter be good?

[@beek]

We sell out Winter-bee-kind candy boards but they only ship between Nov-Feb.

[@rschmidt2691]

Dave - You gave them 3 days to create the queen cups, before doing this inspection, yes? I did double walk away splits today off a hive that had brood patterns like yours with a lot of frames And had a ton of bees in it. Trying to decide how long to wait to check the splits.

[@beek]

Yes Rob, when you walk away or leave behind eggs, they will begin making a queen 2-3 days after you make the split and so If you made the split on April 1, you'll be able to see a nice size queen cell on April 6 and on April 17th the virgin queen will emerge from her cell.

[@954bill]

Try this Rob, it's useful, you just set the grafting date and it generates the calendar for you: www.thebeeyard.org/queen-rearing-calendar/

[@rschmidt2691]

Thanks. Great timeline generator. Had seen this before, but not generated a timeline. Very cool 😀

[@andrewbratlie5023]

did you say $2000 queen bee?

[@beek]

As a joke, yes

[@corneliualdea5385]

Hello Sir David do you have a web site I like your inner cover.

[@George-nx5lo]

You are really good on camera, like you did it professionally. Enjoy the videos, bees are just amazing, never seen the arm blocking entrance before, very cool. Makes me want to my cell phone on the entrance and record them. Have you ever experimented with taming aggressive bees? I am a dog trainer and would love to get an aggressive colony and do some experiments, from the little I have done with mine I absolutly think its not only possible but can be done very quickly. I have done it with my dogs! don't freak out people I have a long haired German shepherd who can only be stung on the nose, and I am monitoring the whole time. But allowing my dogs to slightly agitate them watching them start to show defensive behavior, then me and the dog sit in front of the hive and remain calm and still. After the 3rd time, they became numb to it and did not respond at all. They remember what actions "defeated" threats so you have to be very careful how you go about it, because making them get agitated and of course them surviving would indicate they won, bees don't forget. But biggest question to this is can africanized bees actually be numbed or trained to respond less defensively, hopefully will be able to experiment, and of course cannot use a dog.

[@baconneggs2406]

Lmao@Bob

[@AlexisHasler]

1st

[@davidflanagan3396]

Not the best way to make a queen. It is raised in emergency and is not as good as a queen raised in swarm conditions

[@beek]

I've heard that too, but never found it to be true from my experience.

[@davidflanagan3396]

No matter what look at the cell after the queen has hatched and see left over royal jelly a sure sign she did not lack nutrition

[@davidflanagan3396]

If ypu keep raising queens from swarm cells you have a colony gemetically prone to swarm. A hive like that can stay at home for being a waste of time. The colonies power went with the swarm a typical yank a master dumbarse

[@timroberts1543]

@@davidflanagan3396 Dont watch

[@corneliufrentiu9194]

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[@stevenramirez4343]

You're probably not viral because your videos are kind of long.

[@n1west]

Steven Ramirez long and rambling

[@beek]

KZbin wants long video now. I'm not looking to go viral anyway, but thanks for wishing I was :)

[@beek]

Nate watch my 60 Second Beekeeping Videos. Search for David Burns 60 Second Beekeeper.

[@FL-yv2uj]

I have watched a lot of bee videos and must say, you do an excellent job. I wouldn't change a thing. Ill add that I rarely subscribe, however I subscribed to yours. thanks

[@bbaker6295]

Hey David. are you still shipping queens.