How to tell if your hive is Queenless🐝

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[@missionarttion494]

You are a great teacher especially with someone questioning you with some great question and you give some great answers thank you for her she ask some great question

[@FlowHive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@charlesboyd4650]

I`m Queenless in one of my boxes, this was helpful being a new bee keeper....thanks

[@FlowHive]

Charles, I am so glad this video was helpful. Hoping your hive is re-queened soon. - Leah.

[@shaynestarkey2193]

Last Spring I suspected I had a queen less hive because there were no eggs, larvae or capped brood. Rather than rush in and merging the hive I waited 28 days and then reinspected and to my delight and relief I found that I had a brand new queen had started laying. She must have just returned from her marriage flight and they’ve been happy and strong ever since.

[@cajunbayouvlogs5308]

I am learning a lot from all y'all bee keepers and thanks for everything yall do.

[@taleinz1]

Thanks so very much . I’m new to bee keeping and have learnt so much from your video .

[@elizabethbelloEMPOWERS]

I live in Mexico and bought a bee box from our honey guy. He said "the bees will find it." He was right! He said they will make a queen. I hope he's right! I'm so excited! My goal is to improve the land I live on and also may get some honey too!

[@creatorediillusioni]

Great video, i love the way u explain stuff! Keep going!

[@bobhaigh4281]

Pretty sure my hive is queenless after watching thanks for the tips. Take care of that weed 😊

[@missionarttion494]

Yeah man no joke good work man bless up 🙏💯

[@Peter-od7op]

Ty so much. Iam putting my flow hive 2 together as we speak

[@electricengineer624]

Nice calm explanation , thanks

[@kenthompson6539]

I have found when uniting two hives together the best way is to cage the queen and then shake all the bees from both hives on to a board or sheet in front of the hive they are to go into. Second make sure there are no queen cells. Then put the Queen in the hive while still in the cage, so the bees can release her in three days. This way the only queen to survive is the one in the cage. And if there are laying workers they will be killed but the bees all behave as if they are a swarm and unite with no fighting.

[@rajkumarkandasamy7991]

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[@zroverz]

this is the info I needed. Thanks

[@robertchristian1664]

i read that stealing a queen from a strong hive and introducing her to the weak hive and let the strong hive make a new queen is a better way than letting a weak hive make a new queen

[@mgfarmer1]

HELLO FROM OREGON USA; LOVE YOUR VLOGS.

[@michaelduncan2759]

How did you introduce the alien frame, without the hive killing all of those bees? Or did you shake all of the adults off prior to adding the new frame? Thank you for all you do.

[@kvf_Aotearoanz]

Hi thanks for your excellent video

[@MsGoalsgalore]

This was really helpful. Thanks. I'm pretty new to this bee keeping lark. I try to be as 'hands off' as I can. I think one of my colonys' has swarmed. With out opening up and going inside to check for queen, eggs, larvae is there any other way of knowing if there is a queen inside? Thanks. What are the chances of the remaining bees developing a new queen? The bees still at the hives are still pretty busy, coming and going.

[@FlowHive]

Richard, a queenless hive will not survive so it is very important to see signs that your queen is in the hive and laying, or that there is a new queen being raised by the colony. You will need to open up your hive to do this. You may need to requeen if the colony cannot raise their own queen. www.honeyflow.com/resources/blog/diagnosing-a-queenless-hive/p/269 Here are some tips if you need to requeen: www.honeyflow.com/resources/blog/should-i-requeen-my-hive/p/311 If you are unsure of your hive's situation we recommend that you contact local beekeepers as they are the best resource for the most suitable beekeeping methods in your region and climate. - Leah.

[@MsGoalsgalore]

HEH!! G'dday! You folks are great. Thanks so much. I'm having a peep in tomorrow morning and if no sign of queen-like activity I'm transferring a frame from another hive. Thanks a million for such a quick reply and an excellent video.

[@SYED2SADIQ]

Hi I watch most of your videos and I like the way you explain with lot of patience, I am a new bee keeper and I had started 10months back with one hive and last week all my bees upsouncded reason was wax moth and I was not able to control I started with APIs cerana indica and wanted to try now APIs mellifera but I was told that by the local bee keeper that I will not sustain in urban areas.. like to understand from you l, do APIs mellifera are not that sucessful in urban side

[@FlowHive]

Hey there, Flow Frames are compatible with any subspecies or breed of Apis mellifera (Western/European honey bee), and lots of people do keep them in urban environments - they can be kept almost anywhere as long as there is enough of a nectar flow :) I'd recommend joining your local beekeeping club or connecting with other Flow beekeepers near you via the links below, and hopefully you can find mentors/advice that supports you being able to keep them in your urban area. www.honeyflow.com.au/pages/bee-club-directory forum.honeyflow.com/ Feel free to reach out to us at [e-mail] if you have further questions. - Danika

[@fionmor4893]

the did the queen emerge from a frame that you didnt add? how did an egg get over to that other frame?

[@halilizzetfitness8205]

Hi, I’m a new beekeeper from the UK. My bees recently swarmed and the original hive had a queen cell. She should have left her cell on 12 July. Today I opened the hive for the first time and they’ve filled the whole hive with stores, including brood box. I know she wouldn’t be likely to lay by now. Is it possible that I have a queenless hive? How would I know if the queen made her way back and is in the hive or is it too early? Should I be thinking about ordering a new queen?

[@romell73]

Hi I am Amin from Mount Barker SOUTH AUSTRALIAN. my bees doesn't store honey. I noticed there is a broom and eggs but there is no honey.

[@jeshuadorsey1244]

If the hive is queenless and the worker bees start laying will the drone bees they hatch mate a worker for a queen to hatch?

[@chrismarro1867]

What would happen if you add another queen thinking your old one is gone but you were wrong

[@darrencormier8809]

while doing an inspection recently, I noticed that all I have in my hive is honey and pollen and no brood or brood cells...plenty of worker bees and no drones...still making honey and I've harvested honey too. What could have happened to my queen? Obviously she didn't swarm or the rest of the hive would have followed her. I try to keep my super empty as much as possible to keep them from swarming too. What other methods could I use to keep them swarming? Also, this hive is pretty aggressive too...

[@FlowHive]

Hey Darren, Thanks for your message. Firstly I'll just say while we love to try advise as much as possible, it's hard to do accurately from afar without knowing and seeing so many more things about your unique colony and climate. For this reason we can't emphasise enough the value of local beekeeping mentors/connecting with your local beekeeping club. You may find these yourself, or here are a couple of links to help too, our online directory of Flow affiliated beekeeping clubs and our online community forum, specifically the Connect With Locals section: www.honeyflow.com/pages/bee-club-directory forum.honeyflow.com/c/connect-with-locals/23 Swarming is possible as only roughly half the population leave with the old queen, with the other half staying and will rear a new queen. Did you notice any queen cells? Or, if the new queen has already hatched, she may have already begun laying eggs and you hadn't noticed it yet. Are you able to check for eggs? - Danika

[@larryblackwell1916]

I am confused, sorry, you moved a frame with eggs into the hive in the hope that the bees would chose one to make a new queen. But after several days you were unable to find any queen cells, or only dry queen cells. At that point you logically concluded that the bee were unable to create a new queen. Later you found larva and eggs on another frame. And after that you found what you thought was the queen cell from which the new queen emerged. But that cell was not on the frame added into the hive. So did they move an egg from the added frame into the other frame or maybe the hive was not totally queenless after all. Sorry maybe I missed something. Excellent video!

[@robertramsey-turner7530]

With the frame from another hive with eggs and young larvae hoping the bees would make a new queen. That is a very strong sign a queen is already in the hive. In this case, the old colony had produced a queen cell, it hatched and the new frame was introduced, so the bee colony ignored the potential to make a new queen because they already had one!

[@gwaynewilcox2702]

order two queens and grow your community

[@davidpatrick1813]

Worker or nurse laying?

[@bradgoliphant]

Can't you just watch the entrance to see if the bees are bringing in lots of pollen to check for a queen?

[@mattdibble6781]

Hey just out of curiosity is that african tulips in the background???

[@FlowHive]

Hi Matt, not African Tulips I'm afraid. We don't have those at the Flow Hive HQ Apiary - Sam

[@workwithnature.atochizos6360]

I catch a swarm two days back but unfotunately I found my queen dead body in the bottom of my hive. Is there any posible way to save the colony

[@FlowHive]

Hi Ato, I'm so sorry to hear about the death of your Queen, you have a couple of options, you can hope that the colony re-Queens and keep an eye on the brood box to see if they create any Queen cells or you can purchase a new Queen for them and add her. Good luck! - Sam

[@workwithnature.atochizos6360]

@@FlowHive Thank you

[@gwaynewilcox2702]

if that hive were queen less he couldn't get near it.

[@nenihrohimah4315]

I ve a virgin queen bee. It hatched on Jan 15th. But i dont see it laying eggs yet. Is it normal sir???

[@Itsprincesweets]

Virgin i.e not fertilized.

[@dancingbanana168]

It passed 11 months since your queen hatched, so that mean it have been mated, and now it should’ve laying eggs If it’s winter, queen don’t lay eggs during winter time

[@shrestha462]

I am from Nepal. Why the queen left the hive and what is the reason to left the hive???????? Solution for this

[@jo-han]

Could have swarmed with part of the bees to start a new hive. Could be just because she died and bees remove dead bees from hive.

[@perryhubbard3923]

What you can use to mark a queen

[@celtgunn9775]

There is a 'paint' on the market to mark the queens thorax.

[@walterkersting6238]

Looks a lot like a drone...

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