How To Make Emergency Replacement Queen

[@juandeleontorres6050]

I don't even have an bee hive. Love watching g these lol

[@projectiledysfunction]

Me without a bee hive or any intent on buying one: cool.

[@arlipscomb]

Kind of like the old saying "Two is one and one is none". Having two hives gives you a lot of options to both compare things and fix things.

[@paulschaefer5241]

sage advice

[@trulylynn9941]

I heard from Roberts bees here in Georgia that David is one of the best bee keepers and I've learned a lot from both men. It is great to have good people showing us what is there. We appreciate you ! They are the best of the best here in the south!

[@davidhaught84]

I really appreciate that. Thank you so much!!!

[@markmann6796]

Interestingly I just ran into this scenario. My colony in need was dwindling fast so I didn’t feel like I had the time (or confidence) to go the donor tray route. FYI, my typical Queen supplier gave me a 2 week ship date, so I called the big company up north who told me they were weeks out on shipping queens. Coincidentally, I remembered Barnyard Bees and thought I’d give them a chance to disappointment me along with the others. To my great surprise, they not only had the queens but shipped both out the day of the call (received yesterday, 4/15). Everybody can produce a catalogue, service is a much more rare commodity. Your prompt service was/ is very much appreciated, and I’ll remember this when ordering other supplies. M Mann Clinton, Oklahoma

[@julieenslow5915]

I saw wings starting to flap - I think they were happily surprised and ready to go over to the new bees, greet them, pat them on the back and start checking which eggs they wanted to make queens from! Fabulous video David!

[@davidhaught84]

Thank ya Julie!!!

[@julieenslow5915]

@@davidhaught84 Always a pleasure David. I'm going over to Homestead Hacks to catch up - see what you are up to there!

[@andersthorson5628]

God bless you Dave. Learned more practical beekeeping from your channel than any other by far. I'm grateful for your time and effort.

[@davidhaught84]

Thanks so much for the kind words. That means so much.

[@boilermaker400]

Thank you. My bees are flying well here in northern Ireland. Your videos help me alot. Your no nonsense, chilled out approach inspires.

[@cassidydeyoung]

Thank you! I did this method about almost 2 weeks ago and couldn’t find how long I should wait before checking. Glad to know so far I’m doing it right! Just a few more days until I’ll check now!

[@hansfreundwich8331]

I've done this and ended up with the best queen ever. She was so good she overpopulated the hive and swarmed but left tons of eggs and brood.

[@Accordian]

Lucky queen! Probably because their where tons of male bees too.

[@berrrygr]

I had a colony with a failing queen. Took her out and today I did this very thing. Found a frame of day old eggs, nurse bees etc and put it in the queenless colony. Did not use smoke as I did not think of it but there did not seem to be any fighting going on. So fingers crossed they get to work on a new queen for that hive.

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

Thanks for the videos. I just put a frame with eggs into a 5 frame nuc that is queenless and raising drones. I hope this works, there are a lot of bees I don't want to lose.

[@brecar4361]

Very well place for your bee shopping always has everything you need got a queen today and will always have my business in the future thanks again

[@stevenstewart4700]

This actually works and works pretty good. I've had to do this.

[@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801]

Great video, thanks, best wishes from all your viewers from the UK. Spring has just started here, so bee activity on the rise! Thanks for all your advice and the time you spend in putting these videos out.

[@houssembenabdallah6599]

What I usually do in this situation is after 5 days from putting that brood frame or doing a simple split, I eliminate capped queen cells and leave the open once (ex: frame added on Monday, opening hive on Friday). This way I make sure to have the best quality queen because it got so much royal gelly from day one. Also, I prefer to leave the big queen cells that are placed on the side and bottom of the frame. As I know, queens who received royal gelly on the 2nd or 3rd day in the larvae stage are always inferior to those who got it from the moment of hatching.

[@lanettelawrence6308]

Thank you for the Queen Bee survival..

[@DeVill3007]

These are FASCINATING!!! 😱😱😱

[@leahclewley3942]

Make sure the queen from the donor hive isn’t on the frame of eggs you are installing

[@BlanchardsBees]

Can't wait to start making some queens with my own bees.

[@aunikesufaemiknungafsa499]

I’ve done this before and can confirm it works although I have shaken the bees off when I’ve done it. I’ll have to try it your way to see how it compares. I didn’t realize that even using a bee brush could damage the brood.

[@virgilcrites8906]

Done it before it works thanks for your help!!!

[@juanrojas-ho6bx]

Thanks David for such life savings information I had a queenles hive that I lost cause I couldn't buy a replacement queen.

[@HaselorHoney]

Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos 😀 One of my colonies had come out of winter a drone layer. I did exactly the same as you and I can confirm it works 👍 Stay safe and take care 🐝🐝

[@rustyaalberg6956]

Thanks for the video David.....missing those bee chats!!! Lol

[@B3RG3RS0N]

Right video at right time. Thank You

[@swmltrainspotting]

This video will come very helpful

[@tallcedars2310]

As a new beekeeper this shows how to use a supercedure cell that up to this point was a mystery. Noticed these bees were totally inactive, is this a sign to watch for when checking hives and are there other signs to watch for?

[@forkandlessakura6568]

Thanks for the great tip. It looks like you have a "MITE" on the far side of the feeder....LOL. Watching from Japan.

[@latanyapalmer7252]

Thank You.

[@HMallory1]

Dave you are right on time, I'm having to split my hives to keep them from swarming . I hate to do it because it gives me more hives than I want, and I hate to create a worker laying situation. Thanks

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Why don't you shake off bees, take the odd frame of capped brood. Freeze them. Put these frames, once thawed, back to the Colony as 'protein food'. The bees will clean up those capped cells, aka dead grubs, have a feast ! When the Queen can start to build up more (!) Just repeat frame take out / return system. Until splits are not needed... 😏 For newbies, remember bees have a life of approx 6 weeks, in the Spring and Summer (not Queens !) So bees are capped and born on a regular basis, to maintain population need. 👍 But Colonies can get rather big quickly in this continuous process.... 🤨 Lucky you to have so many bees. Why not sell those Splits ? Or donate some frames of bees to a new Beekeeper, to teach them Walk Away Splits and raise their own Queens? Local breed Queens are better than imported ones. We need more bees and beekeepers alike ! 🥰 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@familyhearingandbalancecen9777]

Good information and points!

[@oscarpineda7935]

ILY!❤❤❤

[@aarongriffin81]

When adding a frame with all stages of eggs/larva, the new queen CAN emerge 10 days later. I have had a queen emerge 9 days after adding the frame of larva. They skip the first 6 days(3 days an egg + 3 days a larva). 16 days total for queens. Once in my experience, they must have used a 4 day larva or the queen developed faster. After the virgin emerges, she may be mated as early as 7 days later but most often about 12 days after emerging.

[@strugglingbeekeepermarkcot9642]

Great video David thanks for sharing.

[@pacrat1969]

Thanx for the great info.

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Assume I've never seen anyone put up bee videos from this state, hello y'all from ATL

[@kathyhathaway8823]

This was a GREAT HELP on the queen . I know that the dragon flys can take out a lot of my bee’s . The video on the yellow jacket killer was a great help also . Do you know a way to take out the Dragon fly . Thanks Gene

[@francinekeane9900]

Fabulous video thanks David. Been watching all your videos. Very new to bee keeping, was given a wild hive that had been saved from a cut down hollow tree but they couldn't see the queen so don't know if there is one in there. The tree had been cut down a day or so before we could get them out so there was no brood but lots of honey. We are in the middle of winter here in Australia temps 45F overnight 61F during day have had them 7 days now so don't know if I should open them up to check> Please if you can offer any advice it would be very much appreciated.

[@spudgn]

Dave, do you ever use the OTS method to raise new or produce a new queen? I don’t have bees yet but they are part of my retirement plans.

[@spudgn]

I was thinking of using this, OTS, method to start NUCs and build resource hives in my coconut and banana groves. If my fruit production is partially dependent on the number of pollinators present, I would think, always having active hives would be a plus. So, making nucs frequently would be a good thing?

[@andrewrosman2004]

Dave I have a question for you bet a year ago you say goosey was sitting on eggs I never heard anything more about the outcome of the eggs?

[@jamescasto8219]

Thanks

[@jerry2593]

Yes, martins may eat a few bees but their main food source is dragon flies. We had martins for years and soon found out that most of what they feed on and feed to their young is dragon flies. It's amazing how many they eat. And big horseflies. We had horses and every year when the martins were there we seldom saw a horsefly or a dragon fly until after they left.

[@mehtarelingolien]

Hopefully your mosquito popuation stays down; dragonflies prey on mosquitoes in every stage of their lives.

[@tomwalters2529]

I love the videos! What are your daily/evening temperatures there Please? Its still -1 to + 12Deg C here!

[@HuntsmanStrong]

My heart broke at the beginning. But lifted by the end.

[@TheIrfanxz44]

How late in season can you did this? I’m in New England and starts to get cold late September

[@0hleg]

What’s the best cheap paint to use for these

[@Exterminator_PvP_YT]

Why the bees are not moving?

[@MegaDavyk]

Nurse bees are usually excepted fairly well.

[@ninacentofanti1951]

Sante have a colony come out of winter very strong i see no egs no brood no queen wath do you suggest i am a new bee keepper from new york.

[@togwilson]

What if I have the hive and no bees?

[@harleytaylor6201]

Can u do a vido on if bt cotton if I will harm bees

[@DougMcHone]

If one half is Italian and the other is Carolinian, or some other kind, is that a problem?

[@Roywalton83]

Do you sale large orders of honey... Asking for a friend... Thanks...

[@kingragnar423]

How are they going to get a larvae in a supercedure cell when they dont have a queen?

[@mysticalsprings1998]

I have tried this many times and every time they just eat every egg and larve

[@wadekratzmann9105]

4 weeks , 16 days to make a queen and hatch, 4 days later mating flight then 2 weeks to start laying. So 4 weeks is money.

[@randywashburn377]

Your better off killing them first cells and making them choose again you get a better queen bees will pick a old larvae because it’s less time til she hatch’s

[@chanvalentine8283]

What kills Bee Queens?

[@paulchristu996]

Beekeepers, mostly.

[@PatrickPease]

@@paulchristu996 definitely

[@GLuft3]

David, I tried this last week and I think the "donated" bees killed off the queen.

[@GLuft3]

I should qualify this to say that I wasn't trying to supply eggs/larvae so they could make a queen, but just to boost a weak colony. There was a queen, but now they're making emergency queen cells.

[@davidhaught84]

Oh no. Sorry to hear that...

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

try capped brood after shaking the bees off to boost a weak colony.

[@paulchristu996]

Important to get all the older bees out before you transfer. I shake a frame or so into a plastic tote, let em sit for,ten minutes, giving it a shake now and then. The old bees fly off, only nurse bees left. NBs won’t fight.

[@2tart]

An*

[@geraldweesner2363]

No, not a supercedure cell but a good video in any event

[@cultleader6977]

I put down a $125 deposit for 2 nuts and when I went to pick up my bees the guy says he's out for the year .he won't even give me my money back he told me come back in 2022 in April.

[@shannonbowen4814]

That’s bad business

[@RandomKillerGaming]

Watchin you touch the bees gives me mad anxiety, why don't they sting him??

[@maryellenkennedy669]

Get your hands checked for skin cancer.

[@reelinhuntin]

While I like your videos, whoever you’re getting your queens from is unscrupulous. A couple years ago I bought 5 queens from you. 1 was not bred and another had deformed wing virus. A marked queen with deformed wing virus.