I Had To KILL A Queen Bee - Queen Supersedure Caught In The ACT

[@BlackMountainHoney]

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[@honeybeesforsale]

Supercedure queens are the best in my opinion. I keep track on any colony where I know the bees have decided to replace the queen themselves. And given all the other considerations are equal - ie - can survive our winters, are well natured, and do like making honey, then those are the colonies I like to choose to breed from. Classic supercedure (textbook) is one queen cell in the centre of the frame but rarely are they textbook in my experience. The one I found today had several queen cells in different locations on different frames (often down the side of the frame) and all had a hole in the side. The new queen had got there first and destroyed the yet to emerge virgin queen. Honey making had not been interrupted - there are four full supers of spring honey above the queen excluder on that hive ready for me to take off.

[@sissy8563]

❤❤ Hello was watching Just Alex and he sent us here!! Hello from Texas 🌻

[@Oldmanwithagoldpan]

Great video.. and right on time as my Queen is basically doing the same thing and i made a split off that colony a week ago, went into the split yesterday and have 9 Queen cells, 3 on one frame and 6 on another. I May just put one of those frames back into the original colony and take out that old Queen.

[@PinkettsHoney]

Very interesting video, great you managed to catch it on Camera 👏

[@crashclan9772]

Nice timing

[@lorenzobal6491]

That’s actually really cool to see!

[@tomlammers9861]

What is that bottom box? those frames seem extremely deep

[@kellymoore4517]

National frame, standard to the U.K.

[@sharonhill2602]

Can you do a video explaining your words like brood and drawn out for those who know nothing about bee keeping, like your speaking to a child.