🔵A Bad Queen CAN Kill A Hive!

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[@trulylynn9941]

I love how you share your knowledge without asking people to pay for it. We older people don't have a lot of money left living on a fixed income. You are my favorite bee keeper! BTW David Burns ain't got nothing on you son.

[@scottfortune9016]

Oh Kamon, I want to see you add the new queen and frames of brood!!

[@livingadamman7994]

Thanks Kamon, looking forward to the beetle trap video, beetles have never been so bad as they are in my area (Australia) right now, thinking it's been the wetter humid conditions over last few years. Nasty things eh

[@theheritagehousesc]

Yes. For us too. This year they have been horrible

[@kamonreynolds]

Should be out in a couple of days!

[@livingadamman7994]

@@kamonreynolds Awesome. One trick I found on badly infested colonies is to put lid down as a tray, put super on top of to seal, then smoke the box of bees heavily. The beetles and some bees drop into lid over 30 seconds, then take off super and start squishing beetles. You can even walk away with the lid and deal with it elsewhere. I've killed 50-100 beetles at a time manually this way. Chux poly propaline dish cloths are good, and beetle barns. Beetle bases are too expensive but are very convenient.

[@graemediesel2936]

I noticed on a couple of colonies this summer that getting plugged up with bee bread was one of the first signs of a failing queen. The field bees were doing a good job bringing in the pollen but the queen was not able to increase her laying to take advantage of the flow.

[@dennissitter2242]

Wish that I was able to make that call that fast. I tend to put the hive tool test off way too long. Thanks for sharing.

[@kamonreynolds]

Lots of practice and I still don't always requeen when I should but I am getting a lot better about it!

[@sweetharlanhoneybees5877]

I was able to get the majority of our colonies requeened this year by taking your advice you gave me on doing so by plugging in those nucs and also used my very own grafted queens. I'm seeing awesome bricks of brood now! Thank you Kamon

[@kamonreynolds]

Awesome! The more you dial those queens and mites in, the more your back is going to hate you from all that honey!

[@sweetharlanhoneybees5877]

@@kamonreynolds My back and I have enough arguments as it is so idk what the future holds lol.

[@heavymechanic2]

I been told I have too many bees based upon the state guidelines LOL! Even with a small bee yard and several mating NUCs, I'm not scaling back due to my investment in equipment. Having support nucs has saved a few colonies after either losing a queen or one that shut down and became mean.. It seems to me that when the neighbor uses Glyphosate, a month later some of my queens stop laying, I read some research that supports that theory.

[@georgehardee5470]

I've seen several videos of people using peppermint candies in the corners of their hives to eliminate hive beetles. Would love to see you do an experiment with that and get your opinion.

[@catchemalive]

Kamon, just wanted you to know I did 3 rounds (1 per week) of 33grams Apiguard in all 4 colonies I have. Just did and alcohol wash and every one washed a zero!!!!! Thanks so much for all your help.

[@kamonreynolds]

Wow that is fantastic! Good on you for putting the labor in! Hopefully this fall flow will be generous!

[@hoopnfarm]

I love watching your videos. I’m learning so much of what to expect from keeping bees in Tennessee. We are hoping to move that way in the next two years. I’m going to have a hard time leaving my bees here 😆❤️

[@boscodog4358]

Do a video of your nuc requeening.. procedure.

[@TinyTrailFarm]

Another great video. Thanks KR and Laurel!!!!

[@TheKelleyBean]

I would LOVE to see how you requeen using a nuc! Do you newspaper combine? Cage the queen? or just plug them in? Please make a video of this!

[@kamonreynolds]

10-4!

[@kennybirdwell]

Was going to ask the same question. Was wondering if you waited a day after removing the old queen before adding the new one.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

As you repair that colony, will you pull that colony from the treatment trials?

[@kamonreynolds]

I will either one have to requeen without adding brood immediately. Or wait till the end of the month to plug a nuc in after all the data is in. By then it may be too late but yeah, Won't be adding any brood until we take the final wash

[@nancynolton6079]

Waiting for that hive beetle video!

[@hughcourchesne4351]

Great to have a plan to keep your hive healthy

[@daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms]

I’m a hobbiest bee keeper so I have not tried graphing or banking queens. I am not sure if I am set up for it. I will be going to the Joplin Missouri event to see you. I will try to speak with you for advise if you have the time. I would probably go to the Arkansas event but I can’t figure out when where or how much. Thanks for your videos. Special thanks to your wife for the filming it is excellent as always

[@rebeccahoffman5914]

Hoping to hear an update on your treatments of oxalic acid. I heard the same comments with the queen with the formic pro .I am wondering if this reason in excess amounts of material of treatments. But, how much is to much at the level of strength of the queen?🤔

[@NoName-du1qf]

Just got done treating hives with oxalic acid vapor ( treatment schedule apiguard two weeks shuts queen down oxalic acid vapor five days times three after the two weeks gives queen time to resume laying) noticed even though I close the screened bottom boards they still leak much more than the solid bottom boards is there a study that compared kill percentage with oxalic acid vapor solid vs screened if not need one enjoy your channel

[@paulawaldrep5286]

Great identification of a problem! Please make a video of the results of injecting the new Q.💝

[@bethkellogg6502]

50.2 Sub’s congrats!!!! Love everything you do.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thank you Beth! Thanks for bee-ing with us! 🐝

[@zetectic7968]

Does this hive have an excess of drone brood? Better to replace the queen now than wait too long has to be a better strategy.

[@srae1503]

I wonder if the queen just shut down because of the OA treatments and will now ramp back up, especially with some feed.

[@beeacademy5687]

Thank you so much

[@scotthenderson4376]

I wish I'd seen this way earlier. I have a few hives that were booming all summer and 1 lagged behind and now its cold the boomers are iffy and the lager is booming

[@TheBguenth]

so I had a hive to swarm and I caught it and found the old marked queen, put her and the swarm in a new hive and it's been a week and no eggs, nothing! I think I should pinch her and requeen. Meanwhile, in the old hive, I can't figure it out... 2 days ago there were half the bees then yesterday, it looked like they were swarming when actually there were so many more bees that I had to add another deep. I can't find any evidence of a new queen (no queen cells anywhere) so I don't know if they have one at all. No eggs etc. I'm thinking I need to add a queen to that one, too. Help!

[@brucesbees]

Interesting stuff Kamon.

[@lambbrookfarm4528]

Great info as usual, Thanks Kamon

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks for saying so Lamb Brook Farm!

[@JimLaddie]

Excellent video. You're a team.

[@mkirkland616]

Great video!

[@JosiahGarber]

How do you determine whether this is caused by high mites or a poor queen?

[@kamonreynolds]

Alcohol wash is the best and fastest way. It will get another wash in a week

[@LawsonsCreekApiary]

Good catch, that Queen needs to go!

[@tjjastrem127]

Id wonder about the back to back 5 treatments affecting her laying as well as the food stores. I would be interested to see if she rebounded with some feed and the pull back on treatments

[@ricklee258]

Same thought here. Patterns won’t look good if nurse bees are pulling eggs due to lack of food coming in. But if you have young queens on hand…..

[@TinyTrailFarm]

Requeen! A usurpation seems unlikely!

[@aremedyproject9569]

Those honey arms of yours! 💪🏼 🐝👍

[@kamonreynolds]

Beekeeping will work you out for sure!

[@CentralKyBees]

Hey kamon, I actually ran into this same situation today. I dethroned the queen and wondered how long I should wait before introducing the new one. I have a 3 frame nuc with a healthy mated queen to replace her. A day or 2?

[@kamonreynolds]

You can wait a few days but you will need to go into the queenless colony and make sure they aren't making queen cells. If they're are crush them then introduce your nuc. Sometimes they let the virgins emerge and then they kill your nice laying queen!

[@CentralKyBees]

@@kamonreynolds yes sir, thanks!

[@Fred-ff6bv]

goldenrod is blooming in ozark missouri.

[@davidpennington4477]

Great video, that is a queen problem

[@kamonreynolds]

Yessir and we are going to fix it!

[@henryparrott2447]

Good job THANKS 😊

[@rodneymiddleton9624]

First!

[@donbearden1953]

Kamon & Laurel, good video! How do store the extra brood comb that you’ve managed to get drawn out? If it’s got a little honey, what do you do with it then? Thanks! RTR!

[@theheritagehousesc]

We just got rid of a queen ourselves. We waited long enough

[@catchemalive]

Kamon, what part of summer is it normal to see the size of a colony get smaller?? I thought it was totally normal to see them get smaller in the fall simply because the Queen was backing off laying for just enough bees to stay alive thru winter?? Should they still be laying hard light spring and early summer?? Thanks for all the help

[@troysilver6853]

Old comb maybe

[@wayne8873]

If there is low protein and carbohydrates and big numbers in bees in the colony, are we seeing selective cannibalising of the brood to re-absorb some of the energy back into to colony causing spotty patterns to form? And would the spotty pattern from cannibalism then trigger the colony to enter into an emergency state causing superseder queen cells to be created? What did the queen’s conditioning look like? Love all of your videos mate. From fellow beekeepers in tropical north Australia.

[@alanwiebelhaus8750]

Kamon when do you expect they’ll start laying winter bees

[@rusticlifefarm6264]

Did the other test OA colonies also have an issue like this one? And was this one of your own mated queens or from somewhere else? I'm mostly interested in the OA part

[@justinmills8084]

How long have you done beekeeping and how many hives ?

[@kamonreynolds]

300 hives 20 years

[@justinmills8084]

I have thought beekeeping for five years where I live and get asked for KZbin channels for good information. Thanks

[@taylorboysoutdoors]

Haha Yes you can she says 🤣

[@firstdawn5465]

did not see a pollen patty on that colony. Any reason why not?

[@kamonreynolds]

Pollen flow yay!

[@NYGRLINTN]

I live in north eastern TN. The pollen that my girls are bringing in now is CRAZY! Some of the baskets are so huge they have to waddle through the entrance 🤣🤣.

[@Drewjober]

Nice video do you treat any hives with formic pro in August or September? Are your temps below 90? I’m near Buffalo NY and it’s below 85 and have good results with it the past 3 years

[@brushyhoney3490]

How long can we expect the flow to last?

[@kamonreynolds]

Who knows 4 weeks maybe if we are lucky. Last year we got nothing! Be prepared for it all!