Moving a swarm into a Hive Box and teaching Lisa's Triplet Sister Tammy about bees.

Lisa's Triplet sister wanted to put on a bee a suit and learn about bees, so we did just that. We are moving a swarm from the swarm box into a hive box. We captured the wagggle dance! Lots of good videos of the inside of a hive.
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[@liquidrockaquatics3900]

OK, first of all I’m proud to be your first comment. Second I just wanted to say that you pointing out the Waggle dance at@ 25:00 cause a great amount of laughter in my family because I listen to an entire podcast where they were talking about bees communicating by dancing and I explain this to my wife. Besides the Waggle dance, there are also some bees that are slackers which is country to hard-working honeybees.(busy little bees?) slacker’s are pretty much exactly what they sound like and they don’t follow the rest of the hive and kind of freeload. They’re kind of a drag on the society except during the most important time whenever a location runs out of nectar.. it’s these moments that the bees that don’t follow the rules are the ones that actually save the entire colony because they have been going their own way and find new sources of food for the colony/hive. So these slacker bees come back, covered in pollen, and the rest of the hive is all sitting around, not knowing what to do when the hero of the day, little Timmy (I know it’s female) that never does anything comes to the rescue and then does a waggle dance and saves the hive. I have been teased about bee podcasts for the last 5 years 😂😂

[@Hawkins_Family]

The little Timmy concept and slackers is interesting, I hadn’t heard that before. Thanks for sharing, I’ll look into that.

[@liquidrockaquatics3900]

31:26 as I am watching this I am wishing that you had a bee vac for your sake. I love honey and all the byproducts of bees, but I don’t know if I could ever beeeeee a beekeeper

[@Hawkins_Family]

I do have a bee vac, I just didn’t have it with me… it would’ve made it a bit easier! I just had no idea what it was going to look like when I opened it up. At the time that I’m typing this, I still have 3 more swarm traps to transfer into regular hives. Thanks for your interest and comments!

[@liquidrockaquatics3900]

39:23 ok, so question for anyone here pertaining to timelines here. I read queens go from egg to adult in 16 days, worker bees in 21, and drones in 24. Earlier in the video he mentioned that the brood cells are sealed back up to pupate. If you aren’t finding eggs or unsealed larvae, would that normally indicate that the queen was elsewhere?

[@Hawkins_Family]

Yes, if you don’t find any brood then that’s a very good indication that there’s no queen. Great question!