What's Going Wrong With Our Queens? Roger Patterson

[@drrota]

I say "yes", - Last year my colleagues and I who manage 10+ hives including TBH, Langs, nucs. - all (but one) had this problem last year. Nearly all colonies had these same problems in the majority of hives. We all got queens from the same breeder. Supposedly it had been a cold spring in the breeder area and it was rumored that there was a shortage of drones - and/or the queens had not had the opportunity to get 'fully fertilized'. However, given the situation (worldwide) with pesticides, fungicides, neonics, etc. its quite likely that the problem is with drones that have low sperm counts or are stressed or in poor health. So the queens end up getting the short end of the situation (the blame) - their ability to lay eggs is limited, and the colonies know it and act accordingly - great talk. We need some scientist to raise drones in a chemical free zone, and see what happens. BTW half of our hives are on an organic farm, which does not use chems. I'm hoping that this year the newly superseded queens from last year will have mated with 'drones that are chemical free'.

[@MegaDavyk]

The biggest problem with Bees is they don't read the Beekeeping books or attend Beekeeping lectures.

[@jonathanbessette]

Your picture show a swarm cell in the limit of the comb when you talk about supercedure cell so it’s normal that even with one cell they swarm . Have a nice season , great video

[@jayp4083]

Thank you - very scary for a new beekeeper, but better to be armed with knowledge than left scratching our heads.

[@williamsummers6438]

The natural way to breed queens is by each queen being superseded by a daughter or several if swarming. If you wanted to inbreed this species the best way to do it is to take one "perfect" queen (by our criteria) and then breed (say) a hundred of her daughters and then distribute those to local breeders who then breed a further hundred from each of those. That makes about 10,000 grand daughters from the original "perfect" queen living somewhere on the planet. This is happening commercially right now. Compared to this as a disaster neonicotinoids and varroa are just minor matters. Make you own queens. Spurn commercial systems.

[@ApiaryManager]

Just wondering why a video from 2019 is still on the header in 2022. Is the channel not being maintained anymore?

[@jkprops]

A strong hive can be interpreted differently by bees keepers, is it one box or 3+ boxes of brood with honey supers on top of that. There are many factors the are the cause but the number one is mans thinking that we know better than the bees and over split over raise queens and over manipulation not to mention the amount of pesticides and thinking that gassing for varroa is ok for the bees. The bees are still a wild insect and not a domesticated farm animal.

[@reneebrown5598]

I'm wondering if the varroa diseases may have something to do with it. I mean in the rest of the hive varroa can cause wing diseases and maybe it could be causing a fertility issue with the queens. If the queen that laid an egg that is to be a queen is diseased could she not lay a " bad" egg.

[@decaturridgebees8761]

What about the introduction of different genetics or hybrids that had not been tested?

[@thomasluthi7543]

answer is amitraz ... try having cleaner wax ull see ... on the opther hand having them requeening and not swarming sounds like a must ^^

[@lorindarenteria]

My bees superceded their queen of only 2 months, in late spring. I tried raising queens from her eggs, and 2 of 4 new queens were missing their wings. Did they supercede her because of wing virus? I think so. Her last brood frame even bore worker bees missing wings.

[@ApiaryManager]

Favourite quote: "The future...could be long term" :-D

[@ratpackcolorado]

its all true.its the quality of egg and larva.we cant see the degradation nor can the bees.5 out of 20 starts are insufficient.

[@ApiaryManager]

Don't you find it strange that a devoted Amm beekeeper should claim to speak with any authority about Italian/carnica queens? I have kept carnica for many years and rarely has one swarmed. However, if you keep them in single National hives which are clearly too small for a race that is renowned for explosive spring growth, you really can't be surprised if they become congested.

[@fishmut]

So your saying just because you have carnival rarely swarm your an expert lol around the world carnica bees behave differently like any other bees in different conditions , harsher weather , different food etc and yes depends on size home they might have lots of factors , don’t judge other speakers especially when your making claims yourself . Expert.

[@ApiaryManager]

@@fishmut What do you mean by "carnival"? There is a huge difference between criticising a speaker and addressing their claims. I think it's pretty clear that I was doing the latter. However, if RP wants to make claims about non-native bees, he should establish his credentials for doing so. Otherwise, it's just prejudice and mis-information. As far as I am aware, he is a black bee enthusiast but I stand to be corrected on that.

[@davidryle1164]

I'm in Wisconsin. Carniolans reputation for explosive spring growth is well deserved, but far from a liability I regard it as a positive asset. Managing swarming is a management issue.

[@djilalidjaadane937]

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[@rooster3019]

I think his advice will have us mucking about in our colonies too often and causing more problems than we can cure.

[@fishmut]

Then don’t do it.

[@Zerkbern]

Please space out your video releases. When you release five and six hours worth of videos all on the same day, I'm never going to watch them all. I'm gonna watch one… And then the others were going to scroll way out of my subscription feed. You're shooting yourself in the foot by doing this.

[@lorindarenteria]

You can go directly to this KZbin page and watch the videos any time you want.

[@TonyJaboney]

cell phone towers?

[@beebob1279]

No!

[@olgaraffa1]

Robb yes! ehtrust.org/published-research-adverse-effect-wireless-technology-electromagnetic-radiation-bees/

[@olgaraffa1]

Bee Bob do your research 5G is a definite killer.