Queen is being Replaced!! Full Inspection and Nuc split!

[@kamonreynolds]

Here is where we got the Apimaye Hive / Pollen trap: tinyurl.com/y9rkw4s8 Our favorite hivetool and books from Amazon can be found here: www.amazon.com/shop/tennessees-bees

[@millaezman8984]

just ordered! thank you!

[@paulawaldrep3760]

How does a emergency Queen cell look different from a superS cell??? :)

[@kamonreynolds]

Emergency cells often times are worker cells that are used for raising a queen out of desperation. If I see one of those this year I will try to get a video on it

[@aremedyproject9569]

Kamon I wonder if you could make these hives into an apartment kind of arrangement? For example: bottom board, hive, bottom board (or feeder then bottom board), hive, bottom board, hive, super, lid. Kinda like a layer cake, ya know? Need entrances on different sides of course.

[@richardkuhn8115]

Thanks for sharing. Hang in there guys. Blessings to you and your family. Bee Safe.

[@ohiorenegades7999]

You are awesome with bees. Great knowledge,thanks for passing it along

[@christopherreilly4083]

Laurel is a great camera woman, and your videos are some of the best out there Kamon! (from a newb, who's been researching for a few years- also an apimaye beekeeper, 5 frame nuc start, added second hive super at 4 weeks from initial Nuc Transfer, been feeding 1:1 syrup). THANKS to the Tennessee's Bees Team For all the videos, they are very informative!

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks Christopher Laurel and I appreciate that very much. I just checked on this hive yesterday and the old queen was still there but her laying production is way down hopefully the new queen will straighten things out!

[@pomicultorul]

Thank you for taking the time, hopefully you will educate full time one day!

[@kamonreynolds]

I think that would be alot of fun and I could learn alot more in the process myself!

[@pomicultorul]

@@kamonreynolds Even better would be to educate for more than... one day :)

[@eem8039]

@@pomicultorul Ce ai vrut sa zici ca nu inteleg ? Merci

[@pomicultorul]

@@eem8039 As written, "educate full time one day" I think is implying "educating" for one full day (full time, one day). More in line with what I wanted to say would have been "hopefully, one day you will educate full time". Just a silly word order (perhaps more common with non-native English speakers) with a funny consequence in this case. Most natives understand the intended meaning and just ignore the mistake. Hopefully, I will not make this mistake one day.

[@FuzzyOne37]

I have 9 Apimaye hives. All 2 deeps 1 medium. I ONLY use wood frames with plastic foundation. All my Apimaye hives are strong, and will over-winter well.

[@nannygranny9534]

Got my Apamaye hive bottoms in. I am impressed. Very glad I got them.

[@kamonreynolds]

I love the pollen we get from ours.

[@nannygranny9534]

Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees I have looked at other pollen collectors and they were more expensive. These Apamaye have so many more features for less money.

[@MayFamilyEmail]

“I say ‘fiddle sticks to that’...”. I love your channel!

[@lgalardi]

That was great. I found myself repeating bit right away.

[@johnkasprak5707]

Good luck with the weather and getting those queens mated. I'm in the same situation here in NC. Hoping to get the daughter of a stellar queen mated.

[@srv1704]

Here in Trousdale County, same story, no nectar flow to brag about. I think I'm just going to split hives and just grow bees for next year. ...Every year is different and a challenge.....love it!

[@saintjohncoleman8602]

I just received both a 7 frame + super and a 10 frame + super Apimaye hives, and I’m really excited to get some of my bees into them. Thanks for the video. I’ve got a Russian grafted cell going in to half of the 7 this week..

[@stufarnham]

Hey, Kamon, We are in a dry area with only 16 inches of rain in a typical year ( a lot of the surrounding country. Only gets 10 inches but we back up to the wet side of the Blue Mountains. Our first major flows are the maple in March and April and the black locust and tulip poplar in May. The maple got hit with a late freeze and snow/ice storm when it was jUst getting started and was pretty much a loss. The locust and poplar started last week. Two days ago we got torrential rains (about 2 inches on Wednesday) and major wind, which knocked down most of the bloom. So yeah, the weather sucks in a lot of places. Stu

[@MohamedUAE]

How lucky you guys are! rain is good, we don't have much rain down here.. it comes once or two times a year only.. we don't appreciate things till we lose'em..

[@kamonreynolds]

We wish we could give it to you! Dams are breaking over here

[@MohamedUAE]

Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees thats the Mother Nature bro 🙏🏼👍🏼

[@jdesmond4101]

Great information. Thanks.

[@trichard5106]

Thanks !!

[@MikeDeVincentis]

Good timing on this video. One of my hives had constantly been creating supersedure cells, so I decided to let nature take it's course, even though that queen was still laying, I figured they wanted to replace her for some reason, she was probably a few years old. Checked the box this past weekend and most of them emerged with a few cells not yet opened. There were at least 6 cells emerged. Didn't see a queen but there are also no eggs after 2 weeks of seeing the capped cells on the previous inspection, probably 1 week after emerging. Not sure the time frame from emerged, to mated, to laying, but hopefully if they didn't make it the remaining cells will survive.

[@TNRonin]

Mike how did it go? I'm starting out her in TN and learning.

[@tracyweilandrealtorbeekeep3957]

Ha! I live just outside Portland! Beekeeping here certainly has its challenges. You have small hive beetles, we have wet!!! Love your videos! Hope it dries up for you soon.

[@promaster185]

i do not have one of those hive bodies but i looked like the queen excluder had a small raised space that would allow the bees room to move from one side to the other

[@daviddowen3887]

I had to rewatch parts of your video. I got distracted by the bee that went under your arm and by the one that went under your vail. Prime stinging positions, LOL.

[@jklin2987]

I love your red shed in the background. It reminds me of home where I grew up in Iowa.

[@12ArmyNavy12]

Good luck Kamon, I hope the weather settles down soon here in Lexington, Kentucky as well.

[@darkeblue]

Queen piping at 16:10! Some Highlander business about to happen in that hive!

[@MrBigjoecincy]

I feel like you made this video because of my comments haha. I had the option for either plastic or wood and I'm glad I got the wood now. And I'm very interested in seeing how the division board works. The reason I was asking about it is because I couldn't find any info on it any where and I had the same questions about the entrances being right next to each other. I think you can use the queen extruder still but I don't think you'll be able to use the pollen trap. If this works for you I might try doing exactly what you just did next spring and try to split it into three. AZ is much easier as far as weather goes haha

[@pnwRC.]

Neat video. You've got some interesting content on your channel!

[@caderector3456]

Kamon, I've got a hive that produced a new queen and successfully mated and laying like crazy. The hive has plenty of room inside for expansion and some empty drawn comb. When I checked the hive yesterday they have maybe 10 new queen cells they have built out with larvae and royal jelly. The queen appears to be doing an awesome job and has only been laying for around 10 days. Not real sure why they would need to replace her. Lack of pheromones maybe. Your thoughts?

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Cade, Likely the colony was out a balance for a bit perhaps lack a pheromones for a little while. Laying queens don't tear down queen cells so once they commit to starting them even if they shouldn't replace her they will continue raising cells and the virgins will more than likely off your new queen in no time. Maybe something is a little off with that queen but it's hard to say. Perhaps split her off?

[@caderector3456]

@@kamonreynolds That makes sense. I appreciate the information Kamon

[@jonshannon4922]

42" of rain per year in Portland. 48" of rain per year in Nashville.

[@giuliocapua1243]

Hey there, Love your videos. We have a hive which survived over a the winter here in the northeast ( Hudson Valley NY) which is a rarity. They swarmeds two weeks ago and i know there were a number of queen cells on the hive. Ive waited 2 weeks and just was wondering on best next steps to be sure the hive is queen right. Any insights?

[@charlesgothard948]

How did these queen cell turn out?

[@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924]

we had a great early spring. better than normal maple flow, then rain. here in Oregon we expect it, but still dont like it. I am learning to graft, and its not the best mating weather. this video is just what i needed. I have the same thing going on, 8 beautiful cells and a queen that is laying up a storm. shes a red Queen, so I knew it was coming, but I cant find anything wrong with what shes doing. I might put her in a nuc and watch her. and yes I have trouble stewing the old hens too, getting soft. thanks again for your time

[@russellkoopman3004]

Great video. Hope the weather turns around for you soon. Question: if the virgin queen hatches and the weather is bad when she should be mating does she become a drone layer if she doesn't mate?

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks Russell! Yes she will become a drone layer for sure and the hive will be doomed without a beekeeper stepping in.

[@russellkoopman3004]

@@kamonreynolds Thanks Kamon. The queen probably just started to lay a few days ago so I don't know for sure what she will lay. I am seeing some drone cells but I'm not sure if they are unhatched from the split. Terrible cool spring here in MN the first half of May. She hatched the 3rd of May and we had one day that got out of the 50's.

[@klrkrzy784]

Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees in that instance, would you remove the queen and re-Queen with a mated queen?

[@russellkoopman3004]

@@klrkrzy784 I pinched her and did a newspaper combine with a nuc. Now I read that a queen may hold off to mate for up to a month (Mark Winston, the Biology of the Honey Bee). Maybe I should have waited another week but the combine with the nuc really took off. Who knows??

[@OTG414]

Thanks for the great video. We’re just as wet out here. It’s pretty ridiculous. Thanks for showing the Apimaye hives! We’re still using our Apimaye feeders. Just using syrup on one side; we took the top off the other feeder to give the bees an escape when they get trapped anytime we put the cover on. We’re using some pebbles inside the syrup feeder to prevent drowning, which seems to work well. I’d love to hear more about the differences between emergency queens and supersedure queens! Is there a physical difference? You mentioned that emergency queens are “runty”, will my colonies make better queens through supersedure or with grafted cells?

[@Brewmaster721]

Can you elaborate on why you don’t like emergency queen cells, I am wanting to take a frame with some and start a NUC. I have a queenless hive that I have a queen in a cage right now. Was going to pull the frame with the emergency cells to start a NUC

[@crispernator]

Hi mate well there is another thing i have learnt today ,my hive is only about 5 weeks old an while working it changing syrup ect i noticed what i thought was a queen cell .Then i looked at what a queen cell looks like and it wasnt as knarly as thoe you are grafting so i thought it was just a weird drone cell ,now i see what it probably is a supersedure cell . What should i do ? let the bees sort it out or crush it ? knowing my luck it has already hatched although it was there last saturday , its funny as i said to a mate that the queens laying pattern was all over the place little bits here and there just as you did i dont know how old this queen is anyway i wont touch them for another few days yet ,it is funny as i saw to bees fighting on the ground yesterday is this normal ? anyway good video as always take care.

[@edcoffin3514]

The Bee's are all home obeying the stay at home order 😎😎😎

[@SRW1955]

Looking forward to the follow up video.

[@laneunger6645]

Kamon why do you hate emergency queen cells? You and Laurel are my favourite beekeepers, thanks for the content

[@jacobhelton8914]

I think because usually the larva they choose to raise as a queen is usually older than you’d like it to be

[@picturetaker607]

If you had grafted queen cells, could you have put them in the hive making queen cells?

[@douglasleigaber9124]

Kamon, Im having trouble finding a veil that I like. Please put a link in your description for the veil that you use. I have been watching your videos for a long time. I follow several channels on you tube and yours are the best. My favorite.

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Douglas you can get a similar model at Kelleys in KY. This is the closest thing you can find to my 17 year old one. www.kelleybees.com/hat-veil-combination.html

[@christopherreilly4083]

I'd agree, my bees are pretty docile but i'd still like to protect my head

[@ginomorris4873]

Why do I keep seeing so many swarm cells the bees have plenty of room the cells are empty but its making me worry ..what should I do as far as the cells go smash them leave them ??

[@12ArmyNavy12]

Swarm cells usually are lined up on the bottom of frames. Supercedure cells are usually on the face of the foundation. Emergency cells are created from worker cells that turn down like an L shaped cell and are not very good quality queens since they may have come from larvae instead of eggs. If you have supercedure cells pinch off everything else except two of the best supercedure cells. If you only have one then go with that. If all you have is swarm cells you could try and cut her out without damaging her and relocate her on the flat surface of a foundation. Pinch off all the rest. As a precaution, take one of the other swarm cells and put the cell on s foundation and create a new nuc and hope that you get one of them to come back to the hive and stay. If the nuc makes a queen and stays and the main hive doesn't you can combine the nuc back.

[@ginomorris4873]

@@12ArmyNavy12 thank you for the advice my question was the cells are all empty still they are Indeed swarm cells with no eggs should I leave them alone or get rid of them or leave them and split the hive?

[@RobertBrown-tx8xk]

I'm a relatively new beekeeper. I am now in my second year. When getting started it was drilled into me that if a Queen cell got capped they would swarm. So are you saying that supercedure cells do not always swarm? How do I know if it's going to swarm or not?

[@judicorbett9401]

There are swarm cells, supercedure cells and emergency cells. Swarm cells are usually found on the bottom and will often each hatch. The queen will fly off and often most of the virgins will fly and take brood until one is left. Supercedure cells are usually placed all over the frame, many often good cells since there is no big rush and the queen is still laying just failing slowly. Emergency cells are often sporadic in placement and locations because they can be different ages. Queen has been killed or damaged so she needs replaced now! First one out usually kills other ones. This usually results in older larvae being had queen that wins out not always the best one.

[@JBEESHoneyJoelBrutcher]

Same issue here, rain, below ave. temps, queens can't fly to mate.

[@hyfy-tr2jy]

Kamon...you didnt need to use the queen excluder if you were ok with using the divider for the upper super as well.

[@Brewmaster721]

Do you have a follow up video on this hive ?

[@christianbuzila6997]

Hi Kamon, good point in the end!! Exactly what happen with me, I had 2 queens in the same hive, I marked one with light blue and one with dark blue, the dark blue marked went on the other side and kill the other queen :(( I end up merge the bees and let the killer queen take over the hive! Thank you again for your info!!!!

[@daveshearn2743]

Have you ever had marking a queen lead to a supercedure cell being created?

[@kamonreynolds]

I haven't Dave but a friend of mine said it happened to him once

[@travisscroggins615]

Hi Kamon, Lauren et al, I really love your videos!!!What's the difference between a supercedure cell and an emergency cell, and how can you tell?

[@kevinjackson1840]

it is sunny and getting warmer here in California, pollen has slowed and nectar still flowing in foothills

[@terrydoublin1398]

How are you feeding your wood Nucs with migratory cover? Im fixing to make a lot like yours for mating Nucs I'm not liking the 2 frames as much.

[@royschrader8003]

Mr. K, question I put a Nicot system in a few days ago. I checked it yesterday. Nothing in the system, but I had eggs in the cells on frames. I made sure there was no other queen. Could worker bees take them from Nicot to cells?

[@researcherAmateur]

Yes. They don't do it on Jenter . Seen it before

[@royschrader8003]

@@researcherAmateur, thank you I thought I was going crazy.

[@researcherAmateur]

@@royschrader8003 it's about the wax and the shepe of the cells. Wrong plastic too.. Nicot is good for grafting.. in Jenter you put the qween over night and relise in the mourning. If you time it on 72h it is posibil to get 2h larvas. You don't tach them never.. If grafting is dificult bay Jenter. My father loves when he findes eggs and larva in. It meens hatching just started and he puts those for cell makeing...he can't see them, but he knows becouse he sees the eggs around in the cage.. so the center must be larva..makes great qweens.

[@sharonlane1988]

Rain in clay co wv again today I think we're in a drought it hadn't rained in almost 12 hours

[@MrBigVK]

Is there a location difference in the hive that suggest swarm vs supercedure cell ?

[@judicorbett9401]

Yes, swarms usually on bottom of the frames, supercedure and emergency cells usually on the face.

[@laneunger6645]

Further to my emergency queen question I guess that means you don’t like walk away splits?

[@bluewingfarms2208]

So you just have 2 frames in the nuc and basically 3 frames of bees? What temperature is it there? They will be warm enough? Are you going to do a follow up video and add more frames to the nuc once the queen has started laying? Great video.👍

[@Sh2194h]

Hi I have a question. My name is Sebastian and I have a hive that survive the winter, but the queen did not I have order a queen and added the new queen it took me 3 weeks to get beck in to hive because of cold weather we had in Indiana. By checking on the queen I have notes that she is not laying the eggs working the frame but no eggs I call the person that sold me the queen and explain what happen he talk me it was bed weather in his area and the queen might’ve not made it good so he send me new queen but he will check that queen is laying eggs take me to kill the other queen so when new one will come that will accept her. I did what he take me new queen arrived 12 days ago I place her and check 3 days after she was released check yesterday and same problem queen is ok but no eggs. What should I do is it possible that is been a long time and there is not enough of young bees for queen to lay eggs? Please help, thank you.

[@12ArmyNavy12]

One thought that hits me. Are the foundations honey/nectar bound, where the queen has no where to lay?

[@FloryJohann]

I think you are dealing with more than one problem here. There is not enough info you gave us. It will take a new queen some time to start laying and to get used to the new colony. If you bought the queen from a warm climate and place it into a cold climate you may have problems with the queen to perform. You may have to keep the hive warmer or wait til the temps are going up. A local queen may be better. Do you have honey and pollen on the frames? Brood need pollen and honey and it would be hard to raise brood without pollen. You may have to create a honey and pollen flow by feeding the bees sugar water and pollen patties and this may entice the queen to start laying. The queen may need to see a flow before she starts to lay, even if it is artificial.

[@mikedarkow7788]

do you do the same with swarm cells?

[@romoshka1]

Are you saying that 2 queens hatch and they both go on a mating flight. I’ve always understood that the first virgin destroys the remains cells

[@herbertherbomoore415]

How many 📦's of bees do you need in ratio to 🍯?

[@irishcoffee6894]

How can you avoid the removal of the queencells by the bees ? I had 5 queencells and all of them are opened on the side and I couldn't find a new queen at all. 😔😔😔

[@russellkoopman3004]

Someone makes queen cell protectors. They are a plastic ring that stops anything from biting through the sides. Not sure who sells them but Mann Lake would be a good starting point or google queen protectors.

[@jackgill7014]

I’m a sad new beekeeper today, I think my new hive, only hive is infected with AFB :(

[@russellkoopman3004]

If that is a new nuc you might just have chilled brood caused by the seller not giving enough nurse bees to take care of the brood. AFB is very rare so try to eliminate other possibilities. Wait a week and check back with the hive. They should have good resources this time of the year, if they don't help them. If it is AFB the fire pit is the remedy.

[@badassbees3680]

That whole click like that,my bees can and do draw out a deep frame a day at times,if they not drawing the beekeeper prob not feeding enough

[@DS-fq5ey]

Hi Kamon, Any suggestion on using an oxalic vaporizer in the apimaye hive? I have one of the less expensive hand held wand type. I was thinking going through the removable bottom board?

[@cherimolina2121]

Rain here in sw Mo AGAIN. Bee working roulette.

[@popquizzz]

I thought only virgin queens did the piping. I learn something new everyday. What/why would a queen be piping?

[@wwoutdoors7300]

It’s still raining in Florida. Man my bees need a brake

[@ironlion805]

I say fiddlesticks to that entire plastic set up.

[@mikeclark6843]

Why do my bees keep stinging me, can someone give advice?

[@judicorbett9401]

Mean bees, poor handling, not smoking well enough, you are pinching bees, wring time of the day, poor weather when you check........... Bees sting if the feel they need to!

[@12ArmyNavy12]

Don't know what you are wearing when you work your bee hives. I have learned that if you wear clothing (gloves, coveralls) that have bee stings in them it can leave pheromones that irritate the bees and make them want to attack. I found that if I wash them periodically it decreases. I agree with Judi Corbett about the handling, smoking, pinching bees and just plain bad weather. My first hive came from a swarm that produced evil bees. On the third time in the hive, had already been stung each time before, I went through the whole hive looking for the queen and was stung 151 times, only 21 got me, the rest were in my clothing, mostly in the right glove. I was never able to supersede her as I could never find her. I did a split with the queen I purchased and left two supersedure cells and they got rid of her. Both hives calmed down after the old bees were gone. Good luck.

[@FloryJohann]

@@12ArmyNavy12 When I washed my bee outfit last year I used a lot of bleach and then I let it dry. The next day when I went to the bee yard I was attacked left and right. Not knowing what was going on but having an guess, I washed again but without bleach in hot water. After that everting was very well. The bees did not like the smell of bleach at all.

[@FloryJohann]

A queen-less hive is more aggressive. Overheated hive, not enough ventilation. Do not wear colon or other smells on you. Rain or cloudy. Check while the bees are foraging. Also moving slow when inspecting helps.

[@johnbannister501]

Don't eat a banana before inspecting the hives as the aroma of the banana is similar to a distress pheromone that bees give off to say "attack" to the rest of the hive.....😀😀

[@researcherAmateur]

This year my new qweens are those. We find a metod thet works and stop with grafting. I nide to finish the math and it will be a new metod. But my bees make only 2 or 3 cells thet are grete. Never seen thet much of them in one hive. Cood be just diferent bees. Yah the wather. I'm done, start with feeding. Last honey in march. 0 now. Take care

[@Priroda1234.Belarisi.]

Раеннее я просто обрезаю плодной матки крылья

[@zerocool89BIH]

Tomorow is sworm on the tree. That is not super seadet cell. + queen is singing. Sory for bad gramatic.

[@researcherAmateur]

Moguće ni meni nije drago. The piping of the qween is not a good sinde.

[@zerocool89BIH]

@@researcherAmateur prosle se godine na istom takvom slucaju opeko. Je li vise od 3 maticnjaka nerizikujem hehe. A u njegovom slucaju 20 maticnjaka plus matica pjeva.

[@researcherAmateur]

@@zerocool89BIH mislim da si u pravu. Nije ni on siguran.. a pčele su im sve hibrid... We are not shore about those cells and a piping qween. They usualy sworme. But diferent bees.. who knows. Now they are split..if is sworming it shud stop

[@truthhurts2149]

Got my two nucs a week ago. 1 looked ok and was about 1/3 or more heavier than the other which the seller placed in my car. Foundation was almost empty. Other colony had equal amounts honey capped brood pollen but I dont see any eggs. Maybe I need to look closer. I did see queens in both hives. One was not marked which I paid extra for. There seems to be queen cells in the better colony. Should I remove queen cells if my current queen isnt laying. I wont be getting nucs from the same person again.

[@russellkoopman3004]

As Kamon says the bees know best. If they need to replace the queen they hopefully will try. You have 16 days for a queen to emerge so watch for capped brood to know if the queen is actually mated. I would not destroy any queen cells on a new nuc. My 2 cents worth.

[@FloryJohann]

If the seller did not mark the the queens that is the sellers fault. If the bees do not like the queen that may be the bees fault. Maybe the queen is of bad quality or there is something wrong with the queen that the bees can sense. I read an article not to long ago that stated that a very high percentage ( I can not remember excactly but I think it was around 40% or 60%) of the queens are being replaces by the workers within weeks of installing a package or nuc. I bought a lot of queens until I started to let my own bees let them make their own queens. I got much better queens and bees know. Maybe it would be a good thing for your bees to make a new queen to get better genetics.

[@truthhurts2149]

@@FloryJohann guess I need to read up on how and when to remove old queen if shes not doing her job.

[@russellkoopman3004]

@@truthhurts2149 The bees will let you know when they start raising queen cells when they shouldn't be ready to swarm.

[@garydungelman6530]

Fiddlesticks. LOL. NYC

[@trevor311264]

I don't think they like that queen much....

[@millaezman8984]

could you please address bee's aggression in one of your videos? you working your bees without full protection feels like science fiction to me... my bees gradually turned very aggressive, we can't even approach 30 feet without being attacked... and all my hives are in the middle of my garden. so basically i have to strap full suit on just to go water my plants! :(

[@kamonreynolds]

I will try to do that shortly. Out of curiosity where did you get your bees? A producer, swarm? Also are you in an Africanized area?

[@millaezman8984]

@@kamonreynolds I got a nuc last summer from a local breeder. they breed mite tolerant queens, he said most of his hives are gentle. I guess its just my luck. I dont know if im in africanized area, not that I heard of. thank you for replying!

[@alfredkibunja1253]

What is africanized area?

[@kamonreynolds]

@@alfredkibunja1253 Many areas in south america and the southern and south western United states have hybrid bees that are a mix of African honeybees and european honeybees. This created what is known as Africanized bees and they are much more aggressive than the Original African honeybee.

[@alfredkibunja1253]

@@kamonreynolds am small scale bee keeper in Kenya and am learning through our videos. Thanks 4 replying in advance..

[@linoleumbonypart385]

Omg a totally plastic hive ....how gross