Splitting With Swarm Cells

A demonstration on dealing with a colony that is about to swarm. Making some useful splits, and saving the old queen just in case.
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[@BaldEaglesofCenterport]

I've been a beek for over 15 years, your tone, they way you convey to everyone is awesome - I wish you would vlog more often. Awesome videos!

[@DysonApiaries]

More to come!

[@bb503]

Great info - thanks. Just went to split and found queen cells in my hive. Wish I’d seen this before. But going back to do some remedial work tomorrow. Thank you!

[@DysonApiaries]

Good luck!

[@rosepence7115]

Great video!! So much information and expertise here. Well done, nice videography; the captions add a lot as well. Thank you!

[@DysonApiaries]

Thank you for the feedback!

[@DysonApiaries]

By the way, my videographer is a tripod. I have to get a little creative with premier pro…😀

[@esthervickers5259]

So helpful, thank you. I am a backyard beekeeper in central florida so the flow seems on going sometimes. I seem to have good genetics and want to keep it. Good to have this great information.

[@DysonApiaries]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@BrianBebb-fk5sq]

Excellent video, Justin.

[@DysonApiaries]

Thanks!

[@jorlenepfannmuller9065]

Wish I saw this 3 weeks ago. I had a hive just like this one and did not know how to respond. Thank you for educating us new-bees. Lol This video has a lot of very good information explained well. :) I've subscribed and will follow.

[@DysonApiaries]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck.

[@amosshiner6398]

Hello I've been raising bees for about 3 years now and have been watching alot of utube videos to learn how and they helped me alott BUT MAN I WISH I COULD HAVE GOT THE CHANCE TO WATCH YOUR VIDEOS FIRST THREE YEARS AGO I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TELLING US THE NUMBER OF FRAMES YOU PUT IN YOUR BOXES AND HOW MANY OF THEM ARE BROOD AND HOW MANY ARE HONEY AND HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE FOR THEM TO PEAK YOU ARE VARY GOOD AT TEACHING BEES TO BEGINNERS AND I CAN WATCH YOUR VIDEOS WITH MY CHILDREN WITH NO CONCERNS OF YOU SWEARING . GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR GREAT CONTENT THAT IS TOP NOTCH AND HOLSOME PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING

[@DysonApiaries]

Thanks for the feedback. You won’t hear any language in my videos. Glad they are helpful. Always looking for content ideas as well. Sometimes I take things I do for granted and don’t realize that one’s learning may not know. It’s definitely a lot to learn. I’ve been doing this my whole life and lessons are learned everyday.

[@kathyhathaway8823]

@@DysonApiariesyou sure said that correctly. I have been doing this Since 1968 an at times I fill like I just started. Bees can at times make you fill like a real dummy. And the bad part about that is most of the time the answer is setting there looking you right in the face . Thanks

[@lynettestone3795]

Those are the most gentle bees! Wow!

[@DysonApiaries]

We are pretty proud of their docility.

[@mattjohnston4479]

Great video, I'm a huge fan of using swarm cells to re queen. Even with successful grafting its very tough in my opinion to get the quality of a swarm cell queen. Thanks for posting!

[@DysonApiaries]

They are natures perfect cells for sure.

[@pastorbarnett3049]

Thanks. I’m going to try your method this year.

[@DysonApiaries]

Good luck! It makes for good quality queens and a bail out plan if needed. Thanks for watching.

[@janepipkin8139]

Where did you put the nuke with the original old queen after you finished rearranging?

[@DysonApiaries]

Easy method is to move them a mile or two away. If not, the one that is relocated in the same apiary needs too many bees because several will go back “home”.

[@HoneyBeeMade]

Hi Justin - good video. I'm curious, I'm still new at alot of this. How do you know if a queen cell is a swarm queen vs. supersedure queen cell?

[@DysonApiaries]

It comes down to numbers. Swarm cells are numerous…supercedure cells are few. In a supercedure situation, there may only be a couple cells. Emergency cells are different all together.

[@SparkieDog1]

Swarm cells are always located on the bottom 1/3 of the frame and supercedure cells are always located on the top 1/3 of the frame.

[@sangalli69]

If you watch this video carefully you can already notice that this is not true. At 7:55 you see two cells in the top 1/2, around 10:07 Justin squishes two cells at the top bar. Always this and that is never the case with bees anyway

[@thatguytx]

I need bees genetics like those bees. Mine make a ton of honey but they are fairly aggressive. No way I can work them without gloves or a veil....

[@DysonApiaries]

I hear that. I have a few hot ones but one of our heavy selection criteria is docility. I sell queens to a lot of newer beekeepers and those genetics pay off in that environment. Ours still make a good amount of honey though.