Taking Advantage of Queen Supersedure!!

Making the most out of a supersedure!
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[@RichardsHoney-]

When r u gonna do live chat?

[@kamonreynolds]

Probably Saturday night at 7pm

[@accessthruchrist4843]

Hope I'll get to join! I have questions 😂 always

[@Ambees_Honey_Farm]

(New Beekeeper, second spring) This is what I saw in my first hive. It was a swarm caught the year before, overwintered at my friends house. That means this queen is working on her third or possibly fourth season. Hive inspection showed swarm cells (what I thought). After splitting the colony, I did a follow-up check on the new colony with the original queen, and found that they made two more (supersedure cells), I am not surprised, however, I love this queen, her laying and temperament. I hope tomorrow the weather will cooperate so that I may do another split into some nucs, borrowing some bees and resources from other hives and hope to capitalize on my OG queen's genetics. Thank you for the educational content! This is so helpful!!!!

[@dougstucki8253]

I have an amazing queen in her 3rd year and she is still laying up a storm. All of her daughters have been crazy productive, and they are my most gentle hives. I can't bring myself to replace her, so I hope they just supersede her on their own so I can harvest more of those queen cells!

[@claudesully]

By using the techniques that you and Ian have taught me my bees are busting... I am out of boxes... I am out of supers... I have made all the splits I have equipment for... Too much work for this broken old man... I LOVE IT🤪🤪🥸🥸

[@timmcclelland1905]

"Children hide your eyes." LOL! I like your little injections of humor into your videos. Great vid, good info, thanks! Your successful bee yard has created a new environment for all sorts of critters taking advantage of the abundance of sustenance. Almost like it's own little ecosystem.

[@accessthruchrist4843]

I'm a year in and I hope I'm doing things mostly ok. I worry to much about swarming but seeing all those happy bees I am eased a bit. I did get 12 pints of honey 1st time harvest. I need to learn about how to raise the queens. 1 day at a time. If my split works I will have 5❤🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝. Love Laurel and Kamon, such a gift listening to you.

[@cliffordmontgomery2830]

Thanks for your time doing videos Kamon! I know time is precious and they take away from your day. After 2 poor years finally making honey in N Central Texas!

[@paulchristu996]

Laurel’s right, those of us who are mortals CAN have too many bees (generally the spouse -occasionally the city- let’s us know), but you CAN NOT have too many queens. On several occasions I’ve found a big, healthy virgin merrily co-existing with the outgoing queen. The one on the chopping box goes into a nuc for “performance testing”. Each of these has laid robustly, and raised up a new colony that wintered successfully. She may be “past her prime”, but still has enough under the hood to handle a nuc and provide the eggs from which she’ll be superceded in the spring. I’d encourage everybody to pop a few cells at least into 2 frame nucs. Every fall there are beeks in distress; queenless in Sept/Oct when no queens are available. That extra queen may save your bacon, or make you a hero to somebody who needs her. Thanks for another (as always) fine video.

[@richardhyatt-beekeeping]

Yes, found a supercedure cell today, July 5, and accidentally squashed it. UGH. I'm located near Franklin, Macon County, NC. We should have Sourwood flow beginning any day now. Yes, I have too many bees but, they don't think so.

[@russellkoopman3004]

Good video K-L, good use of some great genetics. I'm hoping to do the same later this year in MN. Have a good weekend.

[@Klaatu-ij9uz]

KAMON -- Every time I watch your episodes I come-up with a million questions I would like to ask you. Anyway, I'll keep watching, as usual, and eventually you'll fulfill my lack of knowledge. 🤔

[@PGrace-ch8mj]

This was VERY helpful, thank you, Kamon. And very timely!

[@kamonreynolds]

Awesome! That is what we like to hear!

[@TheHomesteadingAvenger]

Another great video!

[@mikeconley3031]

Good video

[@johnn1a2]

They go Rambo

[@caven930]

Well I've learned the hard way man. I got a queen that is barely laying in a super strong colony and I screwed up and destroyed all the queen cells (minus a couple for a split) last week because I thought they just wanted to swarm. Now they barely have any eggs left. Fortunately I have some queens in hotels for insurance.

[@earlsneller8932]

I could hear them piping during your VIDEO!! Good Luck Boss At about 9:20 and other places...

[@CCCRApiary]

Yup I heard them at least twice. Real nice one at the end of the video.

[@IFarmBugs]

So far I'm 3 for 3 this year using this method. Don't skimp out on giving them a good amount of resources, I see a lot of guys struggle making little two framers work. The field bees will fly back to the donor colony anyways so it really doesn't take too much of a hit.

[@dcsblessedbees]

Great video Kamon.👍 Thanks for pointing out that not all bottom hanging cells are swarm cells. I have been noticing that some times the Queen just lays across the bottom real well and they just happen to pick one of them. 👍I have dragon fly's lots of dragon fly's. 😁Have a great day Kamon.

[@randallcarter-carterhillho2277]

I love it when my colonies supercede in june and july. Usually those colonies make the most honey for me the following year.

[@markwelsch940]

How do you use newspaper to combine two hives when you have honey supers on one of them?

[@donbearden1953]

K&L, good video! Kamon I’m surprised that you don’t have some wood lids that you could sit on a plastic nuc box to feed a quart of syrup. Of course the plastic lid would be open and they would need more room. That would save you from cutting a hole in the nuc box so a colony could be sold in that box. I hope your flow is going better than mine.

[@kamonreynolds]

Yeah these nucs have a pop out top and I made 2 splits and left the virgin queen in the parent colony. The 2 jester boxes with cells received a qt inverted on them and they are taking it quite fast! Hopefully I will get at least 2-outta 3

[@joetripp123]

I've popped the feeding hole out of these, fed for some time, then put the corrugated hole back with some guerrilla tape. I used to hate to remove them but then realized it was better for the bees.

[@Moderatelydisagreeable]

So how often do you requeen if you have a 2 year old queen being superseded? For some reason I thought you requeened every year. I’m wondering, because 3 of my queens are from this year and 3 are from unknown swarms. I’m trying to decide what to do. One of those swarms has absolutely crushed it this year so I’m hesitant to replace her.

[@frankmiller1729]

Kamon, I’m completely new to bee keeping and this is my first year. Located in West TN just off the TN River. I purchased four Nucs this spring and they seem to be doing well in their hives. They have expanded into a second brood box. I remember you made a comment in a previous video about summer solstice queens and how you loved them. Will the queens from these cells you have be considered summer solstice queens, and will you see the benefits of such? Also, what makes these summer solstice queens desirable? Thanks for putting out great content, I enjoy learning from you!

[@scottreese5492]

Just wondering, do yall ever plant buckwheat? I keep a new plot growing every month till winter , bees love it. Its alot cheaper than feeding

[@gclark2771]

What breed of Queen is your colony? Which do you prefer?

[@sawman00]

Any difference in queens mated early in spring vs mid to late summer?

[@delvoss1]

Great video. Thank you. Del in DC

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks for stopping in Del happy beekeeping!

[@200cdl]

Just a question, why do most bee keepers use Med boxes for their Supers, wouldn't just using all deeps hold more honey and then your not having 2 different frames / foundation/ boxes, 🤔. Just wondering, ya it'll be a little heavy 90 lbs or so but is that the main reason ?

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey 200cdl! I LOVED having all of my comb uniform. We used to only run Deeps and it makes it so easy to draw combs and do anything. BUT getting help from the family, or season help is hard when you have to pick up tons of honey filled deeps. I also was throwing my back out every year since I didn't have an expensive lifter. We switched to mediums and our backs appreciate it!

[@200cdl]

I'm down with that, i have mediums also , but started thinking, about just using deeps, makes sence, ( ? ). We here is Wi, where I'm at, our flow is just about ready to kick off, would you do a split now or after the flow slows down. I'm a little nervous, first split ( 4 ) hives now

[@gclark2771]

I’m in East Ky about a hour from Tennessee on interstate 75 just wondering how much time I have before I need to take the honey from my hives? Any recommendations

[@time2fly2124]

wish i could get my swarm cell splits to work, i made 8 up this spring and only 1 came back with a good queen. not a great take.

[@fionmor4893]

when I apply mite strips sometimes I lost a queen.... have you noticed that?

[@subjob]

Wow. Your Italian workers are so beautiful. Why are they so dark yellow? Is this a new Italian breed? Usually they are light yellow but, yours are dark yellow. It looks great.

[@ericsmithers6261]

Kamon, what do you think about adding brood and nurse bees to a nuc while it is naturally requeening?

[@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801]

Thanks so much Kamon, enjoyed that! Peter

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks for the comment Peter! Happy Beekeeping

[@davidmartin6312]

when is the 2024 hive life registration coming ?

[@daviddowen3887]

I helped a buddy of mine make a few splits on one of his hives a couple weeks ago. He got nervous and purchased a mated queen for one of the splits. He put the caged queen in the hive and then released her three days later. A week later and we can't find the released queen (she was marked) and there are no new eggs. I did see what looked like a hatched queen cell though. Is it possible that a virgin queen hatched and killed the mated queen?

[@kamonreynolds]

Yes it is. Whenever we introduce a queen to a split and that split is more than a day old we have to go back thru and cut out any started cells. When Virgins go after a mated queen it's like a Panzer after a Prius. No chance

[@daviddowen3887]

@@kamonreynolds "Panzer after a prius", ha ha! Thanks for the response Kamon.

[@user-gk2nz2gv7k]

Ram ram ji

[@CCCRApiary]

I heard your virgin chirping right at the end!