How to Fix a Laying Worker Hive

[@christiansingle1]

Oh Ben, you look so good with that beard cut off. Now I can tell what a nice looking young man you are now.

[@kansasmisfit7404]

I third that

[@lylskeets8709]

I also agree. 73 year old great grandma . Call you eye candy.😄

[@sleeplessinthecarolinas8118]

The footage of the bees flying was on point! 🙌

[@gelwood99]

💞😊Always something good to watch here!

[@nanajane9612]

Your bee videos are NEVER boring!

[@kathymickle6915]

Never boring!

[@knitvids]

Not boring at all, very interesting. Appreciate y'all sharing all about your homestead.

[@CynBrown]

That bee jacket looks awesome.

[@susanfrey7065]

God bless you from Michigan

[@gwenmoody8323]

Love and Hugs from Sapulpa Oklahoma

[@deeda2a127]

Thanks for your video. I’m trying this method today. I also reduced the hive to one brood box while the new queen gets accommodated. Fingers crossed!

[@stepht5]

I love watching bee videos!

[@victoriadecharmoy7532]

Bee videos are never boring, always learn a lot. Thanks for sharing.

[@mssmgirl1]

Learning a lot about bee keeping, not that I intend to keep bees; but knowledge is knowledge ... one never knows. Thoroughly enjoy everything about your family and farm. Congratulations, very well done and very interesting.

[@HoneyHollowHomestead]

Learned something new about bees today. 👍

[@GrahamFarms]

Not boring at all I love the bee videos as that is one of the thinks im trying to learn about right now.

[@nickibillotte7351]

Not boring. So interesting! I never knew what a drone was Heard the term but thats all

[@theodorecarlton5245]

Keep the good stuff coming thanks

[@ashleafreeman6605]

Thank you for the bee info! We're not set up yet but one day

[@karenhibberd9426]

Love watching videos on need. Not boring at all. I find them interesting

[@nanamary6]

Thanks, tomorrow I’ll be in my hives to check and see if I have queens

[@BootsandBountyHomestead]

I'm so ready for bees! I know nothing and I think itll be best that I wait until we move permanently. Wish I could get some from you....maybe in a few more years. I'll keep watching and learning until then! Thanks!!

[@heatherk8931]

I second the short beard looking pretty great! Also, never knew the drone portion of that info and will have a good conversation with my stepdad who has and removes bees as well. (He probably does know, lol)

[@cynthiamullin661]

Wow. I learn something new everyday. Thanks

[@Rowdymotmot]

I like these videos. Bees are quite interesting and a little more complicated than I thought.

[@FITZIEBLUE]

fascinating ! learned a lot of valuable info for future plans...

[@TalkingThreadsMedia]

Bee videos boring??? --Not when you are teaching us something! Thank you. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 6:40 am - 7/6/2020.

[@GivenChancesFarm]

Thanks for the tip on lighting the smoker! Never heard it done like that! Yes the vented jacket is nice! We wear a vented suit and much better than our cotton jacket!

[@kimbeale797]

Dealing with this right now! Thanks!

[@DeanFamilyAcres]

I was waiting on Ben to start dancing like Cogg Hill with these beats. 😎 good video.

[@denisebrady6858]

Ben that was one of the most interesting videos I have watched- I often wondered whether all bees made honey & how it all works. Please keep teaching us all, even us that don't have hives are still interested as without Bees we will not have crops & food. Cheers Denise - Australia

[@curtbeers1606]

Good stuff Ben, Thanks.

[@sassiesmom]

I did not think it was boring..it was actually very interesting I never really knew much about bee keeping, but it’s nice to learn where all that delicious honey was made . I didn’t realize how much there was to beekeeping, thanks so much, looking forward to much more on the subject. Have a blessed day,...Take care and God Bless. 🤗🙏🏻🤗🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@clayawesome261]

I re queened a laying worker hive with a queen cell last week. They rejected the first one. I put in a frame with 2 queen cells and some capped brood. The workers stopped laying and the virgin queen has emerged. I saw her in the hive. Hopefully she get mated!

[@charlottesmart750]

I like bee videos

[@isleolucy]

I love watching your bee videos. My hubby raised bees as a teenager and knows alot of the old school stuff. i know nothing about them. we plan to raise bees when we move back to Louisiana in a couple years. we have the property already, we cant wait to retire and get our homestead going. in the meantime, i am learning as much as i can, and practicing gardening in my raised beds. I think y'all have influenced our decision on milk cows too. i did not want to have to milk twice a day, every day. i see how y'all manage the milking, so i will probably let him have his Jersey cows. He worked on a dairy for several years, and he loves his jerseys. lol

[@adixranch2023]

Way cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@thehouseonaveraroad3851]

The more bee videos I watch the more I think that bees are so confusing. I would be up a creek. There is so much to learn. You explain things well tho. Maybe I need a Beekeeping for dummies book or something. You want me to Nook em? What? LOL

[@Greens5511]

Wow there is so much to beekeeping that I get more confused the more I watch. U have a lot of knowledge! Impressive!

[@AfterTheRains]

Not boring at all. I don’t have dolphins either but I’m still interested in them. 🤭

[@davidj.mackinney6568]

You always say they are boring and we think they are entertaining.

[@paulaedens3463]

I love the bee videos. Have a blessed day.

[@Peter-od7op]

Ty so much

[@SouthernBlessedHomestead]

That’s a lot of info to remember my brain hurts. Lol great video

[@TerrieAllred2023]

Love the bee videos! Keep them coming please!

[@crowgirl1326]

Ben, have you ever considered horizontal hives? I enjoy the bee videos and find them interesting. The way you present them is quite educational.

[@VWFamilyFarm]

Not sure about the horizontal hives. What we are doing works well, so we haven’t really ventured from them.

[@vmorganbogart]

Great info! I had never heard of this before. I’m not a beekeeper but find bees so interesting. Hope this queen works out for you. Blessings, Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸👍❤️🐝🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@kavindrasinghthapa3897]

Dear Ben when new mated queen must be intruduce to this colony

[@barressugarsweetplace2680]

❤❤

[@norfolkhoneybee273]

If you added fertilised eggs would there try to make queen cells

[@VWFamilyFarm]

I think the laying worker would kill any new queens. This was the way I was shown and I haven't tried that so I can't say for sure. I have done that in a hive that didn't have a laying worker and it normally works if the eggs are the right age.

[@debbiepitcher9806]

We don’t do it that way in the UK when a hive needs a new queen, we place a new queen in a special container and the worker bees will eat there way into the queen. which can take a day or two and by the time they get to the new queen they except her or we would put a virgin queen cell into the hive. Your method is interesting and different I would hate to loses those worker Bees though. 😋

[@stepht5]

Debbie Pitcher I think that’s what he did with that hive before this happened. The virgin queen flew off and didn’t come back. I think that’s when he did this, because he wants a queen that lays eggs. Not worker bees laying. I’m just going by what I remember from the last bee video.

[@debbiepitcher9806]

StephT5 Thank you for that I must have missed that one, a interesting learning curve 😁😋

[@VWFamilyFarm]

I have always heard and read that you cannot requiem a laying worker hive because the hive thinks that they are queen right. If you release a new queen in it without getting rid of the laying workers they will kill the new queen.

[@debbiepitcher9806]

VW Family Farm I’m away from home until Saturday I will email you a copy of a page out of one of my books on how we requeen a hive in the UK and I promise you we keep all the worker bees

[@reptilerick]

Great video Ben. How do you like the fencing veil compared to a round veil?

[@VWFamilyFarm]

It works good!

[@davidryle1164]

Why not a paper combine?

[@ajlewis9454]

i think kevin and sara need some bee's :)

[@VWFamilyFarm]

He isn’t ready this year. We have talked about it and I was going to get him set up but not going to be this year.

[@reneebrown2968]

A laying worker hive is a dying hive. A worker can only lay drone brood. So no queen means no workers

[@ohske]

👍👍👍👌♥️♥️♥️

[@garyfreeman5999]

It is absolutely critically necessary that a frame of unsealed brood (from a different hive) get put into that hive!!!!!!

[@darlenetate9553]

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[@michaelgriffee145]

Enjoy it wish I was closer I take them five hives off your hands

[@kansasmisfit7404]

Is a laying bee worker a wanna be queen?

[@VWFamilyFarm]

Kinda yes 😁

[@princenephron7546]

Good lord, this is NOT a good way of fixing a laying worker situation. Laying workers can and WILL just fly right back home. Why do people keep perpetuating this garbage method? The right way to do it is to take ALL those drone frames and give them to a queen-right colony, without the bees on the comb. Then take some worker brood frames from the queen-right colony and give it to the laying worker colony. There will be residual queen pheromone on those brood frames, which suppress the laying workers egg laying. They will then start making queen cells out of the suitable larvae. Once they start that, you can either let them go ahead and requeen themselves OR go ahead and introduce a new caged queen to them. Keep the queen in the cage for a couple of days (with attendants), then release her. This workers 99.9% of the time, while this other garbage method MIGHT work less than half of the time at best. Also, as for the bees on the cinder block "never having left the hive before" - that's nonsense. By the time a laying worker has started, the colony had been broodless for typically 3 weeks or more. EVERY bee has left the hive and come back by that 3 week mark. If anything, to go defecate... Those bees will make their way back to their hive before sundown.

[@kavindrasinghthapa3897]

Dear Ben when new mated queen must be intruduce to this colony

[@VWFamilyFarm]

I’m not sure if I understand the question. If you are asking when should one be introduced to the hive. I leave them queenless for 2-3 days.

[@kavindrasinghthapa3897]

@@VWFamilyFarm why two or three days as queenless??? Kindly explain. Thanks

[@VWFamilyFarm]

If you have a hive that has a laying worker in it the colony thinks of her as the queen even though she isn’t fertile or if you do a split of a hive they are use to the queens pheromone and in both cases they will kill a newly introduced queen. I like to make them think they are queenless and you will have better success on them accepting the new queen. Hope that makes sense.

[@kavindrasinghthapa3897]

@@VWFamilyFarm thanks