Why Are There Queen Cells In Your New Hive?

Finding queen cells in a new colony may cause you to panic. However, they are very common. In this video we will discuss one of the likely reasons your bees are making these cells.
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[@beesandtractors]

That was the best and easiest to understand explanation of those cells found in a new hive I have heard. They have caused lots of us newbees much concern lol Thank you. This was most helpful!! 👍👍 Have a great day!

[@alabamathrifter365]

Enjoyed your video and just subbed to your channel.

[@adkfoothills1973]

Great explanation and it's nice that you kept it simple. Information like this is invaluable to beginners. Thank you for the great videos. 😊

[@joseduarte7281]

Hi from Sydney Australia, i bought a package installed it and 3 weeks ago i completed my inspection today and found numerous queen cells. Im going to let nature take its course as im new to bee keeping. Great video by the way thank you !

[@jdogsbad]

Excellent presentation. Thanks you very much.

[@dinamcleod1608]

HOLY MOLY! It is almost like that powers that bee (lol) sent this video to me. I received my bees in April, the queen was released by the workers everything was great. I checked them two days ago and now I have supercedure cells on three of my frames. All the supercedure cells were empty though. I WAS FREAKING OUT! Your explanation was to the point and easy to understand. This newbee (can't help it LOL) is grateful for sure and a little more relaxed. Please do more videos, thank you :)

[@allenkracower4787]

Excellent presentation.

[@sweetbeefarms]

Thank you so much!

[@kellyellingson2335]

Absolutely, great info!

[@sweetbeefarms]

Thank you so much!

[@lisamcgowam]

Thank you so much for keeping it super simple! You are a very good teacher.💕

[@CastleHives]

Heya. . KZbin actually recommended a Bee channel, hooray YT. . I'm also a Beek, in NE Ohio. I do lives and chat Bees periodically also. . Look forward to catching up on your videos.

[@sweetbeefarms]

Hello fellow Ohioan and beek! I'm going to have to check out your channel!

[@beewize9982]

Good information and accurate 😊👍🏻🐝

[@sweetbeefarms]

Thank you so much!

[@richard22b]

Just installed our first hive and thought I saw some queen cells. Straight away worried me but this video was exactly what I needed. Wish it was the first video to pop up. Would of saved me an hour of other less helpful videos.

[@sweetbeefarms]

I'm so glad you found it helpful!

[@BellyAcreBees]

Hi Nikki we just got 2 nucs last week of May, transferred them to two separate deeps and we have notice what you’ve described with the supercidure cells. 2 have royal jelly in them 2 have been capped. Any advice. Thanks

[@ROD_OF_IRON]

Accurate information

[@sweetbeefarms]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@AmericansBee]

Good video. My package has been trying to create a new queen and I tore them down. Last Sunday I noticed one with two eggs. Only cell with two. Weird. Many capped brood. She is laying well so not sure why. I will check them again and let them do their thing. I’m doing a package vs nuc challenge and I have already split my nuc, because of swarm cells, they had twenty on one side of a frame!! Haha. After that the virgin swarmed!! Ugh 😩 caught them and rehived them. Found 5 more virgins in the original colony. Left one for them and made another small split. After a week no eggs in either of the three. I’ll check this Saturday and recombine them if the mating flights failed. If none of them make it back then I will combine them all back with their original queen. Haha.

[@sweetbeefarms]

20 on one frame?! I don't think I've ever had that many. It sounds like these girls are keeping you on your toes!

[@AmericansBee]

@@sweetbeefarms it’s been a nightmare!! I wish I got pictures but I was so panicked. 😂 off that one nuc I got a month ago, I ha e split it 5 times. But they’re weak. I may just combine them again to make one big one. This weekend will tell who has queens or not.

[@jamescraig8601]

I received a nuc with a dead queen. The supplier gave me another one ( queen right). I combined the two nucs. 8 days later I have 22 Capped super cedure cells. I made splits with two frame nucs. I am waiting ten days to see if I get any laying queens. Have I done right?

[@elliciaauger4514]

So I installed a package of bees on May 31st (live in Peninsula, Ohio) On all my previous inspections I had eggs, larvae, brood and always saw my queen. The hive seemed to be growing great. Today on inspection I saw No eggs. I did see larvae and still have capped brood. I did not see the queen. However, I also saw 2 queen cells. The queen cells were on the middle of the frame, not at the bottom. I have a feeling I have no queen. I saw eggs on every inspection but today. I closed the hive back up and will check in a few days. Does it sound like they are replacing the original queen? Looking for advice. Thank you.

[@sweetbeefarms]

Sorry for the late response. I was on vacation. Were there eggs or larvae in those queen cells?

[@pennymyers8636]

Hello I new bee keeper but i lost my bees I have a few left with Sun brewed

[@gmwani7280]

In superceding queen where does original queen go, can she left hive with swarm??

[@sweetbeefarms]

The queen will typically leave with the swarm and the new queen will take her place.

[@anthonyr5869]

I installed a Russian queen into my split I made from my strong hive and they started making queen cells the Russian queen finally started laying like after a week of being in the hive they have made a few queen cells but they have definitely slowed down. I don’t want them to make their own queen as I want this have to be a Russian hive….

[@pennymyers8636]

This phone sorry I meant my bee brood they made queen cell with queen do I let go for now or not they are from same queen or get new one

[@sweetbeefarms]

Do you have bees in the hive with the brood or did they all abscond?

[@jdogsbad]

It would be nice for you to get off Tik Tok.

[@beesandtractors]

That was the best and easiest to understand explanation of those cells found in a new hive I have heard. They have caused lots of us newbees much concern lol Thank you. This was most helpful!! 👍👍 Have a great day!

[@sweetbeefarms]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it ❤