How to Rear Queen Bees

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How to Rear Queen Bees
In this video I show you my method for rearing queen bees. Ok, its not really my method, its Mike Palmer's Queen Rearing Method, but its a great method!
I show you all the stages of how to rear queen bees. It's best not to rely on swarms cells for making increase as these can foster the swarming traits. Rearing queens from grafted larvae offers you the chance to select queens for traits.
If you are wondering what to select for in queens, there are queen rearing courses that provide a great crib sheet for queen selection criteria.
Not all queens are made equal and what makes a good queen bee is derived from the quantity and quality of food she is fed as a larvae, queen genetics and successful mating weather.
Mike Palmer's Queen Rearing Method is a tried and tested method used by many beekeepers over the world. The 10/10 system creates significant amounts of nurse bees and that's crucial to creating copious amounts of high quality royal jelly which results in a better nourished mated queen.
Swarm cells versus queen cells. Swarm cells are made naturally by colonies under the swarm impulse.
Queen cells is a cover all terms for swarm cells, supercedure cells and emergency cells.
Grafting larvae to produce queen bees is high satisfying and provides you with an opportunity to select for high quality colony genetics.
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@koalaifestyle 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best things that I ever did for my beekeeping hobby was try to raise queens. Best way to save money is to be able to replace losses or grow without paying someone else for bees.

@alanr6529 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear the Greater Spotted Woodpecker at 8.52.

@blackbox_gardener 4 жыл бұрын

Really nice video! 👍

@woodsfriendlygarden2190 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting info you have provided.

@Lsmith-ly2cm 2 жыл бұрын

What a great channel , I just found you. thank you

@campdavidsonfunctionaltrai8583 3 жыл бұрын

You should try the master grafting tool. Get extra tongues because they break but I love this tool. It looked like on day 12 you had open cells. Most cells get capped on day 6. Ill try your 10 over 10 idea next spring. Interesting idea for a builder though it will make it a builder finisher. I pull cells on day 14 and put them into the incubator.

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Day 12 is 2 days after the graft so they would just be on the brink of being capped. I graft incredibly small larvae! ;) Its Mike Palmers method and is a tried and tested way of getting great queens.It works as a builder finisher but its not an efficient use of the apiary resources. Better to finish on queen right colonies and save the starter for starting numerous batches of cells

@campdavidsonfunctionaltrai8583 3 жыл бұрын

yup a zillion ways.

@andrewmulqueen5877 4 жыл бұрын

New drinking game. Every time "Brood" is mentioned in the first 10 mins, Take a sip. Great video and after watching a few very educational videos you have gained anew subscriber.

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing to the channel Andrew.Hope you are enjoying the videos.

@mannyporras2660 3 жыл бұрын

Please let me know when you have a video on grafting for new Queen bees. I like to see the process to visually to gain experience. Thank you!

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Will do Manny. Its on the list for this year :)

@houstonsheltonbees814 3 жыл бұрын

Great job 👍 thanks hello from the Kentucky mountains USA 👍

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Houston. Hello from North Wales!

@framcesmoore 5 ай бұрын

great video thanks

@unclebobsbees4899 2 жыл бұрын

A damp towel wrapped around the frame will keep the larvae from drying out. I live 3 miles from the ocean, and a day with less than 10mph winds is nonexistent. Warm water on the towel helps quite a bit.

@TalRohan 4 жыл бұрын

Love the Audience lol, North Wales wind and rain....well what can I say. ...I can say I haven't seen a swarm from anywhere here because of the wind and rain..Mine haven't even thought considered it, there has been so little forage about that natural swarming is not an option so far this year

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

I have somehow missed allof these comments! Sorry! Did any of them try to swarm in the end? All of mine have stopped now and are getting ready for winter.

@TalRohan 3 жыл бұрын

@@BlackMountainHoney no none at all. Ive had a Nuc that superceded 3 times and caught one swarm but other than that nothing, theyre still living a few days ahead on nectar...so far I haven't got a single frame of honey. Hoping things get a bit better in the next 6 weeks or so

@mehran_esfandyari1 2 жыл бұрын

Very good

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@tmcuevs7988 2 жыл бұрын

what do you do with the hive after you take out the reared quenn cells?

@ronblack2404 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, So how long were the cells in the finisher, did you put protective cages around them, I have no idea what else you had to do to use the cells or hatched queens

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry Ron. Ill cover this in the next video. We are small scale so we add ripe cells to nucs and let them hatch directly

@cliveharrison733 2 жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for the video, when do you start your Queen rearing?

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

Will be around middle to end May in the UK.

@AndrewAHayes 4 жыл бұрын

This is the first time I have seen boxes painted black, is there an advantage to this or is it just the paint you had to hand at the time?

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

They are camouflage! :) Its to try and keep them out of sight. We dont have issues with high temps so dark colours work fine.

@PatrickPease 2 жыл бұрын

adorable cows

@damonlinthwaite4671 3 жыл бұрын

First love the videos but where did you get those gloves? A website be nice . Thanks in advance

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Damon. These are from www.bbwear.co.uk and they were a custom order :)

@kyrpanglinnonglang4773 Жыл бұрын

Sir what can I do if the bee hive have no Queen

@mehran_esfandyari1 2 жыл бұрын

😍😍👏👏

@danwerkman 2 жыл бұрын

Love the cows....spectator sport 😂

@neilbush9873 2 жыл бұрын

No body discusses how important it is before you start to have all the gear ,frames ,bees, split boards ,drones, breeder genetics, feeding apparatus ,time and favourable weather forcast to follow through to the outcome of very good queens in the hive. Guess when I've mastered it myself I'll do a utube .thank you for the inspiration.

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

Good shout. I guess we take that for granted as it's just always available

@allanonyango6273 Жыл бұрын

I am doing bee keeping and how can I get those cell cage to start developing queens

@allanonyango6273 Жыл бұрын

Can your company provides me with a PDF guide,

@stephenkelly2365 3 жыл бұрын

Have you any experience using this method with a nuc, 5 over 5?

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Works fine on a nuc on 5 over 5. I just add a single row of grafts

@kennylecroy9706 2 жыл бұрын

If i buy a 5 frame nuc,and pull the frame with the queen out and put it in a 2 frame nuc ,with a foundiation frame, with the original num will make a queen,right ?

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

They will make a runt queen. She might be ok, maybe not. Depends on feeding and mating. Not something I would ever do. If you want to split that early, way better to add in a mated queen to the queenless half of the split

@bj8342 2 жыл бұрын

@kenny lecroy Bee Keeping is regional so what works in my region might not in your area. 5 Frame Nucs are tricky to split into a 2 frame Nuc as you need to ensure that the 5 Frame Nuc is very strong before you start a split or you can end up with 2 hives that are struggling. My area I need at least 3 frames of bees/resources or they will fail. Watch the future weather forecast for your area and pick a period where you have a good weather window and pollen/nectar flow. Feeding pollen sub and sucrose liquids can't hurt. To ensure that the Queen Less hive has viable eggs and larvae I always take the frame that queen is on ( and laying eggs ) Remove the queen from that frame and drop that frame into the hive I want to make its own new queen. This hive also gets what I call resource frames - Capped Brood, pollen and nectar stores to act as food frames and drawn comb so they don't waste resources building comb and benefit from the emerging brood. The Queen gets placed in a different hive with a frame of capped brood, built up foundation for her to lay in and for the bees to store resources in. I usually leave the Queen less split at the original location and move the Queen Right hive a short distance and turn it 180 degrees. This way the Queen less hive will get reinforced with the Field bees as they come back home and my old back doesn't hurt from moving hives.

@stephenkelly2365 3 жыл бұрын

With Dr P Stoffen not shipping to the UK, any ideas who you're going to get your breeder queens from now?

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I have some on order. I am minded not to say who it is though! 😉

@stephenkelly2365 3 жыл бұрын

Haha

@jesseberridge982 2 жыл бұрын

Where can I get one of them beesuits your wearing mate love your vids thanks fôr the tips on grafting

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

BB Wear

@hubertpounall1323 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very useful video sound was not so good But as a Beekeeper I understood what you're doing.

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry. Sound was so bad on this video! We have since upgraded our audio equipment and will reshoot this one next year with better sound :)

@andrewhill261 2 жыл бұрын

Did you do a video on how to graft them into the cells?

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

I did :D kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odGGfbOirbCZdXk.html

@andrewhill261 2 жыл бұрын

@@BlackMountainHoney Queens arrived today. Proper chuffed with them, the cages are far better than the queens other suppliers ship out, much cleaner too (I've noticed some queens always come in cages that have a sticky residue on from the fondant). Bang on time too.

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewhill261 Thanks Andrew. Glad you are happy with them and they arrive safely 😊

@pottyplotter2462 4 жыл бұрын

Haha that was me on Sunday bee in Vail, panic ensued!

@aleklysikov8791 2 жыл бұрын

We’re you located?? US or other country? Thank for showing video!

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

I am in Wales UK

@familyhearingandbalancecen9777 3 жыл бұрын

Why can’t you simply leave the developing g queen cells in the starter hive? Why the finisher hive? More bees?

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

You can leave them there but on a larger scale its more efficient use of bees to have a starter and finisher running through lots of grafts. Otherwise you need to set up a new starter each time you want to set some grafts, which is very intensive on resources

@hankbaker1614 2 жыл бұрын

Because there is no queen in the starter. You want crowded conditions with a queen, to have pheromones, that puts the colony in swarm mode. They make superior queens in swarm mode.

@khatpaufridaytalks2670 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely The Super Excellent too much Royalty make up increase The First Super Best Excellent Queen that is true reasons from my 20 years practical field experience.

@khatpaufridaytalks2670 Жыл бұрын

Not royalty i text royal jelly

@khatpaufridaytalks2670 Жыл бұрын

Chinese realme 7 smart setting is make too much mistake

@cupcakejg1 5 ай бұрын

You crushed so many bees when you put that box down 😭😭😭

@simonward7653 Жыл бұрын

Mooooooo!

@youneskh.9173 2 жыл бұрын

That pollen frame is useless to put next to the rear frame. They only start consuming pollen after it starts fermenting (beebread).

@michaelshelnutt3534 2 жыл бұрын

Why not keep the frames in the starter?

@BlackMountainHoney 2 жыл бұрын

You can but it means you can't add more grafts once the cells have been started. More efficient in terms of resources to move them over to a finisher and add new grafts into the starter

@hankbaker1614 2 жыл бұрын

You need a colony that wants to swarm to produce superior queens. So you have a queen and crowded conditions so the colony is in swarm mode.

@mirkokrasko1 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video. But i think you have to many bees flying around your face. I would not graft from this queen. I would re queen that hive.

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

This is the cell builder. The grafts dont come from this colony

@fishmut 3 жыл бұрын

You can make a quiet nice colony angry simply by taking there queen out . yep they get pissed when there queen less so i wouldn't judge that colony anyway, i have fantastic bees and when there queen less they want your guts lol that's bees for you.

@LammaTavis 3 жыл бұрын

I thing the bees are upset because he is so utterly careless with them - crushing them with utter disregard, if you treat bees with more respect they wont get so pissed off.

@Cubrider 5 ай бұрын

If i buy a nuc off you but i want to have 12x14 brood box how do i get standard brood to go into a 12x14 box? Im also going to use brood boxs for my supets.

@BlackMountainHoney 5 ай бұрын

Like this :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLGijbRex9e0Y5s.htmlsi=oxOLVMzA96CdxGqA

@Barbara_Schulz 3 жыл бұрын

Your car gets a milk bath?

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Alongside a horny scratch! 🐄

@VaderSpade 4 жыл бұрын

That's how we do it but we just call it 'Queen Rite'.

@BlackMountainHoney 4 жыл бұрын

Which part are you referring to? Our cell starters aren't queenright, but we use finishers that are queenright. The starter uses the swarming impulse. The finisher uses the supersedure impulse.

@VaderSpade 4 жыл бұрын

@@BlackMountainHoney I was looking at the first part with brood up & down & a queen downstairs. We left the Queen in start to finish.

@cinemlex 3 жыл бұрын

i just hate the intro. but love your video

@BlackMountainHoney 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! You will be glad to hear we have now ditched the intro but we are a bit ahead so the new changes will come into place next year. Glad you enjoyed the video :)