Well, I appreciate that you keep it real and post videos not only of your successes but also potential fails. It makes me feel less of an odd ball for the mistakes I have made in the past and probably will still make in the future. I call this a win for you personally because I know I can always learn something new from you whenever I come here. Thank you very much.

I've learnt something from this thank you and hope you'll manage this hive to better condition

I have been keeping bees since 2005 no matter how much I think I know about nature it always surprises me bees do what bees want to do no matter what you think you want them to do I always enjoy a good beekeeping video keep up the work bro (beekeeper )from (Maine USA)🇺🇸

I'm not a beekeeper, and haven't read too much about it, so I don't understand the thought process here. Why destroy a queen egg? If they're making one, doesn't that mean there's probably a reason? Such as the keeper here seems to have discovered later, the declining health of the existing queen. EDIT: oh, is the typical scenario that they're making a queen for a new hive, and then some portion (half?) of the bees "swarm" away?

Thanks for the video, the good and bad. Interested to see that the other bees seemed to have no interest in the big girl at all, anytime I use that kind of queen catcher I end up with a thousand bees stuck to it, and in it, if I sit it on the hive like that. Might be a problem indicator that they have no interest in her, will keep an eye out for that behaviour. Cheers

It seems to be the season for supersedure. Weve had two hives with year old breeder queens supersede in the last two months - both queens were laying up a storm so don't know why, I just hope their kin is just as good.

Hi, We love the close up video, Regards Anton

Not much you can do now just let them to it , it happens to us all they'll either draw out new Q cell or ball the old lady ,may have to unite later on , but you seem to know what you're doing 👍☘️🇮🇪👋🫣

Did you miss the start of another cell at 1:18

Eat that royal jelly! Dont waste it!

No. The queen is totally all right, the hive does not want to replace her. The queen cells are just swarm cells. You saw all the cells are the low part of the frame, they indicate swarm. If they want to swarm, some cells can end up being built in other places too I have this all the time. The fact that the second cell in the upper part was not even having an egg shows that the bees did not want to change the queen, if they do this they take a cell with an egg and turn it into a queen cell but here the queen actively put eggs in queen cells, so she wants to swarm. Before a swarm, the queen will reduce our even stop laying eggs, that's why there are less eggs. If this was one of my hives, I would break all the swarm cells, maybe put an empty frame in the middle, if you use a drone frame, harvest it. In 7 days at latest check again, bring a nuc and if they want to swarm still, take 2 frames with mostly capped brood out for a nuc, destroy the swarm cells again and hope this solved it. Weird case you need to make a big split and put the queen in a box with empty frames, place it in the position of the colony and then put all the bees and brood into another position. The bees flying out will fly to the empty box with the queen and the other half can make a new queen.

Interesting bee genetics. Carniolan?

Where did you get that hive tool!