Mr Ed, you definitely had some good looking cells in that hive! I hope all of your splits are successful!

Mr. Ed, I love the suggestion on how to cut those cells off the wood! Thank you!

This is great, probably the most friendly description and useful split and descriptions of the queen cells. Much appreciated, god bless

Those cells makes your liver quiver!!!! I get excited to see them in my hives too! Looks like a grafting bar full of cells!! Once you make a woman mad it takes something really sweet to calm them down. Thanks Mr. Ed!!!

Its one of the best ways. I just wanted to say that I am that guy that commented a couple years ago that you inspired me to get into bees. Now I have 10 hives and planning to split to 30 this year! I setup a livestream of my bees. I won't post it here on your video though. I respect your space. You do gods work.

Always happy to see one of your videos pop up in my Subscription feed.

In the queen world, if you aren't first, you're not going to last. Nature sure is tough. In humans its no longer survival of the fittest, its survival of the loudest. Thanks for the video Jeff.

As always: I look forward to your videos and enthusiasm every week. Really liked the tip of cutting off the swarm cells near the end. Thanks again and God bless. Carl

Good job Mr Ed . Happy to see you again Mr Ed God bless 🕇

I read a book by a beekeeper, & he wrote that he was watching bees taking rubbish out of a hive when the hive woke after winter, & he was surprised when he saw a bee come out carrying a large pin, then he remembered that in the year before he had used the pin to fasten a transplanted queen cell onto a comb.

You are happy in your work and that is a blessing. God bless you Jeff.

Carpenter you are. Good advice cutting wood.

Thus was another great video, thanks for showing. Next week we are going to have nights above freezing for the first time this year. God bless you and all of the bees.

Thanks you validate my methods. I break up a hive in "about to swarm mode" and it really is the way. This big brute turns into 6 kittens that manage themselves leaving me time to focus on the honey makers. A sustainable apiary is like that. Perpetually rebuilding from the swarm cells.

Thank you Mr. Ed for the videos! God bless.

Thanks so much for this. All this time I thought woodworking tricks were exclusive to carpenter bees.

Good work 👍

Mr Ed - Thanks so much for your passion, and sharing your bee adventures - they are are a joy to watch.

It's that time a year again in some places. Soon here in Indiana. I must say the fillet knife is a welcome addition to my bee keeping equipment. Tip, just a sliver will do.

Not gonna lie I found you Mr. Ed through the rooster, I don’t know what made me wanna watch bee videos but I am hooked. You’re such a charismatic and charming man. I love the content and your work I hope you keep it up.

Luv yur vids Jeff. Without bees there’s no telling what kind of shape this world would be in.

Always learning from you.

Wow Jeff! Those queen cells are amazing. I love your videos and how you explain everything and I dont even keep bees, yet. Lol

The Irish Spring soap style of carving.

Well i just put this super cell retrieval in my bag of tricks. Pretty cool Mr.Ed ! Keep on trucking buddy

Hi Jeff, love your videos. You have taught me a lot!! I split one of my hives this week afternoon checking for queen cells after I watched the video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!

Good trick Mr. Ed

MR. E Thank you again ALWAYS in joy your videos a lot of info God Bless

Yet another great video Me Ed. Chris UK.

You know a lot about hives and bees, Queen bees in particular. This was a pretty relaxing and calming video! Glad I came across this channel

Very clearly explained.

Lots of new queen cells. Great job Mr Ed God bless

You’re a good teacher. 👍💕😊

A lot of beekeepers out here on KZfaq you're probably my favorite I like your attitude and I like your knowledge I just did my first split I had five hives three made it through the winter I did the method where you put a frame of brood and an empty box with the nurse bees it seems to be working out so far

Haven't seen you get put on the road in a long time. The best one was when you were weedeating under the hives and ended up doing the quarter mile in about 1/2 second. Glad Charlie was there for a witness. Glad yall are doing fine. Life on this swamp is still goofy and happy. Thanks, you 2 and GBWYall and have another Jesus weekend!

i learn so much from watching your videos! thank you for these great videos

Looking good Jeff!..our bees here are ahead of schedule this year..weather has been nice for a change!😃👍🏻👍🏻

Great Video Mr. Ed!!

50 degrees... right now that would be a warm nice weather here in the middle of Sweden. We still have deep snow and around 0f° in the nights. Yeasterday was the first clensing flight for my bees. Daytime might be warm if the sun is shining. Lot's of love from Sweden!

Nice job as usual!

Good timing. I have a monster, healthy hive that must be split.

Great, great, great presentation!! Just in time for my splits. Then You

I think my bees are just getting started. A little slow going here in SW Iowa. Low numbers and little brood but I think things will pick up soon I hope God willing. Thanks for sharing Mr. Ed you always brighten my day.

Awesome Video! I have ruined so many swarm cells trying to move them. Thank you for the tip on cutting out swarm cells.

Good to see you, Mr. Ed and Goodtime Charlie! Yep, I also think that super-cold snap many of us in the middle of the country put an awful dent in their bees, it was very hard on them. I bet there will be a lot of splitting going on soon! Always love your out-takes, makes me laugh--and laughter is God's medicine for so many of our ills! Lord's blessings on you and yours, see ya next time!

Hello Jeff. I hope all's going well for you and your family. I enjoyed your video very much. Real feelgood stuff and very interesting. Thank you for uploading it. God bless and see you soon.

Good video Mr. Ed !💯💯

I'm a really big fan of your channel Mr Ed but I really, really want to grab your bee keeper's jacket and give it a wash! GT Charlie's jacket is blindingly white when he stands next to you. God Bless.

Very nice!

The first queen to emerge may not always kill the others. In many cases the workers will keep those other queens confined in their cells. Workers can make a small hole in the cells and even feed the new queens. Once the first queen is ready to fly the hive can then issue a virgin swarm and then release the other queens from their cells.

Thank you Jeff

Looking good Mr. Ed...that beard is bodacious!

I love this video 1st I hope you got subs 1M

I love making splits! I prefer that over my bees swarming any day. Nice trick, thank you.

Hey Jeff....what a great video. I learnt something tonight. I was always told about 2 types of queen cells. Swarm and supercedure. People told me swarm cells were better quality than supercedure queens. I had to google what emergency cells were or at least looked like. I am excited now that i can use both types for splits. I live off the beaten path (in the boonies) and only get mail 3x a week so people don't want to send queens thru the mail....so i have a hard time getting queens unless i drive a few hours to get them. My hives will need to do splits for sure this year and have been fretting about the whole queen situation. Now i know that i will be able to use supercedure ones for my splits if i find some. Every time i watch you, i learn something new. Thanks so much.

Well Mr. Ed I have been feeding one to one sugar water and my bees are going like gangbusters . Rob.

In part because of your channel, I'm putting a few hives up on my parish's property. Wrangling bees will give me something to do between visiting shutins and office visits. Maybe free altar candles will be a nice perk.

Hello 👋 smiling 😁 Mr. Ed & Charlie 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Hey Jeff good luck with your splits hopefully everything will pick up soon for you... saying hi from New Jersey I will be probably doing split soon out of my only hive

Your bee jacket looks like never been washed for past 10 years

The bee at 9:05 is like, “holddddddd up. We didn’t approve filming this morning... we’re in the middle of moving and stressed enough as it is”

got my first hive a few weeks ago, after not doing bees for almost twenty years. they looked like they would swarm. so I did a split. 2 frames of covered brood 1 frame eggs one frame of pollen and nectar 8 days later there is a beautiful queen cell in the new split

Like and greetings from St. Petersburg!

Hi Mr. ED, Thanks For Sharing 10-11-2021

Charlie nice jacket and it’s nice and white

Good morning Jeff

Hey Jeff, I let a couple of my colonies build there own queens after the original queens went missing without a swarm. I now have a couple small totally black queens that are laying like crazy. One of them is small enough she can go through a queen excluder. Not sure if the other one can also or not. Only reason I found out the one could, is I tried isolating her to better monitor her. Well she turned up back in the other box above the excluder. Houdini will now be a brood builder for building up a honey colony since I can't keep her away from honey frames. That's okay though as long as she gives me lots of brood for other colonies and splits or cell builders. I have another colony that the queen just up an stopped laying but the bees did not try to replace her. She must have decided to take an in-house vacation. So I figured I would put her in a smaller box and feed her colony sugar syrup to build comb for my half frame queen mating boxes and see if she will start laying again. If she does I will just keep using her to build comb and shake her and the colony out every so often and harvest the brood for another box. Forced swarming I guess you could call it. If not, no major loss I guess.

Ok mr Jeff..mais um bélo trabalho com as abelhas valeu..

I may be mistaken, but I've always seen supercedure cells later in the year, but yes, almost always on the face of the comb, not at the bottom. I was taught that all cells in the spring are swarm cells if the hive s healthy, crowded, and bringing in forage. I don't know if it matters or not, but your viewers definitely need to know what a supercedure cell looks like for later in the year. I used swarm cells to split one hive into three 3 weeks ago today. As of today, the two hives that I left swarm cells in have cast off 4 swarms that I know of. I found one last night on a tree 15 ft from the hives, put it in a nuc this morning, and as I finished, they original hive cast another swarm. I got down and watched them pouring out of the entrance, they flew all around, but instead of lighting on the tree as swarms have done for the last 10 years we've had bees here, they bearded up the front of the hive, and all of a sudden, the pitch of their buzzing changed, and they started marching back in. I could have swarn I heard the queen piping, but I never saw her. First time i have got to see a swarm come out and got back in. I've heard about it, but witnessed it today. And of course, my camera was charging so i didn't get a video. I have been using OTS the last 3 years with great success, but this year the weather got the best of me, and I was afraid to chill brood. Between swarms out of trees and bait hives, and OTS, we've taken 10 over wintered hives to 25 in the last 3 weeks.

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This was such an informative video. Incredible. Why doesn't the old queen attack a rival in a superceding cell rather than waiting for her own demise? Is it an age thing? Or allies in hive? Fascinating. Great upload, God bless Mr Ed👍

Great informative video as always got a quick maybe dumb question to ask do queen bees have stingers and also do you sell your honey online or will ship it out of state

You need some nuc boxes. Drop a frame with a cell into each box?

This has nothing to do with bee keeping, but It says Jeff Horchoff Bees but you always say Mr. Ed??? I have really enjoyed watching your bee keeping videos and I love that you are always thankful to Jesus!

Mr. Ed, Love your videos! Watched your vertical split series twice. I'm located in Colorado where season is short and temps fluctuate drastically. I'm planning to do a vertical split because the heat idea gives me more confidence it will be successful. Question: is there any reason I should not use a Cloake board instead of a double screened split board? I'm thinking that the nurse bees would quickly migrate through the queen excluder to the brood frame before I add the divider tray. Thus there'd be ample nurse bees for the split and I could accomplish the task without finding the queen or shaking a nurse bees into the box - just have to take care that the queen is not on the frames moved above the cloake board. Your thougths?

Glad I "waited for it". Learnt a trick. You cajuns down there, though... 'Fee-Lay' knife?

One of the last cell removal was already open.

Hiya Jeff

Hey Edd, If you aready have capped swarm cells doesnt that usually mean that they have already have swarmed? love your videos.

i dont even have bees but for some reason i watched this

Other than location on the frame, is there any difference between the superceding [sp?] cell vs the swarm cell? Also if you successfully harvest either extra types of queen cells, could you use either to incorporate into a new hive?

Wow im still waiting to catch my second swarm

In a recent video where you did a cut out you had 21 queen cells that you kept to take to the Abby. In this video your making splits using the swarm cells. Since queen cells come in different sizes as well as different shapes at times, do the larger, straighter queen cells make better queens? Do you have a preference?

Mr. Ed, can you take a swarm cell like you just showed in your video, and place it in a laying worker hive, will that work to try to get that hive queen right?

This is a great video. So you split the hive and kept it from swarming and you're going to end up with two new queens, is that correct?

Hi Jeff. Neil UK here. Thanks for a very practical view of making splits...Thing is, I've been bee keeping for about 3 years and started out with 1 colony. I've done splits as per the established wisom and now have 6 colonies. That's great, but I can't afford the cost of an exponential growth of my colonies! I've run out of kit, what options do I have?

Always hear that you shouldnt shake a frame with capped queen cells because you could damage/kill the queen in that cell.

Another fantastic video Mr Ed.....but I'm confused on 1) where is the old Queen, and 2) what did you do with her? I'm used to splitting off the old queen into a new hive, but unless I missed it you didn't find her nor did you even really look.... so just putting cells into both splits and letting nature take care of the old Queen? Thx

I have noticed some of the bees are the Abby are under shed roofs. My question is how do you deal with wasp that like to build nest in those types of structures and do they impact the bees?

Mr Ed, thank you once again for your sharing of your knowledge. I have a question. Do you ever clip the end of your queen’s wings to prevent her from leaving? Saw someone doing this on a video and wondered how much stress that might cause the queen. The person said, if you ever see a ball of bees beneath the hive, she will be in that ball, but could not swarm away because she can’t fly anymore.

If you remove all the swarm cells do you still need to split the original colony or can you just add another super for room

Hi Mr. Ed, so with this method you don't worry about the old queen? Try and put in new hive?

Mr. Ed, sir, How do you place those swarm cells in a new colony? Please make a video.

Ii see you don't paint some boxes, do they end up rotting or do you have some treatment on them? thanks

Mel Disselkoen has a way to get the bees to make swarm cells, I don’t know if they will do it if they don’t have swarming inmind

How many queen cell do you allow? What the difference between superceding cell and swarm cell. I just the once the old queen leaves it is a swarm.

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Where do you place them in the box? Do you attach them somehow & with what?

Do you do honey bee removal in Baton Rouge?