😬 the formic terrors 😬 I've been nervously considering formic acid for additional varroa treatment myself but the temperature here can be really erratic because I live in the mountains of central Otago southern New Zealand which means we either get weather from Australia across the Tasman which is hotter than normal or weather from the Antarctic which is colder than normal 😂 I think I might have a good window in November when it's not stupidly hot but not subzero either. I'm not a fan of chemical treatment but I hate varroa even more😂, be interesting to see what results you get 👍👋

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So my understanding is that for the first 3 days it is critical that the temps be under 85 degrees, its been 5 days and so far everything looks to be good, I also heard that they have a boost in brood production after treatment so we will see. Thanks for stopping by

You'll have to let us know how it works out for ya, some beekeepers really like it. But you have to watch out for heat on that one I think? Thanks for sharing, Blessed Days...

Looks good. That Honey B Healthy will give them a boost. If there's not any pollen coming in, you might give them a very small piece of pollen patty, like a 1" strip right on top between the frames over where the brood is.

Your queen was on the first frame you pulled out, running around towards the bottom of the frame. You can see her about the 2:46 mark.

Ugh😅 broken smoker 😬 i use lega Italian smokers, theyre bombproof 😂 and so are the hivetools, i haven't used amazon gear but if you like it and its working for you that's great 😃 👍 ten point bonus for the beetle 😂 nice looking colony. Fortunately hive beetle and European foulbrood are not in NZ, we have enough drama with varroa. Great video 👍👋

It always feels good when they pull back and build up well, Congrats.👍Ya when the girls get big they get a bit sassy from time to time.😂Blessed Days...

If there is a laying worker, the hive doesn't want a queen and she is hiding because they bully her.

Frustrating, hold my beer. 😅

Sometimes it makes ya wonder, doesn't it.😂Blessed Days...

Cool apairy, I love the block stands I might try that 👍 😃 nice video 👍👋

It happens. Sometimes you can just miss her because you pull the top box, she drops and then hops in the super, sometimes a slightly damaged wire in an excluder will just be enough for her to squeeze through without being noticed, or sometimes if you're in a rush you can accidentally put the frame she's on and you've set aside into the wrong box😂 it happens, but great looking brood, excellent solution, dropping the box down, checkerboarding in space and giving the bee's foundation to work 👍 nice save😃 brilliant 👍

Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋😃 noticed you had a little lid trouble, you might like to try an inner cover because sometimes pulling off a stuck down telescoping lid can be a complete mongrel. They'll stick the cover down but the lid will be free. It's another piece of kit, but I find them worth while. I wouldn't be concerned about finding queen cell starter cups, or what people call practice cups😅 it's normal to find them and they'll just draw more. The advantage of leaving them is if your hive goes into swarm mode, those starters are where they'll start drawing queen cells, usually😂 I make a mental note of their location and it's easier to spot any changes. In queen supersede mode, it doesn't matter because they'll pull them from scratch from suitable aged larvae. Great video 👍 it's mid winter here 🥶 so I'm watching everyones summer videos 😂

You can hear my neighbor Arnie talking throughout most of this video lol, he is having a new Deck installed and has a lot to say lol.

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Is the smoke harmful to the bees? And is it special smoke?

Ouch, the cost of buying in queens is high, the last thing you want is a jaffa queen, I was so happy when you discovered the female brood. I wonder why they drew a queen cell out? was it a mated queen you bought?

Where did you get the blocking frame

Not sure,but what works for some may not work for others.i had a hive that was once dying out and i took away a lot of space and reduced the entrance and that hive came back kinda quick.when you picked up that second black frame your queen was walking around to the other side close to the bottom. When you flipped it over she walked back to the other side as you were spinning it

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This weather in UK at the moment is not good for the bees.😡

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Ya they do that sometimes.

9:51 bottom right is the queen

Congratulations! I have a colony that's driving me crazy with queen problems. From a package on March 30th the colony took off and built up like I've never seen. Sometime in late May the queen was just gone, but population was/is too big for it to have swarmed & since I wasn't into the box, I don't see how I would have rolled her or anything like that. Then they wouldn't requeen from doner egg frame, so I installed a queen in a push cage. They chewed the wax around the cage and released the queen & she laid a bit, but then is gone now too, with a few swarm cells. Because the colony is still so big I split it 3 ways using the swarm cells in the original & additional 2 boxes and now I'm waiting to see what happens, but I have little hope. I am absolutely done trying to save this colony, so if this is their last chance before I either shake out or combine.

I have a frame like that right now and I’m afraid to move it. So I’m gonna leave it in there until next spring.

I did see the queen at 10 minutes in sneaking around the right side of the frame!!!! Yayy hopefully there is some hope yet

Some times you have to do it in the rain.

Caramel queen second to last frame lower right corner

Do not over manipulate frames with queen cells on ! Turning the cells upside down rolls the larva in the jelly sometimes 😊 it's easily done . But I'm getting a crappy response from home baking queen's and have resorted to buying them 😮

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One beetle wow, positive numbers

Yo why he swimming with the cheetos tho

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It might be my eyes, but it seems a bit fuZy

I’ve also had a lot of queenless hives after swarms this year - had to buy multiple queens - one hive killed the introduced queen after they released her. Not gonna have much honey this year due to low populations.

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Ya I'd say something is wrong that's for sure.👍

This has been the same in the UK this year. Most virgin queen's have failed due to weather. A very strange year indeed.

Not enough population in there to have two boxes on there! I would only add another box after 9 frames of bee coverage!

Hi. If that cell was empty, it probably produced a queen. It's very common for the bees to close up a cell after the queen has emerged, often with a worker inside it. I think you should leave them for a while and see how they get on.

Also you could try joining the queenless hives with the queenright hive, using the newspaper method. Re-split when the weather is better.

Hi There! I am having a very similar scenario in my apiary this year. I installed 2 packages on March 30th & 1 had an unmatted queen that filled the frames with drones and then failed to make a new queen from a doner frame of eggs. About 3 weeks I ago I discovered the queen in the other colony was gone, but population was too high to have swarmed, but I did find a queen cell that also was still there after 3 weeks, so I image it's just like yours, empty. This is my 4th year and without a doubt the oddest year, with the bees doing so much that defies my training and experience, I've been just scratching my head.

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Still lots of bees in the hive!!!!😊

I use queen cages. A couple of times I have had queens fly and luckily they came back to the hive after I left the lid open for about five mins.

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