Hive beetles, wax moths, late season swarms, Queen cups, and aggressive hives. Week 7

On this week's video we discover some wax moth damage, see the first hive beetle of the year, and capture a late swarm. We will also discuss a few aggressive hives and how I plan to deal with this issue. We will also see other interesting things such as Queen cups, eggs, and emerging brood.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:37 William's hive
4:01 Eggs and supersedure cell
5:20 Supersedure cell
5:56 Emerging brood
7:10 Queen cups
8:06 Swarm
9:51 Swarm capture
11:37 Queen
13:30 Wax moth
14:53 Hive beetle
15:50 Liam's hive
20:51 Hive #10 (super aggressive hive)
26:38 Savanna's hive
29:41 Alexander's hive
32:22 Brianna's hive
33:17 Eggs

[noahriding]

What a nice looking bee yard that is. Like it...

[amfarmsllc]

You need to kill the queen from the really bad aggressive hive and give them a frame of eggs from the hive that has the queen with the nice laying pattern. May take a few cycles but a new queen may calm them down.

[wadewoehrmann]

Good time to do a walk away split??? One or two frames with brood bees and a queen cell or two?

[joeelam]

FYI Some folks are using peppermint candy for Small Hive Beatles.

[davidlaing]

On Alexander hive I would not have put the smoker on top of the frames as it can burn bees and frames. My suggestion.

[joeelam]

Once they put an egg into the queen cup, it is then called a queen cell even before it is capped.

[Grinnin]

Nice informational run through the yard. Love the art on the hives. Great audio—- what type of microphone setup do you have

[dontannery]

Any idea for wax malls I'm in the desert and they are terrible Thank you for any information

[jeronimomod]

I do not know why and I don't truly understand it but early fall I put out chicken breast sliced in half hanging on hooks for feet off the ground near my beehives and they seem to do a lot better than they did in previous years weathering the winter 😐🫤🤷