Beekeeping | Tips To Help You Find Your Queen Easier

Beekeeping can be frustrating when you cannot find your queen, especially when you know she is in there, but you just do not know where to look.

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[govindchetan]

What a day to post this sir!! RIP queen!

[cyberpleb]

Thanks for the helpful videos! My wife and I are new beekeepers. We take a quick high res photo of each side of each frame when we do an inspection. We can get through the inspection really quickly with little disturbance and it's allowed us to find the queen even when we didn't see her in person (it's a fun little "Where's Waldo"). It's also a great way to document the hive's growth. You can search the photos on high mag and count eggs and larva to get an estimate of productivity. No doubt it won't be worth doing if we expand our set-up, but for our first hive, we are learning a lot this way. Cheers.

[andreatembreull]

So cool to be able to see videos of the queen. Helps to notice her! Thank you!

Had an abysmal day in the hive yesterday!

[paulajones]

Buy a queen and never seen her again. I see brood and eggs so I don’t worry too much . My hives are rammed with bees so I’m happy. Thank you so much for showing us inside the hives that is so important for us to learn.

[plecebo]

Thanks for another timely helpful video! As a first year beekeeper I'm still building my queen finding skills. Your videos are always a helpful resource! Thank you!

[karennelson]

I needed this video in april/may!! I lost a nuc colony.... but I've learned alot since then! Thanks for the video!❤️

[SergeantMajorH]

I haven't found 2 queens in single deeps since April. Is driving me NUTS! Never worried because there were always eggs and brood, but today dangit, they're getting marked! Thanks for motivating me.

[scottdanielsen]

Thanks for all the great videos. I'm a 3rd year beekeeper and have 6 hives and 2 double nucs. I've been watching for 3 years and find your advice invaluable. So far I have 100% winter survival rate, largely due to your excellent paradigm challenging over-wintering methodology. I have more bees in my hives in April/May than I can handle. Made 6 splits this past year and gave 'em all to a friend whose bees did not make it last year. Not sure if you have time for a queen question, but one of my hives just superseded their queen (in September of all times!), virgin queens emerged in the last 2 or 3 days. Is there enough time for the queen to mate and get laying before winter or should I dispatch the new queen and grab a queen from 1 side of a double nuc? I am in upstate NY, plenty of drones in my colonies. If I grab a queen, I'll combine that nuc with the superceded colony and turn the other side of the nuc into a hive proper to overwinter. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[jamesbarron]

Can you do a video on the best flowering trees to feed bees during the summer? I’m not interested in the best tasting honey trees. I’m more interested in their survival during the dearth. I’m in Texas and everything is dried up and dying in our hot temps and no rainfall. It’s not uncommon to go 3 months during summer without a 1/4” of rain.

[mdmulvihill]

As a first year beekeeper, whenever I open the brood box and seemingly get near the queen I get stung sometimes two or three times. I have a bee hat, gloves and I use a smoker but they attack and crawl up my pants and still my ankles if they can't find any other skin. I don't understand how you get so close to the queen without protection and don't get stung???

[disillusioned]

If a queen dies how long does it take the hive to create a queen cell or fill an uncapped queen cell?

[pattibuckman]

Im wanting to know if 10 lbs of sugar to 5 gal water enough? I'm not sure it is.

[phyllisflorian]

Ahh the elusive queen. I'm still trying my best to find the unmarked queen in a large hive.... 🤓🤔🤷‍♀

[ruthpenick]

I know when I buy next year I will mark the queen

[charliegioe]

David this comment has nothing about the video I seen I just seen a hive beetle test done where he put vegetable oil in 1 trap he caught close to 10 beetles then he put vegetable oil and a piece of pollen patty in another trap court Close to 35 to 40 Beatles I thought maybe it’s a test that you could show other people thanks Charlie

[dagandreassen]

Why don't you mark your queen's so first of all it's easier to see her and also know how old she is if you using those standard colors for the year it was born. That's how I noticed why I found so much drone brood. She was born almost 5 years ago so it was just to capitate her and introduce a new virgin queen 3-4 days later. We are gluing small plates with number on them but only for F0 and F1 queen's. Have to do because we have a " family tree" for those queen's that is mated in a area where only Buckfast bee's are. We was 57 beekeepers this year and they had from 40-12 nukes with virgin queen's.