9 Mated Queens In One Swarm Some Marked Huge Catch

hey everybody this is David the barnyard bees this is another little update on this little swarm right here that uh and it's it's like it's continued to increase and like I said that's how swarms go sometimes they combine and do you see anything in particular that sticks out here on this box anywhere around this box see how they're here's another sign too when you see them falling short of the hive and you see bees on the ground that's typical of swarms coming in because the bees are confused for one thing they don't know where the Queen's at so they fall short they're looking for the Queen and not sure but don't that look kind of suspicious right here this little ball of bees sipping scoop it up that's the size of a golf ball they're holding that ball together pretty good for some reason look you could probably roll it down the bee or look at that sure holding it together good now not saying I'll get this open up and it'll be a queen in there they're killing to I mean it's possible because like I said when they go taking up a residency right there's a queen right there it's here right there queen in hand so now the best thing would be to do would be to put her in a cage and then go through this there's way way way too many bees in here for a keyframe I turned that one that was sitting here on the ground upside down because it was packed full of bees so what I'm going to do I'm gonna put one of my two framers here set this to the side and start transferring over these bees what's what's out there famine I spread them out and they're just their fan and a lost track of her because I was looking down so she walked to the other side she's probably right there in this she's there somewhere that anyone will put it on pause and put her in the cage okay I caught her and put her in a cage and now I'm going to set this down to the side and I'm gonna slowly go through it looking I do have a queen excluder right here if I need it that I can also search to see if there's other Queens so that's what I'll do I'll set that to the side and put my five frame her there and start going through it okay I'll show you what I got here I couldn't get it on camera what I did I set that box down and when I pulled the top box off it was just literally packed full of bees and they fell and as soon as they hit the ground I've seen the tell of a queen wiggle amongst all the workers and I rested down grab the scoop of bees up real fast and I went ahead and dropped her straight into the to the hive so she's in there now before that what I did see that Queen right there of course the cage is upside down because I was one-handed and she's in there the one that I've originally caught to begin with it was in that little ball on the front so a rich and air grab her back out of the five frame knew cuz I was going to put her in there but I knew there was more than likely more than one so and I'm still looking for more here any you know funny signs like right here sit it right here not sure but I'll investigate it and look may not be one just got me on the finger this usually when they start yeah yeah right there see her tail sticking up right there's another one but keep in mind at this time once they get close to the hive they will start bawling them so they will start killing these queens so I've got a grabber and rescuer and let me set this box down a little bit let's take her over here where I can see her put it right on that someone got married turn the finger make sure the job okay I drop throwing this excluder she can't get down through it see how they're attacking her that's just the nature of it that's just how it goes when they will needs that swarms combined if they're only gonna let one queen live now she gets opportunity she'll fly off so I'm gonna try to keep her in my hand right here so then let me get another Cajun I'll be right back okay there she is there's two queens now let's see what this disturbance is right here they're congregating on the ground they're not flying away from it there's always a reason now I'm not saying she's in there but yes she's might have been they're just moving around here but there's another one there if I got that on camera right there there's another one okay that's three three Queens but not can I share you before people even comment no these aren't virgin Queens the original Queen swarms out with the colony these are combined swarms I've seen this over and over and over again and when I take these Queens and I put them in their own colony they start laying immediately so they wasn't quite as aggressive to this one but it seems like once they get close to their destination is when they start killing the Queens all right there's three certainly put it on pause and we put her in the cage okay there's three this investigator look to look a little bit more you're just looking for clusters of bees now if you remember this at this video I'll probably just tag it all together this yesterday I found yesterday so that's that's what's took place yesterday but like I said it looked like more bees were flying in so that should have been now they are paying a lot of tension here but that don't mean anything let's say just because I dropped an older feeder here they had some old sugar water in it I don't really see any like ball or cluster now right over there is where I grabbed that last Queen now see how they're still bald there because her pheromone is still there so that's why they're still there now honestly the the Queen that I dropped in the hive I really should have put her in the cage too because what I believe is once you get one in there and you get any it's even close to it they start bawling them up and that's why the ones on the ground over here someone didn't look like this as aggressive to them as because I think they found the pheromone showing that their queen is in the home and everything else I think they signal to exterminate the rest and they do they do exterminate the rest I've seen it I seen them many times let's say there's no cluster right here look at me if you can't see things there they're still smelling this pheromone over here I'll look just to be sure make sure that there's not another back there's another one they come too late on her look see how she's a being attack right there see the stinger she's going it's too late on her that's how it goes with these swarms is and people don't realize they get into they get these big swarms and they said I caught the Queen here's what happens through the rest of the Queens and people just don't realize it that is that is that what happens right there say she's dead that Queens going so that would have been far we put one I drop one in the hive I got three caged in that one but see these what wasn't even close to the hive but I'm telling you when they signal they put a signal out to the colony and that's when they they go ahead right here's another dead queen look here and look look look she's marked she's a mark queen so one of the colonies that spawned at a marked queen in it so right there so there's another one so there's six Queens right there you got it when you you've got to work really fast on these things because they they exterminate those Queens fast okay they're starting to disperse here a little bit so there you can tell there's probably nothing else here that I can see okay so we'll turn my attention over here a little bit just looking around okay what's this I thought of seeing a green dot but I'm not sure let's say they're balled up something here right here's a green look here is that right there if that don't prove to you right there new beekeepers or any beekeepers right there is another marked Queen so do you think that come out of the same colony okay and we put it on pause she's still good let's show you a little trick here if you ever catch a queen a gutter in my hand right here I'm trying to swith the camera so it's going to be a little bit awkward here for a second I'll have to edit out the some of this okay one catch this okay see what I did I just let her walk in the cage I may take her a second there she goes right there see how she walked so right here's our mark queen gutter in the cage and let me put it on pause and get a cork on the other end of it okay right there's one more Queen we've got a mark Queen right here as well that was dead so so far what I found two dead ones want to put in the defi frame and for extra that's seven so far and those those of you that says that it's just a bunch of version Queens how do you get to mark Virgin Queens I've seen this many many times and as soon as I put these in a hive they'll start laying immediately they are not virgin Queens I can assure you I'm speaking from experience because I see this all the time and that right there if they don't prove that to you about the the marked Queens then nothing will because that's proof and I'm still looking around just looking there was probably many more there's hard to tell how many swarmed and it's hard to look one-handed but that's what I'm trying to get this all on video so you can see it and that you'll believe it so I'm gonna set this box down just say I'm gonna look I don't see anything in there set it out here with the sunken this was just just a little reminder those that didn't see this was just an old box I was doing to change out so I just had it leaned up against stuff the other key frame nuke and that their swarms kept coming in to say I don't see anything suspicious there let me move my to Queens here but two dead Queens let me show you so I can we'll put them right here won't lose them come back to those a little bit see what else we got in this box as soon as I flipped it over and that's not always this the case that there's a ball but you just you just got a look and most people when they shakes worms they just don't they just don't look okay what I'm gonna do I'm gonna shake this out on the ground right here in front of the hive and then I'm gonna grab the camera fast again and see if we can find some more Queens here and see what we got okay so shook it right here on the ground right in front of my my nuke and I didn't get all the bees out there are still a few in here let's keep an eye on those and say this this is what when you shake a swarm and then if you want to most people in this checkup swarm they shake it straight in a box and a lot of times that's all you can do and I mean that's what I do in long times but if you can get the opportunity to get down low to the ground where you can shake them on the ground and then keep an eye out you can you can pick those Queens out just like we did here and luckily this one swarms that come in from different colonies he was kind of watching and the beaver confused too because they don't know really where to go some of them are trying to congregate over here simple have to try to dump some of these boxes out a little bit better and and move these boxes completely out of the area well what I've done there's a lot a lot of bees and I need to use up those Queens so what I did I put a queen in the nuke box you know if I friend nuke and I let a lot of those bees run in this is one that I just had sold one that I had went into another colony and put one frame of bees as seed to regrowth so so what I did I went ahead and just put one of those Queens down in the box and I let that box fill up see how they're marching in over here and why they're marching in it I'll try keep an eye out for another flame so I'll let them fill up with a lot of bees and then I move that box over on the stand and that'll take care of that law that population because and I'm afraid one of these swarms may actually come from one of my big honey producers after I'm not sure because there was well like we counted here seven suppose the seven or eight Queens done lost count seven I think and so if there was seven then that would definitely account for seven of them I knew so hopefully because I've been keeping up on those uh my little honey producers up there on the only ones I got in the yard in this yard so I've been keeping supers added as they're needed up there so I don't think it was those so it was just once it like I said did talk about before these swarms will trigger other swarms its it happens in big bee yards like this you know right here in this and this right here there's 240 active nooks right here the majority of them has bees they're just maybe 20 at the most probably that doesn't have these so when those forms fly around they absolutely trigger these other storms now I know this doesn't happen in the wild like just because you don't have calling me up the colony after colony it's a different scenario when you're when you're operating in a big bee yard it's completely different than what it would be bees in the wild or even somebody that has two three four or five hives it's different this scenario because you've got all these colonies and those bees will fly around and trigger other colonies to swarm it just happens it happens all the time okay I got some things moved around here now if you remember the theater that was sitting right here a lot a lot of bees on it they spend a lot a lot of attention to it and I've dumped it out let's look remember we found seven Queens and over here on this and excluder I should see how the bees bees are going about in this hive here so so we've even these out and now I'm three different colonies I shook all these bees here that was on that feeder on top of this exploder and if you can see there's something going on right there right something let's see what we can find here right there's a quaint look at her she's trying to get down in between excluder and she can't so that is clean number eight but there she is Queen number 8 they was congregated on that theater for a reason not because it is hungry so and look at the size of that Queen that's not the size of a virgin queen look at her thorax and her grad and look at her look at the girth of the girth her heading her everything is huge she is absolutely I made it Queen so let me put it on pause and get her in the cage and there she is that's queen number eight I think I counted that correctly I'm sure you'll go back to the people go back and look account but we had was her too dad found two dead and I had four in a cage I put a couple in already so I'm almost positive this is number eight and look how immediately they they went on this Queen right here on top of that cage now there was a lot of bees ended up in this swarm quite a few so what what I ended up doing you know and keep in mind those things were going in to pack out a to framer of all things a to framer but I could assure you to the original swarm that pictus was probably much smaller and the size of this one group and group and group the next thing you know they're all congregated into one big area like so and I'm still seeing little balls of bees and investigate and see they're acting awful funny right here might be a dead one right there okay there we go there's another one but this one is dead no get him focus on it and get the bees off of its my girl hurt her now cuz he's done she's absolutely dead okay right there they exterminated her looking look even she's dead and look at look at the bee gonna get focused in on it look at the bee it's obvious right there see how the how she's in that position right there with her abdomen with her tail curled in aggressive position so if I'm counting right and I'm almost positive that would been queen number nine now right there's where they was in that little ball and they'll be there for a while because they still smell that pheromone that's how sometimes you can uncover a spot like yet and they're what just won't be anything there because she may have been there but she's her pheromone still there and that's what they smell so that would be in Queen number nine in one swarm and and no they wasn't merging Queens so I'm still looking around just to be sure because we've come upon a pretty good find right here to share with everyone because most of the time stuff like this never gets shared so so basically once we got all the Queens out you don't really see any more bees bone up to much and who knows how many I missed I mean if I found nine how many more was there altogether they're marching in this hive here so we've got end up being look how they're still aggressively attacking that dead clean and then we've got a queen in this box here now what I did - I actually physically put a queen in here I let her walk in and I also put one in a cage because I'm thinking she they may get killed her or that could have been possibility of one or one of these out here on the ground again so but still if that was the case it was still eight Queens so the bees started acting a little bit funny inside just - you just got to kind of understand how they how they move around how they work they looked disoriented they didn't look like they they was too flighty and noisy so I went ahead and put a queen in there in a cage they can't get her out and I'll go back in a couple of days and look and see if that if I was right and see if there's the other Queen if she's not laid then you know pretty good chance that they either balled her or where she flew out or whatever but so so that's one colony so we ended up making this colony and there's the other queen we've got a spare Queen and we've got this one right here that I moved you can see there's quite a few bees here and then this one right here not quite as many but still pretty good bit so that leaves me with one extra queen I believe there was four dead and one in a cage and maybe one more in there I'm not sure we'll keep an eye on that so if that is the case there - there you got one here which is three four five and should have been from what I bet I could remember three or four dead so that would meant eight or nine and I'm pretty sure there was nine so in one swarm that's that's quite a bit so we'll go ahead and wrap this up there's really nothing more to talk about we're just going to and just a little reminder people about your Queens here they wasn't going aggressively be after this one right here they was pretty gentle you don't see these balled up on her like they was on the one that we just encountered they're on top they've already dragged her to the ground over there now I can see she's not even on top anymore and see how they're coming to this cage I could actually hang this one up in a tree right here and go ahead and get one of our little tiny swarms and I'll probably do that go ahead and get a wire hanger right here and see if we can get a few of these loose bees and let me do that don't put it on pause and I'll show you okay I had to knock the bees off of it to get the wire through so then I just set it back up on here to get him started on it and then what I'll do is right here since this was the area that was close and and this hive here is going to be a little bit too packed out anyway so we can afford to get some of these bees here and we'll use them in one of our key frames all you need well you don't even need any bees on there but but it's how I do it I get a just a he full of bees on there and then the right to here close to where the action occurred I'm just going to tie this one-handed just enough to hold it okay there's my contraption and these bees here don't know where the Queen went let's take this over and check it right here close to them they'll find her I've done this little Trick or whatever you want call it a little procedure a little technique I guess several times this year it's worked excellent the hanging clean in the cage Mady Queen and see there's there's another reason right there that people should be able to see that these are mated Queens as virgin Queens don't cause that much attention their pheromones aren't strong enough to cause that much attention so they just they their pheromones are so weak they absolutely wouldn't be showing attention to like this it just doesn't happen and let's see that should be another reason to people that know bees should know about your Queens and you know why they are several native queens in the swarm and and that's about it so we'll let this in hang here hopefully the wind will die down a little bit we'll catch a few of these coming off the ground they'll come up and they'll look for a their queen and they'll latch onto here and that's about getting a nutshell we are right now and hopefully we got it on the website if not we're getting ready to get it on there pretty quick we're getting ready to take deposits for our 2020 packages we're gonna get to jump and get it out there and get people that's interested in barnyard B packages we run them longer than anybody I know of this year and we're still selling nukes so anyone that needs any nukes nukes our local pickup only course call the store and get yours order and we'll get it get it together and get it ready to go but packages for 2024 springing next year if you want to go ahead and get your deposit down on the package or paying for however you like it's up to you and don't forget in the beekeeping supplies we have and we'll have Queens all the way up through fall so once we get caught up we was a little bit slow to begin with because we use all of our Queens to do splits and to grow our yard but after we get caught up we get in the rhythm and we're fine and so we have plenty so we have plenty Queens from now at least up and till sometime in September and beekeeping supplies don't forget Bernhard bees calm everything and anything pertaining to be keeping I know this video was draw it out long but please be patient and watch it and share it because there this is a unique situation here that you just don't see very often and it's really hard to get it caught on camera because it's it's just good timing is all it is and a lot of luck to be able to catch a situation like yes because usually swarms come in there hanging in trees shaking down they get in the box they kill all the Queen's you never know it and that's why most people think when they hear about multiple Queens are like I didn't know that but they just they don't know because they've never witnessed it so but this right here will prove that without a doubt that that this does exist and that they are in fact mated Queens they are not virgin Queens absolutely not and so though so the video will be long but just watch it through it's a very important a lot of good details in it and don't forget click on the little bell help spread our videos share them we've got an Instagram page we're trying to grow Facebook page please go check them out and that's about it for today [Applause] thanks for watching barnyard bees

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Id: jD_5c4uxKSw

Length: 35min 0sec (2100 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 21 2019