CUTTING OUT SWARM CELLS ON FOUNDATION

I'm gonna show you how we cut swarm cells out of a hive that has multiple swarm cells and kind of like a race the first one to emerge is the winner what will happen is the Queen will go all the way around the hive and kill every swarm cells they'll take their stinger and sting every stab every cell those are all potential splits so and this is a really cool way of splitting and getting your Queen without you know grafting or purchasing a queen today we're going to cut those cells out we're gonna stick them on to a frame and we're gonna make some couple splits here we go he's my little tools here I just made a place for it so we're gonna open this up okay we got one cell one cell that's actually this isn't though that's the one that I introduced yep that's the one right there see those cells so what I'm going to do let's try to smoke these bees away hopefully that'll get them to go away okay now what we want to make sure we try to do is keep this up right so so the swarm cell doesn't drown just like that for sex so we have our swarm cell okay now I'm just gonna stick this swarm so right in this frame like this okay now there we go so now we just have to put some bees in here that one's ready to go now it's pretty warm today so we'll do the next one we're gonna cut it out a triangle right in the middle and this you know this is just a way you can do it without having a middle bar all right now we'll get our second swarm to our second cell [Music] okay well I can see that royal jelly right there so just like that we didn't damage it we sealed the top and we are ready to go we always kept it so it didn't drown so now what we'll do is we'll get some bees and we'll put them on each side we'll put this one back you still have a swarm cell and they're all good so now we got three splits going here all right so now let's get some bees from the other hives because when we do in these splits we need four things honey pollen eggs and bees that's pollen just bees working hard I might have to take this box and put it down ooh there we go there's some bees that's a lot of bees so we can take this one so we got one frame so that's a lot of bees there's our bees right there okay now of course we're gonna have to add a frame and what I'll do is I'll leave a frame of drawn comb so they don't have to work extra hard to replace it yeah this is more bees got some pollen see if we can make this work that's a lot of brood look at this one holy cow is this packed out it's awesome Wow is that a good pattern that's awesome yeah the Queen has definitely been up here okay so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna leave them like I said I'm gonna leave them with the frame I'm gonna leave them with the frame of drawn-out call and I'll grab that right now now we took one so we gotta leave one in this oh we had a worm in there got a web worm okay looks like they need one extra frame so there they go they got their ten so I'm gonna do I'm just going to quickly take this off because I need to get in here real quick just real quick I want to take see if I can take a whole frame bees nope no bees have enough bees those cells should emerge in a week maybe another seven to ten days the queens will go out for their mating flight hopefully they make it back and we'll follow up with you in a couple weeks so thanks for tuning in until next time we'll see on that video [Music]

Channel: Bobby's Beez

Views: 6,992

Keywords: swarm cells, cutting out swarm cells on foundation, beekeeping, splitting a hive using swarm cells, Beekeeping splits, CUTTING OUT QUEEN CELLS ON FOUNDATION

Id: yK-a41aUONc

Length: 10min 42sec (642 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 30 2020