Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Today's Q&A is focused on swarms, swarming, and queens. Happy Friday!
These are today's topics:
1) What happens if you make a split and move a queen cell with the queen?
2) Demaree works great with the Long Langstroth, but how long? Is it safe to move queen cells?
LINK TO Demaree Explanation: thekeepershive.com/pages/how-to-perform-the-demaree-method-of-swarm-control
3) A commercial beekeeper is open feeding, how can I ask him to stop?
4) When does a queen lay an egg in the queen cell? Normal for a swarm to depart and return?
5) I purchased and installed a package of bees. Later I noticed an empty supercedure cell that was empty. What's going on?
6) I found green colored honey when extracting winter leftovers.
7) A queen emerged from a queen cell into my hand. Made a nucleus with her. Then she swarmed.
8) How long does it take for a queen to produce eggs after swarming?
9) Should I assume swarms are healthy and have been treated for mites?
10) I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds sold as bird seed. Very cheap to plant and they grow.
11) When should I harvest leftover capped honey frames?
12) After viewing your Observation Hive cleanup video. I want to build one. What do I need to know?
Plans and Prints for my Observation Hive will eventually be found here:
fredsfinefowl.com/plansprints.html
13) I had a recent swarm fly up to a giant maple tree. I used QMP to bring them down to a Scion and it all worked perfectly.
NOT an affiliate link to Temp-Queen (QMP) so your bees will sense a queen even though there isn't one: betterbee.com/mating-nucs-and-other-queen-rearing-supplies/qp1-queen-pheromone.asp (please tell them Frederick Dunn sent you).
I invite you to support our veterans, every little bit counts:
hivesforheroes.org
Join the conversation, The Way To Bee Fellowship:
facebook.com/groups/3062274013832702
Listen to The Way To Bee Podcast while you work:
frederickdunn.podbean.com
This channel is always FREE, but many viewers have asked how they can support my work.
Here is my Patreon Page: (All donations go directly into the content you see here.) Thank you! patreon.com/user?u=27025526
Yes, I do have shirts, coffee cups, and canvas bags that I branded and designed with The Way To Bee.
If there is something you want but don't see, please let me know and I may custom-design something new. :)
freds-fine-products.creator-spring.com
Chapters provided by Adam Holmes
00:00 Introduction
08:47 What happens if you make a split and move a queen cell with the queen?
13:27 Demaree works great with the Long Langstroth, but how long? Is it safe to move queen cells?
18:48 A commercial beekeeper is open feeding, how can I ask him to stop?
24:57 When does a queen lay an egg in the queen cell? Normal for a swarm to depart and return?
32:31 I purchased and installed a package of bees. Later I noticed an empty supercedure cell that was empty. What's going on?
35:56 I found green colored honey when extracting winter leftovers.
40:47 A queen emerged from a queen cell into my hand. Made a nucleus with her. Then she swarmed.
43:36 How long does it take for a queen to produce eggs after swarming?
46:56 Should I assume swarms are healthy and have been treated for mites?
50:38 I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds sold as bird seed. Very cheap to plant and they grow.
56:48 When should I harvest leftover capped honey frames?
01:02:38 After viewing your Observation Hive cleanup video. I want to build one. What do I need to know?
01:11:59 I had a recent swarm fly up to a giant maple tree. I used QMP to bring them down to a Scion and it all worked perfectly.
Today's Q&A is focused on swarms, swarming, and queens. Happy Friday!
These are today's topics:
1) What happens if you make a split and move a queen cell with the queen?
2) Demaree works great with the Long Langstroth, but how long? Is it safe to move queen cells?
LINK TO Demaree Explanation: thekeepershive.com/pages/how-to-perform-the-demaree-method-of-swarm-control
3) A commercial beekeeper is open feeding, how can I ask him to stop?
4) When does a queen lay an egg in the queen cell? Normal for a swarm to depart and return?
5) I purchased and installed a package of bees. Later I noticed an empty supercedure cell that was empty. What's going on?
6) I found green colored honey when extracting winter leftovers.
7) A queen emerged from a queen cell into my hand. Made a nucleus with her. Then she swarmed.
8) How long does it take for a queen to produce eggs after swarming?
9) Should I assume swarms are healthy and have been treated for mites?
10) I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds sold as bird seed. Very cheap to plant and they grow.
11) When should I harvest leftover capped honey frames?
12) After viewing your Observation Hive cleanup video. I want to build one. What do I need to know?
Plans and Prints for my Observation Hive will eventually be found here:
fredsfinefowl.com/plansprints.html
13) I had a recent swarm fly up to a giant maple tree. I used QMP to bring them down to a Scion and it all worked perfectly.
NOT an affiliate link to Temp-Queen (QMP) so your bees will sense a queen even though there isn't one: betterbee.com/mating-nucs-and-other-queen-rearing-supplies/qp1-queen-pheromone.asp (please tell them Frederick Dunn sent you).
I invite you to support our veterans, every little bit counts:
hivesforheroes.org
Join the conversation, The Way To Bee Fellowship:
facebook.com/groups/3062274013832702
Listen to The Way To Bee Podcast while you work:
frederickdunn.podbean.com
This channel is always FREE, but many viewers have asked how they can support my work.
Here is my Patreon Page: (All donations go directly into the content you see here.) Thank you! patreon.com/user?u=27025526
Yes, I do have shirts, coffee cups, and canvas bags that I branded and designed with The Way To Bee.
If there is something you want but don't see, please let me know and I may custom-design something new. :)
freds-fine-products.creator-spring.com
Chapters provided by Adam Holmes
00:00 Introduction
08:47 What happens if you make a split and move a queen cell with the queen?
13:27 Demaree works great with the Long Langstroth, but how long? Is it safe to move queen cells?
18:48 A commercial beekeeper is open feeding, how can I ask him to stop?
24:57 When does a queen lay an egg in the queen cell? Normal for a swarm to depart and return?
32:31 I purchased and installed a package of bees. Later I noticed an empty supercedure cell that was empty. What's going on?
35:56 I found green colored honey when extracting winter leftovers.
40:47 A queen emerged from a queen cell into my hand. Made a nucleus with her. Then she swarmed.
43:36 How long does it take for a queen to produce eggs after swarming?
46:56 Should I assume swarms are healthy and have been treated for mites?
50:38 I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds sold as bird seed. Very cheap to plant and they grow.
56:48 When should I harvest leftover capped honey frames?
01:02:38 After viewing your Observation Hive cleanup video. I want to build one. What do I need to know?
01:11:59 I had a recent swarm fly up to a giant maple tree. I used QMP to bring them down to a Scion and it all worked perfectly.
