The Honey Factory

[duluthralphie]

Here is a little page on finding the queen..

https://beekeepinglikeagirl.com/queenspotting-how-to-find-your-queen-bee/

I end up on her website a lot, not that a girl can teach me anything..

Hey there @BantyChooks

 

[BantyChooks]

Hey there @BantyChooks

I'm watching you.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Here is a little page on finding the queen..

https://beekeepinglikeagirl.com/queenspotting-how-to-find-your-queen-bee/

I end up on her website a lot, not that a girl can teach me anything..

 

[shawluvsbirds]

That is thw same person who published that book Zark Linked earlier.

 

[duluthralphie]

That is thw same person who published that book Zark Linked earlier.

Uh huh

 

[OhZark Biddies]

And how do you know if your hive is queenless?

For the most part, lack of new brood, or the presence of queen cells...

My hive3 went queenless after I caught it as a swarm... I don’t know if she got injured or dead when I caught the swarm or what happened... she might have just run out of fertility...

but in any case that hive ended up in a state they call ‘hopelessly queenless’ because there were no eggs/larvae young enough for them to turn into a queen...

i didn’t expect that hive to have issues since it had a queen... then waffled on buying a bred queen vs. going and getting a frame of brood from my Italian hive and letting them raise their own... so now then after being queenless too long one or more worker bees fired up her ovaries and started laying... which is bad because the resulting bees are all drones ... and because the rest of the hive gets the signal that there is a queen... so it’s hard to fix

 

[shawluvsbirds]

For the most part, lack of new brood, or the presence of queen cells...

My hive3 went queenless after I caught it as a swarm... I don’t know if she got injured or dead when I caught the swarm or what happened... she might have just run out of fertility...

but in any case that hive ended up in a state they call ‘hopelessly queenless’ because there were no eggs/larvae young enough for them to turn into a queen...

i didn’t expect that hive to have issues since it had a queen... then waffled on buying a bred queen vs. going and getting a frame of brood from my Italian hive and letting them raise their own... so now then after being queenless too long one or more worker bees fired up her ovaries and started laying... which is bad because the resulting bees are all drones ... and because the rest of the hive gets the signal that there is a queen... so it’s hard to fix

That is crazy complicated!
So what did you end up doing?

 

[OhZark Biddies]

That is crazy complicated!
So what did you end up doing?

Ha... It’s only complicated when I don’t do my part... most of the time the bees do their thing and sort things out

But since the presence of uncapped brood can tell the laying workers to stop laying ... I’ve given that hive some brood from the other to see if they will turn off their baby makers and decide to raise a queen...

but if I don’t see them make a queen cell within a couple weeks... I’ll likely carry that hive away and shake all the bees onto the ground...

then they’ll gradually beg into the other hives over a few days ... but those hives won’t allow the laying workers in ...

Since they’ve not been raising many baby bees, they’ve been making lots of honey... so in a couple weeks that should all be capped and I’ll just steal some of that for me and use some of it in the split I’m planning to do

 

[Kusanar]

What happens when bees pollinate pot (dope) plants? I always wondered?

I actually kind of know this one. There is actually someone doing this on purpose to try to make honey with the "good stuff" from the pot in it. Apparently the bees don't like pollinating those plants and have to be somewhat forced to by putting them in a building or something with no choice but to use the pot plants. I don't know that they had gotten enough honey yet to see if it had the results they wanted or not though.

I ran into an article about it at one point.

 

[featherhead007]

I actually kind of know this one. There is actually someone doing this on purpose to try to make honey with the "good stuff" from the pot in it. Apparently the bees don't like pollinating those plants and have to be somewhat forced to by putting them in a building or something with no choice but to use the pot plants. I don't know that they had gotten enough honey yet to see if it had the results they wanted or not though.

I ran into an article about it at one point.

Thank you, I always wondered if bees would pollinate pot.. (I don't use the stuff) I'm only curious!