Behind glass

[Windowbee]

One of my bee queens.
Is forced by workers to hard work and laying.

https://youtu.be/YZve7wS-KMU

 

[Finman]

One of my bee queens.
Is forced by workers to hard work and laying.

https://youtu.be/YZve7wS-KMU

That behaviour by workers is not normal. Workers are aggressive and queen feel it. Or are they preparing swarming or what?

Normally workers touch the queen with antennae and lick abdomen but they fo not rub with jaws as they do in video.

When I give a new queen, bees are yhat kind og offendive. And it does not mean good to queen.

 

[Windowbee]

This is their own queen since July 2014.
She is feed by workers and workers invite her to layng eggs.
In video the queen resting , she made 3 eggs a moment before.She was runnig on the comb. No walking! she is running and try to find an empty cell. But most of cells are full of eggs or larvas.
I keep bees in small observatory bee hive( around 3.000 - 15.000 bees) form a long time. The bees behaviour is normal on this part of year.
We had fiew good days in shadow around 20'C so the bees tooks much of pollen.
3 weeks ago the queen had no nourisher bees in her family but one week ago much of them born.
Here You have linkt to my previous video with lazy queen with out any pollen in the hive and no nourisher bees:
https://youtu.be/m6nh15UhVrQ
They are much more calm.

 

[Finman]

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I have seen lots of laying queens , when queen inspect cells and lift abdomen into a cell. Workers do not act like that.

In lower video a worker wants to lick queen stuff from abdomen and queen must kick the worker couple of times, because it disturbes laying.

Seems to be Carniolans

 

[Windowbee]

Yes ,but its different when You watch them on frames out side the hive and in it...
Here another one film took a few minutes ago:
https://youtu.be/J7hRGbstago
This colony is much weaker , waiting for new nurses bees.
And You right the workers are a little bit more calm here.
But as i sed this colony is very weak and queen almost stop lay eggs - she has no nurses to produce royal jelly.

 

[Finman]

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What I see is:

Action seems normal

3 bees offer food to the queen with open jaws.
The queen is fat. But the queen is not inspecting empty combs..

 

[Finman]

But as i sed this colony is very weak and queen almost stop lay eggs - she has no nurses to produce royal jelly.

In small colony queen can lay much more than workers can feed larvae.

One point is that queen does not lay in cells if bees cannot keep them warm.

If hive has short of pollen, the queen lays quite much, but bees do not start to feed them when larvae emerges.

 

[Windowbee]

The red queen has no royal jelly in her family. So she laying very few... By the way what race or line You breed in Finland?

 

[Finman]

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I have Italians, but in my outer yards virgins mate often with Carniolan drones.
I do not know, where those Carniolans have their nests. I suppose that they are wild and they have nests in empty farm houses.

Those hybrids are strongest hives in my yards.

 

[Windowbee]

Are they ok in Finland?
Italians don't overwintering good in Poland.
When it's warm weather in winter the queens very often starting lay eggs and colony can easy die.

 

[BeeJayBee]

Thanks for those videos. Interesting to see.

 

[Windowbee]

In small colony queen can lay much more than workers can feed larvae.

One point is that queen does not lay in cells if bees cannot keep them warm.

If hive has short of pollen, the queen lays quite much, but bees do not start to feed them when larvae emerges.

Yes it's true,but this time it's not a temperature problem but royal jelly. Its a long winter story and disaster in this family ... but trust me its a royal jelly matter.

The glass is warm and hive is in side my house in 22'C. So, if bees sit one close to another one , temperature is ok. I gues 34-35'C , the glass is warm.

 

[Windowbee]

I add some new film on my youtube channel:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCaNhOH9Mq1EDK6D9ckL6IBA

 

[B+.]

for posting....very nice videos

I am still waiting for a reply from my contact re cordovans

 

[Windowbee]

And i am searching queen marks > 100 its really not that easy, i didnt expect that.

 

[B+.]

And i am searching queen marks > 100 its really not that easy, i didnt expect that.

Thank you. I couldn't find them either. If anyone else knows where to buy opilath plates numbered above 100, please let me know

 

[Windowbee]

I found 5 min ago ... let me know on [email protected]. I wrote privet message here too.

 

[B+.]

I found 5 min ago ... let me know on [email protected]. I wrote privet message here too.

email and pm sent. Thank you