Finding the Queen Bee - Part II

We ensured the queen had been released from her cage, then went looking for her frame by frame. Finally found her, and what a beauty she is!

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Science & Technology

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• beekeeping
• apiary
• queen
• honeybee
• bee
• bees
• hive

[oxlid]

Yes, each hive normally has one and only one Queen. Sometimes there are two for various reasons, but eventually they would meet (inside the hive) and fight until one of them is dead, leaving one Queen.

[oxlid]

What a breath of fresh air that comments was! That video was four years ago, and happy to say that there have been lots of hornets seen in and near the hives but no "swarms" - in improper use of the term "Swarm" but who's keeping track? the bees drive them out if they get too far into the hive.

[green2lean]

I'm new to beekeeping but what I read is the older the bees are the more black their stripes are. Does this mean your queen is old?

[oxlid]

@green2lean The Queen in this video was a newly-mated Queen, so only a few weeks old. Not sure of the validity of the older=blacker thing, I've never heard that before, and in my observations I've seen that the really old bees just look kind of gray and colorless. The blacker stripes in this Queen are probably due to her being a Carniolan, which we put in as Queen for a package of Italian workers.

[GigaElectricBird]

does every hive have 1 queen bee?

[wellyqtpie]

I've seen videos of certain types of hornets(not sure if the one u found in there was of the species I'm talking about) sending out a scout to find a bees nest for them to swarm. If that's the case and your bees aren't the one type of bee that kills the scout before it's able to report back to the nest, expect all those bees to die in there :(

[aceman4564564]

@beemannick quiet

[Nick9000OMG]

this is so great

[TATPiranha]

COOL STUFF

[beemannick]

Why are you keeping your bee's in 6 5/8 boxes? And if your new to it, why did you not get it marked?