9 - Trouble in the Hive
- Bees - Trouble in the hive
- The queen bee's gone AWOL and taken thousands of workers with her! (duration: 14′40″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
I got back for a relaxing few weeks away and checked the hive, sadly there were hardly any bees and no fresh eggs or larvae. It looks like my queen has swarmed and it’s all my fault. I didn’t give her or the colony enough room work with – I’d restricted her with a queen excluder to the bottom box, and once it had been filled with honey she decided to head off and set up an new hive. Bad news for my honey production but good for the wild bee populations and all your gardeners out there!
Resources
Bee Photos
A gallery of images
Honey Harvest
A gallery of images
Pollen analysis
Analysing commercial honey
Episodes
- 1 - Meet the beekeeper
- 2 - Hive location
- 3 - Catching a swarm of bees
- 4 - Building the hive
- 5 - Arrival of the bees
- 6 - Merging swarm with hive
- 7 - Hive check-up
- 8 - Pre-Xmas visit
- 9 - Trouble in the Hive
- 10 - New queen on the block
- 11 - Colony Collapse Disorder
- 12 - Toxic Tutu
- 13 - Beehive Check
- 14 - Honey Extraction
- 15 - A Taste of Honey
- 16 - Varroa treatment
- 17 - Bee team expansion
- Commercial honey pollen analysis
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