How Not to Lose your Honey Bee Queen, And how to control your queen while marking her.

Описание: We're in our second swarm season of the year now that it's late August.
I hived a swarm using a cotton butterfly net.
They initially entered the hive in large numbers only to change and move back out with the queen.
They remained on the front of the hive overnight and were likely to depart.
In this video, I scoop the queen up in my empty coffee cup and place her into a queen cage using a queen muff that is sold by BetterBee.
The purpose of that muff is so you can remove workers from a queen cage before introducing them into a hive, or so you can hold and mark the queen without the risk of her flying away.
I used it to contain the bees in my cup until I could nab the queen and put her into a plastic queen cage.
Then, I used a metal queen isolation cage with a frame of drawn comb that had been used for brood in the past.
Attendant workers can pass easily through the isolation cage bars and attend the queen while she begins to lay eggs.
She will be released from the isolation cage within the week.
There is a small risk of caging a virgin queen and keeping her from completing a mating flight, thus the 3 day release. However it will be obvious if she is laying since she is confined to a single frame of comb. My wife handled the mobile camera sequences.

Here is the UPDATE Video:    • Queen Isolation Cage Follow-Up, did it wor...  

Items referenced in this video are listed below -

These are not affiliate links, the isolation cage and muff are both available on the BetterBee.com website. I receive no compensation.

This is the link for the Queen Muff:
https://www.betterbee.com/marking-too...

This is the link for the queen isolation cage:
https://www.betterbee.com/queen-reari...

The tool belt I was wearing is by Paul Kelly from U. of G.
It's called the Paul Kelly Bee Belt.

Another option for keeping the queen from departing after hiving, is an entrance style queen excluder:    • How To Keep Your Hived Swarm From Leaving,...  

Just let me know if there are any other questions.

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