Episode: 2022.04 – Week Following Swarm (Part 3) – Queen Cells & Split?

Episode: 2022.04
Episode: 2022.04 – Week Following Swarm (Part 3) – Queen Cells & Split
Time of Year: 24 April 2022
Temperature: 16 Degrees Celsius / 61 Degrees Fahrenheit
Weather: Warm, Sunny with slight breeze

Welcome to our Home Honey Bee Apiary / Bee Yard Channel. This is our fourth video of our second Season (2022), which we hope will be interesting and invite you to journey with us by Subscribing to this, our Beekeeping Story as our family share our experiences – good and not-so-good. We plan to upload new videos for you to watch on a regular basis, as we share with you our experience and on occasion reviews of our Beekeeping and related experiences, as well as our Family Home Apiary/Bee Yard, here in beautiful Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Our beekeeping is based on using Long Hives, rather than the more common box hives stacked on top of one another. Just our choice and the bees are in our Home Apiary/Bee Yard, so will never be a large concern. We also aim to harvest Pure Natural ‘Raw’ Flow Honey and Comb Honey.
We plan to explore new and emerging - tools, equipment, frames and even the ‘hives’ themselves, which may provide a spark of interest.

This Episode (2022.04), we inspect the old and new Swarm colonies, a week after the Swarm. Did we find any Emergency Queen Cells in the old Hive (#1 Flow Hive East), if so how many? Watch to see if we maintained the colony, or whether we split them further, or made a Nuc?
My Father helps for the first time – truly a family Apiary / Bee Yard.

We consider the options – pros and cons of splitting, whilst maintaining a strong enough colony this early in the season.
We also inspect the Swarmed Colony in their new home (#2 Flow Hive East) – did we find Queenie?

Watch our story as our Home Apiary / Bee Yard has just doubled… or tripled to Two/Three Colonies!

My Father joins us for this Episode - another of our Family at our Family's Home Apiary / Bee Yard.

ETHOS

Our ethos is to use sustainable approaches where practical, that includes hives made from UK wood, supporting UK producers from beginning to end.

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Attributes:
- Music to Michael Ramir

Please do watch our previous and upcoming videos on this Channel to discover more about our hives, the bees and our journey in our Home Apiary / Bee Yard. We appreciate your leaving comments and suggestions.

For further connected sites:
www.NaturalRawHoneyBees.co.uk
www.AbreyPrivateClients.com
Hives made by: www.hydehives.co.uk
Foundation from: BuzzBee

Polite Request from Us
We wanted to share our experience and approach to beekeeping as a family, and you will note straight away that we are open to trying 'new things' - some may not work and others you may not agree with.
We ask that you offer advice and comments - please do feel free to challenge us and provide counter suggestions/recommendations as this will allow others (and us!) to learn and consider alternatives.
We ask that in the manor we produce these videos, for both entertainment and education, we ask that you consider language and tone of any comments left as we hope people of all ages, ethos and beliefs may read them.

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