laurence edwardsOwner at Black Mountain Honey

Requeening Angry Beehives Made Easy!

18 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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In this instructional yet humorous video, Laurence Edwards demonstrates a straightforward, rapid technique for requeening a highly aggressive beehive. He begins by noting that his colonies have become generally calm, making it harder to find a suitable angry hive for the demonstration, and jokes about the potential for being stung. The core of the video walks viewers through the preparation, safety precautions, and step‑by‑step actions required to replace the queen in a hostile hive, emphasizing simplicity and speed while maintaining beekeeper safety.

In this video, I'm gonna show you a really simple, quick, easy method for requeening a very, very angry beehive. Now, it used to be easy going through my colonies and saying, right, I'm gonna pick out a nice angry beehive to do this video on. I have lost my effort. Ah, ow. But nowadays it's a little bit more difficult 'cause most of my colonies are nice. Now, that would've been a good chance for one of you bees to sting me. If you understood comedic effect, that would've been the chance to get me there.