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Sander Scott shows how to find the queen bee during a hive inspection, examining frames of brood and explaining why adding a box to the hive reduces swarming and gives the colony more room.
Sander Scott shows how to find the queen bee during a hive inspection, examining frames of brood and explaining why adding a box to the hive reduces swarming and gives the colony more room.
Okay, so you can see there the, the hole, the hole that that bee's covering. Queen definitely came out of there, which is what we want. So I'm going to shake these about— I'm going to set this out. I'm going to continue to look. Chances are the queen may be under this clump right here. I mean, uh, no, they're working that. So the reason we're adding another layer, another box on top, is just they run out of room in this hive, they might swarm. So here's another frame. You can see the queen's busy laying eggs. You can see how you have open comb and then these capped— that's because, um, the queen's laying eggs in there.
