How to build up a colony and stop swarming with the Demaree method

Absolutely fascinating and informative thanks

Sounds like you were under fire from some angry girls 😜 you can always tell the difference in the sound of an accidental bump and an aggressive battering ram bee hitting you trying to get you to leave their house alone 😂 the warning shots get more aggressive the more they don’t want you in their house , that’s why I try to get my work done and get out lol thank you for taking the time to teach everyone this magnificent past time !

bee sure that there are no Drone cells in the upper boxes as they will be trapped with the second excluder and die , possibly attracting hive beetle.

Really enjoyed this watch, thanks very much. Very informative. I'm absolutely going to consider this method in the future. Makes complete sense. Bravo!

Ultra bee dry is $3.75 here in NS. I use it at 60% of the weight in my recipe. So at $2.25 before I add inverted syrup and other ingredients. I went with global 15% this spring because it was $2.22 shipped to my doorstep per pallet. Last year Global was $4.50 because of the high cost of freight. Patties went on yesterday. It is forecasted 5⁰C for today. Bees are looking strong.

This was a lot of information in one video. I've been watching quite a few channels and I think I'm starting to understand the motivations behind some of the methods and different circumstances bee keepers find themselves.

You could have used a queen catcher for your queens if you are worried about your fat thumbs squashing the queen 👸😛

Get Shoe Goop, Walmart, to fix the soles of those boots.

30 min spot for 5 min worth of info. Terriable

I’m a little hit or miss with my subscriptions, but yes, I loved this and would love watching more on the method whenever I get enough mental bandwidth to learn things. Thanks for all your work and help. 🌞🌻👍🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

I stopped watching

At what point do you remove the queen excluder and allow the queen more room ? I would assume after the nectar flow and Honey has been pulled is this correct?

I take from your video that I would need empty comb and foundation for the bottom box? So if I have no empty comb the Demeree method is not possible?

I like this demaree method , I use for 2 reasons , 1 as explained in this video to keep a strong hive going and 2 to make another colony on the same hive by using the board on top of the honey supers instead of the excluder , they raise their own queen and I get another hive if I want it , very simple , I’m a hobby bee keeper not interested in moving loads of bees around , up to 20 hives is plenty enough for one person to keep active.

Always thought those virgin worms were small enough to fit thru excluders.

What do you use for your smoker?

Thank you for sharing!🎉

Could you also do this by putting the queen in the bottom on just drawn comb and foundation with no capped brood?

A mentor of mine said he found a queen in his honey super the other day. He thought it either got through a crack in the queen excluder, or flew in the top entrance that some of the bees prefer - but no, there were two queens living in the same hive (and unfortunately one filled his honey super with brood!). The extra excluder is probably to prevent another queen from either flying in or being raised in the top.

hardly surprisingyou have swarming issues, that first hive i would have split the brood boxes with a box of drawn out combs , throw that half box in the rubbish bin and add a REAL SUPER..

Good Job Peter

Interesting how many people do this method differently from everyone else.

My understanding with this method is not to shake bees into the bottom super

Is there a top entrance for the top brood boxes ? Great video!!

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The one issue that really bothers me is you are removing all queen cells you found. The ones you removed were not capped so it was no issue but, a beginner trying to adopt this method could not have noticed this fact. They could easily removed capped queen cells. Removing capped queen cells is an invitation to finding your hive queenless and if the beginner had waited too long they would have had laying workers to deal with. I have talked to people who I mentor about this issue but I still, every year get calls from people who removed capped cells and now need a queen. A hive that has been queenless for a week is a difficult process to correct if laying workers have started. If you redo this video you might want to address the type of queen cells you are removing in it.

The method has good potential but it is important to be back in the hive in the 7 to 10 day time period.

I'm really interested in this method, do you have a video on how to put the hive back together in the fall when you have removed your honey supers so you don't have 3 deep boxes to go into the winter. Great video, Thanks.

Ha I am going to do some of these tomarrow at what temp do you feel it is ok to do them in 50-60s here doing the day Thanks

Them little stingers will bust ur nerves it not for everyone bee keeping is God's keepers

just watched this video. seems you like crushing bees

Almost total collapse and frame scrambling. This is the kind of manipulation that de queens colonies, even if queen is still in there. Really bad. Concentrating to one brood chamber a great way to cause overcrowding and frequent population adjustments (look like swarms, not swarms). AND beekeeper does't know the reason for what he's doing? Dang that sucks. Beekeeper's yard is a junk yard. But thanks for showing the public what NOT to do to bees. The bee sound is testament from the bees how miserable beekeeper has just made them.

What about the drone brood in top boxes?

Im a newbie and I just got my nuc a few days ago. Can I do this method this year? Beekeeper said I had a big colony

I am from nepal
We keeps Apies cerena bees

Excellent video. What happens to the drones that emerge in the original brood boxes? Aren't they trapped above the queen excluder?

20 minutes in - you could at least have circled the queen to help us 'Newbies' experience the find!

My first attempt with the Demaree Method is going well. I have a deep brood box queen excluder then 2 med super and finally the two original brood boxes on top.

My question is, can i now move the top two brood boxes down and the two med supers up on top?… the two top brood boxes are extremely heavy with nectar and difficult to lift up that high after i inspect the bottom brood chamber to ensure that it isn’t filling with brood and resources. Many thx again Peter.
Dave from Wheeling WV

Dude the american way would have been to do a walk away split after not finding queen in top box and leaving all the cells till you found her..and Those are not swarm cells their supersedure. The brood pattern in bottom box is not good or were it should bee and you only had good patterns in the top box..you might even try reversing your boxes and put a double screen board in between them.

Watch Bob binnie making a split with double screen board.

I realize most of the queen cells are in the center of the frames, does that mean they are emergency queen cells??

If queen cells form on the top brood chambers by any chance, since there is a queen excluder up why would the colony swarm pulse still be active since the other okder queen is way down tthere??

Question for anyone: on a Demaree, is it vital to move the brood box or can you just switch out frames. I’ve seen several different videos on multiple channels and still don’t know. Thanks!

Thank you for the video it helps a lot and avoiding a lot of internet search for newbees by looking up the comment section you find the best answers for everything !!! Plus the creators content
Nice to get Queen marked avoiding unnecessary, shuffling in my opinion recently my friend brought me very good book from Russia written by Taranov first thing to know the biology of the bees then you pretty much know what to do by simply knowing when inspecting it just comes to you !!
Well bees still can swarm even by removing cups and cells split would be the best what I just did having same hive and adding empty frames to keep them busy!

What time of the year was this? I’d like to try this method but as we’re heading into August I wonder if it’s too late and would be best to try in the spring.

What time of the year was this? I’d like to try this method but as we’re heading into August I wonder if it’s too late and would be best to try in the spring.

What time of the year was this? I’d like to try this method but as we’re heading into August I wonder if it’s too late and would be best to try in the spring.

Brood box honey full up ,can you use that for winter feed,or can you eat that honey ,that had poisoning strips in the brood nests