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I learned this year that equalizing pre flow season is a very helpful tool. I wish I had done more. Only had 1 swarm so far this year. Much better than the 12 we had last year by this time 😅 I also came to the same conclusion to leave the honey in the second deep, mainly to help with feeding. Sugar prices have gone up so much that we're starting to have a more conservative additude in respects to feeding.
Kamon, it is a good idea to have a regular medium super above the QE then put on the comb honey box. This reduces the amount of pollen in the comb which is unsightly. Just a tip for the MAN. Looks like you will have a bumper crop.
We just had a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY BAD bee day. We only got through 3 of 6 to inspect, lots of crazy comb on the top/bottom bars with larvae we ended up having to scrape off, which kills me. Checked the larvae in that burr bucket for mite 100% zero found which is the only good thing about scraping off larvae burr comb, but SO SO SO SO many queen cups, we didn't know you could it should remove the swarm cells, so we squished them, but 8 in one box and we found 1 supercedure so we left that one?? Right? Wrong? It was upper 1/3rd the frame, the rest at the bottom? We then came home sweaty, hot, overheated, sunburned and heat exhausted to find OURS in our yard (we maintain a couple off site) that swarmed. A cluster probably 100' up, tallest ladder plus a pole/bucket system was still too short and they're already gone. 😩 Your videos give me hope as a newb to keep going. Even our bee vac couldn't get em. Thank you for these videos.
Ha Kamon I said this before but want to say it again it is so good to have you and Laurell back the videos are great Thanks Hope you and your family have a blessed week
Do you do anything special when you have pollen in a honey frame, when it's time to extract the honey in that frame? Will it spin out with the honey and be filtered out before it's bottled? If not, what will the bees do with it next year? Clean it out? Cap over it?
@@StonewallJackson-n8w I found one website that describes "Pressed honey". It sounds like what I call "Raw, Creamed Honey". It's extracted honey, not heated, filtered just enough to remove "big" things, not the pollen, and then seeded with small crystals and stirred over several days or weeks until it is all crystalized to a smooth, creamy consistency. Is that what you are talking about?
Hey Kamon , when will you harvest your honey . I have been helping a fellow with bees I sold him . He has five hives now . We pull four supers off and left two supers on the hives . They hadn’t capped the honey in those supers . So hopefully in a couple more weeks they will capped that honey . He has approximately 14 gallons so far .
Do bees move honey from the brood chamber to supers to clear out space for the queen to lay? I’m mainly asking because new packages seem to store a lot of feed in the brood chamber initially and I wonder if some of it ends up in the honey supers?
Once I get a full super I like to leave it above the brood to keep the queen down below. No excluder needed. Then as I add supers I can bottom super them above the one I leave as an excluder. Second super would go on top of the first one. Then when I need the third, I remove the top one and place a new one in the middle and the old one on the top and so on. I have never seen a queen go past a full super of honey to lay in a box above it.
Great video. I've just caught one of our swarms 5 days ago. I've checked today and they are bringing lots of honey, the queen is there, but she is not laying eggs. Does that mean they've swarmed with a virgin queen? Thanks
What is the difference in behavior of the colony when a queen emerges from a supersedure cell compared with a swarm cell? I feel this concept was never really clarified in my mind.
I think I should try some carnies. These Italians I have just get so swarmy. I had so many production hives that I equalized twice, and then split way down and still swarmed middle of the flow. Granted I may have missed a cell in a couple hives but shouldn't have been this bad.
-How can your frames in the brood box be so clean and free from propolis? My bees always heavily coat the frame side- and end bars, the groove of the box, etc...
Thanks Kamon, I have watched you an B Binnie. I like to pick up tidpits that you guys don't necessarily focus on. One of you mentioned getting in the hives once a week to make sure there are no cells. I have been doing just that for a few years now and instead of splitting I get rid of cells. I've had 1 swarm in 3 years and my honey production has gone through the roof. Over 700 lbs with 5 hives multiple years. I'm a backyard guy and it makes beekeeping so much more fun when your in your hives and know what's happening. Plus its nice to know your not sending bees to nest in your neighbor house. Missed your videos while you were gone glad to see you back. I also have appreciated your product suggestions, I've listened on a few and haven't been disapointed.
hello! Can you make a video on how to prepare honeybees for making honey? And when is the best time to for preparation, how should the colony looks like Thank you in advance You videos are very interesting
My hives are filling boxes quick should I remove capped boxes now and replace or just put more supers on. I am in Alabama north if Bruce and my boxes have 3 supers now.
Was there any advantage in swapping your 'bait' comb back to it's original box? Having watched your video where you discussed doing this I'm doing it when I add a box of foundation now 🙂
In my experience, removing the “bait” frame prevents the bees from fattening that bait frame into the space the undrawn foundation frame next door should occupy. If you don’t, the new foundation frame will be prevented from being fully drawn out.
I finally found my Queen today. I'm still worried as SO MANY DRONES and drone cells. I've cut them out twice. Thought had lost queen. Still.. WHY SO MANY DRONES?
@@cherimolina2121 Do you also have worker brood and cells? If you have more worker brood and cells than for drones, I wouldn't worry too much. If you don't have worker brood and cells but you do have a queen, you've got a drone laying queen, so either badly/not mated or so old she ran out of sperm. The recommendation is to replace a drone laying queen as that won't get better.
@@apveening yes there are worker brood but it's like a 70/30 ratio. I've cut out a lot of the drone brood/cells. This is a swarm I caught last year. Made it through winter. The queen didn't look very big though. And of course on the very last frame, so being disabled that was about all I could manage today. I probably should order a new queen. I put a at of syrup on them last week. Weather here has sucked.. rain cold hot windy. I put a super on 3 weeks ago, but they had nothing in it!
@@cherimolina2121 As you still have worker brood, you can (probably) still replace that queen yourself by just dispatching the old one, which you will have to do anyway when introducing a new queen. The hive can and will make a new queen if they have fertilized eggs or young enough worker brood (less than three days out of the egg).
Great video. In Idaho this year the bee population is booming and it's almost impossible to keep up with our swarms this Spring. We had a very mild temp winter yet still tough to get in our boxes early because of the temp and snowfall. We are perpetually cutting swarm cells out this year, splitting them or chasing down swarms that have "left the building". We finally had a high today in the high 50's and should be 70's this weekend. Our flow should be here within a few weeks and my bees are already spilling out of the added boxes. I've never seen anything like this, somewhat of a Baptism by fire for some of us newer beekeepers and your videos are a big help.
