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Thanks Kamon, you really helped describe the single deep brood box system to me in a different perspective. Always a proponent of two deeps, queen excluder, and mediums on top for honey, glad to see someone practicing this method of yours and succeeding. Like the comment if Bob Binnie's hives can swarm, yours can too! :) 🐝

It has been an odd year for the blooming cycle of many spring plants for sure. We are seeing the same things blooming right now as you Kamon. I am also seeing a lot more swarming impulse in my hives this year as well.

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Laurel you're great with the camera.

that was awesome to see the queen in action laying her eggs even if she was disturbed and out in the sun... amazing for a newbie like me to see that...

Love the optimism, I feel your energy

The flow is still heavy here in the eastern foothills of NC...same thing...tulip poplar, blackberries, black locust, clover, and now privet. I pulled honey last weekend to free up some boxes. Looking like a great year here!! I was worried about the moisture but it was actually really good at around 16%. The girls made some great reddish tulip poplar honey!! Thanks for all you do Kamon!!

Nothing to add except that queen is a champ

Kamon have you ever tried top entrances when the flow is on . Do you think a top entrances helps much when the flow is . That is a beautiful pattern she is laying just tell her to fly in over to my house an bring about twenty more with her . We enjoy long videos. Thanks

Wow some flow!! Terrific!!😜😎✅🐝🐝🐝

Watching a queen IS awesome and no, it never gets old. I think that hive was the chillest one I've ever seen. It's great what a queen with a good temperament can do for a colony. That gal is a nice, fat laying monster, too.

Ya loooooosing a swarm is heart breaking but it happens. Just waving at them good bye as I fuss under my breath . LOL

Running single brood hives how do you go about removing the honey supers are you leaving any on the hive over summer for them to feed on or are you pulling it all off and pushing all the bees down into the brood chamber and feeding them during the summer? Thanks for the videos.

Hey Kamon....just got out of my bee yards today and yes...here in KY they are PACKING on the honey! Same thing here....Tulip Poplar, Cherry, Black Locust, Clover, Honeysuckle, among others are all blooming at the same time....crazy spring!

Looks like that TIGER strip queen is one of you best , she was going at it. GO TIGERS lol

You've made me smile at the end when you talked about loosing swarms!

I've pulled 12 capped from 2 hives, extracted them and returned to the hives to get refilled. I'm on the east coast so same zone. Another hive hasn't been done yet but that's next. The boxes are stacked over my head so I had to use a step stool to pull frames. 7 boxes packed full of bees.

Love the video ,watching the queen laying. What a beauty she is and lovely calm bees. What type are they?

At 22:43 You pick up a super with something black on a corner. It looks like metal protecting the corner. What is it? And where do I buy it?

You always answer Questions I have in your videos Thank you keep up the great work 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

I have to cuz I love beehives and bees 😊

Hey Kamon. Love the channel very informative! Whats the reason for the reflective sheet under the lid? Thanks for the videos and keep it up!

It was good to see you two making great YT videos again. Here in MN our snow is gone and fresh pollen is coming in strong this week. Tulips (flowers) should bloom this week. Thanks.

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Hi Kamon, I'm watching your videos from Wellington, New Zealand. Our season is the opposite to yours, so we're heading into winter. Nice to see the fun and games happening in the northern hemisphere as we wind down. Funny though that being separated by 1,000s of kilometres/miles you're also having problems with pollen blocking the brood area when the blackberry comes into flower! Ditto. And yes, it's grey-green in colour. Happens in the Wellington area around the 3rd week in November. Taking a nuc off and making sure the queen gets the new empty combs in the brood area filled up with young brood just as the blackberry comes into bloom means the field bees can't put the pollen in the brood area. Play the queen off against the workers 🙂. Have a great season my northern hemisphere cousins.

I can't remember when I wrote you a long comment last time. (used to be 'varroa gone' guy.. the older one). Did you notes that one with the cells above excluder. They had only eggs and capped brood. So it's about pheromones.. not enough brood pheromone around, so you could be right about superseding her.. it's the trigger that makes them do it. I'm a caging for brood break guy and I see that a lot. I even invented a method with it to change me my old queens at the same time when I treat oxalic on broodless hives with the old queen caged. They want to supersede her.. and the hive is full of bees that never fed nobody.. it's like a starter with a box of pollen, where used to be brood. I'm not sure i wouldn't breed from her. They had less pollen in the frames than the second one and from here it looked like they are faster to move nectar up.. which is what a honey producer wants. Maybe the swarming impulse.. as you cutout cells it stopped than started again.. ending with the queen stopping and starting laying eggs.. just an idea, opinion. I had times before with caged queens when bees moved eggs. Same as that.. nothing on the frame, only the cell. I let it develop and it was a queen. It wasn't very good but it wasn't laying worker. So far I had it 3 times over the years. I think there's a group of "smart" bees who tries it, but so far i didn't see them make a good queen.. anyway it's all about pheromones. And long comments. How's going with this year's flow. Are you happy with it

Why did u shake the nectar out of the brood frame near the end of the video? Thx Ds

I know you probably discuss this on your channel somewhere, I was wondering about the advantages of putting 9 frames in a ten frame box?

Correction: Bob Bennie doesn’t lose swarms, the swarms lose Bob Bennie.

Nice video, your bees look great. As you mentioned definitely supersedure for sure and they probably will try again, if you let them that is.

*As always, super informative videos. Thanks Brother.*

Do you think it is necessary to go continue to check brood chambers for queen cells and or eggs through the honey flow? If so, how often would be best to check brood boxes?

I love videos like this! Love seeing the honey flow! Our bees are making so much right now too! Love your videos!

How do you tell the difference between swarm cells and supercede cells? I've been told supercedure are generally in the center of the frame, while swarm cells are generally hanging off the bottoms of the frames

I like how you didn't miss a beat - "super, super, super, super, that's pretty super, um terrible" .... i do notice you usually have at least one pun in each video! Makes me chuckle 😂

Great to see the excluder work and push the bees onward and up. Honey , honey, honey

Hey Kamon! Who long does it take for a virgin queen to go on her mating flight after emerging? Thx

North middle TN here. I’ve waxed my frames, sprayed with sugar water and still can’t get them to draw out medium frames. They just want to back-fill my brood frames

How do you keep track of hives condition? queens? etc you have a lot of hives? Nothing is labeled?

LOL, Kamon you shut there website down.

Hi. I need a bunch of unassembled deeps. Do any recommendations on decent quality ones at a fair price? Thanks.

Why do you only run single deeps? I’m in Western Mass and to get through the winter I need two deeps, but it’s so much more work to check for swarm cells this time of year.

Hi Kamon. I was very surprised at how much the SHB like to hang out between the Reflectix and the top bars. Are you finding this?

Kamon….do you only harvest capped honey frames or do you ever harvest any uncapped? I always wait until fully capped but know others who don’t wait……or as long as moisture is 17%?

With your single brood mgmt, how many supers are you adding at a time? Looks like more than one? I’m up in Massachusetts. My single deep (new pkg) just got to 8-9 frames of bees this week and weather is turning good so I added an excluder and one med super with drawn foundation. Wondering I should have dropped on two. I do plan to go back this week. cheers!

How do you keep your bee growth contained to one deep?? Are you constantly making splits?

You forgot to put your liner back on the first hive buddy! 😂. Our flow just turned on yesterday with a good weather change. Russian and Autumn Olive now, locust and popular coming in a few days.

Hey Kamon, I see you run 9 frames in your supers. Can you tell me what you're using for spacers for that? Thanks.

Ok so what exactly is a laying worker bee? How does that happen?

Great video! Love watching! Quick question just curious what part of the state you’re in? I’m in southern middle TN and got my first bees this year and find your content very helpful!

I think they were superseding that queen.

Ha Kaman what is your main source for foundatiion and frames I enjoyed the video. Glad u are doing well with the flow the flow is not doing well here have a blessed day

Ok so the nectar shake. Do’s and donts Why and or why not. What the skinny? Thanks

What do u do if they keep laying honey in the deeps while the suppers r on?😢😢😢

That’s pretty super!!! 😂I laughed so hard!!!

I heard through the bee line that Bob Benny's bees only swarm with his permission.

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You could have a second queen?

Honey flow? 😮. We are still waiting for winter to end in northern Minnesota. 😭

Just a mixed of everything lol

Exciting times for sure! Kamon, do you under super?

Miss you videos.

Where to get the frames dont see them on mother lode web site

Great video 👍👍😁

What breed of honey bees do you like to keep?

in these Single Brood chamber colonies, how many frames (out of 10) are you getting that are brood, on average?

Hello Kamon. Thanks for the educational content. I enjoy watching and get many tips from your videos. I notice you place foil on most of your hives. How is the hive ventilated with a hat setup? Does it not cause an overheating situation during summer months?

The NCSU professor told me that he feels like the bees sometimes perceive a Queen problem when the queen is backfilling a brood comb as they emerge with eggs. So the pattern is irregular to them?

Mantap boskuu 👍👍👍

Can you do a video on how you manage cleaning of the hive boxes/frames? What's your process? Keeping propolis in check is tough!

Do you have any ragwort that looks like golden rod in your area. Along the road ditchs an fields . Im in Darlington S.C. and its every where

Kaymon, Do you recommend using a Queen excluder above the lower deep during the nectar flow? Thank you.

Thanks Kaymon, never get tired of your videos. Single brood box seems like a good idea. This year we accidentally did it. Could not get in field due wet conditions. Seemed to work well. We did not split hive at all. Just put queen under excluder with alot of pulled out, but empty frames. All 16 of 19 queens were still there. Marked yellow. The last queen you showed looked like it had a white mark.

Can I combine a weak hive with my strong one even if I already have a super on the strong one? The strong hive is only 1 deep then 1 super.

Kamon, I had a double deep hive that swarmed and I missed them. The new mated queen is back but the foragers have filled a bunch of the brood comb with nectar. Will they make room for her to start laying or do I need to swap some frames with empties?

Good morning Kamon!! Just a quick question, where do you get the insulated inner covers that you use? Have you found a pre-cut or do you just get rolls and cut it yourself? There are so many options regarding R values, thickness, etc. Thank you and have a great day !!

Hey I got a queen rearing question. If I grafted on a Wednesday in the late afternoon/ early evening, would I be good to wait until Saturday morning the next week to pull cells and make mating nucs or will I be too late?

Hey Kamon, thanks for sharing. I am also running single-deep configurations here is SE PA. My question is do you commonly see supercedure cells as well as swarm cells in the same deep?

Down in the south of France, we are at a time where we normally get our first flow, but we had four month of drought and barly enough nectar coming in. Now it is raining for most of the end of the flow. Feeding time till the big one in 5 weeks.

Hey Kamon what do you with frames that are full of bee bread? Can I just scrape it and rewax?

The queen cell was definitely a supersedure because of its location in the middle of the frame. A swarm cell would be at the bottom of the frame.

I dont use excluder but put a box of drawn and undrown foundation above bottom brood to let bees in box above bottom to hatch and backfield with honey since it already has honey and pollen in it. Sometimes to much pollen so makes it hard to exstract. But it gives bees space to exspand and make drawn foundation.

my bees would carry me off if I shook em like that. You have some VERY nice bees!

i love honey

Great info about building comb after the flow. Thanks!

How do you get them to move it up

I'm curious will the bees move nectar up into a super to make more room for the queen to lay if I was late getting the super on?

On your big honey producers do you ever give them an upper entrance?

Cali bees are the same. Try for carni but mix with the Italians also

Is hillco where u get the foundation as well thanks

Wow! Those bees are going great guns or is it full steam ahead 😉

Inspiring!! I just uploaded a RU-vid of my surprise at my package of 🐝 results. Hope I can give a few hundred hives within a 5-10 mile radius of Franch Venus a run also some day…,but my Venus Franch is going to hold that up for a while…sooo many projects

Such a cool video thank you so much!!

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We're having an issue with our more established hive's brood chambers being filled up with bee bread. I was trying to keep everyone in single brood boxes but I'm thinking I need to throw another brood box on them so the queen has somewhere to lay because I don't have any extra drawn comb. Also I wanna ask, how many colonies do you keep on your home property and what is the distance between the yards? I mentioned keeping a hundred colonies on our 23 acres to a friend and he said that's too many in one area.

I am getting alot of brone brood. Queen is in box and I also wondered if the worker maybe to far from brood. Mine was also in the top box of a 4 tall box

How do you prevent them from storing up honey in the brood box or honeybound?

Ive already pulled and put 10 cases pint jars and it was at 16% on refractometer but alot was last year honey. Nothing above 17and 1/2. .Harder to exstract because of pollen in honey frames im in Darlington S.C

Thanks !!