All About Drones by Kim Flottum 

You are a great teacher and will be missed. RIP.

I’ve used an adapted version of your drone harvesting for the last few years and haven’t treated my bees with chemicals. They are surviving 👍 If I get signs of deformed wings etc then I shook swarm colonies in spring, then continue drone harvesting - but I make sure the colonies still have a good supply of drones. Thank you for giving me the information and confidence to try this chemical free way of keeping bees.

That was an amazing topic,,,there are a lot of beehavers in our country destroying the broad chambers of the drones as it is unnecessary for the colony,,thank very much for the info.

I got to try the drone walking. Fridge, string. Thank you. Have you noticed how drones are always toward outside of the hive? They are sacrificial indeed. And tasty. We should eat them during nectar flow, with their varoa mites and all, to simulate the predators. I bet very few people ate more drones then I have. I love them.

I loved all the beekeeper jokes. 👍

Great vidio! Thanks.

This is my first spring and I was surprised when I found a bunch of drones running around. There's a brood explosion coming because there are several frames full of capped brood; really looking forward to it. One thing, I've yet to find a mite. I have a scanning app (requires) a full frame of bees to be reliable and it keeps indicating 0%. I used a sugar roll and verified, 0 mites. The beek I got the nuc from said they were resistant and a cross between Italian and Russian. They're very hygienic also, I see them washboarding every morning and see them flying off with the deceased. I'm very fortunate with this batch. I'm learning a lot. For instance, I can do an inspection with a veil only, but not when the robbers are out. I've learned that, if I'm going to do something I know is going to make them mad, suit up. For instance, if I'm harvesting sentries for BVT, the hive will get agitated from their alarm and the others will happily remind me that I should have covered up my legs and my arms. All in all, a hive that is chill (for the most part) and appears to be thriving despite my being an ignorant noob. Really enjoyed this presentation; I learned a lot.

6:28 Awwwww!! 😊🐝

They play a roll for sure > JUST KEEP THERE NUMBERS DOWN> I found that if you got a drone hive, the rest of your hives want make drones, or just a few! So yes i have 1 drone hive THATS ALL YOU NEED believe it or not it makes it every yrs fall workers kills them off and spring there back AND IT STILL PRODUCES HONEY AND NEW WORKERS 1 all you need

Great video very humorous :)

You can buy full depth plastic drone foundation in New Zealand for queen rearing they also work great for varroa control.

I have drones in one of my hives. Thanks

I suspect queen rearing is not popular in england because the weather seldom permits for long mating seasons.

Eggs layer per day - don’t any of the capped brood that you counted on day one hatch out in the 12 days? I don’t understand your math. Seems like on day 12 you would only want to count the newly capped brood.

Kim sounds like what Winnie the Poo would sound like if he was an adult.

i seen drones size of horse flies, that breed my queens Can see them and hear them, cause there so hug 25 foot away They hung around the hives for about 2 weeks and then GONE WHY KIND OF DRONES THEY ARE ? MY GUESS IS AHB DRONES THEY WAS VERY HYPER! never seen them again> ALL STRAINS WILL BECOME HYBRIDS no one has done this! The bees done it to them selfs > threw drones

If you’re culling your drones for varroa control, how are you simultaneously generating drones for genetic diversity?

At around 26 mins you talk about putting an empty frame at position 2 middle box, week later position 6 middle box, and a week later position 6 middle box to massively reduce varroa in your hives. So you don't place a sacrificial frame in the bottom box?

Treatment free

Hello kim i was wounding if you have a drone laying queen are them drones Sterile or fertile

Ok

Those slides tho

on Kim talk on replacing drone frames to reduce mites 26:30 im not following what he does exactly?