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Talking to your self is the sign of a highly intelligent deep thinker.😊

“I guess I just didn’t want to get too much involved today…” story of my life haha. Looks like you are having a good year this year Mike. We finished the rest of our honey this weekend. Record harvest. Now to keep them alive the rest of the year and get ready for 2025. And figure out how to sell all this honey!

Well, I talk to myself also. When someone overhears me and says “ hey your talking to yourself “ . I tell them might sound like but in all actuality I was having a staff meeting!

Thanks Mike, another great video as always I appreciate it!

That was indeed a Vevor box. I got some too, I had to put a sheet of plastic in the window so I could use it to view the bees. The boxes are junk, aren't square, aren't cut straight and don't go together right! I had to trim all the ears on one of the boxes just to get it together! Just ask Mr Ed how building that box went, or better yet just watch the video he made a year ago when he made it.

Great video, world famus mike Berry. I subscribed to ur chanel.

U are doing pretty good this year!!! I can't wait til I'm to that point, I've just been building up colonies all season, I'll get a Lil honey tho.

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Is it a bad thing to talk to yourself? Boy I hope not. Lol. Great video Mike, God Bless!!

You have a lot of work ahead of you Mike.I dont see how you manage and still work.Ive 20 hives and work a swing shift and am struggling a bit to keep up . I guess the honey harvest makes the all the work worth it.I enjoy my bees!Thanks for posting and look forward for you next one.

Don’t mind you talking to yourself 😂we get to hear some of those hidden thoughts lol

Had several queens that failed this year. Bees were really looking good and for some reason the queens just stopped laying. Usually get good queens from swarms but they weren't that great this year. Last year was a big swarm year and Bees still produced great. This year looking like they going to take a break and not do anything. Hopefully you will get a great harvest.

Enjoyed the video Mike!! I can relate to your thoughts on the remote mic. Mine works great......but between breathing, grunting and the occasional low level "colorful metaphor", I tend to not use it. 😆 I need to go through all my hives.....but they can wait a few days till this high heat/humidity goes down a bit!!!! Take care and try to stay cool!!!!

I lost a queen in the same way. I was trying to mark her and she flew. She got mixed in with the other bees flying and I lost her. We pulled this weekend and got between 400 and 500 lbs off of 7 hives. All new foundation. Ill have drawn comb for next year.

i got another 16 boxes to spin out, and probably another 6 that need to be filled more and capped. so all in all been a banner year, 800 lbs in so far, probably another 500 waiting to spin. leaving some supers on thru the summer so we can catch the steady clover for the next month or so.

I like that you talk to yourself as you go, it tells me we have similar thought patterns and helps me understand better. I don't think I could properly understand that many hives and control them correctly though, not at my age anyway. Wish I would have gotten into it in the mid to late 90's like I had planned to, other things in life raising a family just got in the way. Maybe it was all for the best, the Lord knows what direction we should take and guides us. Thanks for the great video like always!

Hello Mr. Mike I like your Nuc super adaptable setup. I did one kind of like that this season. I have two ten frame box setups an I ran out of supers so I took a sheet of plywood and cut it to fit the ten frame an then cut a hole in side to fit a eight frame super so I started from there on up with eight frames. Have not looked but I would guess they already make a adapter to do that with but it got me out of a bind . Stay cool in this weather it can sneak up on us fast . Ya I think you have got quite a bit more to harvest . If it was not over twelve hours away we might come an help with your last pull but you would probably have it finished before we could get to SC or Ga . Lol Thanks

That last one with the brood pattern... i bet she's laying everything but the bees pull some out and she comes back and lays the empty cells again. It sounded like it when you said you see nice looking white larva. At this point l hope its varroa or some easy open brood disease. Much better than a capped brood one. You still didn't pass me on the strange honey supers scale. I never throw away older overused Jester nucks.. they have to break apart. I glue two together, open two 3 inch holes in the bottoms and put them for a top super and cover them with an old stove or washing machine cover. Something from the 70s -80s when the enamel metal was thick. Ofcourse it's rare that I use that. But between traveling for a box and taking that.. hidden in the bushes right there... Those old metal covers can last forever. And all l had to do was go to the metal recycling station with two 6 packs and they filled my van with every white one they could find. It's good for under the hives and for a white cover protection from the sun. I always pick them if I can. The new metal is rubbish.. thin and rusty. Always with this long comments. Too much free time. I'm about to go to Italy to help cage 2000 queens for brood break with some friends over there. Those fat ass Ligusticas are easy to see but it's still a big job in this heat. It's an early morning and late afternoon work. And easy moving.. we're not young beeks anymore. Nice harvest for that number of hives. I like that contraption. It's a back savior

Hey Mike - enjoyed the run down of what’s going on!

Still have work to do!!!! Thanks Mike!

Great job buddy. Looks like you are having a good honey crop this year.

Yo Mike! Looking good, buddy! Is it easy to see thru that Hillco veil?

I would certainly help you pull honey if I lived closer than South Carolina, just for the experience and knowledge you share.

If you talk to yourself there is something wrong, but if you are just thinking out loud it’s okay!😅

Hey Mike Do you blow your bees down into the lower boxes? I feel certain I talk to you several times at the bee meeting over a year ago when I used to go all the time. Good video man I like to learn more about bees. Thanks and keep it up

What are you using to blow out your boxes? Looks like a hand-held leaf blower.

Hey Mike, do you have any cotton farms near your hives? I have been adding supers for cotton in N.C.

I'm not that brave yet

I've found Bees have been doing well for 30 million years, can't read or watch UTube. Soo... Looking forward to seeing you in January.