Thanks for the video on mite control. I lost 2 hives a few years ago out of ignorance but now that I’ve retired I’ve got a couple packages coming next week after watching your videos all winter
As a first time aspiring Beekeeper I am very grateful for the time you spent to create this video. Thank you very much, it was quite informative and I have been having a hard time finding my queen. Now I see the difference and I noticed she should be surrounded in a circle of workers pointed inwards toward her. Very useful information.
Very informative. Thank you. I just got my first hive last week and I'm getting ready to go and look at my frames for my first time after they have settled. Exciting times. Again, thank you.
Well thanks Tom, I love making videos. Sheri and I just finished writing a beekeeping book, so it took SO MUCH OF MY TIME!!!! But it will go out in July 2020, so now back to making more videos.
THANK YOU for making this video- EXCELLENT! Your teaching skills are wonderful. I am new to beekeeping and will definitely sign up for your online course. 👍👍👍
I installed my first NUC on Sunday. Happy mothers day to me! I was kinda rushed...but found my queen...identified pollen, brood & honey. I totally forgot about looking for larvae. My goal was mainly to get them in my hive! I will do better.
Loved the video, first year beekeeper in Kansas. Can you video the queen laying eggs, I have watched lots of videos on RU-vid, but have not seen one with a queen in the process of laying. Thanks for the information and enjoy your videos.
Great video Sir. I'm a novice yet. Please I want to know which of the bees make supercedure queen cells. And I've read that the bees in a queenless hive do produce their own queen. Please how's that possible.
First year keeping bees. Why are brood frames so dark? I haven't had to many problems with bee temperament but I prefer to go into hives in the evenings they seem very relaxed. I don't understand the 1:1 feeding phenomenon when it gets capped in a super. Also building a horizontal hive and wondering about the best entrance to promote proper feeding sequence in winter. I'm thinking front corner barn door. Might be irrelevant but I have added a second entrance reducer in opposite corner with a 1" gap in between and covered it with a 1 x 4 after witnessing the trouble hive beetles have without a "landing" pad
Up just north of you near Kankakee dealing with the same crummy weather. I installed a package last week and looking to check my queen. Is it safe to do so right now?
I always enjoy your videos. I definitely need to take your course to get a better sense of the hives my grandfather started and my father is tending to currently. I'd be curious to hear your take on these killer Asian hornets. My initial thought would be whether or not we could start a hive of Asian bees here in the midwest, but I'm not sure how well they'd play with our European bees.
Fingers crossed they will not get carried everywhere by migratory beekeeping practices because they probably cannot cross dry, western mountain range. But then it is 2020!!!
You mentioned it was about 60 degrees. I have heard that anything under 70 degrees could kill the larva if the frame is exposed to the cold air for a lengthy time. Is that true?
Crazy that you said it’s cold and the bees weren’t flying but at 4:58 a bee has pollen on her legs. I wonder if she’s flying in the cold or forgot to deposit her loot.
I teach in my online courses when and how to work bees and so choosing the right time and such helps a ton, but I still get strung. I just put those scenes in the blooper file.
First test. If numbers are low, then I use green drone comb, powdered sugar dustings, screen bottom boards and I break the queen's brood cycle 3 months out of the year going into winter.
Hi David! Thank you for your videos and I'm enjoying your channel very much. I'm a disabled veteran and thinking of starting beekeeping when I buy my property, and am learning as much as I can. Newbie question-why are some of the frames of comb dark, almost black? From use/age? Thank you and I look forward to signing up for your courses soon.
