Long Langstroth Hive Update Inspection Saskatraz Honey Bees Horizontal Hive with Better Comb 

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I really enjoy the close up views of the bees in their home doing their thing. I also get a lot out of your narration of what's going on as I watch. Thank's again

I noticed that in the natural bee-created hexagonal cell comb structure, the hexagon cells on the back side are offset exactly half a cell diameter in both directions so that a corner of it is exactly in the center of the near-side cell bottom, fully reinforcing the entire back-to-back hexagon comb thickness. Bees are good engineers!

I am getting my first hive in 2 days. I'm trying to learn all about the hive and what to look for and Everything! I have a horizontal bee box like yours and I'm so excited to get my bees! Thank you for the excellent video. I'm only half way through the video but wanted to say thank you! I'm wanting to learn how to tell the difference between the larvae of worker bees verses drones, verse queen cells and what is honey and what is just wax and just everything in the hive that these tiny artists have made.

Your videos are so completely fascinating and your voice is that very therapeutic I love watching these B videos because it’s truly fascinating in a work of art and it’s wondrous to behold but then I constantly think about how dangerous bee stings are for those people who have allergies with them and it’s kind of crazy psychotic how interesting intricate nature is

I am not a bee keeper but I love insects since I am a little child studied them and paint a few I really enjoy your divers documentaries I learn a lot with awe and joy thank you

"Put a cork in it." 🤣

We are hoping to get bees this year and found this video so helpful thank you 🙏

Bro. I must say, I've never been very fond of bees/wasps/hornets just due to bad experiences as a child. I started my RU-vid algorithm journey more or less watching wasp nest removals and by chance found my way onto one of your videos(one of you assisting another couple with a hot hive) and bro you are just really amazing at what you do. I can tell that you are actually fully immersed in not just the lifestyle but also extremely well read and an amazing narrator for bees! Really has made me find a lot more of a soft spot for those honeybees 🤣 Keep doing what you do! The world definitely needs more humans like you.

Great Videos Fred so relaxing watching these bee videos 🐝 i'll tell the people who own hives i see in oz 🦘 about your videos so much involved to learn in your videos theres a family along a river who gave me a jar from there aussie flow free hive 2017 i didnt start watching youtube until july 2018 had the nbn turn on . now im like 24/7 youtube

Tremble dance, I always learn something new. Thanks Fred!

This was amazing. Fred. Thank you for sharing.

Fantastic commentary,great update on the hive ,loved the close-up watching the🐝's do what they do👍

Thanks Fred, well worth the wait! They look great.

Another great video, thanks.

Thank you for this video . I am about to embark on my long langstroth and gained useful information .

Very enjoyable video Fred. thank you for sharing. Blessings.

Thank You Fred. Again I learned something as always. Be safe

Very Cool Fred! Love seeing the progress of that hive. Thank you for sharing Sir!!!

One of my favorite boxes on the web right now. Thanks for sharing.

Another wonderful video Fred. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome, thank you! Really enjoy and always learn something new 😁

Very nice fred looks good best wishes to you and yours😉 Staten Island NYC

Looks like the long Langstroth is working out really well. Plus it's extremely convenient. "Put a cork in it". Lol!😂🤣

Loved this video so much. The slow mode photography really gave me time to watch and learn. Please do more. Your bees have well thought out hive box... thanks so much, Fred!!

Loved it! Just purchased my wood to start the build this fall! Very excited how this works! Thank you for the update! God Bless

Remarkably clean such an excellent presentation Mr. Dunn enjoyed every minute and hope you remain healthy along with your bees!

So helpful and informative! Thank you.

You do the best videos. Thanks!

Very nice job Mr. Dunn That’s a beautiful home of bees and a beautiful job at the end with the fresh comb slow Mo beautiful beaches

I didn't realize the video was 30 minutes till I finished it, love your videos, keep it up!

Very good video Fred. Please, do show more videos like this. Thank you.

I like this lesson- you help me develop my doctrine of bee husbandry are Shashkatraz naturally cooperative

Awesome presentation!

throw some happy little mistakes in there and you've got the bob ross of beekeeping.

This is wonderful!

Hello Fred! Great video as always. As a new bee keeper I have learned so much from your content. I looked for the link that you have spoke about on your web page to be able to join in chat. I have four colony's this year, two overwintered, one split(my first attempt) and one new nuc. If your queen is marked with white she might be center frame at 10:07 Please keep up the great work. Hopefully I can find that link and send you some pictures of my long hives. Have a bee fantastic day!

Wow that makes me want to start building my long hive to match that new long hive shirt .! That way my wife will know wick hive I going to inspect that particular day.👍😉 Really nice PHOTOGRAPHY Mr. DUNN

Triune Gods creation never ceases to amaze me! Thank you for the wonderful educational video. Blessings to you........

nice video! thanks! I'm a newbie and have a horizontal langstroth I built.

Thanks for the video Mr Dunn 🇱🇨👊🏿👍🏿🖤

Great video thank you Fred

Very happy little bees. I like the style of this long hive, it looks easier to view than the top stacking ones, not that I know anything about beekeeping, only going by observation. Thank you for these informative videos, think your calm manner rubs off on your bees

I just finished building my first long Lang. Can't wait to put it to use! Love your videos!!

I had not known how to replace/space a frame by wonky brood comb. Watched with interest your placement: snug but not squishy. Betsy

Fred, that’s one nice hive

Hello from To Melistino Greek beekeeping. Keep up the good job!

Put a cork inside of it ... I didn’t know you had a mischievous side. LOL. I loved your video and it was worth the wait. The last frame that the bees had drawn crooked was followed by a strait frame of BetterCome. That’s a great solution, but because how the frame is drawn against the BetterCome, it then becomes like a puzzle piece where they would always have to be next to each other. A very simple solution, and I’m just trying to understand if that’s the solution that you desired ... don’t overcomplicate things, is what can deduce. Next to the new swarm video, this is my second favorite!

Simply the best beekeeping RU-vid channel ...the quality is amazing. Thank you so much Fred for this good job. Impatient for the next hive inspection (Flow hive 2 ) ?

Thank you for an educational video. My sister keeps bees. I am leaning towards keeping them, but live in a city/area where people poison the "weeds" and might not be a good place for bees. I have had some bees visit my back yard's "flower weeds" that I let grow just for the bees. The horizontal method looks more natural with less disturbing of the order the bees put brood and honey in. Very nice videography, the macro shots are over the top. I'm just a city fella'. thanks again.

Was eager to see how this turned out. Looks good.

Nice video Fred ! I've had a long lang for awhile now and have found that when you expand with new frames you do have options. Frames added close to the entrance will more than not be brood frames. Frames added to the end will more than likely be honey. I just split mine into two nucs and still have 20 frames in long lang. I think I learned this from a Phil Chandler video. Have a great weekend !!!

Possible queen upper right edge 16:07-16:09. Different shaped slightly larger Abdomen. 3-4 workers loosely following. Abdomen size varies with laying rate but I'm not a mellifera expert. Compliments for exploring foundationless!

Worker bees @ working ! 😂 Lol

Used the varroa app. My eyes saw none, but I expected some. The app found 2 and that made 1.5%. That’s ok but will treat this week as we are approaching peak season for varroa growth. I am not taking honey. But have mixed brood, a little bit of drone cell.

Thanks

Hi Frederick, just now found your channel. I like the way you present your bees, very calm and collected. I mean, the bees still keep on working, though they are outside the hive in the sunlight. The question I have is that I noticed some of the bee's wings seems shorter, more of the abdomen shows from under the wings. What am I looking at?

Very nice hive you made did you do a video of making it

Hay Fred if you take a small peace of bur comb and put it on top of the botembar they will connect it. it works for me.

What type of honey bees are they? What type would you suggest for Western Kentucky area new bee keepers? Great video as always. Lots of wonderful information. I love how detailed you are.

Great to meet you today.

Fantastic, Fred... kinda looking forward to their brood movement. I hope they are able to move laterally in winter to get honey reserves. Will you head sensor camera follow their movement?

Great project and progress Fred. So when is the bee conveyor to move the field bees or workers bees from the entrance to the extremity of the hive? 🤣🤣🤣.

I purchased saskatraz in the spring, boy are they more aggressive than Italians. I wasn't even going into the hive and they came after me....lol

Hi. I am from Latvia and in our contry we have winter Up to -14 celsius. How Cold Gets in your aria. Thanks!

Very nice. Actually got my hands on a layens hive and swarm trap earlier this season. Havent had a chance to put em to use yet though. Ever had an experience with slovenian az hives? Id love your opinion on them if you have

Hi Fred, do you give feedback to the guy you got your bees from? Maybe tell him the queen is a great layer and that the bees are good natured? It seems like your other bees are pretty calm also. Great report.

Loved the video, still not sold on the hive but a much better option for an aging beekeeper. How could you guarantee that you have a frame of honey filled comb that has never been laid up with eggs?

How, and when, will you remove that double comb where you think the queen is now? How will it fit between the bars/frames without getting squashed? Won’t it result in cross combing? Have a lot of trouble with that in my top bar hive. Looking to make the next one a long langstroth.

Hi Fred, I reaaly love the design of your hive. I am wondering if you have the plans for how you built it? Thanks

Fabulous video Mr Dunn. Thank you for talking the time. A quick question. I bought 10 of the better combs last winter just to try them out. I have them in several different hives . Although the bees readily store honey in them I can't get the queens to lay in them.. Ill checkerboard them into the brood nest and come back a week later to find them full off nectar. They all have honey supers and have plenty of room to store nectar. Anyways I'm wondering if any one else has seen this or if I'm doing something wrong. Thanks in advance

Does the divider board go all the way to the floor? How deep did you route out the frame rabbit cuts and the cover board cuts? Thanks! Really like your demeanor while working the bees.

Hi Fred. Love your videos. I have learned a lot from your videos and a new BEEK. What feeder you suggest I use that will fit under my FH 2 7 frame roof without modifications?

Thanks for the video. I'm in Michigan and built a few of these myself with 2x12s. Would you recommend putting any extra insulation in for the winter? I was considering sandwiching the frames between inch and a half foam insulation covered with foil tape, and insulating above the upper boards as well. Any thoughts? Best.

Ha this was great thanks I was able to get into 7 yesterday my self, have 2 not so good queens are not doing great, so thinking combining them with a better colony I have a question about the better comb do u have to rotate/get rid of it as well as the regular comb after so many years. the bee weaver breed just want to swarm all the time no matter what I do all the other breeds are just as content I sent 2 email to the bee weaver family asking them to tell me what there management is on this breed I am just wasting my money to buy these queens if they just swarm all the time, I get no bees no honey I have nothing to show for it. . they have not responded yet. even the swarm, swarmed I split the swarm into 4 very small nucs each with 2 cells 2 frames of bees each I do not use queen excluders they had 3 deeps a med the flow is on but is over this month here they should not be swarming none of my other breeds are doing this. I know u don't try to stop them and your swarmed to but here I live in a city I don't like to lose my bees they really have no place to go either any ideas. One more question what did u find out on the deformed wing dease Thanks again for the great video how u have a wonderful day

Most excellent. Question: For the hobbies, would it even be necessary to “clean up” that end frame, ie…cut off and secure to a new frame or any other thing one might do for it?? I would think that if it stayed there in the brood chamber it could stay like it is. What negative issues would it cause? Thanks.

Hey Fred, Love your videos and Q&A 10 year veteran Beekeeper here in SW PA - Question for ya... We recently moved to new area with acres of Autumn Olive. Do you have any experience with it, or know anything about it? As a Honey Crop? Thanks a million - Doug

i have a feeling that smoking and shaking the bees are what makes them upset enough to sting or swarm? i noticed when " robbing honey " from wild bees that if i didnt smoke them and just moved slowly i didnt get stung a lot,,, how is that swarm doing? are they ferral or some of your bees? great video thank you for sharing

Hi Fred, Love your videos. Could you please tell me the name of the those latches you have to close the top cover. @4:07 and where did you get them from. Thank you!

When you put in the extra frames did you, or should you, have kept the extra space that was there from the follower board being too far away originally? It looked like you made the new frames sit right up next to the burr comb with all the brood and that would negate the bee space that they created, would it not? I hope the question is understandable. It all sounded good in my head!

Hi Frederick, just rewatching this and I'm curious if you considered doing a "shook swarm" to rstart you new dr leo long hive t rather than wait for a swarm catch? It would seem to me the advantage is you get your preferred b-weaver bees and queen in the box, and the old brood comb could go to a colony in need. Just curious if you considered this ......

I saw some miss shaped honeycomb what did the bees do about

Maybe you could boar out part of the separation board and put a piece of wood in that'd match the spacing of the frames along same area as the spacers in the frames? That might make it easier to space in the future? Just a thought. This looks like a really nice colony Fred. Keep up the good work!

Hi mr Fred Thank you so much for this great video as usual... That package looks great ..I installed mine of saskatraz at the same time and it's already looking very good .. I recently just added a 2nd deep .. I wanted to ask you when will be a good time to stop feeding sugar syrup and how would we know about having a good nectar flow ? Thanks again Mohamed Saleh NYC

I was expecting you to cut off and reframe that large piece of burr comb to take care of the spacing issues. After seeing that burr comb built, I am thinking that the follower board should have a couple of spacers that matches standard frames to maintain bee space at the end and avoid future burr comb.

Vents in the cover board help , I find heat rises along with humidity and putting 3 screened vents there let it escape and then out the gable vents? Cross ventilation is needed where we live at 100F at least 60 days sometimes 90 days. We love our LL and double deeps. Far easier to use. Is synthetic comb safe? With bee escapes you don't have to stand around and wait for the bees to all get out.

Will you do a video about removing old comb

thank you so much for all your videos!! they have helped me so much! My bees have drawn out 6 out of 8 frames and have started building on the 7th frame within the past day. My beekeeping book says to add more room once they only have 2 frames left to build, is that true? should I add more room now or wait a little longer? Also I've seen a lot of people like to use a queen excluder and keep the brood in one box to keep inspections a little shorter and the hive more manageable, do you recommend that?

Frederick, could you share information on your latches? I need to find a couple of those, or something like them, for my Layens Hive. Thanks! John

A week straight of rain coming here in Germany. Back down in the high 40s and 50s for temperatures. I am jealous mr. Fred. Out of curiosity, why not slice the extra comb off and rubberband it to a new frame? Is it because you mentioned the queen might be on it?

Hey Fred, I’m on my first season as a keeper and am having a bought of chalk brood. I don’t have any drawn comb to replace the affected frames of brood, I have added more ventilation in my long-lang but it still seems to be an issue after a couple of weeks. Any recommendations on what else I can try?

Have you considered looking into fungi to help with the dwv? Lookup BeeMushroomed feeder and Paul Stamets

Mr Dunn, I have been following you and appreciate your videos and expertise. I have a question for you about BetterBee Comb. I am using it. I have a hard time getting the queens to lay eggs in it. The workers pack it with nectar, bee bread, pollen and honey. I am using the deep frames. Can you have mixed frames in the hive or must it be 100% BetterBee. They do repair it. Anchor it. But not using it for brood. I bought it to help some hives that swarmed out and I didn’t have drawn out comb to help them. I thought this was the perfect answer. I got surprised. I have the comb pointing upward. Thanks for your help. Mike Seiler

Hey Fred, question for you why don’t you cut off the extra comb and rubber band the comb into a new frame? Is the wax too soft to move? Or You just let em do what they want?

hi fred this is mike from kent ohio can you do a video of how you winter youre bees? this is my first year of haveing bees

Is it true that generally the egg on the first day it is laid it stands straight up in the cell and second day a little bent over and third day a larvie??

Fred, I've only used the bee scanning app once, but I did get a false positive off of a reddish-brown tailed worker. Can't seem to find a way to pass that back to the developers though.

I think you could incorporate the flowhive frames in a longhive and cut a door like the vertical flowhive has to work the frames for harvesting honey. ????

Hey group, I’m in Dallas with 3 hives. I put better comb in each hive and all three queens avoid it. Workers won’t store nectar or pollen in the cells either. Anyone else seen similar results? Frames have been in for 6 weeks. Each hive has 3 bc frames.

I caught my 4th swarm this year, transfered it next day mid morning into its new home (48" long hive). Next morning many bees were attached to the outside like they're gonna swarm and sure enough by the next day, all gone😢. What happened? Always worked fine before. What did I do wrong?