JP I've been watching your videos for a while now, but just wanna say thanks for helping to educate me on bees and beekeeping! I've had a phobia of bees & wasps ever since I saw that terrible Lifetime movie about killer bees taking over a family's house when I was little. Now I know better. You're so courageous!
You are so bold!!! You are Absolutely, Positively, Amazing, Fantastic Super, Excellent, & the MAN THAT SHOULD BE CALLED 4 THE JOB!!!....Absolutely love to see u working it🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Amazing-amazing-amazing! Just love watching your videos. Because of what you do and teach, I was able to save a bee today. Just one, but I hope to start a hive this year and enjoy them for many years. Thank you!!
Thanks JP loved it like always. Longer videos just means I get a little more of my JP fix. You are one of my favorite shows to watch. How about a follow up sometime showing the colony and if they produced any honey the following year or how they're getting along for their new keepers and that sort of thing?
Hey JP, I used to be afraid of any bee that came near me. Even bumble bees. But watching your vids have me realise how cool they really are. Thanks for the bid, Cb
"Hat tip" to you JP from the Fl. West Coast. I'm a Newbie here & I'm just getting started with Bee Keeping. Really enjoying the videos you've shared & you're calm approach
Charles Rockwell thank you for that Charles. I have good friends in difference parts of Florida, from Pensacola all the way to Boca Raton. You're in a great beekeeping state my friend. Best of luck to you! 👍🐝👍
I really enjoy your videos. It's pretty clear that you love this job and those beautiful creatures. Please keep up the magnificent job and keep posting videos of your newest catches! Bravo from Italy!!!
Jp i thank you been watching for a few months i was telling my sun that i would like to have bees at our new 2.5 acres in the woods of central florida we have been clearing well long story short went out today to do some digging with a backhoe and have a friend 3 lots away i have had an old pull behind camper well the last big storm tore. A piece of siding off and low and behold i walked to look at damage and hunny bees have moved in thank you lord building boxes soon .
I am really enjoying your videos. I did humane pest control and removed many hives years ago but never got into beekeeping. I decided to get back into it and do free hive removals this year, I contacted you about the first queenless hive I ended up with with asking for advice and while I didn't get much I was happy to have you respond. My first hive made a new queen after giving then some brood and I'm now up to 3 hives, I have given away more hives to other beekeepers than what I have kept doing free bee removals. While I call them "free" bee removals I've actually been making good money when people feel like they have to give me something but I only ever ask that they help pay for gas if they really want to give me something. I am happy to be saving bees from being killed by tempo dust, saving homeowners money and helping beekeepers.
Could you possibly show how the house was repaired after the removal! When I see the siding lying about, I get the jitters! I can't help thinking that's going to cost a fortune!!!🤣🤣🤣🐝🐝🐝
Hi JP, Keith from AZ. Love your videos, and the music too. More Iron Maiden! On my 2 acres we just had a swarm of Africanized Honey Bees stay in one of my mesquite trees. Luckily they left in one day. I posted a video of it if you have time to check it out. "Killer Bees Invade Arizona". I have watched every one of your videos, and think you are a great guy with a cool job. Have a good one bud.....K
Wow that's a lot of bees! I've only recently started getting interested in bees, could someone please tell me why these bees haven't swarmed yet? Is it because there was plenty of room for the colony to continue growing?
Question: at 9:44 in the video, you showed how you put the queen in the cage then put the cage in the frame with the comb, how long do you keep her in there, and why do you cage her to begin with. Love the videos by the way, learning A LOT! Thanks for the great info!!!
Stephen Woodin usually keep her caged 3-4 days. Cage her in case the colony decides to abandon their new set up. If so they must come back as she's important to their survival.
Don’t understand why you left the first big colony so close to the second small colony or did not wait to be able to take away the first big colony further away before attempting to do the second smaller colony???
It is obvious how deeply you respect and care for your bees- which is lovely to see, but I’m worried about you! That is why I asked about smoking the hell out of them. Wouldn’t that make it safer for you? Would it hurt the bees?
+LongBinh70 You know, that's one heck of a question & I have no answer for you. Really never paid attention to the white patch until you pointed it out. The people who hired me I can assure you did not try spraying them as they were a group of Tulane University professors who had me remove the colony & move it to one of their backyards so that person could manage the hive. Perhaps the person who owned the building I removed the colony from did something in the past. Believe it or not many building owners try spraying an over the counter product on a colony which practically amounts to doing hardly anything to the colony. Most products have a very short residual life. Most all liquid products breakdown within 48 hours or even less than that, The sun is the main culprit in that respect.
JP, is is possible to reduce the Africanized bee problem in Arizona by buying bees and queens from other states that don't have that problem, and then replacing the queen every year with a new one from another state? I'm new to this, and I really want to start a hive, but I don't want the aggression problem.
Cactus Makeshop Unfortunately "You" are the best defense against controlling what's going on in your apiary. If I were you, I would mark my queens & likely use a queen excluder albeit they're not natural but will keep her inside the hive. You will still likely need to do splits in spring to control the reproductive urge of your colony & will have to requeen periodically with gentle stock. Infiltrating the area with drones of gentle stock may or may not help but its an idea that could have merit. Talk with other beekeepers in your area & join a bee club or two to get the low down on how they do things in your area. Believe it or not there are thousands & thousands of beekeepers worldwide who keep Africanized bees & have found a way to make it all work for them, albeit they are very likely suiting up to the hilt. Best of luck to you my friend.
I love your video's, I'm new to beekeeping, caught my first swarm this year and have learned a lot from your instructional video's. What kind of camera do you use?
+cityhawk80 great question! Ive removed a few colonies that I believe had darn near or even slightly more than 100,000 bees. One was in a town called Kenilworth, Louisiana in an old building that was being torn down. The building had 10' ceilings & 3 bee colonies. The big one was contained in 3 wall sections.
+Elaine Hislop my main bee yard is in the town of Nine Mile Point. The last few seasons I have been donating many of the colonies I remove to my good buddy Schawee who keeps them in the town of Gonzales, Louisiana. I have been keeping between 50-60 colonies myself & also sell Nucs as well.
Blondie Smith Mann Lake does free shipping on orders of $100.00 or more. You will need more than one box to start with. After they draw out 7-8 frames you will need to add another box. By summer's end you could wind up with a colony that has grown into 4-5 boxes if its a good year.
TEKaTEK Twitch when I saw the 35 minute mark, I was like, okay, let's see how this goes! I know 35 minutes is a pretty long time in youtube land but I tried my best to keep things moving along. Lots going on in this video, covered over 5 days worth of visits because of everything involved, including a few days of heavy rain. this video was like doing 2-3 in one. if y'all don't mind the extra length I can definitely try to offer longer videos. Thanks again for the feedback!
@@JPthebeeman One of your many skills is your patience. You carefully read every situation, and you plan your approach very carefully. I am trying to learn from those moments when you back away, or take more time, or slow down, etc. The only way to really convey this is through these longer videos. Great stuff!
I'm a rail fanner,no more trains where I live so I watch them on youtube,some of them are 4 hours long,heck 35 minutes!? but then it is your dime and your time. I knew a beekeeper who died 30 years ago at age 96,he worked with his bees just like you no protection ,hardcore all the way,he had skin like iron,but he was gentle as a lamb,I love your channel,it brings back memories of my dear departed friend,God Bless you.
I can't get over how you don't get stung, although it sounds like you do. We all ways gear up for doing cut outs, in fact we always gear up full stop. it looks so uncool when you get stung infront of a customer while just looking at their colony, even worse when they get stung because they think its safe not to wear protection because we aren't wearing any. we even wear protection for swarms as you never know how long they have been swarming from. You ought to look up Kounis syndrome - its interesting. Also - have had bee keeping friends that carry out pest control, that have had to give up beekeeping because of one too many stings. Just is not worth it for the sake of some simple protection. One friend just got down the ladder before collapsing on the bonnet of a car, was rushed to hospital having had an anaphylactic shock, now carries an epi pen.,
Okay, three and a half years old video, but I am just getting to it. I see your problem in finding the queen. You do not have Yappy or Schawee finding it for you! :-D
Always love your videos JP... How cool are these home-owners for wanting to take up beekeeping from this project. You'd be the perfect mentor too. LOL. Thanks again for sharing this video. Hope you have a fantastic day
That was a complicated catch brother...at least to me. Trying to figure out the queen situation takes a real pro. We're not worthy! We're not worthy! Cheers! Chris.
I thank JP for explaining probably why that queen from the second colony got killed. She landed too close t the first colony which killed her. Too bad. This was a very interesting clip.
Wow this video was pretty wild , however also sad how nature works sometimes with the queen from the swarm being killed by the other colony. It is good to hear though this bee catching story has a happy ending .
So the whole time you are gathering up the two colonies of bees are you not getting stung or anything like that? Or are you just use to getting stung if there were ever such a thing ? Appreciate your videos sir. And would you think that a person that is diabetic could do that on the side? Thanks again for sharing your knowledge
Just seen you wear the same earpiece. Don't you find bees and wasps are attracted to it. Whenever I'm around bees or wasps without protection they go for the ear within no time at all - doesn't seem to happen when I'm not ewaring the earpiece - maybe we just around nastier bees than you guys - thou i thought you had the africanised bees over there.
+Buzzat Swarmcatcher those bees that decide to show their displeasure often do go right for the earpiece. They obviously are drawn to electromagnetic impulses & electric currents, have seen this too many times to deny it!
