Randy Oliver on Spring Management 

Randy Oliver is the GOAT! Whenever I hear someone wants to get into keeping bees I say learn the basics then read and watch everything Randy has out there. Thank you very much for sharing this video. I continually pick up on things every time he presents. Great questions at the end as well! Wish you all in Alaska a great season!!

Amazing presentation. Randy Oliver should write a book. Thanks for the upload.

Great video. It is awesome to see beekeepers from different areas within North America reaching out and seeking knowledge from somebody who has spent most of his lifetime working with these fascinating insects, keeping a commercial honeybee operation, studing their biology along with the inner workings of a hive, and applying and sharing his findings in this area of beekeeping for resistance stock. So much to learn and apply to all of our own apiaries and environment. Thanks Anchorage Backyard Beekeeping and Randy Oliver and Golden West Bees of Northern California. Thanks 🐝

Awesome. I'm so jealous. My walkaways made new queens and cast small swarms.

Excellent information! Thankyou for all you do Randy

Love the presentation! Randy is a wonderful source of knowledge with research and documentation to back it up. Thanks from eastern Canada.

Well its absolutely true the longer and more you know about bees the more unanswered questions you have about them . In sask we dont pull nucs to slow swarming as much as we use brood manipulation in order to keep the queen in laying space . Our season is short and we need huge hives for our massive honey flows in early July .

A very clean interview and you definitely brush up on his material as your summary questions are on point. Well done! Thank you for the content.

This was really great. Randy did a wonderful job. I live in virginia. our flow has started, I am trying to keep them in the box. Anyway thanks so much for posting this. Have a blessed week

There should be a lot more beekeepers listening closely to Randy . The method of rearing large colonies is critical to having large honey crops ,which is honey per hive and is how to be financially viable if you are selling honey .

Great video, thanks! I am on a Hillside in ANC and happy to say that all four of my hives made it through the winter well (so far), with no treatments. It remains to be seen where things go from here. We have several feet of snow as of April 14th, but the bees already had their cleansing flights a week or two ago.

Great information thank you

I think everyone is looking for a pure mite resistant strain ,however adding those genetics to exiting colonies could produce better or worse genetics and many inbetween . Diversity of the mongrels may be the best way to ensure species survival . Randys extrodinary effort im sure will succeed at improving the species even if you buy his queens as replacements year after year to hybridiz your own stock . And culling out the failures . You dont lose the hive you only need to replace its queen with one of his queens and away it runs !!!

Great Video. I live in southern Maine and southern packages and Nucs are brought in every spring by the truck load. How much of the yearly dead out hives are from bees that are not adapted to the environment?

It'd sure be great if more people considered the impact large-scale commercial farming has on agriculture and Nature in general. All the chemicals and diseases and problems it introduces, these government agencies should be regulating in order to preserve nature, yet they are doing the very opposite and destroying everything.

Is there a reason for you to put your five-frame nuc in five-frame boxes instead of directly putting them in ten-frame boxes?