The dearth has begun. What are the bees doing now? 

I knew about beekeeping in general, but I have learned quite a bit watching your videos. But really, I watch people's videos because of their personalities.

I'm not a bee keeper, before I started watching your videos I knew nothing about beekeeping. Your presenting style and persona on camera is just so inviting, and the good humour you show in these videos make them a pleasure to watch. And obviously it helps that beekeeping is such an interesting topic.

Having Brian is like having your own hive lifter. He is HUGE.

I planted a garden of catnip. The little flowers are blooming profusely and covered in several different species of bees. I'm so mesmerized watching them all. From honey bees, bumblebees, mason bees, and i even have a gigantic carpenter bee that drilled a hole into an old wooden bed rail & made a nest.😊 Sending positivity and prayers for blessings to Jeff & the crew & anyone reading. 🙌 Dear God, please bless the bees too!🐝 🙏Amen Watching from northern Indiana

I hang bug zappers where I store my frames and it really helps with the wax moth issues. You had a great harvest. Thanks Jeff!

Thank you Jeff. 🐝🐝🐝

Looks like a great year there. Brian is getting some great bees. Much better than getting a package. It’s great to help out new beekeepers. Enjoying the videos. Take care and God bless.

Good to see you again Mr Ed . God bless you .

Jeff, Opening shot features bee box AND poison ivy up close on the stand! Watch out! 😮

Mr. Ed, I recently moved to your area, and am a 3rd year beekeeper. From watching your videos over the past several years, it would seem that you enjoy recruiting friends to help in your apiary during the flows - I’d love the opportunity to join sometime, as the exposure to your operation and knowledge gained from the experience would be worth its weight in gold (honey, of course😊) to a newer beekeeper like me. If you’re open to it, please send me a message on how to best contact you. Finally, thank you for taking the time to make these videos - I know you do it purely because of your love of bees (and all of God’s beautiful creatures), but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a tremendous investment of your time and resources, so thank you nonetheless. Best wishes to you and yours.

It made my heart jump when I saw that honeycomb almost break off lol

With Brian's physical size, surely Jeff, his new nickname should be ,"The Honey Monster,". A monster in a nice way though, as he seems to be a gentle giant. Good luck with your new bees Brian. Jeff will you update all, on how Brian's hive goes in the future too, just asking. Thanks for sharing the video. Look forward to the next installment.

I enjoy watching yall harvest honey it’s such a satisfying experience just to watch .. I am amazed at how much honey comes from the hives.. Wish you could have added that to this video .. The transfer of the hives was really cool to watch.. Thank you for teaching and sharing .. God Bless

Dang Queens didn't want to bee on Camera haha. Good one 👍 Thanks

Beautiful honey Mr. Ed, your bees did you proud!

Thank you for the behind the scenes video. I really enjoyed seeing the different views of the abbey. It looks really beautiful there.

I really like the Bee Castle box's and the way they went together when you got them. Always enjoy watching your video's my friend. God Bless you all!!!

Love love love ❤️ ❤❤ watching you extract honey. I could watch them over and over!! Just love it any time any day. Thank you so much for all you do for the girls!😊

Mr.Ed just a note on your dehumidifiers, if running off long extension cords need to stretch them out. It causes heat build in them if not. Cuts the efficiency and could cause a circuit overload. Great yt content!!

Good morning Brother, have a blessed day.

Mr. ED you are a superior keeper with mostly superior queens that can perform well for years, too many bee Gods are making inferior queens that need to bee replaced every year or two because they are using the wrong egg, the worker egg is smaller than the egg laid by the queen in a swarm cell, keep up the good work!

I have enjoyed your videos for years. You inspired me to start bees and have become involved in a local club and made some beekeeping friends. Real friends who we share a hobby and now real fellowship as we help each other. Oh the stories we can share.. 😂 as nothing runs smoothly or perfect.. but we laugh at our foibles.. trials and tribulations. This has become the best part of the hobby! After 5 years, I have only 4 colonies/hives which is about right for me. Its a bit of work, but satisfying (even when we don't harvest or lose the occasional colony) Can't imagine 200+ hives.. 😮 Thanks again..!!!! #GodLovesAll #GoldenRule #Faith #Family #Fellowship

I wanna see Randy and Brian have a friendly "wrastlin" match out in the bee yard for charity.😅

I have a name for Brian…The Hulk! Both giant and gentle.

I enjoyed the video. Have a wonderful weekend, Mr Ed 👍😊🙏🤗😎✌️

Great sharing, I enjoy your videos on bes and the gathering of honey. I wish I lived near but Iam 11 hours away Thanks for sharing.

Brian is a really BIG man and thanks Jeff Charley and Brian.....l am just a day late WhooooHooo Old F-4 II Pilot Shoe🇺🇸

Hey Jeff ! Got a question, several questions, one , do you use your refractometor before you extract , even though most of your frames seem fully capped ? Secondly, watched Bob Binnie explain that drying honey with fans and a good dehumidifier still pulls moisture out of wet honey even if it’s capped . Here in coastal central Florida our humidity is usually high all summer . And we put our boxes of honey under fans for 3 days and that brings the viscosity from let’s say 19.5 down to 16-17 . Didn’t notice if you use fans or not or if your readings are already below 18.6 ? Mr. Binnie had 45-50 barrels that fermented on him and was in a rescue mode but shared with us all some good things not to do ! That’s an honest , humble man ! Love your videos , pick up a lot of tips from your adventures! We’ve always had great harvests with excluders on as well ! Thanks again , Mrs.Bees Honey

I am not a fan of metal excluders though because the wires can get bent leaving a gap the queen can pass thru. It is not normal but this is one case I prefer plastic ones. I did another removal last week and got 4 gallons out of it. Straight out of the hive it tested 15.5% moisture content.

Great informative video is always. With Brian in the background behind you transferring the bees he looks like the Abominable Snowman standing behind you anyway good job.

Morning Mr. Ed😊

Fantastic video Thank you from Central Texas 😊

Will you plant some wild flowers for us next spring? Pretty please

Good Morning , From Denton , Texas and Brushpopper Bee wrangling I'll see you in Marshall this week .

a great video , Brian wants to start with new wooden ware , i use metal frame rests when the boxes are new. stay with2 deeps with 10 frames , when i start with new supers i use mediums afterthe combs drawn out i go with 9 frames for honey

That is a nice colony, Brian looks well chuffed. Just coming into our "quiet" time, but still plenty of forage for the girls. Seeing pollen going in. Another month and hive inspections will begin and getting ready to do our splits. Got a feeling in my waters that Spring is going to be early this year, some of my Birds have started nesting a month earlier than usual😳... As they say, no rest for the wicked... and here I was thinking early retirement was going to be more relaxing😂

Different type of video. Havent seen one like this before so it was informative regarding swapping hives over. Im sure BigBee Brian will enjoy them under your tutelage

Great video! Need nickname for Brian. God bless you all!

Great catch Mr Edd😅

A sure enough good looking honey crop, but I have to go with medium honey supers, those deeps would to much for this old man to handle. Y'all have a good one now.

Good morning! I just saw a beecastle hive!

Do the people supply replacement frames? That's a killer deal for a 2 deep hive IMO. Probably more like a $350.00 value or more considering a nuc costs close to $200.00.

Loved the video but, I cringed a little at the idea of putting out freshly spun honeycomb to be cleaned out by robber bees that close to other hives. From everything I've learned it's like inviting trouble for all the other colonies, especially in a dearth. I hope you show if Brians bees made out ok after being disturbed that much then being hit by all that robbing pressure. They wouldn't have even had a chance to get their defenses set up yet. Please update us on what happed here all the way thru to Brian getting his bees to his new apiary site. 🙏

Good morning sir!

0:01 watch out for the poison ivy

Hi Jeff, love the channel. Are your frames dry after You extract or do the bees get in the peacock cage and clean them out

What brand of excluder is that? I tried the Mann Lake HD122's and it was a horrid mess and loss. Bees couldn't fit thru the bars. Lost seven of twelve in a week.

I need to get me some of these local bees, because one of my packages of bees are not progressing very well

Olá Mr Ed! Creio que o padrão de postura indica ser uma rainha bem velha que deve ser logo substituida. E esses favos da captura, sem fios de aço sustentando a cera não resistem ao transporte, e o mel também deveria ser retirado devido ao seu peso. Obrigado pelo vídeo, saudações do Brasil.

I'm thinking about swimming across the Pacific ocean right now 😂😮 you're selling twenty frames for 360 NZ dollars 😮 man it costing me 340 dollars for a five frame mated nuc from a Christchurch Carniolan breeder over here😂 that's it, I'm emigrating 😂 wow, that's a great deal. Fortunately we now have a Carniolan breeder in the south island and it's a one time experience because I'll be breeding my own queens ( our bee's in central Otago are either Italian or Italian/ dark British hybrids and they're grumpy 😂) so excited to see how these Carniolan hives are going to go, I'm in the mountains so it's a little colder than most of New Zealand in spring and early summer and way hotter in summer when our thyme nectar flow starts. Looks like you guys are having fun 👍👋

Hey Mr. Ed. Do you think the hive could be queen less, Did you happen too see any eggs, Might be a good Idea to put him a frame of fresh eggs out of another hive to see if they start building a cell, thats one thing i try when I can't find the queen and don't find eggs. Have a bless Day

Always great to see you, jeff. I pulled honey today. Do you know Bob Binnie?

Curious why you didn’t move the brood down to the bottom box.

Thank you for sharing your experience with the honey excluders,,,,,, I mean queen excluders. A great share to settle the debate, your thoughts are appreciated. We can trust what you say. Watching from outside the US. Truth is such a great way to live life. It's hard to understand the attraction to listening to lies. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Seems now, lies are OK.

Is that poison ivy in front of the hive????

Hi,Mr.ED. do you have any problems with killer bees at all..love your video.

Awesome

God bless

Jeff . It’s dearth time? Does that mean it’s time to feed pollen patties and sugar syrup? If so from now till about when? Next spring? 😮

Seems like you should have folks bring you new supers and some cash in exchange for a hive so you don’t have to swap out the frames.

Quick question. How much maintenance do you have to put into that many hives? Is it a daily thing or do you for the most part just leave them alone until its time to place/puck up supersonic and the occasional split if they run out of room? Or do you just let them swarm?

Love the calming buzz of bees..😊❤

I was just wondering if you ever rejected a hive removal and for what reason?

How can we buy the two deep boxes from you?

Hi there.

Keeping on keeping on. Jesus weekend and God Bless!

I had a bad experience with excluders my 1st year of beekeeping so i never used them again...maybe ill try

Dream Big brother 🙏

Do you ever donate your really old eqpt to Randy so he can get some "new stuff" in his yard?

Question, Is it safe to move bee's across country to a new permanate home, having to retire due to a stroke.

A little bit of a limp, Jeff. Everything okay?

Super Supers😊

Are wax moth larvae the reason wax turns papery ? Or is that just what happens over time ?

Do u have anymore bees available for sale how can I contact

Why are your bees doing well? What do the area look like around the monastery. Percentage forest percentage wild fields and percentage monoculture farm fields. And do you even need to boost the bees in winter. Do not tell me you are so lucky you have orchards nearby.

I almost never see cross comb between your frames. Whats the secret?

Could a hybridization of an Asian hornet and a honey-producing bee be made?

If we made the drive would you be willing to sell? I’m in north Louisiana, actually met you at the north East Texas meeting a couple weeks ago

Hello Ed, do you ship a hive of 20 frames to Austin, TX ? If yes, I like to have a 20 frames hive

Why is my bottom box now empty of bees and honey only comb . The second box is full of bees comb and honey. 2nd year new bee keeper.

You need a beetle sucker 5000 lol

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Okay I’m sorry in advance for my stupid question but why do they call him “Mr. Ed” if his name is Jeff?:)

Sneaky queen

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Actually in your area there’s a dearth….This kind of title confuses new Beekeepers. In the North East rarely is there a dearth…..just saying

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Ya know, it would save some time & money if you bought Brian some bigger shirts instead of investing in all that body paint.

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