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Nice, grats.👍

One of the few things I like very much about being a Northern beekeeper, we do not have near as much an issue with SHB's. I think I mentioned but peppermint oil/candy really seem to help. Gunline Bee's down in Louisiana I think, they have have to shop-vac the SHB's🤢 they maybe able to give you some recommendations on helping with SHB's. They have had to learn some hard lessons because of those buggers. Thanks for sharing your time, sorry for the SHB's. Blessed Days...

Eek!!! Beetlejuice🪲 Beetlejuice🪲 Beetlejuice🪲 😵‍💫 well that's thirty plus less hive beetles so you might have saved the day slamming their numbers down. Time for traps and pads. Don't lose heart, you'll get the mongrels 👍😃In southern New Zealand news,the first fruit tree blossom has started in central Otago with apricot and plum, nice little start to the pollen season, everyone else is getting their hives into orchards, so it's big pollen time for me in about ten days because the river willows won't be far behind it and while everyone else puts their bee's into orchards around here and gets their wallets stuffed, my girls get the pollen monopoly on the river willows 😂 and they produce more pollen than you can shake a stick at😃less money in my pocket not getting in on the pollen fruit tree action circuit in Otago to be sure, but full pollen frames from the willows because no one else has hives on them and that's a win for me, everyone else will be feeding substitute in November and I'll be chucking in pollen frames😃👍

I LOVE HONEY HAPPY BEE DAY I am watching your videos from London in England Good video

Well done getting that weak hive to flourish! I love your gentle approach with your bees. Personally, I try to wear the thinnest gloves I can get away with, so I can feel the bees with my fingertips, and I lift the frames at the ends, so I don't accidentally squish them where they're moving around a lot in the middle of the top bar. Speaking as a second-year beekeeper. I'm not a fan of 10 frame deep systems as they weigh a ton when the honey starts to appear. It's much easier managing ideal sized supers, and of course you can put as many of those as you want on top of your brood box. As for double deep brood boxes, I think that just causes more work trying to inspect each hive, and the bees get more disturbed when you have 2 big boxes to go through with the hive open for inspection. What I have is a 10 frame brood box with a permanent ideal super on top which I never rob for honey. On top of that first super I put either a flow super (which I love due to the ease of harvesting honey), or more ideal supers. The bees always have the honey in their brood box in addition to a full super to get them through the winter, and this seems to do well where I live. Our winters seldom get below -1 celsius or so. In colder climes you might need an extra super going into winter. Making small colonies like mine makes them easier to manage, and you can always do a split if you see swarm cells developing (it looks like your girls have these and are getting restless).

Nice inspection 👍 great pollen frames, nice looking stores and brood 👍 im a heartless sod 😂so that drone brood would be history even though I like drones i don't like that many myself but hey your hive your rules👍 i was a little shocked someone's checkerboarding brood frames though, i think that's not a wise practice, honey frames yeah but brood frames i totally wouldn't checkerboard. drones get a bit of a bum rap but when i think of the energy investment for drones, 24 days rearing, constant feeding, i personally feel they play a much greater role than most people give them credit for. Drones are big and great at picking up brood and queen pheromone and getting it around the hive during peak numbers, drones are great thermal mass when cool days strike in summer and the colony has to go from cooling to heating and i personally believe they release pheromone during the honey flow which helps keep the hive in balance. Just my opinion but one of the first lessons you learn is bee's are economical, and they spend big to create drones. Glove cleaning, i use a little turpentine to remove the stubborn propolis and wash by hand after in warm soapy water, then apply a leather care to stop the leather drying out 👍 great video 👋😃

Sorry I dont wear gloves My bees have only been nasty 2 times. I just closed it up and walked away for the day or 2 then got back into it

Bob binnie started small too so you're in good company there. Whoever told you 8000 bee's die a day in a colony is off his rocker. What a crock. 20-30 thousand bee's in a average colony at 8000 a day well nobody would be keeping bee's for long. It peaks about 200 ish in mid honey flow and your queen should be laying 1200 plus eggs a day at least, the average is around 2000 so under normal conditions your colony will always be increasing up into the main flow then drop down with increasing nutrition being fed to "Winter bee's". I'm a little concerned about the lack of pollen on those brood frames, great honey bands🎉😁 and nice brood arcs 👍🐝but (in typical kiwi fashion, here comes the whinge because we're sooooo optimistic 😂) I'd personally actually consider a little pollen feeding or pollen sub I didn't see much beebread or pollen on legs in the video, but those blasted beetles love it too so your call there, you know your bees. Extra points for dead mites and beetles👍😃

Im about to just hit my hives with the formic I bought; weather dosent seem like it wants to co-operate for me so im going to just 1/2 cover my pads with their wrapper. Aparently pormic pro has a really heavy off gas of formic vapors initially (day 1 honestly) and then immediatley flatlines on day two and has very slow release after that. If you cover the top half of the formic pad with its wraper that half-ish reduction in surface area stops the day 1 off gas flash (by stops I mean its about 1/3 the released of formic being more in line with day 2-14 release/decay rates). I still cant tell if randy olivers test trials with formic pro were done using single pad or two pad treatment aproaches tho.

2 queen cells also

Get a j hook hive tool so you can get your frames out properly and you won't kill bees or even your queen

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That sec box you pulled looks like a queen cell at the bottom and looks like they drawn some comb with no frame

God look at that smoker rolling its got a build in fan that Johnny getting it

I'll be interested to see how that works out for you. When I pull frames to a second deep box I only pull two frames and both are capped brood. I then replace those frames in between larvae or eggs. The reason I do it that way is the bees will draw out the two foundation frames in the bottom quickly because they do not like the blank space in the brood area. It also keeps them from drawing out the honey frames super thick in the second deep box. In my experience nectar and honey frames by foundation end up producing super thick stores on the frames you moved up, with little to no foundation being drawn on the adjacent foundation.

Hello my friend, I’m From Kentucky, USA I also keep bees, but I must say your hives look very healthy. Like the old saying goes; whatever you’re doing, keep on doing! Thanks for sharing your Apiary with us. Keep the videos coming

The girls are getting busy.

Good video

😬 the formic terrors 😬 I've been nervously considering formic acid for additional varroa treatment myself but the temperature here can be really erratic because I live in the mountains of central Otago southern New Zealand which means we either get weather from Australia across the Tasman which is hotter than normal or weather from the Antarctic which is colder than normal 😂 I think I might have a good window in November when it's not stupidly hot but not subzero either. I'm not a fan of chemical treatment but I hate varroa even more😂, be interesting to see what results you get 👍👋

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So my understanding is that for the first 3 days it is critical that the temps be under 85 degrees, its been 5 days and so far everything looks to be good, I also heard that they have a boost in brood production after treatment so we will see. Thanks for stopping by

You'll have to let us know how it works out for ya, some beekeepers really like it. But you have to watch out for heat on that one I think? Thanks for sharing, Blessed Days...

Looks good. That Honey B Healthy will give them a boost. If there's not any pollen coming in, you might give them a very small piece of pollen patty, like a 1" strip right on top between the frames over where the brood is.

Your queen was on the first frame you pulled out, running around towards the bottom of the frame. You can see her about the 2:46 mark.

Ugh😅 broken smoker 😬 i use lega Italian smokers, theyre bombproof 😂 and so are the hivetools, i haven't used amazon gear but if you like it and its working for you that's great 😃 👍 ten point bonus for the beetle 😂 nice looking colony. Fortunately hive beetle and European foulbrood are not in NZ, we have enough drama with varroa. Great video 👍👋

It always feels good when they pull back and build up well, Congrats.👍Ya when the girls get big they get a bit sassy from time to time.😂Blessed Days...

If there is a laying worker, the hive doesn't want a queen and she is hiding because they bully her.

Frustrating, hold my beer. 😅

Sometimes it makes ya wonder, doesn't it.😂Blessed Days...

Cool apairy, I love the block stands I might try that 👍 😃 nice video 👍👋

It happens. Sometimes you can just miss her because you pull the top box, she drops and then hops in the super, sometimes a slightly damaged wire in an excluder will just be enough for her to squeeze through without being noticed, or sometimes if you're in a rush you can accidentally put the frame she's on and you've set aside into the wrong box😂 it happens, but great looking brood, excellent solution, dropping the box down, checkerboarding in space and giving the bee's foundation to work 👍 nice save😃 brilliant 👍

Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋😃 noticed you had a little lid trouble, you might like to try an inner cover because sometimes pulling off a stuck down telescoping lid can be a complete mongrel. They'll stick the cover down but the lid will be free. It's another piece of kit, but I find them worth while. I wouldn't be concerned about finding queen cell starter cups, or what people call practice cups😅 it's normal to find them and they'll just draw more. The advantage of leaving them is if your hive goes into swarm mode, those starters are where they'll start drawing queen cells, usually😂 I make a mental note of their location and it's easier to spot any changes. In queen supersede mode, it doesn't matter because they'll pull them from scratch from suitable aged larvae. Great video 👍 it's mid winter here 🥶 so I'm watching everyones summer videos 😂

You can hear my neighbor Arnie talking throughout most of this video lol, he is having a new Deck installed and has a lot to say lol.

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Looking good

Lookin good!!!

Is the smoke harmful to the bees? And is it special smoke?

Ouch, the cost of buying in queens is high, the last thing you want is a jaffa queen, I was so happy when you discovered the female brood. I wonder why they drew a queen cell out? was it a mated queen you bought?

Where did you get the blocking frame

Not sure,but what works for some may not work for others.i had a hive that was once dying out and i took away a lot of space and reduced the entrance and that hive came back kinda quick.when you picked up that second black frame your queen was walking around to the other side close to the bottom. When you flipped it over she walked back to the other side as you were spinning it

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This weather in UK at the moment is not good for the bees.😡

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Ya they do that sometimes.

9:51 bottom right is the queen

Congratulations! I have a colony that's driving me crazy with queen problems. From a package on March 30th the colony took off and built up like I've never seen. Sometime in late May the queen was just gone, but population was/is too big for it to have swarmed & since I wasn't into the box, I don't see how I would have rolled her or anything like that. Then they wouldn't requeen from doner egg frame, so I installed a queen in a push cage. They chewed the wax around the cage and released the queen & she laid a bit, but then is gone now too, with a few swarm cells. Because the colony is still so big I split it 3 ways using the swarm cells in the original & additional 2 boxes and now I'm waiting to see what happens, but I have little hope. I am absolutely done trying to save this colony, so if this is their last chance before I either shake out or combine.

I have a frame like that right now and I’m afraid to move it. So I’m gonna leave it in there until next spring.

I did see the queen at 10 minutes in sneaking around the right side of the frame!!!! Yayy hopefully there is some hope yet

Some times you have to do it in the rain.

Caramel queen second to last frame lower right corner