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Your videos are very informative. Thanks for doing them.

Great class… a pro!

Honey Bandit? That’s what I use.

Very interesting. I only pulled a couple frames out of some honey bound hives, so I haven't had to skin his beast yet. My plan, since I don't have a slide out like you do, was to lay a sheet of plywood in the bed to give that solid bottom and then a top cover just like you did. Great "class" on how to use the fume board!

Hi Jonathan! We are literally minutes away from doing our very first extraction and you posted this video! LOL! Thats what I call "your beekeeping mentor". Thanks Jonathan!

What if the wind blows all of the grass away. Chalk or a clump of red clay to mark it with a q?

Thats a beautiful sight. Great work on the strong colony.

Agreed. That would be a bunch of bees.

Amazing video!

I like the idea and I may give it a try next year. Besides, you lose 300 bees every time you do a mite test so I'm good with it.

I’m making my last 2 tmw with a couple Russian queens I’m pumped to get them

Having your hives painted dark do they not get hotter being a dark colour?

Doc, I was lucky enough to trap a swarm last week and followed your steps yesterday transferring them into a deep brood box and now have a new colony. Luckily, I always look on lids for queens whenever I’m inspecting bees. Sure enough the queen was on the inside of the lid. They are now in my “MASH”apiary behind the wires so the bears can’t get them. Thanks for the PRO advice! Kevin

good advice right there! Pro tip at the end..

Good tip!

Just to let you know mites don’t go into brood until just before it’s capped. Also as long as there are live drones running around in your hive most mites are on those drones

When are you going to do your honey extraction videos?

I used quilt boxes last Fall-winter and they were wonderful. You use them in the summertime?

Thanks for the idea! I planned on moving mine at night if bees ever move in?

I leave mine in the trap for 7 days, then move them. Great job on moving them. Thanks I enjoyed the video.

Hurry up and start shipping mated queens....lol

I do the same. My neighbors think I’ve lost my mind. Namaste! All good!

Thanks!

Great being able to watch again. I just found a swarm in a trap box. They just arrived a couple of days ago. Q Doc: how long should I leave them before transferring to one of my apiary hive boxes? I know it’s 50/50 science and art but ballpark. Thanks!! Kevin

Let me see if I got this right. If you had a working colony, you took 2 or three frames with capped brood and bees, put that in a different box of its own, these bees will make their own queen and now you have 2 colonies? It's as simple as that?

Hey dude question for ya I had a hive they lost a queen we won’t get into how 😅so I added a mated queen on July 7 it’s now July 19 I don’t see the queen or eggs do I add another queen or tear them apart there no drone layer and there is still caped brood

I never put my fingers under a hive. I have seen too many of these.

Did you keep it as a pet ?

Wow sometimes I’m happy to be in Canada we don’t get life threating animals 😅it’s a pretty spider under your box 😅😅

Just wondering , should you shake the bees off a frame that has eggs

Shut the front door he said it…😂

Great looking thick capped medium frames of sourwood I think your said. Really hard to deal with different kinds of checker boarding. I usually would put the 5 drawn out frames together on one side, then the other five new beeswax wax on the other side of the box keeping them all together as a group. Then if I added another medium on top I would do the same but twist it 180° if you can picture that. Hope those skinnier frames will uncap for you with a hot knife rather than having to use a forked cappings scratcher. When comb is drawn, I use a 9 frame stainless steel spacer to separate them or my index fingers to space them minus 1 of course. But for non drawn foundation I always put 10 into one box, preferably tightly together with no gaps. Thanks for the video look and just watched you picking up more wood for medium supers from Bob Binnie's at his Blue Ridge Honey Company store. I would enjoy visiting it if I wasn't way across the country in California. Luckily I have Dadant and Mann Lake bee supply stores within an hour or so to the north and south of me. Thanks for the video. 🐝

Great for showing and talking about those sourwood tree blossoms. I have watched Bob Binnie's videos and how he takes great effort to super up for the same flow. It's really important to him, his workers and his sales in collecting, pulling, extracting, bottling, and selling as much of a pure untainted percentage of that blossom without any other nectar getting into that flavor of honey and striving for a premium price I think he has said. It is an art watching your guys in Georgia hoping for a good season from sourwood. Thanks 🐝

Good to see you requeening those grass labeled hives with your own cells I presume with grafted cells from your own beehives or from in that yard shown. I have seen the clip of you holding a nice queen cells formed very uniquely like comb with a cell protector waiting. Do you ever have problems with jarring the other colonies that are on the same stand. I have mine on 4 way pallets and always gently smoke all of them before setting anything on top of the other three when inspecting the first and then working my way around opening to the others. Plus lifting the frames out from the side of my boxes helps with not twisting or reaching over the front or back of those boxes like when half a dozen can be stacked next to each other on a stand shown in this short. That's okay thou, but it would not feel good to take the chance of hurting my spine lifting them ergonomically now that I am getting older or have the last hive in that row really spiced up/pissed at me from working the others especially when taking off lids, boxes, scraping bottom boards, and then putting them back on. Everyone does things different and I respect that. Just an observation. I wonder if any issues like I spoke about come up for you sometimes. Let me know. Thanks 🐝

Awesome people there too! I love going there.

That is a red back spider, its less venomous then the black widow. if bitten you'll most likely be fine just gunna hurt like hell.

As a mechanic I found that O'Reilly's brake clean kills spiders real quick

8/10 you will find them in your water meter box here in Oklahoma

How do people live in places where bugs can kill you no matter your size, wild as hell

Thanks for the vid. Good info.

If you’re in Michigan there’s places that would like to research it, they don’t find them in the wild very often so they get excited at a chance to

Well it's a mother's instinct to protect her children so that web act's as a security system that way once it's breached she defends herself and her children

I too like the smell of melted bees wax, and fresh white bees wax even more! propolis also, it has a slight honey smell to it, I have lavender gardens and the lavender propolis is something else! I have used both natural drawn frames on fishing line wires and wax and plastic foundation, I prefer the plastic as it is less time consuming, I give them two coats of wax with the 4" roller and then pop them in the frame and give them a quick spray of syrup, job done

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I'm learning so much from you. I just picked up a queen excluder and honey super yesterday. My new hive is growing wonderfully...

I use bright pink lol I can see it

I just won a queen marker perfect timing

Yes

Congrats to your girls! 🐝

I was surprised you did not have a laying working with them going so long without a queen.