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Thanks for the info Blake. I was having a terrible honey season because of the almost constant rain in April and May. In the first week of July I was resigned to getting half of what i got last year. Well, i just pulled honey and apparantly they found something in July! I was expecting 10 supers and got 26! Have you heard others reporting late flows this year? I am near Corsicana.

Do you ever have issues with hives getting too hot if they're in full sun?

Great video. Thank you.

Why not run the filled brood frames through the extractor rather than letting it get robbed out assuming theres no brood?

will the brood that's in with the honey die when you leave the frames in the shade two days?

When you take out the honey frames to be robbed, do you need to uncap?

Well done! As an up and coming beekeeper in Burnett County Texas, there is host of good information.

Great information thanks

I've seen this tested and its not accurate, it will show if you have mites but its not accurate. In one video a guy used this and he found 3 mites and then he washed the same bees in alcohol to see if the alcohol would show more mites and he found twice as many mites in the alcohol wash so this CO2 testing is not accurate.

Your videos are outstanding. I once had 120 beehives and mostly sold honey and queens. I really enjoy how you explain things. I have SUBSCRIBED! Thank you - much appreciated…

If you are in an area where there is Small Hive Beetle, I highly suggest you only giving enough pollen patty or sugar brick that they can consume in under a week to prevent making a small hive beetle breeding ground. You can also break it into smaller chunks as you did at the end to give the bees more surface area and ability to defend against small hive beetle.

If the queen is caged for that long bees will start queen cells. Might be a good idea to check for qcs before releasing the queen.

What is she going to eat while laying that drone comb?

What and how queen eats, drinks and excretes?

In that cage for 14 days? With no nurse bees or food?

What is the right time to do this?

I would think preparing for a spring split after harvest is the better way to go. Remove excluder, add a deep and let the bees do their thing then split it next spring.

Can anyone explain why the mites fall off the bees with this technique?

Thanks for doing the videos, they are very helpful and enjoyable!

As every month I enjoyed the video a lot, VERY informative. Thanks!

This was good thanks you

I am trying oav in 1 apiary I am treating every 3-4 days for 8-9 treatment just to see if it works, it will be really cheap if it does but i tell you it is a lot of time, I am doing it on Wednesday and sat every week. Going to do a mite check maybe a week later just to see if it worked. the rest i am using apigaurd this year 25 gr 3 treatments. first time for eithere of these ways so I will see what I like the best.

Blake does compleat keep the syrup from going bad.

Thx for the advice

David how can I get one of your candy boards for a long lanstrought hive? Need to get ready for winter. I know you said you have to make adjustments to make it work for the long hives. Hoping to hear from you soon. You're a great bee keeper and I've learned a lot from you, thanks

An ounce is 2 tablespoons full. My wife checked online for me.

I want to do single deep management. I am planning already for my winter/ spring set up for next spring. I like to re-queen to keep a fresh queen yearly. When would I plan on grafting (from my own bees) and replace my queen and still not allow my queen to go backwards in my honey production? Would I do this before the flow (when drones are flying) or after the flow has started or when the flow is over. My flow is generally over July 4th.

The biggest problem is you don't see it coming. Fine one day three days later slimmed, on a strong hive. It will ruin your day.

Awesome! How do your hive boxes survive being on the ground? Curiously watching from Arkansas but living in Tokyo Oh-may )Ome) Japan.

TBS: Please pass this along to your video editor: Balance the audio levels!! That intro jingle is so f-ing loud compared to Blake's speech. Every video editor out there shows you the levels and waveform of the audio tracks. It should be quite visible on the difference. Just reduce the jingle by 50% from now on, and you should be good.

Blake, are you certain it is Certan? Haha Great info.

Thanks that's interesting 👍 hopefully it's available in NZ 😂

Over 2 million colonies are started each year, but sadly, less than half survive the following year. Is this a better news story title?😮

What do you do now with this hive? How do you kill the SHB larve and such?

What strain of bees are they

What honey flow? Nothing much here in SE Dallas County. 😒

It's the wrong thing to do to bees.

Given that the upper brood chamber didn't have a honey band how do you keep the queen from moving up to the honey super? I didn't see an excluder.

Ha Blake do u ever under supper thanks. and what if u have foundation only.

Thank you. Very helpful

GREAT 👍 TIPS

Lol smart man with the last statement 😂

Ha Chari this was good really enjoyed it. I look at 4 weather sources. We are in a dearth now, have pulled the honey and extracted it I got about 360/30 gal. ^ 5 gal buckets. anyway this was great. I get 15 for a pint I might have to go up next year the sugar is 20.00 a bag it was 8.88. it is real bad now.. have a great week. I have all my hives straped all the time I live in virginia and very close to water and we flood bad here it gets deep the tide just destroyed this city with our last harricane. it was bad. we flood bad with a northeastern just the wind the water get up to my knees.

Awesome sauce 🙌 thank you very much Chari for all the wonderful interviews/podcasts you do! I’m a “young” new 2024 beekeeper, got my bees from the Dayton TX location. I did 4/5 months of personal research no formal training and your CZcams channel has helped me so much I can’t thank y’all enough 🙏 looking forward to the years ahead and hopefully meeting you and the TBS team in person 🥳

Can you add a link for the moth treatment?

I’m from Canada I watch alote of your stuff your a good guy for taking time out of your life to talk about bees

My concern about increase of losses is the increase of inferior queens produced in emergencie cells by bees and man using the worker egg, that queen needs to bee replaced every year! A queen lays a superior egg in a swarm cell that is larger than the worker egg making a superior queen to take her place and can live for years!

Hopefully, this is just the product I've been looking for!

Great vid, I've been running into both of these problems and have been looking for solutions.

My last Winters loss was around 60%, it's great that new beekeepers are joining but the numbers sound off. We always have the influx of new keepers every year but how many stick with it past their 1st Winter let alone 2nd or 3rd after they discover how difficult beekeeping can be. Spread the Truth! 👍Blessed Days...