🔵Making Small Hives for Virgin Queens.
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- Loading a 3 way mating nuc and using a Double screen board for new queens!
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Thank you Kamon. I did not see the entrance of the triple divided box, or are you locking them in. Was the purpose of putting the bees in the queen delivery box at end,was that just to keep the queen cells warm while you move round the apiary. I'm not a beginner nor anywhere near your level of knowledge or confidence so a bit of the video went too fast for me. I like more space to absorb it not so rushed but I understand you want to keep the vids short and I can always watch twice. Thank you none the less for your help
Those lovely giggles behind the camera... one thing tho, for one video, please switch places!
Yes, I agree! Laurel would do great!
Good video to go back too. Thanks
Put some cinnamon on top of reflec to help with ants
Here in sweden there is not warm enugh to work the bees. But when it is, i will make a video of it, and my lovley black bees..
Recently did my first split and now I have 5 virgin queens banked in the living room 😂 18 queen cells later still have too do a final inspection too make sure there’s no sisters fighting, what a work of art they are! 🐝
Excellent job one of my favorite things!
@@kamonreynoldsThank you, I'm glad I didn't wait one more day! An I understand why now that I've got a little experience. It's cool how intelligent they really are.I appreciate your videos hope all is going good!
Very interesting 1st view of your channel. I'll bee coming back to watch some more 😀🆗
Good deal! Looks like nice weather
It was until the wind blowing off your snow covered hives got here!! I think we didn't frost too much though. Hope things shape up good for you up there!
Thanks!
Hey Viktor thank you for watching and supporting our content!
Great video as always! I like that queen cell holder. 👍🏻
Fantastic! I have learned more from your videos than any bee class I have taken and you’re free!!! Life is good ✌️🐝🐝🤑😀
Looks like a very nice day :)
Thanks for all your videos...really appreciate all you do..and your sense of humor!
It snowed on me on the way to columbia tennessee this morning at 3 a.m. , the morning this was posted lol
Gee wiz hasn't this cold spell been fun! I know the bees didn't like it!
I woke at 3:00 cuz chemo sides, but it was snowing here too in Ottawa, On. Ugh, we need spring already lol.
Thank you so much for your informative videos. Would love to attend your yard on a good day of your working them. Such knowledge!
Hey Kamon! I'm driving through TN area this Sunday and it would be so cool to see your operation and meet you! 🤩 Been watching for 2 years now!
Congrats
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
This was excellent!
Great job!!
Thank you for interesting video! Hi from Belarus bee's forests!
It’s been a few years since I raised my own queen. But the prices of queens is crazy. I may have to pull out the gear and start raising queens again.
Check with your local clubs. Become a member. A number of clubs up my way are producing queen cells for their members. One, you get to learn to install queen cells and work backwards to raising your own queens.
I am a new sideliner and working on mastering raising queens. I will either use them for future splits or make a lot of nucs.
Thank you for showing how to do this.
great video, explained well,thanks both of u
Next week is my queen rearing time. In ‘50’s today. Boxes are bursting with bees. Caught 2 swarms. I have 3 three way mating Nucs plus several nuc boxes. So far so good. Starting 4th year. Let’s see how it goes? Appreciate your videos greatly.
Great video and information. Thanks
Great video Kamon. I have 3 three way boxes ready to go. Hopefully next week.
Hey man, the wife and I are taking our very first steps into beekeeping, you're our go-to guy. Thanks for all the great info.
Thanks for watching Chris! Don't forget to check out my buddy Bob Binnie on CZcams
Totally agree on the three frame mating nucs, they work a treat and help keep everything warmer than the stand alone 3 frames. The two frame nucs to me dont have enough density of bees to keep the brood warm.
Did that this last sunday to 28. Where easy splits tho as i did it VIA second deep like IAN. 28 cells dropped that evening in them and the new graft 26 took so will be doing 26 more splits soon. Take care both of you and stay safe. I used 6 frame nukes tho that in 14 days the ones that mated will be put on a 2 way pallet to grow to wonderful hives
In Australia we can buy icing mixture, or pure icing sugar. Icing mixture doesn’t clump/harden unless is gets wet because it has corn starch, pure icing sugar needs to be used ASAP after opening the pack otherwise it turns into a solid hard lump.
Hey Kamon, nice video! I have been having to do this exact thing all week except with swarm cells. Had one hive put cells on 9 frames! Broke that down into 8 Nucs....lets see how they do!
Good educational video
Thank you for clarifying where the entrance was on the double screen board divided hive!
That was Laurel's doing ! She rarely misses seeing what I forget!
Watching from subtropical Australia where beekeeping is an awful lot simpler. You are an excellent teacher, I pick up so many handy tips watching you work and you keep it clear and simple, much appreciated. Cute.
Hey Dale thanks hopefully I can visit australia and get to see you alls beekeeping. Laurel wants to go there on vacation some day so I better keep working!
@@kamonreynolds no worries mate, you’ll love it. Worst problem we have is stopping the cane toads from eating our bees 🙀🐸
Love ❤️ my double screen boards.. I hate ants, had some red ants crawl up my pants yesterday and bit me somewhere very uncomfortable so watch out for red ants. Great vids Kamon.
Great video
Awesome video! Love that 10 frame adapted to the finisher is very cool! I am running mostly 8 frame boxes, so I could split it down the center and do a double box I’m thinking...
Hope you’re feeling ok my friend. Just getting over a spring cold?
Thanks for all you guys do! Always makes my day when I can see a new video from you all. 😃
Yeah you could split it Larry. Hope you are doing well. I am getting my normal case of spring allergies. Honey doesn't seem to cure them lol!
I like your bucket feeder ;)
Hi Kamon, I’m wondering if you’d make a video for people like me who are not beekeepers but who want to do the right thing by bees in their neighbourhood. What would be helpful is information about using pesticides, growing flowering plants, how to avoid getting stung and what to do if you do get stung, what to do if a swarm shows up nearby, if it is a good idea to put out honey when there’s not a lot of flowers about, how far foraging bees travel from their hive, and anything you think we ought to know.
Whatever you’d be willing to put in a video for non-beekeepers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks from Australia.
That's a great idea! We will try to do that in the future. Thank you for watching!
K&L, great video! I hope it’s not too cold up your way today. I certainly had to postpone my bee plans today because of the temperature. Kamon I guess it’s OK if you get ants in your pants or a bee in your bonnet but I certainly hope that you don’t get a turtle in your girdle!
LOL Ian did send us a bit of a cold spell! I don't know what would be worse.... the turtle or the girdle!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Looks like your having a good time!
It is the most wonderful time now if there was just 2 of me haha!
Hey Kaymon , recently I purchased one gallon internal frame feeders from Mann Lake . I like this design with the wooden caps with the plastic tube inserts for each hole . The problem is they’re way too tight to use even when one frame is removed from a Mann Lake ten frame hive body . Yet they fit perfectly in their five frame nuc hives after removing one frame . I would hate to think I would have to remove two frames from a ten frame deep hive body also made by Mann Lake. So I decided that these frame feeders will be used to feed my five frame nucleus colonies I’ll be raising next year . I’m already getting stoked for next year , LoL!
You and me both Christian! I have learned a lot this year and plan to do better and have more fun in 2022. Have you looked at the 1.5 gallon mann lake feeder? They take up the space of 2 frames in the top deep but it fits just right without a big or too small gap anywhere.
@@kamonreynolds Have mercy I’d be mixing syrup all day . LoL! I’m going to try the feeders next spring when I start raising multiple five frame nucs and hopefully try to graft a few queens.
Hi Kamon, We are getting freezing temps the next two nights very untypical I wrapped my NUCS splits yesterday this is CRAZY
I blame the Canadians for not planting enough pines at the border to keep the cold winds up there!
@@kamonreynolds of course.... that is definitely the problem... I wonder why global warming is letting it get this cold here in April???
Hi Kamon, Mark here from Au. Over here, powdered sugar (icing suger) does not have corn flour but Icing Mixture does. I blitz normal white sugar in a blender and add glucose syrup to make the bee fondant. Great videos, keep up the good work. I only wish that the price here for wood to make boxes was not 5x the price as it is there. (And that is if we could get it) . Even the foil wrapped bubble-wrap is $285 a roll. I try hard to copy most of your equipment and breeding methods.
Thanks for the comment Mark! I find it fascinating to learn about beekeeping everywhere. Sorry to hear that lumber is so expensive! All the more reason to preserve and take care of what you have to a high level!
The food you make sounds like a good mix. Perhaps one day I will be able to find.or make something similar here. Thanks for watching!
Dep dep dep divvy :)
I really enjoy these videos. My wife and I spend a great deal of time dealing with our bees.
What's the worst reaction to a sting so far? We've both had systemic reactions so now we keep Benadryl, Pred, Pepcid on hand as well as Epi's. We've been stung since with just a localized reaction.
I had my first reaction after many previous stings too. What I thought was a minor sting on my are resulted in severe swelling, inflammation and horrendous itching as it healed.
Those will take off quick with all that brood with em
Hey Kamon, great video as usual but you forgot the CC for our hearing impaired friends. Take care!
Hey Kamon,
I'm just reading an article in the Feb ABJ about taking beginner classes and see that he mentioned your videos as some that he likes. Thought you'd like to know (probably some of your friends already told you, I imagine).
Wow I didn't know that! Thanks for letting me now!
Kamon, At the end of this video those caged queens, what's the short and/or long term can you keep them caged up? If it's a long term storage of caged queens then how often would I have to give them more nurse bees? Man I love you and the misses for sharing y'alls knowledge!!!!! Thank you for your time.
In VA you can't use honey in the queen candy, it could have AFB spores. Not sure about TN.
Hey kamon! I inserted 2 day cells into my nucs 27 days ago. I started checking for laying Queens. So far 3 out of 3 have Queens but 2 of them are very small and no signs of laying. What should I do with them? I have a set of ripe cells ready for all my nucs tomorrow. I have 12 more nucs to check.
If the worker bees fly back to the original hives, how do these nucs take advantage of a nectar flow?
All they would have is the frame of honey you put into the nuc and nurse bees to care for the brood.
I don't want the little nucs plugging out with nectar at all. Old bees don't accept queens or cells as easily either. Once the brood emerges out the bees that covered and warmed them will graduate to foragers
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Kaymon, here in this part of Canada we have a lot of small dearth periods. Do you think there would be much of an issue with not using the foil cover sheet and instead placing a queen excluder on top of the 3x3 nuc, followed by a tall inner cover and a single pail feeder or ceracell feeder on the top servicing all 3 nucs?
Hi Kamon. Thanks for the videos. When I use my queen castle and the virgin has returned a mater queen, how do you get all of the bee out? Of course removing the frames takes the majority. But bees on the walls and castle floor. I can’t turn it over like a Jester box and wrap it on the ground or over the Nuc box. What do you do?
Have you ever tried the Beetle Buster Bottom Board from Bruce Wallace in Australia?... For a commercial bee keeper it is a little pricey... but for the novice like myself... they work great to eliminate the SHB
Sounds like someone is a bit under the weather...
Great video. What is your percentage of queens returning from the mating flights? Do you have a video on making the queen cells? Where in Tennessee are you?
Bees make the Queen Cells themselves ! You can make a tiny Wax cup, using a rounded end of dowel, dipped in bees wax, to graft eggs into. These are 'glued on' using a tiny dot of hot wax
to attach them to your grafting frame.... Again bees will draw these down to make Queen Cells (look like natural peanut in its shell.) 😏
Kudos on dropping all the dad jokes. 😅
I used to use the cell protectors years ago to and I was asked by a older queen raiser a very direct question so I will pose it to you. "Are you protecting the queen cell from you or the bees you are introducing her into?" Tim
The bees I am introducing her to. Even it it ups success by 3% it is well worth it.
Let me let you in on a secret, it dont work. If they want her dead they will kill her when se walks out the end. I graft 12,000 cells a year and use 6500 myself so I m just giving you some historical advice. Been doing this 38 years. Good luck Tim
The 3% is in your head wev done this on a larger scale of 3500 with protectors and without, statically no diff. We used a smell masking spray on both with and without, so finally we kept the smell masking and threw away the protectors. On 6500 cell we usually run 88.5 -91% . Tim
Dear Reynolds,
How many holes do u put in your jar lids so it dosent drip on the bees? What kind of jar lids are u using, what kind of jars are u using? That way i can use the same ones u do and feed my bees.
Nate
Whether there is one hole or 10 the bottle will drip until the vacuum is formed on the top of the jar. Use the number of holes to regulate how fast they feed. Lots of whole in the fall and less in the spring.
I’m in Knoxville...if ur located close could I come see your bees...I want to learn first hand...
Thanks for your teaching!
What is the best material I should used for my smoker to stay on for a while?
Thanks!
Pine needles, wood chips, hay, burlap, tobacco leaves, old white t shirts!
A local bee keeper said that the bees just are not happy with the queen, which happens a lot with package bees. If that is true I think maybe the queen bee's booty wasn't big enough. :-)
Hey DC Rogers. That does happen with package queens somewhat often. There are so many things we just don't know but perhaps she cant produce pheromones right or is laying quite right. Hopefully they will supersede her successfully and the daughter is like usual better
If you only have a few hives but lacking brood can you make the mating nucs up with bees no brood and drawn comb and a honey frame?
Yes just be sure to have 2 frames of bee coverage
The 2 boxes you put the queen cells in: Did those have a queen already and you were just going to let the new virgin queen kill the poorly performing one, or did you already remove the existing one?
He will kill the queen and add a virgin. No sense in risking the older lower performing queens killing a new virgin.
Where did you get that hat? I like that it adjusts on the top. I can never find a hat that fits right. Love your videos!
Hey Harley thanks. Mann lake sells them. I call jesinda at kelley beekeeping they are Mann lake owned and she always takes care of my orders great. The veil is called a clear vue veil
How long are the queens ok to stay in the little cardboard box? Dose it stay outside?
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Question Kamon, how does having two screens help them not to exchange pheromones? 18:48. I would think pheromones could travel that 1" between them but perhaps it is only direct contact. Thanks.
Some pheromones like the queen's mandibular are exchanged by hand
Bummer. I was going to graft today, but we went from 71 to 32 in 6 hours and 3 inches of snow.
Gee wiz crazy hope this is the last cold spell
@@kamonreynolds I agree. Two years in a row with late April cold weather.
If you making nucs and close the entrance for a few days with a good ventilation does worker bees gonna come back to the original hive ?
I am not sure but some think after so many days that the forager will orientate anew
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Have a question how can you slow bees down from making honey my bee box is 4 deep tall all but two frames are nectar and honey only room enough for two frames of brood done used 200 frames but none all the way caped
I hatched out some vergins into cages. One of them the wing looks wrinkled. Will this be a problem?
Yes it will. Unfortunately that queen will never mate but it happens
We had 2 inches of snow today
When will your queens be for sale to small beekeepers that only need 2-3 queens?
How do you get the queens in the containers? Do you just pull them off the comb?
I wanted to know how he knew they're bred and how they got back in the box
Greetings. I regularly watch your channel. I have a question, whether that cover leaks water, and can it be made from an ordinary plank - board? Also, does syrup spoil when exposed to the Sun? Thanks in advance!
Curious, with 2 holes in each nuc compartment...isn't there danger of robbing. I usually minimize just one hole for that reason.
In summer they will abscond if they don't have both. When the weather is cooler one can be plugged
Kamon, i am considering purchasing "The Guardian Hive Beetle" entrance device. Have you tried this on any of your hives? ALSO, do you sell queens?
I haven't tried the guardian jed. Just make sure you don't reduce the colonies entrance down to much and over heat your bees with them. I do sell queens from time to time. Right now I am booked till almost june and then I will start working on making my own
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Hello can sombody help ,im in the royal jely proces but the bee hive is just finishing like 5 cups from 50 whats the problem can you help me.
Common practice to ship queens like that but couldn't you ship the queens by adding workers to the cages.if it gets hot during shipping the bees congregate on the wire mesh and overheat the caged queens.
Do you turn that upper entrance to the rear,or do you leave both facing the same way.
Either or Jon. I typically go away from the front entrance thinking that this may help. Who knows
Funny
Hey Kamon!!!!! What veil are you wearing in this video!!!?!?!?! Lol
Question. So if you dont pull out the old queen and put the new cell in, that new queen will always kill the old queen?
Sometimes they don't but sometimes they do. Why can't the bees just make it easy???! LOL
Hey my May 2nd Bee Package started 3 queen cells, any thoughts on why they would do that. The queen has laid a lot of eggs I have bees emerging already as well.
Are they Queen "Cups" or actual Queen "Cells" ?!?
The Cup is just trying out their Wax skills, no egg in it, no big deal...
Cups look like Acorn Cups, minus the Acorn. 😉
The Queen Cell, is something to deal with, they look like Peanuts, hanging down on the frame. Sounds like the package is to Strong in population, to space, laying cell availability, and or temperature in the Hive.
(If it's full, busy, kinda stuffy, then 'some bees think it's time to check out ! )
Do a Split, using Queen Cells, if they are what you see.
If not, take the Queen Cups down (mash them.) Review on your next inspection.
Tip:
Do your inspections every 7 days at this time of Year (eg Swarm Season) that way, you can manage, or break the cycle leading to a swarm !?! 👍
Hope this helps. 🤗
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@@mmb_MeAndMyBees Pretty sure they are queen cells since they were capped over had the peanut look structure on them
Do you have to push the cells into comb?
Yes I do just a bit on the small nucs. On the big hives I just hang them between frames.
How do you replace old living queen with new cell. Do you kill her and put cell in right away or do you wait 8 hours or so
Either way works. We use the orange cell protectors when we do it immediately as added insurance
Kamon is it okay to pull queen cells 8 days after grafting and place in nucs?
Yes it is okay to do that!
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Moved the four queen cells yesterday 8-July-2022.
Cells looked beautiful.
I grafted 24 and got 4 drawn out and capped 4 days after grafting.
Yesterday was 8 days after grafting.
Only getting 4 out of 24 I figured I would order a pair of dental binoculars 3.5 power to help me see the real young larvae better.
I tried them today 09-July-2022.
Was able to see some real little larvae today.
Grafted only 8 just to make sure I didn't chill them.
I know it is late in the season for northern Minnesota to be grafting and the new queens may not be laying up real well by the time I check them on 4-August-2022 but what do I have to lose right?
If I didn't try grafting with my new vision enhancement how can I know if they are the key to my ability to graft successfully right?
Not like I am losing bees when I plan to stock the mating boxes with the bees that raised the cells.
Those bees will likely be dead by winter anyway.
And if nothing else I can shake bees into these new queens from my frame laying queens and try to take them through winter with candy boards right?
Kamon is this the right mindset to have?
I watch a lot of different channels but you're the only person I hear say the term "bee bread". What are you referring to? I haven't heard that term in any other video's. Is there another name for it?
When pollen is stored in the Combs they preserve it for long term storage. This is called beebread.
@@kamonreynolds thank you
You let them lay for 21 days or you pull them 21 days after dropping the cells?
I let mine lay for 21 days. That is ideal and mot of the queens I raise are for myself OR for nuc customers and they mate in the nuc anyways so it is easy to let them lay 21 before selling
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If you install the cell, check in 14 days, and observe that she has already started laying - then how do you figure the 21 days of laying?
Just wait 21 days from the 14-day check-in?
What is the veil you are wearing?
Love your videos informative and entertaining.
Did you buy the Mike Palmer queens last year to add some divesty to your stock?
Thanks! Yes I did buy some Palmers last year to spice things up. I like Michael and think a lot of his beekeeping and queens. They are hard to get though
What’s that material you use for your innercovers?
Kamon, can I get honey from my package of bees this year if I start them on drawn comb ?
Hard to do in TN further north it is more possible but it all depends on several factors
What is that silver wrap that you place on the inside top of the box?
It is called reflectix. It can be gotten at lowes and cut to size. Ants like to build between the lid and inner cover though
Hey there Kamon thanks again for the videos..Where did you get your veil? Thanks in advance.
Kelley beekeeping clear vue veil