Great prime example of a split! Always a great reminder too! Thanks to you too Laurel for the great camera work! Hi to the kiddos too🐝🐝

Wow, that is a beautiful size queen

I got lucky letting a hived swarm superseded their old queen on their own, I ended up with 2 sister queens sharing and laying in the same frames for over a month and a half. Population explosion, I have now split the sisters into their own hives. Strong splits from a spring swarm lol. Only second time I've had 2 laying queens, the first time was a mother - daughter pair

Good instructional video. Appreciate it. Thanks from Western Australia.

Glad to see your finally having some decent bee weather.

I did a successful split about 10 days ago from 2 hives to make one new one. It was successful! Thanks to your (and Laurels) videos! I have learned very much from these. Again...thank you!

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Your welcome :)

Thanks again for a very informative and educational 🐝 video and as you said it’s all about the 👸 🐝.

Crushing it over here in Knox county this year. Making some splits today in our small 16 hive apiary. I really appreciate the videos on how to have a sustainable apiary. Between you and Michael Palmer you guys have taught me so much. Thank you

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wesley. Keep up the good work. Michael Palmer is one of my favorites

I love my quite box for holding frames with queens... its just a large nuc box with a bottom... bring it out for all my inspections.. put the frame in it and put the lid on... carry on with your inspection and then put her back at the end.

One of the best split videos. You sure make it look simple. I'm all thumbs when it comes to handling the frames, but I've only dropped one so far. I've had to do an emergency split when the queen failed in my swarm catch and got lucky with the brood frame I used. Got a queen out of it and they're thriving! Keep them coming Kamon!

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jon! Young homemade queens are one of best things in the world!

Thanks Kamon! Really appreciate getting to talk to you in Clarkson yesterday. Good info on chickens and bees!

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

It was really good to meet you too. Thanks for coming out!

Inspected a 5 box medium 8-frame hive this morning and it had a full box of bee bread! Also had two boxes of brood all stages, some nectar and two boxes of capped honey! Well on their way to being ready for winter at this point and the fall flow will be starting soon in Southern Pennsylvania - been getting some good rains to water up the goldenrod and asters! Keep the videos coming!

I made a strong split 1 1/2 weeks ago and it did not take, I think robber bees did not let it happen. This is my first split that failed since last year. No more 100% success rate......gosh. I am still around the 90% percentile. I just redone it today and yes, I am making strong splits and that always works out very well. Kamon and family, thanks for the video and say hi to the kids. I miss seing them in your videos. One of our kids was home schooled and he always had managing jobs ever since he started working. May God bless you all.

woot woot.... first to view, lol thanks for all the continuous content Kamon... from Cape Breton, NS, Canada

Nice video Kaymon!

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Glad you are having some more moderate weather, because it's a hellscape down here. I made a split about two weeks ago and found I'd accidentally moved the queen out of her own box. Oops.

Good information as always, here in Northwestern Massachusetts I try to finish up all of my splits by the middle of August. This year I am done ahead of time and now building the colonies up for overwintering. This year I will be overwintering about 20 6 frame nucs. I tested the waters last winter by overwintering 2 5 frame nucs. So this year I think it's a go. Thanks for sharing.

@FloryJohann

3 жыл бұрын

I done the same with 2 nucs last winter and both came through winter strong. One I gave to my father-in-law and that one swarmed just bit later and the other I had swarmed too not to much later then the first swarm. And even the swarms and original nucs are now massive big hives. Just made 2 more splits today and I like to do more, but I am out of equipment. Maybe I let it be for this year. My bee yard doubled on hives this year and I still see no end yet. I even got very good honey from it.

@massachusettsprepper

3 жыл бұрын

@@FloryJohann that's awesome.

Thanks for the video i'm getting ready to make some splits as well there is several questions in the comments i would like to know your answers to as well maybe another video would be great thanks guys you are awesome.

Show parabéns.🤜🤛

I’d love to see more videos on Snellgrove boards. I built a queen castle out of a deep. Have a snellgrove. Could I just do walk away splits in that over a strong hive?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Sure just combine back if it doesn't work out. Iwill try to do more on the double screen board soon

Great video. If you were after maximum fall splits from a double deep brood hive would you consider doing a 3 or 4 way split into 10 frame boxes considering the goldenrod is fixing to bloom?

When would you recommend doing splits if you don't have extra queens to put in them?

What type of Queens do you use this time of the year for all 40 splits. Laying queens or Vergin Queens?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Mated is what I am using for these 40 splits

@davidcassity6593

3 жыл бұрын

Are these queens you made, and have put them into banks?

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Bom dia aqui is Brasil 🤜🤛👍👍👍🤝❤️

I live in East Tennessee and am curious about the fall flow. I saw almost no honey production until late June and it lasted through middle of July. I didn’t harvest any honey as it seems like they made just enough for winter. When do you normally see the fall flow that you mentioned and what is it from? Is the fall flow usually as much as the one we just came out of?

Where do you put those nucs when transfered to the other beeyard? In regular boxes for overwintering or in the same cardboard nucs?

I am up in Ottawa Ontario Canada. We just had our second hottest July on record. Often it was 96f or hotter.

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Kamon....up here in KY we have not seen ANY SHB at all yet this year.....what are you seeing? This is truly baffling

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Not NEAR as many as usual. I think our odd spring nipped them in the bud at a crucial developmental time in the soil. Only thing I can figure

Exactly the information i was looking for. Wasn’t sure if I could make splits after i rob next week. Are your queens you’re introducing mated or virgins?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Mated and hopefully ready to rock and roll!

@Paulywarp

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamonreynolds or maybe a little bit of line dancing. 😉

😳 we are still in a flow. Late almost one month . Glad you mentioned that. May I ask you a question ?I am overwintering my nucs this year. Is an overwintered Queen with her nuc raised in a harsh climate 🥶 preferred over spring Queened nucs? Thank you from Montana.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer overwintered queens that were made In summer. However compared to you all I don't have a winter. Good queens with a clean cluster will be powerhouses coming out of winter.

Nice technique - LOL How many stings did you receive?

Kamon does the bees store the pollen patties u give them or do they just eat it. I live in Virginia, I did not know bees swarm in late summer i found swarm cells in my carnie hive I always thought that bees swarm in the spring your videos are great u do a wonderful job thanks for doing them

So if you make a split and introduce a new queen and they do accept her but still make a queen cell what should you do with that cell. Take it out or will they just make another one.

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Kamon - I have a question about splitting. I have made splits out of large hives, yesterday I made 4 5 frame nucs out of a 3 deep tall colony I have been beefing up this summer. My brother and I have difference of opinion on the execution here: he insinuated to me that the field bees, once they cannot recognize their own "house" now cannot recognize their own colony and all of the nucs without a queen must be moved to avoid the original colonies field bees robbing them. I had the preconceived notion that if I remove the nuc with the queen from the area and leave the other three nucs the field bees would reaffiliate, and a queen could be added later. What would you have done in this situation, even if it is neither of the two above?

I'm wondering why you never use a frame hanger to place the frames on instead of putting them on the ground? Sure keeps them cleaner and you'll crush fewer bees.

Are you planning to carry these through the Winter as nucs or will you eventually move them into 10 frame hives when the nucs grows large enough before Winter?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Randy I will have these overwintering in a single deep box. Even if they don't fully fill it out they will do fine. I don;t have any nucs besides the jesters to stick them in. Likely transfer them in early september

@wrfarms9741

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamonreynolds I'm leaning heavily in that direction myself. Did this last season and the nucs I transferred into the 10 frame deeps did much better than the nucs. I have 20 of the Canadian style nucs like Ian uses that I am planning to do this with. These nucs work great with one BIG draw back in our climate.......ventilation, but that can be easily remedied.

@country73521

3 жыл бұрын

Exact question I had and now I have a better sense of direction for my splits.

@FloryJohann

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamonreynolds Kamon, when I made the split this May, I just made my '' nuc '' right into my 10 frame deep box with only a few frames. As the colony grew I added more frames to it 2 at a time. Worked out very well and ended to be a 3 box 10 frame deep and is stuffed all the way to the top. I may do the same with those 2 splits I made today which are in a 4 frame nuc right now.

I only have 3 topbar hives with small colonies. In the last few days here in the UK the temperatures have reached the 90's too. They only ever last a few days at a time but the bees have been busy as you like bringing in plenty of pollen. But they're also going through all the sugar syrup every day that I give them. Does that sound normal to you?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds very normal to me!

@Paulywarp

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamonreynolds wonderful thanks. Enjoy the rest of Sunday.

Hi Kamon :) Hoping you can help me understand something. I just came back from an inspection and 2 of my queens were apparently M.I.A. There was enough young brood (but no eggs) to make me think I didn't kill them accidentally (still is a possibility though). I also know that those 2 hives have been trying hard to swarm despite the room they had and my removal of all queen cells I could find. Could the workers have simply decided to off the queen for failing to make a viable swarm cell or is it more likely to be something I did a week ago?

@russellkoopman3004

3 жыл бұрын

If they feel their queen is failing they will try to raise a new queen. Once the cell is started they can kill the old queen. If you removed all of the queen cells you will need to buy a mated queen quickly. I had the same thing happen last year to me. If they weren't crowded then they were probably needing to replace the queen. Somehow they know.

@lagrangebees

3 жыл бұрын

@@russellkoopman3004 Thank you for answering :) Both were 2020 queens so them being failing queens seems unlikely, but I did leave the best looking cells in both hives.

@russellkoopman3004

3 жыл бұрын

@@lagrangebees If they weren't mated properly the hive knows and replace her. I even brought in a mated queen for a hive and they let her lay three frames of eggs then killed her and raised their own. You never know for sure what's going on in the hive's mind.

I got an issue that I can't find an answer to. My queens that I raised didn't seem to get mated or are not laying. I had plenty of drones. Is that normal?

Can you make late summer splits with queen cells into a nuc ?

Hi Kamen are you full-time with the bees?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda. I haven't worked for anyone else since March. But I am going to be doing some part time when we get these splits and all the yards straightened out.

Kamon why do you give pollen patties in the summer?

@kamonreynolds

10 күн бұрын

To have the biggest bees ready for the fall flow so that they make big clusters going into winter. Seems to work very well for me

The education never gets old! Off topic, where did you get your hive tool? I love that thing. Thanks again. Travis in Idaho

@nancam7181

3 жыл бұрын

Check out Kamon's Amazon page, I believe the hive tool on the page is the one he currently is using. I'm trying it and liking it. It does have a bit more heft/weight than I'm used but it's works very well.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Travis our Amazon link in the description of the video has them for 8 bucks I believe

How late will you split?

Kamon I noticed your hive are close to the ground with tall grass a round them does make it more likely to increase hive Beatle poulation and do u have any problems with earwigs the insects

I am in Tennessee also. When do you remove your queen excluders?

Just in time i guess

How much for the hoop house in the background? lol

Thanks, I have Goldenrod blooming already. Is that good or bad?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Hey T RichardI think this is a good thing. Healthy plants due to summer rains this year.

great video...man the democratic commercials every 2 min are killing me.

Kamon when you are selling nukes with queens. Yuriy from Northwest i need 5

To many adds on video.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, youtube has changed how they do adds for everyone in the last 2 weeks. In order to change this I will have to manually go thru 300+ videos and switch the adds to the previous settings and I don't know how yet.

@russellkoopman3004

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamonreynolds YT is getting crazy with all their adds. Taking the fun out of watching YT for sure.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

I know I feel the same way. I don't know why they couldnt have given a channel the option to opt out.

@FloryJohann

3 жыл бұрын

Fire fox on labtop and adblocker ultimate and ghostery will give me adfree yt, did not see an add for many years on yt so far.

@jayweddle7993

3 жыл бұрын

@@FloryJohann Thanks !!! added the addon works great.