Great 10min video! i love i don't have to wait or skip to the good stuff. The whole time your talking, its information. As a newer beekeeper i really find this channel educating!

Just raised my first 3 queens. All came back matted and laying. All are a lot bigger then bought queens.

Nice glad to see the turn around, new hat and vail. Tuff getting old 😂😂😂

Sure have missed yalls videos. So glad you’re back. Hope all is well

Great tip for how and when to bank queens. I learned a lot and this helped connect some dots! Thanks K!

"they bounce, they're flexible" LOL!

Good to see ya!!

I used to know a guy named Kamon, but he got all big time and I think his fans about drove him nuts so we don't see him very often anymore 😂😂😂 Good to see ya Ol Boy

@paulawaldrep3760

3 жыл бұрын

Give the boy a break! Vacations are important when your children are young. Mine still remember the mile deep outdoor toilets at a State Park & hunting for treasure in a dry lakebed (fishing tackle).

@badassbees3680

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulawaldrep3760 he knows I'm teasing...I been here from Very early on!!

@paulawaldrep3760

3 жыл бұрын

@@badassbees3680 yah I know! He's a great guy! Sometimes sameOsameO Has to be broken up! 😵😁

@badassbees3680

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulawaldrep3760 I liked this channel better when he was still green to it, I really enjoyed a Kamon video EVERY day with my coffee, but I get it...You Tube very time consuming in several ways

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Baddest and Paula I am more than capable of driving myself nuts without anybody's help! I am too ambitious sometimes and I am trying to do better about not going overboard. This time last year I had constant twitching in both eyes and digestive problems that were purely stress related. Lasted for months. I had to back off this year a bit. For my sake and the families sake. However, I am working towards making this channel and my experiments more of a priority next year than just being a beekeeper. I am going to drop to 250 colonies and do less just at a higher level. (that's the theory anyways) I do appreciate you both and hope your family and your bees are well. -Kamon

Agree with you on the late summer conditions, here in Nashville the rain has been much better than the past few summers and has taken a little of the pressure off the dearth. I'm a big fan of the JZBZ battery box for cages and cell transport...thanks.

I've banked Queens in the top honey super over a Queen excluder in a strong colony several times for a short period of time (few days) with good results.

Thanks

Thanks !!

I viewed a video (foreign) that showed using stinging nettle branches 8-10" (2-3) per hive. Placed on top of frames. Kept there for 3-4 days. Stinging nettle has a natural formic acid within itself that organically treats varoa.

legendary advice!

Thanks, great video.

Nice tip thanks

I never thought of doing it that way even though i used to get queens shipped to me in boxes like that.Now they are just shipping in single cages.I raise most all my queens now days and I think I will go to that for transporting between yards.

I live in Jackson kentucky, I had a bear came at 10:05 the other night and torn into one of my beehives. We finally got him run off I though I would never see a bear here.

I have the same Firehouse Subs pickle bucket...lol.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Strong pickle smell!

I really wanted to try raising queens, even it it was just 1 or 2. Just to practice doing it, but a monkey wrench said no... I'm definitely raising some next summer (should any of my colonies survive heh). Your advice is incredibly invaluable, TY for the videos :)

@mikeries8549

3 жыл бұрын

Don't give up. It's easier than you think.

@lagrangebees

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeries8549 the problem isn't the difficulty, its the timing :) there isn't time to make a split viable enough to survive winter with the amount of summer left. Winters in Quebec are long and cold.. it can reach -40F.

جميل 👍

I thought this time of year is not optimal to do splits. What are the signs that hives need to be split in August? Thanks.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

It might not be where you live. I am making alot and will keep doing it for a month BUT it takes ripped colonies and attention to detail. We wont have really cold weather till November

@rodneymiddleton9624

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamonreynolds That's awesome!!

Kamon thanks for the video! Im in my second season grafting in Australia and I may need to bank some Queens (hopefully due to being so good at grafting lol). Off topic question - I'm assuming that's sugar syrup behind you? How does it not ferment being in a big tank for a long time?

@kamonreynolds

Жыл бұрын

Thanks VizslaB! That syrup in the back is sucrose sugar (white refined) that is inverted and condensed to the thickness of honey. This makes it stable for quite some time. I try to use it up in a years time though as fresher is best for the bees. In order to use it I dilute it with water to make 1:1 or 2:1 Best of luck on your queens!!

So you didn't get stung at all in this video? Do you have Italian bees? I hear they are the least agressive.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

I have carnies and Italians. Queens that produce mean bees on a consistent basis get dethroned and replaced

Do you put any food in that box, or just the queens and the bees

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

I mention towards the end of placing some queen candy in there. They also should be given a few drops of water a day thru the top or have a small slightly damp sponge in there

Are you keeping the container at home for quickness or in the top of a hive ? 😊

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Just keep it in the house

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Good afternoon Mr.Kamon I come cross the I see honey bees like banana can you mixes at up in pollen for an patties

@mmb_MeAndMyBees

2 жыл бұрын

Bananas... a No, No. They 'seem to smell' similar to Bee Alarm Phremone, so don't have Bananas, of fragrance near a Hive. Just saying 🙄

I got hit on my knee yesterday. Felt good. Apitherapy is real. Once I get a little older I'll go glove less to get stung on purpose. Three decades of being a carpenter and this asshole named arty. Bees are good for me.

When did you do these 40 splits? I thought it was getting late for splits.

@wayneshoneybees5439

3 жыл бұрын

@@DoubleTopHoneyCo Good point. Forgot. I'm in Cincinnati and it November. Big difference. Thanks.

@chrisskaar6563

3 жыл бұрын

Wayne's Honeybees I’m in IL and had the same question.

@mikeries8549

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisskaar6563 illinois is a tall state. I'm in the middle. Southern Illinois has spring way before me. Chicago has spring about a month after me. Where I'm at in general splitting in August or even late July would be dumb. That's usually a dearth here. I don't think I'd split during a dearth.

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

I am splitting them right now actually

Hey Kamon, how long can queens bee caged inside a hive before hurting them?

@mmb_MeAndMyBees

2 жыл бұрын

He said about two weeks max. 🙄

Hello from Greece Tell me please, are these virgin queens?? if i have 5 or 6 virgin queens can left them in a 6 frame orphan colony for 10days Thanks

@badassbees3680

3 жыл бұрын

Get pheremones on day 5 ,best to introduce before then,if you wait past day 7 they don't ever take mating flight slot of time,u need bees feeding queens,u wanna bank to buy u a day or two,NOT a week or more...longer banked equals more probs even with mated queens

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Dim Mar. These are mated queens. I am not very experienced when it comes to virgin banking. I really don't like fooling with virgins if I can help it as they are much more fragile than a mated queen.

@dm4891

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamonreynolds thanks a lot The best to you

Could you store the queen box in a queenright hive?

@mmb_MeAndMyBees

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but above a Super and an extra Queen Excluder. Brood QE Super QE Banked Queens spacer Box with Feeder Crown Board Roof. Tip : You want the Banked Queens to be near enough for Nurse Bees to feed them but furthest away from the Resident Queen, so all those Cages don't over flood the lower Hive with Pheremones making Old Queen decide to Swarm ! 🤞

Love your channel... new beekeeper myself making some videos too.... My question is how late into the season do you keep making splits ?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

First of Sept

@FloryJohann

3 жыл бұрын

I made a split here in N.C last week and I am planning to make one more this week and it is kinda late even for my area, it all depends where you are and your season. This time of the year the colonies are starting to get rid of drones and you need a lot of drones for a queen to get mated properly, the more drones are around the better queen you will make. But also you have to be able for the colony to build up numbers so they have enough bees to keep the colony warm in winter.

@mmb_MeAndMyBees

2 жыл бұрын

While you still have Drones (Boy Bees) to get that Queen Mated... And to back Date approx x5 Weeks to get a good laying pattern, to raise all important Winter Bees. Population build up takes about two sequences of laying. Nurse / Worker Bees hatch after "21Days", so you thinking minimum of x42 Days before so. x50 days to be safe ! 🤞 So go by local weather conditions : Autumn Flow, first Frosts, etc... 😏

is that about 1/2 cup nurse bees Kamon?

How’s the goldenrod looking up there?

@kamonreynolds

3 жыл бұрын

starting to bloom but just barely. How bought you all?

@burleybeeyard

3 жыл бұрын

My hives are North of Jackson, MS. Not blooming yet. North MS bloom dates are Aug 25-Sept 30. Glad to hear it’s starting there.

Did you have attendance in the cages also?

@kamonreynolds

2 жыл бұрын

No I don't